Increased Margin Requirements

During periods of heightened market volatility, higher margin amounts are necessary to initiate new trades. This measure aims to minimize traders' exposure to price instability during significant economic events.

Therefore, new orders opened within 15 minutes before and 5 minutes after high-impact economic news releases are subject to these elevated margin requirements. Once this critical period ends, typically 5 minutes after the news release, the HMR (Higher Margin requirements) is lifted, and margin requirements are reevaluated based on the trading account's equity and leverage.

Trading instruments affected by weekend or public holiday trading breaks will observe increased margin requirements for new orders opened within 1 hour before the market closes and 1 hour after it reopens.

Higher Margin Requirements:

• Forex: 1:250
• Precious Metals (spot and future): 1:250
• Indices (spot and future): 1:100
• Energy (spot and future): 1:100

The duration of higher margin requirements may be extended based on risk management decisions.