In the event of economic news, market volatility, or high-frequency trading, the Liquidity Provider will adjust leverage accordingly, as below:
- The Company reserves the right to change the leverage on clients’ trading accounts (both increases and decreases) without prior notice, in accordance with the conditions specified on the website www.iux.com.
- Automatic leverage changes, whether initiated by the Company’s rules or by clients through their personal area, will result in a recalculation of margin requirements for all open positions.
The Company reserves the right to take the following actions:
1.To provide maximum leverage up to 1:3000 under ordinary market conditions, subject to the Client’s account type, trading volume, and financial instrument;
2.To implement the Higher Margin Requirement policy (hereinafter the “HMR policy”), in which the maximum leverage provided by the Company shall be limited to no more than 1:400 during any of the following periods (hereinafter the “HMR period”):
- In the event of High-Impact News announcements, the Company shall enforce the HMR policy at fifteen (15) minutes before and five (5) minutes after the release of major economic news announcements.
- In the event of Market Close, the Company shall enforce the HMR policy at three (3) hours before the market closes on weekends or public holidays, and one (1) hours after the market reopens. In this regard, the time of market closure and reopening may vary depending on each financial instrument;
- Under the low liquidity or rollover period, the HMR policy shall be applied during 09:00 PM – 12:00 AM (UTC +0).
- During the Pre-Market Break Period, the HMR policy shall be applied beginning one (1) hour before the Pre-Market Break Period, applicable to all financial instruments. The commencement and duration of the Pre-Market Break Period shall vary depending on each financial instrument.
- The HMR policy shall affect only the new buy and sell orders.
- During the HMR period, the HMR policy shall limit the maximum leverage to 1:400 for the following financial instruments:
i. Currency Majors (CFD);
ii. Currency Minors (CFD);
iii. Precious Metal (CFD), including XAUUSD (CFD); - During the HMR period, the HMR policy shall limit the maximum leverage to 1:200 for the following financial instruments:
i. Precious Metal (CFD), including XAGUSD (CFD), XAUEUR (CFD), XAUGBP (CFD), XAGEUR (CFD);
ii. Indices Majors (CFD), including S&P500 (CFD), US30 (CFD), USTEC (CFD), DE30 (CFD), UK100 (CFD); - During the HMR period, the HMR policy shall limit the maximum leverage to 1:100 for the following financial instruments:
i. Indices Minors (CFD), including AUS200 (CFD), FR40 (CFD), HK50 (CFD), STOXX50 (CFD);
ii. Energies (CFD), including USOIL (CFD), UKOIL (CFD);
iii. Cryptocurrency Majors (CFD), including BTCUSD (CFD), ETHUSD (CFD); - During the HMR period, the HMR policy shall limit the maximum leverage to 1:50 for the following financial instruments:
i. Cryptocurrency Alternatives (CFD), including ADAUSD (CFD), ATMUSD (CFD), AVAUSD (CFD), BATUSD (CFD), BCHUSD (CFD), BNBUSD (CFD), DOTUSD (CFD), LTCUSD (CFD), SOLUSD (CFD), TRXUSD (CFD), UNIUSD (CFD), XMRUSD (CFD), XTZUSD (CFD); - During the HMR period, the HMR policy shall limit the maximum leverage to 1:5 for all Thematic Indices Minor (CFD), in exclusion of GERMANY40_15X (CFD), CANNABIS_GLB_3X (CFD), OIL_ETF10X (CFD), US500_20X (CFD), BIOTECH_GIANTS (CFD), WTI_3X (CFD).
3.To limit the size of the offered leverage and/or to increase the size of Margin requirements before macroeconomic events and/or news capable of significantly affecting the prices of financial instruments.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at [email protected].