With few exceptions indicated in the table below, margin requirements for CFD are same as for forex.
The minimum margin required to open a position depends on the desired leverage, instrument and current market prices.
Currently CFD trading is available upon request for regular LIVE self trading accounts only.
Maximum exposure per single stock CFD is 100'000 USD or equivalent in other currencies. Clients may request to increase maximum exposure to 250'000 USD, in this case leverage will be reduced to 1:2 from default setting of 1:10. Clients may request to increase leverage to 1:20. In this case maximum exposure per CFD will be 50'000 USD. Over-the-weekend leverage reduction rules do not apply to single stock CFDs.
Market | Maximum exposure for a share CFD |
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Austria | 100'000 EUR |
Belgium | 100'000 EUR |
Denmark | 750'000 DKK |
Finland | 100'000 EUR |
France | 100'000 EUR |
Germany | 100'000 EUR |
Hong Kong | 780'000 HKD |
Japan | 10 000 000 JPY |
Netherlands | 100'000 EUR |
Norway | 900'000 NOK |
Portugal | 100'000 EUR |
Spain | 100'000 EUR |
Sweden | 950'000 SEK |
Switzerland | 100'000 CHF |
UK | 90'000 GBP |
US | 100'000 USD |
Maximum net exposure of each currency pair is limited to a total position of 15 million of primary currency on all sub-accounts of the client. Exceptions apply to USD/HUF, EUR/HUF, USD/CZK, EUR/CZK, USD/RON, USD/ILS, USD/THB for which maximum exposure is limited to 1 million of primary currency. For precious metals and CFDs maximum net exposure is specified in the table below.
Instrument | Maximum exposure in contracts (for CFDs) / Oz (for precious metals) / USD (for crypto) |
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BRENT.CMD/USD | 650 |
LIGHT.CMD/USD | 650 |
GAS.CMD/USD | 4'500 |
DIESEL.CMD/USD | 1'800 |
COFFEE.CMD/USX | 940'000 |
COCOA.CMD/USD | 225 |
SUGAR.CMD/USD | 1'430 |
COTTON.CMD/USX | 685'000 |
OJUICE.CMD/USX | 410'000 |
SOYBEAN.CMD/USX | 223'500 |
COPPER.CMD/USD | 8'000 |
USA500.IDX/USD | 1'000 |
USATECH.IDX/USD | 300 |
USA30.IDX/USD | 100 |
USSC2000.IDX/USD | 2'000 |
DEU.IDX/EUR | 250 |
GBR.IDX/GBP | 350 |
FRA.IDX/EUR | 500 |
AUS.IDX/AUD | 750 |
JPN.IDX/JPY | 20'000 |
HKG.IDX/HKD | 1'000 |
CHE.IDX/CHF | 350 |
ESP.IDX/EUR | 300 |
EUS.IDX/EUR | 900 |
XAU/USD | 1'500 |
XAG/USD | 40'000 |
BTC/USD | 30'000 USD equivalent |
ETH/USD | 30'000 USD equivalent |
LTC/USD | 30'000 USD equivalent |
CHI.IDX/USD | 200 |
DOLLAR.IDX/USD | 25'000 |
NLD.IDX/EUR | 4'550 |
SGD.IDX/SGD | 11'220 |
IND.IDX/USD | 270 |
PLN.IDX/PLN | 1'545 |
BUND.TR/EUR | 10'000 |
USTBOND.TR/USD | 10'000 |
UKGILT.TR/GBP | 10'000 |
Exceptions may apply for some clients or some instruments. Information on applicable maximum net exposure limits is available in trading reports section "CFD Instruments" subsection "Maximum Exposure".
Clients may request to wave/increase the maximum exposure limit. In this case the account leverage will be reduced to 1:20 (1:10 over-the-weekend).
The exposure limits come into effect as of 09-Sep-2016.