FX24 decides for itself whether your trading counts as Trading Abuse. If it decides yes, the client agreement lets it void, deduct or confiscate your profit with no notice. It can also demand back money it has already paid you.
Why this matters
Your winnings stop being yours the moment FX24 applies that label. The list of what counts runs from news trading to hedging to shared connections, so a profitable month can be pulled inside it. Money already in your bank is still reclaimable.
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.
Where the Company reasonably determines that the Client has engaged in Trading Abuse or otherwise breached this Agreement, the Company may, without prior notice and at its sole discretion, take one or more of the following actions:
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.On a $1,000 deposit grown to $3,000, the clause reaches the $2,000 of profit. It reaches that $2,000 after you move it to your own bank too.
Our readingOur own comment on the clause, not the broker's words. Anything we quote is marked as a quotation.Voiding profit for proven abuse is common. Reaching back for funds a client has already withdrawn goes further than most.
- Worse together with Exhibit 2Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.Sharing an internet address is itself listed as abuse, so a housemate on the same connection can open the door to this clause.
- Worse together with Exhibit 4Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.FX24 can void profit without notice, and you have three working days from the day it happened to object.