Margin And Leverage

About Margin

Margin is the amount of collateral to cover any credit risks arising during your trading operations.

Margin is expressed as the percentage of position size (e.g. 5% or 1%), and the only real reason for having funds in your trading account is to ensure sufficient margin. On a 1% margin, for instance, a position of $1,000,000 will require a deposit of $10,000.

The margin in your trading account needs to be equal or above 100% in order for you to be able to open new trades, unless the new trades will result in your trading account being fully hedged.

Real-time risk exposure monitoring
Negative balance protection

No changes in margin overnight or at weekends
Flexible leverage up to 1:500

Dynamic Margin Percentage

The dynamic leverage available at AM Tradex automatically adapts to the used margin and the volume traded on each financial instrument. This means that as the volume of trade per instrument increases, the margin percentage also increases according to the dynamic leverage value of each instrument.

About Leverage

Using leverage means that you can trade positions larger than the amount of money in your trading account. Leverage amount is expressed as a ratio, for instance 50:1, 100:1, or 500:1. Assuming that you have $1,000 in your trading account and you trade ticket sizes of 500,000 USD/JPY, your leverage will equate 500:1.

How would it be possible to trade 500 times the amount you have at your disposal? At AM Tradex you have a free short-term credit allowance whenever you trade on margin: this enables you to purchase an amount that exceeds your account value. Without this allowance, you would only be able to buy or sell tickets of $1,000 at a time.

AM Tradex shall monitor the leverage ratio applied to clients’ accounts at all times and reserves the right to apply changes to and amend the leverage ratio (i.e. decrease the leverage ratio), on its sole discretion and without any notice on a case by case basis, and/or on all or any accounts of the client as deemed necessary by AM Tradex.

Am Tradex Leverage

Depending on the account type you open at AM Tradex , you can choose the leverage. Margin requirements do not change during the week, nor do they widen overnight or at weekends. Moreover, at AM Tradex you have the option to request either the increase or the decrease of your chosen leverage.

Leverage Risk

On the one hand, by using leverage, even from a relatively small initial investment you can make considerable profit. On the other hand, your losses can also become drastic if you fail to apply proper risk management. This is why AM Tradex provides a leverage range that helps you choose your preferred risk level.

Margin Monitoring

At AM Tradex you can control your real-time risk exposure by monitoring your used and free margin. Used and free margin together make up your equity. Used margin refers to the amount of money you need to deposit to hold the trade (e.g. if you set your account at a leverage of 100:1, the margin that you will need to set aside is 1% of your trade size). Free margin is the amount of money you left in your trading account, and it fluctuates according to your account equity; you can open additional positions with it, or absorb any losses. This is why AM Tradex provides a leverage range that helps you choose your preferred risk level.

Margin Call

Although each client is fully responsible for monitoring their trading account activity, AM Tradex follows a margin call policy to guarantee that your maximum possible risk does not exceed your account equity. As soon as your account equity drops below 50% of the margin needed to maintain your open positions, we will attempt to notify you with a margin call warning you that you do not have sufficient equity to support open positions. In case you are a client accustomed to telephone trading and we feel that you can’t maintain your open positions, you may receive a margin call from our dealers, advising you to deposit a sufficient amount in order to maintain your open positions.

Stop-Out Level

The stop-out level refers to the equity level at which your open positions get automatically closed. For AM Tradex trading accounts the stop-out level is 30%.