Close more than five trades in under two minutes each and Bridge Markets can suspend your account and keep the money you paid in. Clause 13.3 calls that retention definitive and non-refundable. This is not about your profit. It is about your deposit.
Why this matters
You can lose everything you funded the account with, for trading too fast rather than for anything dishonest. Scalpers and news traders hit five quick trades in an afternoon, and nothing in the clause requires Bridge Markets to warn you first.
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.Rarely seenHow ordinary this wording looks next to the contracts we read. This is our reading of the clause, not a count of other brokers.5The figure this clause puts a number on, taken from the broker's own words.
Any account that, as a result of an internal audit, registers more than five (5) trades closed in less than two (2) minutes will be considered engaged in unauthorized High-Frequency Trading (HFT) practices. This conduct constitutes a serious breach of usage policies and will lead to the immediate suspension of the account, as well as the definitive and non-refundable retention of deposited funds.
Our readingOur own comment on the clause, not the broker's words. Anything we quote is marked as a quotation.Many brokers void profit made by trading they call abusive. Keeping the client's own deposited capital as well is rare, and this clause does it on a mechanical trade-count test rather than on proof of any abuse.
What happens, and whenThe Trigger column is what has to happen first. Once that point is reached, the broker may do what the next column says. Every rung names the clause it came from, so you can check it.
| Trigger | What the broker may then do | Clause |
|---|---|---|
| Sixth trade under two minutes | Bridge Markets suspends your account and keeps the funds you deposited, with no refund. | 13.3 |
| Trades repeatedly under five minutes | Your account goes under special monitoring for suspected automation. | 13.3 |
| Any breach of the same rules | Bridge Markets can block withdrawals, retain funds, cancel benefits and report you to the authorities. | 13.3 |
- Worse together with Exhibit 7Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.One clause lets Bridge Markets keep your deposit and the other says no deadline applies to getting any money out, so there is no point at which it has to settle with you.

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