Higher Margin Requirement (HMR)
Your trading safeguards have been upgraded.
Economic and sociopolitical events often expose your trades to significant risk due to market volatility and sharp price movements.
We want to help with that.
To counter the risk we built a Higher Margin Requirements (HMR) system that automatically requires higher margin requirements and reduced leverage on any newly opened positions 10 minutes prior until 10 minutes after a major economic announcement affecting the USD.
HMR safeguards during high volatility events can help safeguard your trades from unnecessary risk.
Previous positions are unaffected and normal trade settings would resume following the HMR period.
Always check the economic calendar to see if HMR periods will affect your trades. If an announcement is forecasted to affect the USD, it will most likely trigger an HMR period.