Garnet Trade runs its whole website in Persian, Arabic and Russian, and invites you to open an account in each one. The contract then bars citizens of six countries, Iran among them.
Why this matters
If you are an Iranian citizen, you can read every page, deposit and trade, and still sit outside the contract you signed. Garnet Trade can point at that clause when you ask for your money 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.6The figure this clause puts a number on, taken from the broker's own words.
Garnet Trade doesn’t serve citizens of certain countries, such as the Brazil, Canada, Myanmar, North Korea, Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Buried at section 23 of 24 in the Garnet Client Agreement View, 96% of the way through.We counted the numbered sections in the Garnet Client Agreement View. This clause sits in section 23 of 24, about 96% 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 18Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.A client barred by the country clause also has to work out which of three companies to pursue, in which country.