If your account goes below zero, RoboMarkets can take the shortfall out of any other account it believes is connected to you. Clause 3.9 needs only the firm's belief in a connection, and the account it draws on can belong to another person.
Negative balance protection is a limit that stops you owing more than you put in. Without it, one fast market move can leave you owing the broker money on top of your deposit.
Why this matters
Your balance can be cut to cover somebody else's loss, and the test is what RoboMarkets believes rather than what it can show. Clause 3.8 also means you can owe the firm more than you deposited, payable within 2 business days.
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.2 working daysThe figure this clause puts a number on, taken from the broker's own words.
If the balance of the Customer’s account is negative, the Company shall have the right to pay off without future authorization the negative balance of the account by transferring funds from any other account of the Customer’s Personal Area or from an account of any other Personal Area, if the Company believes that there is a connection between this Personal Area and the Customer.
Where it sits: section 12 of 52 in the Client Agreement, near the start.We counted the numbered sections in the Client Agreement. This clause sits in section 12 of 52, about 23% of the way through. A fee written on the first page and the same fee written near the end are not the same disclosure.
Firms licensed by the FCA, CySEC or another regulator applying the ESMA measures must give a retail CFD client negative balance protection on a per account basis, so the client cannot lose more than the account holds. This contract sets out how a negative balance is collected instead, including from accounts the firm believes are connected.
RoboMarkets 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.Setting a loss off against the same client's other accounts is common. Clause 3.9 reaches further. It allows recovery from an account in a different Personal Area whenever the firm believes a connection exists, which turns one person's shortfall into another person's deduction.
- Worse together with Exhibit 2Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.Money can be taken from a connected account, and you then have 2 working days to raise a claim about it.

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