Margin and Leverage

About Margin

Margin is the amount of collateral to cover any credit risks arising during your trading operations.

Margin is expressed as the percentage of position size (e.g. 5% or 1%), and the only real reason for having funds in your trading account is to ensure sufficient margin. On a 1% margin, for instance, a position of $1,000,000 will require a deposit of $10,000.

The margin in your trading account needs to be equal or above 100% in order for you to be able to open new trades, unless the new trades will result in your trading account being fully hedged.

  • Flexible leverage up to 1:500
  • Negative balance protection
  • Real-time risk exposure monitoring
  • No changes in margin overnight or at weekends

Dynamic Margin Percentage

The dynamic leverage available at Veracity Markets automatically adapts to the used margin and the volume traded on each financial instrument. This means that as the volume of trade per instrument increases, the margin percentage also increases according to the dynamic leverage value of each instrument.

About Leverage

Using leverage means that you can trade positions larger than the amount of money in your trading account. Leverage amount is expressed as a ratio, for instance 50:1, 100:1, or 500:1. Assuming that you have $1,000 in your trading account and you trade ticket sizes of 500,000 USD/JPY, your leverage will equate 500:1.

How would it be possible to trade 500 times the amount you have at your disposal? At Veracity Markets you have a free short-term credit allowance whenever you trade on margin: this enables you to purchase an amount that exceeds your account value. Without this allowance, you would only be able to buy or sell tickets of $1,000 at a time.

Veracity Markets shall monitor the leverage ratio applied to clients’ accounts at all times and reserves the right to apply changes to and amend the leverage ratio (i.e. decrease the leverage ratio), on its sole discretion and without any notice on a case by case basis, and/or on all or any accounts of the client as deemed necessary by Veracity Markets.

Veracity Markets Leverage

Depending on the account type you open at Veracity Markets, you can choose the leverage. On a standard account the maximum leverage offered is 1:500 whereas in an ECN account, the maximum leverage offered is 1:500. Margin requirements do not change during the week, nor do they widen overnight or at weekends. Moreover, at Veracity Markets you have the option to request either the increase or the decrease of your chosen leverage.

Leverage Risk

On the one hand, by using leverage, even from a relatively small initial investment you can make considerable profit. On the other hand, your losses can also become drastic if you fail to apply proper risk management.

This is why Veracity Markets provides a leverage range that helps you choose your preferred risk level.

Margin Monitoring

At Veracity Markets you can control your real-time risk exposure by monitoring your used and free margin.

Used and free margin together make up your equity. Used margin refers to the amount of money you need to deposit to hold the trade (e.g. if you set your account at a leverage of 100:1, the margin that you will need to set aside is 1% of your trade size). Free margin is the amount of money you left in your trading account, and it fluctuates according to your account equity; you can open additional positions with it, or absorb any losses.

Margin Call

Although each client is fully responsible for monitoring their trading account activity, Veracity Markets follows a margin call policy to guarantee that your maximum possible risk does not exceed your account equity.

As soon as your account equity drops below 50% of the margin needed to maintain your open positions, we will attempt to notify you with a margin call warning you that you do not have sufficient equity to support open positions.

In case you are a client accustomed to telephone trading and we feel that you can’t maintain your open positions, you may receive a margin call from our dealers, advising you to deposit a sufficient amount in order to maintain your open positions.

Stop-Out Level

The stop-out level refers to the equity level at which your open positions get automatically closed. For Veracity Markets trading accounts the stop-out level is 30%.

Legal and Regulation

Veracity Markets (Pty) Ltd is incorporated in South Africa with registration number 2018/515174/07 and is a duly appointed juristic representative of Nirvesh Financial Services (Pty) Ltd with registration number 2014/214417/07, which is an authorised Financial Services Provider under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act No 37 of 2002 – FSP4701. The website www.veracitymarkets.com is operated by Veracity Markets (Pty) Ltd based in South Africa.

Clearing Services

Veracity Markets is an execution-only trading intermediary and makes use of regulated liquidity providers for clearing of its client trades.

High Risk Investment Warning

Online Trading consists of complex products that are traded on margin. Trading carries a high degree of risk. It is possible to lose all your capital. These products may not be suitable for everyone and you should ensure that you understand the risks involved. Seek independent expert advice if necessary and speculate only with funds that you can afford to lose. Please think carefully whether such trading suits you, taking into consideration all the relevant circumstances as well as your personal resources. We do not recommend clients posting their entire account balance to meet margin requirements. Clients can minimise their level of exposure by requesting a change in leverage limit. For more information please refer to Veracity Markets Risk Disclosure.

Disclaimer

The content of this page is for information purposes only and it is not intended as a recommendation or advice. Any indication of past performance or simulated past performance included in advertisements published by Veracity Markets is not a reliable indicator of future results. The customer carries the sole responsibility for all the businesses or investments that are carried out at Veracity Markets.

Regional Restrictions

The information provided by Veracity Markets is not directed or intended for distribution to or use by residents of certain countries or jurisdictions including, but not limited to, United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, France, Iran, Japan, North Korea and USA. The Company holds the right to alter the above lists of countries at its own discretion.

Responsible Trading Policy

When it comes to trading on Veracity Markets platforms and using its features, we encourage responsible behavior among all our users and traders. Our “responsible trading policy” calls on traders to protect themselves from emotional decision making that can result in unnecessary losses. This web page and its products are intended exclusively for legally adult use, given that current legislation anywhere in the world does not permit account onboarding, trading, advising, binding in a legal contract to those under 18 years of age.

Safety of Funds

At Veracity Markets (PTY) LTD, the safety of your funds is paramount to our business activity. With this in mind, all client funds are held in a segregated account separate from the companies funds.

Refund Policy

All the funds deposited with Veracity Markets is for the sole purpose of trading the financial markets on contract for difference. There is no physical delivery of any asset. The clients acknowledge that they incur profit or loss depending on the open and close price of the asset traded. Any funds deposited with Veracity Markets is the asset of the client and a liability on Veracity Markets. The client can request for a withdrawal of their unused funds held with Veracity Markets at anytime. Any funds lost while trading in financial markets with Veracity Markets is non-refundable and non-withdrawable.

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