Leverage
For its MT4-Instant and MT4-Market accounts along side the MT5-Instant and MT5-Market accounts, we provide our clients with the ability to trade using leverage up to 1:500. This means that the total nominal value of all open positions at one point in time may exceed the current balance of funds on the Client's trading account, but not more than by 500 times. The allowed leverage depends on the type of trading account, trading instrument, and the size of the aggregate position in USD.
MT4-Market, MT4-Instant, MT5-Market, MT5-Instant
| Aggregated position size in USD | Leverage* |
| FX Majors | |
| Less than 1 mil. | 500 |
| 1 mil. – 5 mil. | 200 |
| 5 mil. – 10 mil. | 100 |
| Over 10 mil. | 5 |
| Metals Spot (XAUUSD, XAUEUR, XAGUSD) | |
| Less than 1 mil. | 500 |
| 1 mil. – 5 mil. | 200 |
| 5 mil. – 10 mil. | 100 |
| Over 10 mil. | 5 |
| FX Crosses, FX Exotics, FX China | |
| Less than 5 mil. | 200 |
| 5 mil. – 10 mil. | 100 |
| 10 mil. – 20 mil. | 20 |
| Over 20 mil. | 5 |
| FX S.America | |
| Less than 0.25 mil. | 50 |
| Over 0.25 mil. | 5 |
| FIX, FX Mini Lots | |
| Less than 5 mil. | 200 |
| 5 mil. – 10 mil. | 100 |
| 10 mil. – 20 mil. | 20 |
| Over 20 mil. | 5 |
Indices 1, Indices 2, Indices M. East, FX USD Index | |
| Less than 0.5 mil. | 200 |
| 0.5 mil. – 1.5 mil. | 100 |
| 1.5 mil. – 5 mil. | 20 |
| Over 5 mil. | 5 |
| Energy | |
| Less than 0.25 mil. | 100 |
| 0.25 mil. – 0.5 mil. | 50 |
| 0.5 mil. – 1 mil. | 20 |
| Over 1 mil. | 5 |
| Metals Others | |
| Less than 0.5 mil. | 50 |
| 0.5 mil. – 2 mil. | 25 |
| 2 mil. – 5 mil. | 10 |
| Over 5 mil. | 5 |
| Major Stocks (AAPL, AMZN, GOOGL, META, MSFT, TSLA) | |
| Less than 0.1 mil. | 10 |
| Over 0.1 mil. | 5 |
| Other stocks + ETF | |
| Any | 5 |
| Agriculture | |
| Less than 2 mil. | 50 |
| Over 2 mil. | 5 |
| Crypto Bitcoin (BTCUSD) | |
| Less than 0.5 mil. | 200 |
| 0.5 mil. – 1.5 mil. | 100 |
| 1.5 mil. – 5 mil. | 20 |
| Over 5 mil. | 5 |
| Crypto Majors (BCHUSD, BTCEUR, ETHUSD, LTCUSD, XRPUSD) | |
| Less than 0.5 mil. | 100 |
| 0.5 mil. – 1.5 mil. | 50 |
| 1.5 mil. – 5 mil. | 20 |
| Over 5 mil. | 5 |
| Crypto Other | |
| Less than 0.5 mil. | 30 |
| Over 5 mil. | 5 |
An example of calculating the margin with a floating leverage on an MT4-Instant account.
Consider the following example with floating leverage:
Opening position # 1: Buy 8 lots of EURUSD at a price of 1.10510 (Position # 1).
The nominal value is 8 * 100,000 * 1.10510 = 884,080 USD.
Since the nominal value of 884,080 USD does not exceed 1,000,000 USD, the margin requirements (collateral/margin) are calculated with a leverage of 1:500, i.e. margin is: 884,080 / 500 = 1768,16 USD.
Opening position # 2: Buy 40 lots of EURUSD at 1.08310.
The nominal value is: 40 * 100,000 * 1.08310 = 4,332,400 USD.
Aggregate nominal value for positions # 1 and # 2:
884,080 (item # 1) + 4,332,400 (item # 2) = 5,216,480 USD.
Now that the aggregated nominal value of two open positions exceeds 5,000,000 USD, the aggregate margin is calculated differently: for the first 1,000,000 USD, a leverage of 1:500 is taken into account, for the next 4,000,000 USD the leverage will be 1:200, and for the remainder 1:100.
Thus, the margin will be (1,000,000 / 500) + (4,000,000 / 200) + (216,480 / 100) = 2,000 + 20,000 + 2,164.8 = 24,164.8 USD.
* Every Friday, 1 hour before the close of the trading session, for all open and newly opened positions for currency pairs, the maximum leverage will be lowered to the second level; so for FX Majors it will be lowered from 1:500, to 1:200; for CFD on Energy it will be lowered from 1:100 to 1:50. For all CFD instruments, except for CFDs on Stocks, the maximum leverage is halved 1 hour before the close of the trading session. For stock CFDs, the leverage does not change for a given time period Also, the Company reserves the right to reduce the leverage provided to the Client before weekends and holidays.
