You can read this site in seven languages, including Arabic, Thai and Khmer. The contract comes in English only. Clause 8.4 then makes understanding that English your responsibility alone.
Why this matters
If an Arabic page sold you the account, you agreed to 62,000 words you may never have been able to read. Pure Market Broker need not explain one clause in your language unless it agrees in writing 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.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.7The figure this clause puts a number on, taken from the broker's own words.
8.4 Language: All communications from the Company to the Client shall be provided in English, unless the Client has requested communications in another language and the Company has agreed in writing. The Client shall be solely responsible for understanding English-language communications.
Firms licensed by the FCA and CySEC must make communications to a retail client fair, clear and not misleading, and must give terms in a language the client can follow. This contract puts that burden on you.
GT MARKETS is not licensed by these regulators, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.
- Worse together with Exhibit 14Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.An English contract you may not read sends every dispute to arbitration in Vanuatu, held in English, with costs split down the middle.