To maintain market stability and manage trading risks during high-volatility periods, a temporary leverage adjustment will be applied to specific products, starting June 2, 2025.
Adjustment details as below:
1. Leverage: Client Leverage and Fixed Leverage will be adjusted to 1:200.
*Products with original fixed leverage ≤ 1:200 will not be affected.
2. Affected Products: Forex, Gold, Silver, Oil, Indices.
3. Affected Trading Platforms: MT4 and MT5.
4. Adjustment Time Periods:
i) 15 minutes before and 5 minutes after major economic news releases.
ii) From one hour before the market closes every Friday until 30 minutes after the market opens on the following Monday.
Please note:
1. New position opened during the adjustment period will have a leverage of 1:200, while existing positions will remain unchanged. Once the period ends, all positions will revert to the original leverage setting.
Example: 1 lot of gold is opened before the adjustment period with a leverage of 1:500. New position 0.1 lot of gold is opened during the adjustment period, the new position will have a leverage of 1:200. During the adjustment period, both positions will have different leverages.
After the adjustment period ends, the leverage 1.1 lots of gold will return to 1:500.
2. Once leverage is adjusted, your margin requirements and margin level for open positions will be recalculated. Please re-login to MT4 / MT5 to view the real-time updates. We strongly recommend monitoring your positions closely during this period.
Major Economic News Events Include (but are not limited to):
- FOMC Rate Decision (Federal Open Market Committee Rate Decision)
- CPI (Consumer Price Index)
- PMI (Purchasing Managers' Index)
- NMI (Non-Manufacturing Index)
- PPI (Producer Price Index)
- GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
- PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index)
- Retail Sales Report
- NFP (Non-Farm Payrolls)
- ADP (ADP National Employment Report)
- Crude Oil Inventories (U.S. Crude Oil Inventories Report)