Tag Markets tells you on its home page that you keep 100% of your profits. The client agreement lets T.M. Financials adjust your balance to remove profit it calls illicit. It never says what illicit means.
Why this matters
Your profit is yours until the firm decides it is not. Four kinds of trading count as a default, including trading the firm judges excessive, and the remedy is taking that profit off your balance.
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.100%The figure this clause puts a number on, taken from the broker's own words.
Adjust the Client’s Trading Account balance to remove any illicit profit.
Firms licensed by the FCA or CySEC must describe the grounds on which they can cancel a trade or reverse a profit, in terms a retail client can check. This contract leaves the key term undefined.
Tag Markets is not licensed by these regulators, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.
- Worse together with Exhibit 6Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.The home page promises the whole profit while the contract keeps the power to remove part of it and has dropped the definition that limited the power.
- Worse together with Exhibit 14Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.The same promise runs in Arabic, and a separate clause says the Arabic version does not bind the firm.
