If AssexMarkets decides your trading was automated, clause 6.1 lets it take every profit you made that way. It can block your account permanently without telling you first. It can also cancel a withdrawal you have already requested.
Why this matters
AssexMarkets decides on its own whether your trading counted as automated. The contract gives no test, no warning before the block and no appeal after it. Money already sitting in a withdrawal request can be pulled back.
Exhibit 1Every flagged clause gets its own number so you can point at this one. The number does not change, so a link to it keeps working.CriticalHow much this clause can cost you, in our reading. Critical can take your money or your profit. Warning can delay or limit it. Notice is simply worth knowing before you sign.Harder than usualHow ordinary this wording looks next to the contracts we read. This is our reading of the clause, not a count of other brokers.
Any trading account found to be engaging in prohibited automated trading activity will be subject to the following enforcement actions at AssexMarkets' sole discretion:
Where it sits: section 22 of 56 in the Terms & Conditions, 39% of the way through.We counted the numbered sections in the Terms & Conditions. This clause sits in section 22 of 56, about 39% of the way through. A fee written on the first page and the same fee written near the end are not the same disclosure.
- Worse together with Exhibit 2Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.AssexMarkets sells the automation on its own pages and punishes it in the contract, so the trigger for forfeiture is a feature it invited you to use.