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Professional Trader categorization

The advanced trading conditions, trading instruments and services are available for InstaForex Professional Traders.

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Professional Traders are traders who have relevant experience and knowledge to independently make investment decisions and to accurately evaluate the risks these decisions involve. The Professional Trader categorization gives you:

Leverage up to 1:500

Best Execution Policy

VIP Customer Service

Wider access to the trading tools

Do you qualify as a Professional Trader?

To request the Professional Trader category, you need to meet at least two of the following criteria set forth by the ESMA:

Experience

Have you traded a significant size of CFDs (at least 10 lots per quarter over the previous 4 (four) quarters?

Knowledge

Do you have at least one year of professional work experience in the financial sector, where knowledge of transactions or services in CFDs was required?

Portfolio

Does the size of your portfolio (including cash and financial instruments) exceed 500,000 Euros?

Please note that you will be required to provide evidence of the above.

You can switch your category back to Retail Trader at any point - all you need to do is let us know that you wish to change your classification.

Professional Trader leverage

Professional Traders

Asset Class

Indices

Gold

Commodities

Stocks

Cryptocurrencies

Deposit : Up to 100,000 EUR

1:500

1:100

1:20

1:5

Deposit : 10,000 - 30,000 EUR

1:300

1:50

1:20

1:5

Deposit : 30,000 - 100,000 EUR

1:200

1:20

1:10

1:5

Deposit : Above 100,000 EUR

1:100

1:10

1:20

1:5

Asset Class	Deposit Up to 100,000 EUR	Deposit Above 100,000 EUR
Asset Class	Deposit : Up to 100,000 EUR	Deposit : Above 100,000 EUR
FX	FX	1:500	1:500	1:300	1:300
Indices	Indices	1:100	1:100	1:100	1:100
Gold	Gold	1:100	1:100	1:100	1:100
Commodities	Commodities	1:20	1:20	1:20	1:20
Stocks	Stocks	1:20	1:20	1:20	1:20
ETFs & SPACs	ETFs & SPACs	1:20	1:20	1:20	1:20
Cryptocurrencies	Cryptocurrencies	1:5	1:5	1:5	1:5

We are not obligated to offer the following to Professional Traders but have elected to continue doing so:

Client money remains segregated from our funds and will be unaffected in the event of our insolvency;
Best Execution remains unchanged as we owe all our clients a duty of best execution;
Key information documents remain available to you;
You have a right to request to be re-categorised as a Retail Trader at any time.

As a Professional Trader, you will lose some protections:

We may not provide you with any standardised risk warnings as you already understand the associated risks;
We will assume you have the relevant knowledge and experience levels to understand the risks in trading leveraged products, so we will not impose product restrictions upon you;
You are not covered by the Investor’s Compensation Fund protecting the retail traders;
You may not receive detailed information about the company’s services, financial instruments, investment strategies and execution venues as well as any other information relevant to the retail traders.