Connext LLC can decide alone that your trading was abusive, then recalculate your account and refuse every withdrawal. The contract says it does not have to give back any part of your initial deposit.
Why this matters
Money you deposited yourself can be kept, not only profit. Connext decides what counts as abusive, and the contract calls that decision final and binding.
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.
Where the Company determines, in its sole discretion and acting in good faith, that a Client has engaged in Abusive Trading, Prohibited Trading Strategies, or any activity intended to unfairly exploit pricing, execution, latency, system behaviour, liquidity conditions, or market mechanics, the Company may take one or more of the following actions without prior notice:
What it costsThe same clause worked out on a round number, so you can see it in money or in days. It is an example, not a quotation.A $1,000 deposit that grew to $3,000 can be reduced to nothing. The clause removes the $2,000 profit and the $1,000 you paid in.
Firms licensed by the FCA or CySEC must hold retail client money so it can be returned. They must also offer access to an independent complaints body. This contract lets Connext keep your deposit on its own finding.
Connext is not licensed by these regulators, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.
Our readingOur own comment on the clause, not the broker's words. Anything we quote is marked as a quotation.Most retail agreements that void abusive profit stop at the profit. This one lets Connext keep the deposit too. It also says the clause overrides every other withdrawal right in the contract.
- Worse together with Exhibit 7Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.The definitions decide who is caught, and this clause decides what happens to them.
- Worse together with Exhibit 3Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.You have 15 days to challenge a finding the contract already calls final.