Trading in Contracts for Differences (CFDs) carries a high level of risk to your capital. You may incur profits or losses of many times the amount of your stake or the money you originally deposit with us. Only trade with money that you can afford to lose. Debts incurred through CFD trading are legally binding and enforceable. Make sure you fully understand the risks involved and take advice if necessary. CFD trading may not be suitable for all individuals. We strongly recommend that you read the Risk Warning notice that forms part of these Terms and Conditions and is also available on our website.
If you are unable to understand any part of either these Terms and Conditions or the Risk Warning or Execution Policy, you should contact ForexCEC with your questions before agreeing to them.
1.1 These Terms and Conditions are made between you (the "client" or "you") and ForexCEC:
This includes any Transactions placed by an Authorised Third Party or any person giving the client's name, account number and/or password.
1.2 We will deal with you on the terms of:
1.3 Clients should also be aware that the Contract Specifications contain important information in relation to the underlying products associated with Transactions and further information in relation to these is contained at Clause 11.
1.4 In agreeing to this Agreement you authorise ForexCEC to telephone or otherwise contact you at any time whatsoever in order to discuss any aspect of your account with ForexCEC or any aspect of ForexCEC or its Associated Companies business.
1.5 Each time you enter into a Transaction you signify and agree that all statements concerning personal warranties and representations are repeated and that:
1.6 If any losses are incurred by you or by ForexCEC due to your breach of any warranty as set out herein you shall be liable for the total sum involved.
1.7 In agreement with you, ForexCEC may waive or relax any of these Terms and Conditions from time to time. In particular, but without limitation, where these Terms and Conditions specify certain Transaction Size or Margin requirements, ForexCEC may, but only in agreement with you, allow you to breach such limits. Any liability accrued due to such permission is your sole responsibility. Any agreement to waiver or failure to enforce any part of these Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver by ForexCEC to enforce such rules at a subsequent time.
2.1 You must open an account with us before we will accept any of your Transactions. You must fill out and send to us an Application Form either electronically online, or on the printable form available on our website, or the one available with these Terms and Conditions. All mandatory sections must be filled out and any information supplied must be true and correct to the best of your knowledge. Any incorrect or unclear information supplied will result in either an outright rejection of the application or at the very least a delay in the opening of your client account.
2.2 In signing, or electronically remitting to us, the application form you are authorizing ForexCEC to make such searches as it sees fit to certify that the information that you have supplied is full and correct. Such searches will include, but may not be restricted to, information from the electoral register and any credit agencies approached by ForexCEC.
2.3 ForexCEC may make periodic checks of your details to verify that the details supplied by you have not changed. However, you must immediately inform ForexCEC in writing as to any material change in your financial circumstances or any change to the information given on your Application Form (including change of employment, address, contact details and email). In ForexCEC 's absolute discretion, it may accept such notification over the telephone or by email. Any losses that may be incurred by misdirection of contract details due to incorrect or out of date email addresses supplied by you are entirely your responsibility.
2.4 ForexCEC is not obliged to open an account for any client and may refuse any application for any reason (without providing the reason for the decision to the client).
2.5 ForexCEC reserves the right to close or suspend your account at any time by sending you a written notice of 5 working days in advance. Should ForexCEC exercise this right all open Positions shall be closed on ForexCEC 's current quoted price and no new trades will be accepted. Any Position you may have in markets not quoted (i.e. that have closed for that day) shall be closed at the first price reasonably available to ForexCEC on the next business day or, in the case of a market suspended for any, reason, closed under the terms contained herein.
2.6 ForexCEC shall be entitled to disclose information concerning you or your account without prior reference to you to any competent authority with jurisdiction over ForexCEC 's business or to any other person ForexCEC reasonably believes to be seeking a reference or credit reference in good faith. Specifically, ForexCEC is entitled to disclose such information to other similar companies who may be inquiring as to any bad debt or liability.
2.7 It is your sole responsibility to inform ForexCEC as to whether information concerning your account Transactions should be reported to your employer, including its compliance officer, and as to whether contract notes and statements of your account should be sent to that compliance officer or to any other person authorised by your employer to receive such information.
3.1 Subject to you fulfilling your obligations under this Agreement, we may enter into contracts with you in respect of the following types of Transactions:
3.2 We will deal with you on an execution-only basis at all times.
3.3 We shall not provide you with any advice on the merits or suitability of you entering into this Agreement or any Transaction contemplated by this Agreement and, will never provide you with any investment advice although we may at our discretion provide you with generic or factual information from time to time on the nature, the terminology and of the procedures involved with such Transactions or concerning factual financial data information. You should rely on your own judgment when deciding whether or not to enter into any Transaction contemplated by this Agreement.
3.4 When we execute an order on your behalf, we will generally act in accordance with our order Execution Policy. A summary of our current Execution Policy has been provided to you.
3.5 We provide Contract Specifications in relation to the services that we provide and explaining various matters relating to this Agreement. You should read the Contract Specifications thoroughly before entering into any Transaction. If there is any matter that you do not fully understand then you should seek clarification from us before entering into the Transaction.
3.6 Any Transaction with ForexCEC can only be made during ForexCEC Quoting Hours for the market in question and within the permissible Size(s) (unless otherwise agreed by ForexCEC). These are further detailed in the Contract Specifications. The minimum and maximum limits are set by us by reference to the normal market size for which prices are available on any relevant exchange or market and which offer live price information. The current minimum and maximum limits are available from us on request and are detailed in the Contract Specifications. We are entitled to vary these minimum and maximum limits and it is your responsibility to ensure that you know what the current limits are before entering into any Transaction. We also have the right to waive any Transaction Size limits with or without notice to you.
3.7 Our activities with you under this Agreement are likely to include margined transactions. Margined transactions are detailed further at Clauses 7 and 8 below.
3.8 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in providing our services, we shall be entitled to take any action as we consider necessary in our absolute discretion to ensure compliance with Applicable Laws. You agree strictly to comply with all Applicable Laws. If we reasonably consider that you have not so complied, we may terminate this Agreement. Clients are especially reminded that this applies to all forms of market abuse such as insider trading and to directors trading in shares of their own companies.
3.9 ForexCEC will not be liable for any losses incurred as a result of any interruption of power supply or electronic communication or information system or any event which prevents ForexCEC from supplying such information in one or more of the markets in which we would ordinarily quote.
3.10 The client accepts that ForexCEC, including its trading platform(s) and other related systems and relevant third parties may perform maintenance/updates or face a technical failure that may including shutting down, restarting or refreshing its systems/servers to ensure more effective operation of its trading platform(s) and/or other related systems. During system maintenance/updates, the client accepts that this may cause the trading platform(s) or other related systems to be inaccessible for a period of time. In addition, the client accepts that there may be mechanical, chart, software, misquotes, computer, telecommunications and/or electronic system failure/issues. In the event of system issues/failure/maintenance/updates, the client accepts that ForexCEC bears no responsibility for any loss, including financial loss, caused due to any of the actions referred to in this paragraph.
4.1 ForexCEC is not obliged to accept any request to trade.Transactions with ForexCEC can only be made via an OTP or a DTP. The OTPs and DTPs have minimum computer software requirements (and further information is available on request).
4.2 The platforms will be regularly updated and it is strongly suggested that clients should download and install the updates when prompted in order to achieve the most efficient platform functionality.
4.3 ForexCEC quotes a two-way price in a Size acceptable to ForexCEC involving a spread between the buy and the sell price. As the Client you may buy at the higher price or sell at the lower price.
4.4 When placing a Transaction, you must give your name and account number or username. Without this information no Transaction will be permitted even if it is to close an existing open Position. When transacting over the telephone the Transaction will only be accepted by ForexCEC when we confirm that your Transaction has been accepted. The verbal acceptance of a trade by ForexCEC does not negate either ForexCEC's or your rights in the event of a Pricing Error.
4.5 All calls to ForexCEC telephone lines are recorded, and you hereby agree to the recording of such conversations. All OTPs and DTPs retain chronological histories of all Transactions conducted over that medium (including Transactions entered by ForexCEC following an instruction by telephone) and an electronic audit trail of all client activity (although this is not guaranteed). All such records and recordings of telephone conversations are the exclusive property of ForexCEC and may be used as evidence in any dispute.
4.6 Before access is permitted to an OTP or a DTP you will be obliged to enter your username or account number and password. When placing a Transaction via an OTP your confirmation will be via an email contract note. Transactions on a DTP will be confirmed via an on screen contract note. The contract is binding on both parties except for instances of a Pricing Error. ForexCEC will treat Transactions placed via an OTP or a DTP as active on receipt of such an instruction and of its acceptance. Transactions placed via an OTP or a DTP will normally be confirmed at the time they are made by electronic means.
4.7 Your username, password and account number are extremely sensitive pieces of information. Any Transactions made on your account either over the telephone, an OTP or a DTP using either your username, account number or your password will be deemed as valid Transactions. You must not disclose your username, account number or password to any person (save disclosure of your account number to an Authorised Third Party pursuant to Clause 15). You must immediately inform ForexCEC if you are aware or suspect that a third party has had access to your username, account number or password or that any person other than you (or your Authorised Third Party) is transacting on your account.
4.8 In the case of Transactions placed via an OTP or a DTP, ForexCEC is under no obligation to recognise the domain from which a client is trading, and it is your sole responsibility to ascertain the legality of placing trades from your local jurisdiction.
4.9A Transaction can only be placed on a current valid Quote. A price may change at any time after it has been quoted and before you have traded. A Quote made to you over the telephone is only valid for that conversation and may not be available on any subsequent telephone call. Quotes that have been given as 'indication only' are not valid and cannot be traded unless otherwise agreed by ForexCEC. Quotes that have been qualified or Quotes that you have been told are no longer valid before you place your Transaction are also not tradable.
4.10 In the case of Transactions placed via an OTP or a DTP you may only offer to place a trade on the prices currently quoted on an OTP or a DTP. Such prices are indicative and on receipt ForexCEC may, in its absolute discretion, reject or accept your proposed Transaction. Due to the nature of online trading systems and the potential unreliability, delays, misquotes of market price feeds, ForexCEC may in its absolute discretion remove or delete Transactions and any associated Transactions (i.e. any trades closing subsequently deleted trades) which have been made over an OTP or a DTP which in the opinion of ForexCEC do not reflect the actual market prices at the time of the placement of the relevant Transaction. ForexCEC will not be responsible for losses or potential losses sustained by you in trading on a rejected or cancelled Transaction. ForexCEC is not responsible or liable for losses made with other companies on Transactions undertaken in reference to a rejected or cancelled trade.
4.11 The spot foreign exchange and commodities markets can experience extreme price volatility often referred to as "Hectic or Fast Market", it is particularly common during material economic or political events, such as news releases and monetary policy change. During such times it is common practice for the Capital Markets to execute orders manually and widen spread and place less reliance on automated systems. This practice can affect online price providers and may slow down their service to customers, increase re-quotes, human errors due to the extra time required to analyse the event and determine the fair market price. This may cause significant delays in trade execution and order processing while rates are cross-referenced to ensure valid execution. ForexCEC relies more on automated systems and executes trades automatically by our server to reduce delays, re-quotes and human errors and we maintain our fixed spread (except during very hectic market or holidays), therefore, protecting our clients stop-losses. Based on this, and to keep you informed of our policy in this regard, please be informed that ForexCEC reserves the right to cancel any trade that has been confirmed by our automated system during major news, figure releases or fast market that does not reflect the actual market price or the price has been delayed due to inevitable latency issue, thus preventing traders abusing our automated system or fixed spread.
4.12 ForexCEC does not allow scalping where the trading style is abusing our Automated Services for short term gain by sniping and hunting for on old price or wrong quotes or trading during illiquid market or trading during fundamental releases/news releases where the price on ForexCEC Market watch could be delayed due inevitable latency issue or trade using expert advisors or other robots for abusive purposes. Customers are urged to trade ethically and not to try to take advantage of our competitive services. Customers will solely be held liable and will indemnify ForexCEC from any damages or losses that may result from cancelling such trades. Clients are not permitted to Scalp or snipe.
5.1 Clients should note that they are trading on the outcome of the price of a financial derivative, and will not be entitled to delivery of, or be required to deliver, the underlying product.
5.2 This trading does not occur on an exchange. Rather the trading occurs off-exchange or over-the-counter ("OTC"). As a result, ForexCEC enters directly into a contract with you in respect of the financial instrument you wish to trade.
5.3 ForexCEC reserves the right to discontinue an Islamic/SWAP-free account by sending 24 hours notice. ForexCEC will invoke this right in case of suspicion of abuse, in which case ForexCEC may, at its sole discretion, decide to close all open positions in the account and deduct or add swaps for all transactions currently and/or previously made in the account and decline from accepting any further requests from the Client to be exempted from SWAP.
5.4 The above provisions shall apply with respect to any constituent security of a securities basket or securities index and are also subject to any such adjustment being scaled back in proportion to the respective weighting of the affected security within the securities basket or securities index as we reasonably consider appropriate.
5.5 If a share becomes subject to a takeover offer, suspended, merger and stock split, ForexCEC reserves the right to close any or all trades at the closing of the day or the last closing trading price before the amendment.
5.6 In certain market conditions it may not be possible to close a single share Transaction with sizable market consideration in full at one price. Such a Transaction may instead be closed at a price reflecting the price at which ForexCEC is able to transact any relevant underlying hedge but only during the trading hours of the Underlying Market (whether or not the relevant Transaction was opened during or outside the Underlying Market trading hours).
5.7 If the Underlying Market in relation to an existing open Position held by you becomes illiquid in any fashion, either leaving ForexCEC unable to purchase sufficient amount of the underlying shares or contracts to cover your Transaction or Position or is unable to borrow the same in the open market, ForexCEC reserves the right to close all or part of any such Transaction or Position at the current ForexCEC Quote.
5.8 If a share or an Underlying Market is subject to dividends or fundamental news announcement, and the client with an existing open position in the same shares. ForexCEC may close partial or all positions in shares to bring the equity/margin level above 200%.
5.9 If you are trading in concert whereby multiple clients are placing identical trades then ForexCEC may at its sole discretion treat this as one Trade. Therefore, if the combined size is greater than the liquidity of the market and slippage occurs, all clients may be treated the same regardless of their individual stake size and filled at the same level which will be where ForexCEC was able to realistically be able to trade in the Underlying Market.
6.1 Positions may be closed at any time within ForexCEC's Quoting Hours (except where the relevant market is suspended or not available for whatever reason) unless ForexCEC notifies you otherwise. ForexCEC may accept closure of Positions at other times dependent upon the market but is not obliged to do so.
6.2 You are not required to close a Position prior to the Expiry Date provided that your account is not in deficit. However, in certain circumstances and in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, ForexCEC shall be entitled or may be required to close your Position prior to their Expiry Date notwithstanding that your account is not in deficit.
6.3 If the Expiry Date of a Transaction is not a recognised business day of the relevant Underlying Market, then the business day immediately preceding that stated will be considered as the Expiry Date unless an alternative is specifically stated in the Contract Specifications or ForexCEC notifies you otherwise.
6.4 Open Positions will automatically close on their Expiry Date and at their expiry time (as are detailed in the Contract Specifications) at the ForexCEC closing price on that day. We ask our customers with existing futures open interest to take notice of our market information sheet and act accordingly.
7.1 There are generally two basic order types available:
7.2 New Orders are orders that are not connected to an existing open Position (although they may close existing Positions (unless where ForexCEC expressly agree otherwise (see 6.2 above)) if, when executed, they create trades that are opposite to existing open Positions). ForexCEC will accept the following types of new orders:
7.3 All Good Till Cancelled/Good for Day/Good Until orders are based on an Our Quote basis.
7.4 A Good Till Cancelled order will only be valid during ForexCEC's Quoting Hours for the market concerned. If there is any form of gap between the close of the market as quoted by ForexCEC on one trading session and its subsequent reopening either on the next session or, in the case of a Force Majeure, whenever ForexCEC reopens said market, the Client's Stop will be executed at the ForexCEC Quote based upon the first price that ForexCEC is reasonably able to obtain in the Underlying Market.
7.5 Any orders placed as Stop Losses on open Positions shall:
7.6 In respect of markets quoted by ForexCEC outside the trading hours of the relevant Underlying Market, all orders are based on ForexCEC's Quote/Our Quote and may be filled at the ForexCEC Quote based on a price which is in ForexCEC's opinion fair and reasonable in light of prevailing world markets at that time.
7.7 ForexCEC will accept orders placed in any market during the hours in which ForexCEC offers a Quote in said market. However, no Stops or orders of any kind in any market will be executed outside of the ForexCEC quoting hours for that market except by agreement with ForexCEC. Upon the opening of any market quoted by ForexCEC any currently actionable Stop, Limit or New Order will be filled at the first Quote for the relevant market that ForexCEC is reasonably able to obtain with reference to the Underlying Market and the size of the order in question.
7.8 It is your responsibility to cancel any order that you no longer require. Any uncancelled order placed by you may be filled by ForexCEC and may therefore cause losses to which you will be liable. In the case of Stop Loss orders if the related Transaction is closed by you the Stop Loss order will be deemed automatically cancelled. If the underlying Stop Loss on any open Position was actionable before you closed the open Position, ForexCEC may at its sole discretion adjust the closing price of your trade to reflect the Stop Loss price.
7.9 An order will be executed when the ForexCEC Quote reaches the price specified in your order or trades through the price specified. All Quotes are based upon an Underlying Market that is sourced from either a recognised global exchange (LSE, NYSE, LIFFE etc) or from a wholesale counterparty (a quoting bank or market maker). Our Quote may be higher or lower than the Underlying Market due to interest rate costs, dividends, scrip issues, stock splits, competitors' quotes or the weight of client business. The understanding of the definition of Our Quote is very important for the correct operation of your account. If you do not understand any part of its description we strongly recommend that you contact ForexCEC for an explanation.
7.10 ForexCEC is not obliged to inform you if an order is filled. It is solely your responsibility to ensure that you know at all times as to whether any order has been filled or is still active and if you are in any doubt whatsoever as to deal acceptance it is your sole responsibility to contact ForexCEC immediately, in the first instance by telephone, in order to obtain clarification as to the validity of any Transaction.
7.11 Once a Stop, Limit or New Order level is reached, ForexCEC may at its sole discretion allow a client to amend this order before it has been actioned by ForexCEC. Although receipt of any confirmation of an order amendment is not binding on ForexCEC, ForexCEC may at its sole discretion decide to execute the original order if the activation of that order occurred before the amendment was made. ForexCEC shall not be liable for any Positions generated by clients' assumption of non-activation of a fairly executed order.
7.12 Unless otherwise stipulated, no orders are guaranteed and are subject to Gapping (which is detailed below at 7.14).
7.13 If a New Order is subject to Gapping (see 7.14) on activation and the order is actioned at a price that would also have activated any associated Limit or Stop orders, then the Position will immediately be closed with a loss to the client of the prevailing ForexCEC quoted spread for that market.
7.14 In this Agreement, "Gapping" refers to an occurrence whereby the market moves from one quoted price and that this second quote is significantly different to the first. Where such an event happens and where the second quote is through an order level (Stop Loss, Limit or New Order), when the first quote was not, this may trigger a Gapping event.
There are a variety of reasons why this might happen. Some of the more usual are listed below, but this list is by no means exhaustive.
7.15.1 because the particular Underlying Market on which the order is placed has opened and started trading at a price significantly different from the previous session closing price;
7.15.2 Accordingly, you must understand the potential impact of these events on any Order that you have on your account. All orders (Stop, Limit or New Order) are subject to slippage on the market open. In a situation where slippage occurs during trading hours, any buy order (new or limit) below the market or sell order (new or limit) above the market and sell orders (closing or stop) below the market or buy orders (closing or stop) above the market may be subject to slippage. If any market gaps from one quoted price to another due to any market sensitive piece of information (such as a profit warning or an economic data release), then any order in place between these prices will be activated.
7.16 Where a series of orders may be filled to close existing open Positions and/or open new Positions then these orders will be filled by ForexCEC in any sequence determined by ForexCEC. If this results in subsequent orders having insufficient Trading Resources for activation, then these orders will be cancelled. ForexCEC will not look at an order filling sequence that may result in one order being filled and another failing, ForexCEC will fill orders as and when they are seen by ForexCEC, and at our sole discretion.
8.1 In general, ForexCEC only allows its clients to trade on Deposit Accounts (where money must be deposited before trading can commence).
8.2 You agree to provide to us and to maintain on your account at all times such Margin as is necessary to cover the Margin Requirement. Your agreement is repeated for every Transaction entered into by you and shall relate separately to each account, if you have more than one account with us.
8.3 The minimum level of cleared funds that you are required to maintain on your account at any particular time as margin against any open positions is referred to as the Margin Requirement. ForexCEC may at its sole discretion alter the Margin Requirements on your account.
8.4 ForexCEC will normally monitor the amount of Margin available for any Transaction but reserves the right to demand further Margin than may have been originally requested. In circumstances during high market volatility or depending on the weight of customer business or the trading style or before important fundamental releases or due to general increase of margin for an instrument in the exchange or at the closing of the week, ForexCEC reserves the right to increase the margin requirement by reducing the leverage offered and/or to increase the stop out level (equity/margin) from the agreed level up to 100% by giving written notice. In such cases, if the stop out level is below 100% then ForexCEC will hedge the positions or partially close them to bring the equity/margin to above 100%. Customers will solely be held liable for any damages or losses that may result from closing the position/positions.
8.5 ForexCEC maintains the right to close any client position/positions when the stop out level (equity/margin) falls at 0% of the total margin requirement or the level agreed with the client. In case the balance or equity becomes negative as a result of a stop out, ForexCEC reserves the right to claim the balance from the client to adjust the equity back to zero. As stated in clause 8.4, ForexCEC reserves the right to increase the stop out level by giving a written notice to the client.
8.6 An order placed as a Stop Loss for a position may not necessarily reduce the Margin Requirement.
8.7 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, ForexCEC is entitled, in its absolute discretion, to permit any trade for a Size which is above the recognised maximum single Size for a particular market.
8.8 The minimum IMR for any market and stop out level may be changed from time to time by ForexCEC without notice to you (for example, during volatile market conditions or due to the illiquid nature of any Underlying Market). These new margin requirements and stop out level will be applied to all your existing Positions as well as any new Transactions. Most contracts" Minimum IMR is set out in the Contract Specifications which are correct at the time of publication. Margin Requirements which are not set out in the Contract Specifications or which have changed since the date of publication of the Contract Specifications will be quoted on request or posted on the website. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are using the most recent margin requirements applicable.
8.9 Occasionally new or temporary markets are created. These markets attract their own margin requirement that may not be published but will be available on demand.
8.10 You undertake to provide us with and to maintain on your account at all times sufficient cleared funds in order to meet the margin requirement, and such undertaking shall be deemed to be repeated each time you open enter into a Transaction. A failure to meet your margin obligations at any time is a Default Event and may result in us closing out your open Positions without notice to you.
8.11 Neither the funds on your account nor the margin applied to your Position(s) represent your total financial liability to ForexCEC.
8.12 ForexCEC reserves the right to increase margin requirements prior to the release of a dividend. If you hold long positions on the ex-div date, you will receive a dividend in the form of a cash adjustment(deposit). If you hold a short position on the ex-div date, you will be charged the dividend amount in the form of a cash adjustment (withdrawal). .
9.1 It is your responsibility to monitor your open Positions and all other relevant factors used to calculate Margin payable. ForexCEC is not obliged to make Margin Calls of you at all or within any specific time period. We shall not be liable to you for any failure by us to contact you or attempt to contact you.
10.1 In addition to Margin payments (as required and detailed above at Clauses 7 and 8 above) you agree to pay to us such sums of money as may from time to time be due to us as a result of a Transaction or Position (including any charges and/or commissions detailed from time to time in the Contract Specifications) and such sums as may be required in or towards clearance of any debit balance on any account.
10.2 You will pay all applicable Value Added Tax (VAT) and other taxes and all other fees reasonably incurred by us in connection with any Transaction. Any changes to tax laws which result in future imposition of stamp duty, capital gains tax or other tax, which may from time to time be levied on Transactions shall be for your account. You may be liable for other charges and taxes that are not imposed by us. You are solely responsible for the timely payment of such charges and taxes. You should seek independent advice if you are in any doubt as to what further charges or taxes may apply to you as a result of you entering this Agreement.
10.3 In the event that charges are imposed by the credit or debit Card Company (or any other provider) used to deposit funds on to your account, these may be charged by us to you. ForexCEC will not be responsible for any non¬payment of these charges and will not be liable for any proceedings or further charges resulting from non-payment of such charges.
10.4 You agree that we may share commission and charges with our Associated Companies, Trading Partners or other third parties or receive or pay remuneration from or to the same in respect of Transactions entered into by us with you. Details of any such remuneration or sharing arrangements (for example where you have been introduced to us through a third party) will not be set out in the relevant contract note. Please note that such commissions and charges will only be paid where we are satisfied that such payments do not impair our obligation to act in the best interests of our client.
10.5 In regards to Stock Trading the Client will be requested to sign a W8-BEN form, for establishing status for Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, by which the Client “certifies” his country of residence and confirms that is not a resident of the United States. The Company shall be required to deduct US withholding tax on income and gross proceeds from the Client’s investments in US Stocks. The Company may also charge the Client for the provision of market data or any other account feature or fees for custody and settlement or such other fees as the Company reasonably advises the Client from time to time. For more information, the Client should consult the Terms of Business for Stocks Account
11.1 The Contract Specifications provide important information in relation to each market offered by ForexCEC and clients are strongly advised to ensure they understand them. The information provided in the Contract Specifications includes:
11.2 ForexCEC has to the best of its ability insured that the Contract Specifications are correct but ForexCEC reserves the right to amend any part of the Contract Specifications at any time.
11.3 Current spreads and/or commission rates on contracts will be quoted to you on request. ForexCEC has the right to vary spreads or commission rates on any contract or vary the Size specifications without notice especially in, but not limited to, volatile market conditions and/or illiquidity of the Underlying Market. At ForexCEC's discretion quoted spreads made via the telephone may differ from the spreads available on an OTP or a DTP.
12.1 At ForexCEC we do not roll-over dated OTC Future contracts. All positions that remain open at expiration will be closed at the ForexCEC closing price on that day. Next month contracts will be available for trading at least four days before front month expiration, therefore, it is the sole responsibility of the client to take notice of expiries and act accordingly.
13.1 If your account balance is in debit, the full amount of that balance is due immediately. Payment must be made in the currency in which the debit balance is denominated (or by agreement with ForexCEC and at an exchange rate designated by ForexCEC the amount may be transferred in a currency of your choice).
13.2 ForexCEC will require immediate payment of any debit Account Balance by either SWIFT transfer, debit/credit card, or any other method of immediate electronic funds transfer acceptable to ForexCEC and delivered to ForexCEC bank accounts by 2:00pm on the same business day that the debit account balance became due. ForexCEC is entitled to refuse payment by cheque without notice and without giving any reason.
13.3 ForexCEC reserves the right to and shall be entitled to charge interest on all sums payable to ForexCEC under these Terms and Conditions which are not paid within 5 days of their due date until payment is made in full, ForexCEC shall charge you 2% per calendar month or part thereof cumulative on the sum owed to ForexCEC. ForexCEC will require you to reimbursement for any and all costs we may suffer or incur if you fail to make payment when due for any reason whatsoever.
13.4 ForexCEC has the right to debit from your account or any other account in which you hold an interest any costs, interest or expenses incurred in recovering said debt. All debts to ForexCEC are recoverable in law. ForexCEC will actively pursue any sum (whatever the size) that is due.
13.5 Unrealised profits will under no conditions be paid or be available for electronic withdrawal or offset your obligation to pay your realised losses.
13.6 ForexCEC shall be entitled to keep hold of funds which are required to cover adverse cash positions, Margin Requirement, any uncleared funds (i.e. cheques or credit card payments), realised losses and any other amount due under this Agreement.
13.7 ForexCEC may at any time set off any liabilities owed by it to you against any amount owed by you to ForexCEC. ForexCEC reserves the right, without notice to you and in its absolute discretion, to consolidate any or all of your accounts of whatever type or description or any accounts in which you have a part or management function or oversight interest.
13.8 Without prejudice to any part of this Agreement, ForexCEC shall be entitled to require the settlement of all open Positions at any time and with immediate effect. Such settlement shall be made at the prevailing ForexCEC Quote (Our Quote) for each trade at the time of settlement or at the first such time that such a settlement may be practically made. The settlement amount in respect of each open Position shall be calculated by ForexCEC at its sole discretion as the difference between the opening value of each trade and its value on the settlement price.
13.9 For the avoidance of doubt, we shall be entitled at any time to deduct, without notice or recourse to you, any monies deposited in or credited to your account in error by us or on our behalf.
14.1 ForexCEC recognises that there is the risk that, under certain circumstances, directors (including non-executive directors), employees, associates, consultants or any other person directly or indirectly related to ForexCEC may hold interests, financial or otherwise, and benefits that may be in conflict with the best interests of the clients and as a consequence may damage the interests of the clients. This is known as a conflict of interest.
14.2 To prevent and to minimise the risk of conflicts of interest, ForexCEC has adopted a number of systems and procedures which set out how it will seek to identify and manage all material conflicts of interests. These are detailed in our Conflicts of Interest Policy which may be found online.
14.3 If you wish to have further information on our Conflicts of Interests Policy, or on any specific conflict of interest that you think might affect you, please contact us.
15.1 ForexCEC recognises that in some circumstances it may be necessary or desirable for you to authorise someone to manage your account. You do so at your own risk and both you and the person you wish to authorise to operate your account will be required to execute and deliver to ForexCEC a letter in the form of a signed Power of Attorney document authorising and appointing such person (an "Authorised Third Party") to operate your account.
15.2 If you have opened an account electronically, and we do not have an original of your signature, you will not be able to appoint an Authorised Third Party until such time as you furnish us with an independently verified example of your signature (i.e. photocopy of your passport or driving licence).
15.3 You will be held fully responsible for all actions of the Authorised Third Party. ForexCEC shall be entitled to accept instructions from such Authorised Third Party until receipt of a written notice from you stating that the authority of the Authorised Third Party is revoked. Such written notice must be sent to the ForexCEC Client Services Department by registered mail or by personal delivery countersigned by an officer of ForexCEC Upon receipt of this instruction, ForexCEC shall change your account number and any passwords attributable to it. In any event, ForexCEC shall be entitled, and without notice to you, to refuse to accept instructions from any Authorised Third Party and to treat the appointment of any such Authorised Third Party as terminated.
16.1 You may terminate this Agreement immediately by giving written or verbal notice to us.
16.2 You can contact us at any time via email, writing or telephone to instruct us to close your account. We will only close your account if you have no monies owing to us and any open Position shall be closed in accordance with Clause 9.5 above. Any losses incurred on your account prior to the closure of the account shall be deemed to be immediately payable by you.
16.3 You specifically and unconditionally agree that ForexCEC has the right to close or suspend your account with immediate effect in any of the following events:
16.4 If either party terminates this agreement all open Positions shall be immediately closed on the current quote made by ForexCEC or, in the case where any market is closed for any reason, at the next available quote reasonably made by ForexCEC on the reopening of said market and no new trades shall be accepted by ForexCEC.
16.5 No penalty will be payable by either party on termination of this Agreement and termination will not affect any accrued rights. On termination by either party, we may consolidate all or any of your accounts and may deduct all amounts due to us before transferring to you any credit balances on your account.
16.6 At any time after the termination of this Agreement, we may without notice, close out any of your Positions.
16.7 Further, if an Insolvency Event or Default Event occurs ForexCEC may (but is not obliged to):
17.1 ForexCEC will treat money received from you or held by us on your behalf in our Clients accounts.
17.2 ForexCEC will hold all Client Money in client accounts.
17.3 It is not our policy to pay interest to you on any of your money held by ForexCEC.
17.4 In the event that there has been no movement on your account balance for a period of at least six years (notwithstanding any payments or receipts of charges, interest or similar items) and we are unable to trace you despite having taken reasonable steps to do so, you agree that we may cease to treat your money as client money, we shall make and retain records of all balances released and undertake to make good any future valid claims against released balances.
17.5 You may not assign any part of your profits or losses to a third party. A third party may not place any funds in your account or withdraw funds from your account. All withdrawals from your account balance must be payable directly to you (by means of a cheque SWIFT or debit/credit card payments).
17.6 Due to fraud prevention measures and in accordance with money laundering regulations, ForexCEC will only refund monies back to where they came from. Where monies have been deposited by card the funds will be returned to that card where possible and where not possible. ForexCEC may require sight of original bank statements showing original fund transfer to ForexCEC before refunding to the said bank account.
17.7 Where monies have been deposited by bank transfer, ForexCEC may require sight of the original bank statement showing the deposit of the transfer before any refund is made.
17.8 Where bank accounts have been closed ForexCEC may require a letter from the originating bank stating that the account has been closed and there are no funds owing to the bank. Before ForexCEC will refund to a new bank account we may require sight of the original deposit transfer statement from the closed account and sight of an original new bank account statement.
17.9 In reference to this Clause, if ForexCEC's records show a discrepancy between card details and ForexCEC's account details as supplied by you, ForexCEC may require sight of original bank statements, or any other relevant evidence, to confirm your new status before processing a refund.
18.1 Force Majeure events are exceptional, unusual, or emergency market conditions which may prevent ForexCEC from performing any or all of its obligations hereunder. They include, without limitation:
18.2 If we conclude in our reasonable assessment that a Force Majeure situation exists then we may in our absolute and sole discretion:
18.3 In the absence of fraud or bad faith, ForexCEC shall not be liable to you for any losses you may suffer by reason of any action it may take in accordance with this Clause.
19.1 Upon entering into any Transaction or order or amendment of an order or any cancellation of an order ForexCEC contract notes will be:
(a) emailed to you where those orders are in respect of a product provided on an OTP; or
(b) available to view on screen in relation to Transactions made via a DTP.
19.2 Any material action affecting your account will trigger an email and/or an on¬screen confirmation. The absence of an email confirmation or on-screen confirmation of an action on your account will not affect the validity of any Transaction or order which has been placed.
19.3 It is solely your responsibility to keep yourself fully up to date in respect of all your Transactions and Positions. As soon as you receive any contract note you must check it to make certain that it is correct. The sooner that ForexCEC is made aware of any error or problem, the sooner we will be able to look into or correct it. You must also regularly check your online statement.
19.4 Your account statement will be available online at any time unless ForexCEC has suspended your account or an OTP or a DTP is unavailable for any reason.
19.5 If you receive a contract note for a Transaction or filled order that you allege has not been transacted by or for you, ForexCEC must be notified immediately. If you do not receive a contract note for a Transaction you have placed (or believe you have placed) you must notify ForexCEC immediately.
19.6 If you think that any contract note or statement contains any error you must notify ForexCEC immediately.
19.7 Any query or dispute in respect of any trade or conversation, together with details of the time and date of the trade or conversation must be communicated to ForexCEC as soon as you become aware of it. If the dispute or complaint is not satisfactorily resolved it should be referred, again with all details, to the Client Services team of ForexCEC.
19.8 In the event of any query or dispute ForexCEC may at its discretion immediately close, at the prevailing ForexCEC quote or the first such quote available, any Position that is in dispute. No matter what the subsequent result of the dispute, ForexCEC will not reopen or reinstate any such closed trade.
19.9 Client money will be deposited into a client money bank account. In the event that ForexCEC was to become insolvent, all client money held in the third party bank account would be protected. In the event that the third party bank was to become insolvent you may be entitled to compensation from the Scheme if the third party bank were unable to meet their obligations. This depends on the type of business you undertake, your status, and the circumstances of the claim.
20.1 These Terms are subject to alteration by notice to you. Any alteration shall be effective immediately on service in accordance with Clause 21 and shall apply to all open Positions and unfilled orders as at and after the effective date of the change.
21.1 All notices will be sent to clients of ForexCEC via the email messaging medium and unless ForexCEC receives a 'failure to deliver' message all such messages will be deemed to have been received by you. Any alteration of your email address must be communicated immediately to ForexCEC. Any losses incurred by you through non-receipt of notification or confirmation (in the case of trades or orders placed) are payable by you. ForexCEC accepts no responsibility for non-receipt by you of any such notification or confirmation.
21.2 Any request by ForexCEC that you make contact with us, for whatever reason, should be regarded as vital and should be acted upon immediately.
21.3 Where ForexCEC is not notified nor receives notification from the Client that any notice or other communication has been received by the Client, it shall be deemed to have been duly served on the Client:
21.4 the Client has declared in the Account Opening Application Form if he is a Politically Exposed Person and will notify the Company if at any stage during the course of this Client Agreement he becomes a Politically Exposed Person.
21.5 Any notice or other communication given or made under or in connection with the matters contemplated by this Agreement shall, except where oral communication is expressly provided for, be in writing and shall be sent to [email protected]
22.1 These Terms do not limit or exclude any liability arising out of fraud or for death or injury arising by reason of ForexCEC negligence.
22.2 Subject to all other provisions of these Terms and Conditions and the Agreement ForexCEC is liable to you to pay you your realised available profits. The foregoing is ForexCEC's entire liability to you.
22.3 You shall indemnify us and keep us indemnified on demand in respect of all liabilities, costs, claims, damages and expenses of any nature whatsoever (present, future, contingent or otherwise and including legal fees) which we suffer or incur as a direct or indirect result of a breach by you of your obligations under this Agreement or under the laws and regulations in force or us exercising our rights under in relation to the Default Event provisions detailed in these Terms and Conditions, unless and to the extent such liabilities, costs, claims, damages and expenses are suffered or incurred as a result of our gross negligence or willful default. You shall indemnify us and keep us indemnified against all losses which we may suffer as a result of: any error in any instruction given to us by any Authorised Person or acting on any instruction, which is, or appears to be, from an Authorised Person.
22.4 Subject to Clause shall not be liable:
22.5 If any of these Terms and Conditions shall be found to be unenforceable or invalid, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not affect any other part of these Terms and Conditions (or the remaining portion of the affected part as the case may be), which shall remain in full force and effect.
22.6 You shall not assign, transfer, charge or subcontract any of the rights or liabilities hereunder.
22.7 ForexCEC shall be entitled to assign, transfer, charge, sub-contract or deal in any manner with all or any of its rights and/or liabilities hereunder including by way of transfer of the same to an Associated Company or Trading Partner.
23.1 At the present time, income from CFD Trading is not exempt from Capital Gains tax. However, there is no Stamp Duty on CFDs. Tax regulations may change at any time. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that your CFD activity complies with your local income tax regulations and any other applicable fiscal laws.
24.1 You acknowledge that by opening an account with us and placing Transactions you will be providing us with personal information. You consent to us processing all such information for the purposes of performing the contract and administering the relationship between us. You consent to our disclosing such information:
24.2 You authorise us or our associated companies or any trading partner to telephone or otherwise contact you at any reasonable time in order to discuss any aspect of our business or of our associated companies' business or of our trading partners' business. If you do not wish us or our associated companies or our trading partners to so contact you for any direct marketing activities, you must inform us in writing
In this Agreement (and in addition to expressions defined elsewhere on our website) the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings:
"Account Balance" is the "cash balance" on your account (your account balance does not include profits or losses on any open Positions).
"Applicable Laws" means any national, local or other statute, law, rule, code guidance, order or decision of a Governmental Authority.
"Application Form" means the application form supplied by ForexCEC in relation to these Terms and Conditions.
"Associated Company" means any holding company or subsidiary company (as defined in the Companies Act 2001) within the ForexCEC group and/or any subsidiary company of any such holding company or its subsidiaries.
"Authorized Third Party" means a person authorised by you to initiate trades or close existing trades using your account details, as referred to in Clause 15.
"Bet" (including "betting", "dealing" , "trading") or other similar words express a reference to a client entering into a Transaction. "Bid" or "bid price" is the price at which the Client can sell.
"Buy" (including "Take", "Up Bet", "Go Long" "Long", "Long Position") is defined as making a buy Transaction or buying the market quoted by ForexCEC.
"Client" (including "you", and "your") means a person or company who has opened an account with ForexCEC and has agreed to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
"Client Money/Monies" refers to your funds in your account which is held by ForexCEC.
Clients of ForexCEC retain full titles to their monies, subject to usage requirements.
"Credit Account" is an account where ForexCEC, at its sole discretion, has offered you a credit line to use as Trading Resources.
"Contract For Difference", "CFD" or other similar words express a reference to a client placing a CFD trade.
"Default Event" shall be deemed to have occurred where:
"Deposit Account" is an account where you need to deposit funds before you can commence trading.
"DTP" is any Downloadable Trading Platform provided by ForexCEC for trading our markets.
"Execution Policy" means ForexCEC's order Execution Policy which may be amended from time to time. A summary of the current Execution Policy is available on our website
"Expiry Date" means the expiry date and time of a Transaction.
"FX", (including "Forex" refers to currency trading, "Gapping" as is detailed in Clause 7.
"If Done Order" means an order that is only triggered on the activation of another attached order. For example, if a New Order is activated, you may wish to pre-set a Stop Loss and/or a Limit order. These additional orders are deemed "If Done Orders".
"IMR" (including "Min IMR") means Initial Margin Requirement which represents the minimum Trading Resources (Free Margin) required to place an opening trade in the minimum trade size permitted by ForexCEC. (i.e. if you have a Sterling Account and the Min IMR in a market was 50 then to place a unit trade size of £3 you would require at least £150 (£3x50) of available resources to do so) "Insolvency Event" means and shall occur:
"Limit Order" refers to an instruction to take a profit on an open trade if our quote reaches the level requested or as a contingent ("If Done" ) instruction on a New Order.
"ForexCEC", "ForexCEC" (including "we", "us", "our" and "ourselves" as appropriate) the retail division of ForexCEC.
"LSE" the London Stock Exchange.
"Margin" a term that describes the cash required or being used on your account to either open Transactions or run your Positions. See Clause 7.
"Margin Call" a request for Margin payment as referred to in Clause 8.
"Margin Requirement" is the amount of cash or credit resources required to maintain your existing open Positions.
"Market" refers to indices, shares, currencies, commodities, bonds and interest rates or any other product that may be quoted by ForexCEC from time to time.
"Contract Specifications" refers to the document available online that details ForexCEC's current Quoting Hours, Min IMR, Overnight Financing interest rates, other market specifications and other rates applicable to the Transactions and Positions as determined by us for you.
"New Order" is an instruction to open a new Transaction at a possible future price based on the ForexCEC Quote.
"Offer" or "offer price" is the price at which the Client can buy.
"Order Book" the window on the OTP where your working orders are listed.
"OTP" is any Online Trading Platform provided by ForexCEC for trading our markets.
"Overnight Financing" is the credit or debit applied to your account when you hold a Position in certain contracts overnight and including non-business days.
"Pricing Error" is defined as a misquote by ForexCEC where the price quoted materially and clearly deviates from the prevailing market price (or the forward calculated market price) at the time that it was quoted. A Pricing Error as defined, but not exclusively, is a Bid price or Offer price which varies above or below the prevailing mid-market price of the underlying product by more than the size of the quoted bid/offer spread of that product. For example a bid/offer quote by ForexCEC in the FTSE Quarterly contract of 4804 - 4808 when the correct quote should have been 4797 - 4801 may be considered to be a Pricing Error as the ForexCEC Bid of 4804 is more than the quoted spread of the product (in this case 4) away from the midpoint (4799) of the correct quote.
"Position(s)" means open Transactions.
"Rolling Daily" refers to Positions that automatically roll into the next trading day without incurring any profit or loss. Such Positions usually have a long Expiry Date (sometimes many years in the future) and attract Overnight Financing.
"Quote", "Our Quote", " ForexCEC Quote" is the price quoted by ForexCEC via an OTP or a DTP or over the telephone. All Quotes are based upon an Underlying Market that is sourced from either a recognised global exchange or from a wholesale counterparty.
"Quoting Hours", "ForexCEC Quoting Hours" are the times detailed in the Contract Specifications when ForexCEC quotes its markets. ForexCEC will not quote any markets outside of its opening hours.
"Sell", (including "Go Short", "Short", "Short Position") is defined as making a sell Transaction or selling the market quoted by ForexCEC.
"Size(s)" refers to the size of the buy or sell Transaction. The standard, minimum and maximum trade sizes and stake sizes that ForexCEC allows can differ from market to market and product to product and are further detailed in the Contract Specifications.
"Stop", "Stop Loss" is an order to close an open Position at a predetermined level.
"Trading Partners" are anyone with whom ForexCEC has a contractual relationship, for example a joint venture relationship, partnership relationship, agency relationship, white label relationship or introducing broker relationship.
"Trading Resources" (or "Free Margin" or "available Margin") is the amount of money available on your account that may be apportioned to new Transactions or to moving current Stop levels.
"Transactions" means any buy or sell trade or CFD trade made between you and ForexCEC (including to close a Position) and includes any other such transaction made between ForexCEC and you as may be agreed from time to time and on a case by case basis.
"Underlying Market" is the physical underlying assets from which our markets are derived, and the market in which those assets are traded.
"Chapter 3" shall mean chapter 3 of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States (Withholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Corporations). Chapter 3 contains sections 1441 through 1464.
"Chapter 4" shall mean chapter 4 of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States (Taxes to Enforce Reporting on Certain Foreign Accounts). Chapter 4 contains sections 1471 through 1474.
"Politically Exposed Person" or "PEP" shall mean someone who currently or in the last 12 months belonged to a political entity or governmental body; this extends to the immediate family members and close associates of such a person.
