The European Union has published new regulations applying to retail Forex, CFD, and the few remaining binary options brokerages in its territory. If you have an account with one such brokerage, the regulations will affect you when they come into force during the late spring and summer. This article will outline how the new regulations will impact your bottom line.
Details of the New ESMA Regulations
In March 2018, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the financial regulator and supervisor of the European Union, announced new regulations concerning the provision of contracts for differences (CFDs) and binary options to retail investors. It is unclear exactly when the regulations will come into force, but some time in May or June 2018 looks to be the most likely date, and Forex and CFD brokerages located within the European Union (including the United Kingdom, for the time being) will be forced to comply. The regulations will need to be renewed by ESMA every three months to remain in force over the long term.
The regulation concerning binary options is very simple: they may not be sold. In simple terms, this is the end of binary options as a product sold from within the European Union.
The regulations concerning CFDs are more complex but still relatively straightforward. Firstly, there is some confusion as to what exactly is a CFD, with many traders thinking that spot Forex is not considered a CFD and will therefore be exempt from the new regulations. They are wrong: spot Forex is technically defined as a CFD. In fact, every asset you see available for trading at Forex / CFD brokers will most likely be subject to the new regulations.
The new regulations will implement the following changes for retail client accounts (more on who is a retail client; later).
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The maximum leverage which can be offered will be 30 to 1. That will apply to major currency pairs such as EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, etc.
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Other currency pairs, major equity indices, and gold will be subject to a maximum leverage of 20 to 1.
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Individual equities cannot be offered with leverage greater than 5 to 1.
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Cryptocurrencies are subject to a maximum leverage of 2 to 1.
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Brokers will be required to provide negative balance protection, meaning it will be impossible to lose more money than you deposit.
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Brokers will be required to close a clients open positions when the account equity reaches 50% of the required minimum margin by all open positions. This ;margin call; provision can be tricky to understand, so will be explained in more detail later.
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Bonuses or any other form of trading incentives may not be offered.
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Brokers will be required to display a standardized risk warning which will include the percentage of their clients who lose money over a defined period.
Understanding the ;Margin Call; Regulation
The best way to understand the 50% margin call provision is to use an example. Imagine a client opens an account with a Forex broker, depositing ;100 in total. The client opens a short trade in EUR/USD, by going short one mini-lot (one tenth of a full lot). One full lot of EUR/USD is worth ;10,000, meaning one mini-lot is worth ;1,000. To find out the minimum margin required to support that trade, we divide the size of the trade (;1,000) by 30, which comes to ;33.33. This is the minimum required margin to maintain the trade. Half of that amount is ;16.67. Now assume the trade goes against the client, with the price of EUR/USD rising above the entry price. As soon as the price rises far enough to produce a floating loss of ;83.33 (;100 - ;16.67), the broker must close the trade out, even if the trade has no stop loss or has not yet reached the stop loss. In theory, this means that a client;s account can never reach zero. Examples involving multiple open trades will be more complex, but will operate according to the same principles.
What Will This Mean for Traders?
The regulations will only apply to ;retail clients;, so you might try to apply to be classed as a professional trader. To get a broker to classify you as anything other than a retail client, you will have to show you have financial qualifications, a large amount of liquid assets, plenty of experience trading, and usually that you also trade frequently. Most traders will be unable to qualify, although it is worth noting that one London-based brokerage, IG Group, has stated that their proportion of clients now classified as recently increased from 5% to 15% of their total customers.
The major impact these regulations will have on traders is simple ndash; the maximum trade size they can possibly make at brokers regulated in the European Union will shrink. Many will say that the maximum leverage limits still offer far more than any trader could need, and I agree. I am wary of leverage and I hate to see anyone using leverage greater than 3 to 1 for Forex under any conditions, or any leverage at all for stocks and cryptocurrencies. Commodities can also fluctuate wildly in value. Too many people forget that the biggest danger in leverage is not overly large position sizing, it is that a ldquo;black swan rdquo; event such as the CHF flash crash of 2015 could happen and wipe out your account through huge price slippage. However, there is another factor that is widely forgotten: why assume that a trader rsquo;s account at one Forex broker is all the money they have in the world? For example, a trader might have $10,000 in the bank. If they deposit $1,000 at a broker offering maximum leverage of 300 to 1, they can trade up to $300,000. At a leverage limit of 30 to 1, that trader will have to deposit their entire $10,000 fund to trade at the same size. In a real sense, that trader might now have to take on more risk to operate in the same way, because if the broker goes bust, while beforehand they might lose $1,000 now they could lose $10,000! Even without negative balance protection, that broker would still have to come after them to try to get an extra $9,000 which they theoretically risk. Yet we saw after the CHF crash that brokers don rsquo;t come after every single client whose losses exceeded their deposit, due to legal costs and reputational issues. This shows that although the stated purpose of the regulation is to protect traders from excessive losses, the story is not as simple as you may think.
Beyond having to deposit more margin, and automatic margin calls, the other major change for traders will be that they will enjoy negative balance protection. This is a positive development which hopefully will make brokerages focus more heavily on the risks they are taking with their business model in the market. At the same time, a possible side effect of the new regulation is the potential increase in average deposits, leading to brokerages being more stable and better capitalized with client funds. Two final notes: brokerages will have to report on their websites the percentages of clients who are losing and making money, although the period over which the statistics must refer to is currently not clear. This will help to shed light on the debate over what percentage of retail traders are profitable, although some brokerages have already released what they claim to be accurate statistics showing that clients with larger account sizes tend to perform better as traders. Additionally, bonuses and promotions will be banned. I welcome this, as not only do they trivialize the serious business of trading, they are almost always a trick offering the illusion of free money whilst preventing traders from withdrawing any profits until a large number of trades are made (read the fine print the next time you squo;).
What If Yoursquo;re Not Happy Remaining in the EU?
Traders with accounts at affected brokers who cannot obtain professional status classification and feel they really need higher leverage than the ESMA limits outlined above might look for a solution by opening accounts with brokers outside the European Union. The most obvious destination would be Australia or New Zealand, where it will still be possible to find reasonably well-regulated Forex brokerages offering leverage in the range of 400 to 1. A recent development that is not talked about much is the growing difficulty of transferring funds to and from Forex brokerages in less tightly regulated jurisdictions. You might decide to open an account with a brokerage in Vanuatu, but you may find that a bank within the European Union might just refuse to send your money there for a deposit. This means that going far offshore, depending upon where you live, may not be a feasible option. In any case, the new regule impossible to live with, and overall there is a compelling case that they are a net benefit to any trader, so why migrate?
What to Watch Out for in Forex Q1 2016 | Trading Forex
There is a lot of consensus among market analysts right now looking ahead into the new year of 2016 regarding what we can expect in terms of major market movements.
Most see the USD continuing to get stronger and commodity currencies continuing to get weaker – at least to some extent. This suggests that the best long-term Forex trades in the market right now are long USD/CAD – a strong trend that has already been going on for a while – and short AUD/USD, which is a long-term trend that has begun to pick up again in recent weeks. The Canadian dollar is highly positively correlated with Crude Oil, and the price of both has been reaching new multi-year lows. The Australian dollar is also highly positively correlated with the price of several mineral and precious metal commodities. At the moment, it is minerals such as iron ore which are in trouble, and that is dragging down the price of the Australian dollar.
There is a lot less consensus on the subjects of the two biggest global currencies after the USD, the Japanese Yen and the Euro.
For a few years, the Japanese Yen has been seen as both fundamentally weak, due to Japan’s serious structural economic problems, and also a currency whose government and central bank both want to see weakened. Recently the second half of that statement has been seen as less true, but it is increasingly appearing as if the Japanese authorities are quite happy with the level that the Yen has already reached. The Yen is also being seen by the market more and more as a “safety” currency, so when the markets go into “risk off” mode, money flows into the Yen and the currency strengthens. Taken together, these factors make short JPY a much less attractive trade, or at least a braver trade. Opinion among the most respected analysts is quite evenly split on the Yen regarding whether it will strengthen or weaken over the year to come.
The Euro is another open question, with the ECB recently disappointing those who were looking for more quantitative easing, which quickly pushed the EUR/USD pair as high as 1.1050. The real question now seems to be whether economic recovery in the Eurozone will arrive quickly and strongly enough to continue at least a slow upwards grind for the Euro. If so, parity with the USD will be unlikely to happen any time soon. Volatility in the Euro also looks likely to increase as it has become a currency of choice for carry trades. The meteoric rise earlier this year in the EUR/USD pair from 1.0800 to 1.1700 was highly unusual behavior, but fast moves like this might become more common.
Turning finally to China, a majority of analysts do appear to see a weaker renminbi over the course of 2016. How weak exactly is a matter for furious debate, exacerbated by the obscurity of Chinese economic statistics. If the Chinese economy slows down heavily, this could impact strongly upon recoveries in emerging markets, which in turn would be likely to weigh on the U.S. and blow the Fed’s program of monetary tightening off course, or more probably, slow it down. A slowing China also weighs heavily upon the Australian dollar.
Pulling the threads together, it becomes obvious that the weightiest issue ahead does look to be China. A stronger Chinese economy will suggest stronger Australian and (even more so) U.S. dollars, and stronger stock markets too.
Source
What to Watch Out for in Forex Q1 2016 | Trading Forex
There is a lot of consensus among market analysts right now looking ahead into the new year of 2016 regarding what we can expect in terms of major market movements.
Most see the USD continuing to get stronger and commodity currencies continuing to get weaker – at least to some extent. This suggests that the best long-term Forex trades in the market right now are long USD/CAD – a strong trend that has already been going on for a while – and short AUD/USD, which is a long-term trend that has begun to pick up again in recent weeks. The Canadian dollar is highly positively correlated with Crude Oil, and the price of both has been reaching new multi-year lows. The Australian dollar is also highly positively correlated with the price of several mineral and precious metal commodities. At the moment, it is minerals such as iron ore which are in trouble, and that is dragging down the price of the Australian dollar.
There is a lot less consensus on the subjects of the two biggest global currencies after the USD, the Japanese Yen and the Euro.
For a few years, the Japanese Yen has been seen as both fundamentally weak, due to Japan’s serious structural economic problems, and also a currency whose government and central bank both want to see weakened. Recently the second half of that statement has been seen as less true, but it is increasingly appearing as if the Japanese authorities are quite happy with the level that the Yen has already reached. The Yen is also being seen by the market more and more as a “safety” currency, so when the markets go into “risk off” mode, money flows into the Yen and the currency strengthens. Taken together, these factors make short JPY a much less attractive trade, or at least a braver trade. Opinion among the most respected analysts is quite evenly split on the Yen regarding whether it will strengthen or weaken over the year to come.
The Euro is another open question, with the ECB recently disappointing those who were looking for more quantitative easing, which quickly pushed the EUR/USD pair as high as 1.1050. The real question now seems to be whether economic recovery in the Eurozone will arrive quickly and strongly enough to continue at least a slow upwards grind for the Euro. If so, parity with the USD will be unlikely to happen any time soon. Volatility in the Euro also looks likely to increase as it has become a currency of choice for carry trades. The meteoric rise earlier this year in the EUR/USD pair from 1.0800 to 1.1700 was highly unusual behavior, but fast moves like this might become more common.
Turning finally to China, a majority of analysts do appear to see a weaker renminbi over the course of 2016. How weak exactly is a matter for furious debate, exacerbated by the obscurity of Chinese economic statistics. If the Chinese economy slows down heavily, this could impact strongly upon recoveries in emerging markets, which in turn would be likely to weigh on the U.S. and blow the Fed’s program of monetary tightening off course, or more probably, slow it down. A slowing China also weighs heavily upon the Australian dollar.
Pulling the threads together, it becomes obvious that the weightiest issue ahead does look to be China. A stronger Chinese economy will suggest stronger Australian and (even more so) U.S. dollars, and stronger stock markets too.
Source
What to Watch Out for in Forex Q1 2016 | Trading Forex
There is a lot of consensus among market analysts right now looking ahead into the new year of 2016 regarding what we can expect in terms of major market movements.
Most see the USD continuing to get stronger and commodity currencies continuing to get weaker – at least to some extent. This suggests that the best long-term Forex trades in the market right now are long USD/CAD – a strong trend that has already been going on for a while – and short AUD/USD, which is a long-term trend that has begun to pick up again in recent weeks. The Canadian dollar is highly positively correlated with Crude Oil, and the price of both has been reaching new multi-year lows. The Australian dollar is also highly positively correlated with the price of several mineral and precious metal commodities. At the moment, it is minerals such as iron ore which are in trouble, and that is dragging down the price of the Australian dollar.
There is a lot less consensus on the subjects of the two biggest global currencies after the USD, the Japanese Yen and the Euro.
For a few years, the Japanese Yen has been seen as both fundamentally weak, due to Japan’s serious structural economic problems, and also a currency whose government and central bank both want to see weakened. Recently the second half of that statement has been seen as less true, but it is increasingly appearing as if the Japanese authorities are quite happy with the level that the Yen has already reached. The Yen is also being seen by the market more and more as a “safety” currency, so when the markets go into “risk off” mode, money flows into the Yen and the currency strengthens. Taken together, these factors make short JPY a much less attractive trade, or at least a braver trade. Opinion among the most respected analysts is quite evenly split on the Yen regarding whether it will strengthen or weaken over the year to come.
The Euro is another open question, with the ECB recently disappointing those who were looking for more quantitative easing, which quickly pushed the EUR/USD pair as high as 1.1050. The real question now seems to be whether economic recovery in the Eurozone will arrive quickly and strongly enough to continue at least a slow upwards grind for the Euro. If so, parity with the USD will be unlikely to happen any time soon. Volatility in the Euro also looks likely to increase as it has become a currency of choice for carry trades. The meteoric rise earlier this year in the EUR/USD pair from 1.0800 to 1.1700 was highly unusual behavior, but fast moves like this might become more common.
Turning finally to China, a majority of analysts do appear to see a weaker renminbi over the course of 2016. How weak exactly is a matter for furious debate, exacerbated by the obscurity of Chinese economic statistics. If the Chinese economy slows down heavily, this could impact strongly upon recoveries in emerging markets, which in turn would be likely to weigh on the U.S. and blow the Fed’s program of monetary tightening off course, or more probably, slow it down. A slowing China also weighs heavily upon the Australian dollar.
Pulling the threads together, it becomes obvious that the weightiest issue ahead does look to be China. A stronger Chinese economy will suggest stronger Australian and (even more so) U.S. dollars, and stronger stock markets too.
Source
What to Watch Out for in Forex Q1 2016 | Trading Forex
There is a lot of consensus among market analysts right now looking ahead into the new year of 2016 regarding what we can expect in terms of major market movements.
Most see the USD continuing to get stronger and commodity currencies continuing to get weaker – at least to some extent. This suggests that the best long-term Forex trades in the market right now are long USD/CAD – a strong trend that has already been going on for a while – and short AUD/USD, which is a long-term trend that has begun to pick up again in recent weeks. The Canadian dollar is highly positively correlated with Crude Oil, and the price of both has been reaching new multi-year lows. The Australian dollar is also highly positively correlated with the price of several mineral and precious metal commodities. At the moment, it is minerals such as iron ore which are in trouble, and that is dragging down the price of the Australian dollar.
There is a lot less consensus on the subjects of the two biggest global currencies after the USD, the Japanese Yen and the Euro.
For a few years, the Japanese Yen has been seen as both fundamentally weak, due to Japan’s serious structural economic problems, and also a currency whose government and central bank both want to see weakened. Recently the second half of that statement has been seen as less true, but it is increasingly appearing as if the Japanese authorities are quite happy with the level that the Yen has already reached. The Yen is also being seen by the market more and more as a “safety” currency, so when the markets go into “risk off” mode, money flows into the Yen and the currency strengthens. Taken together, these factors make short JPY a much less attractive trade, or at least a braver trade. Opinion among the most respected analysts is quite evenly split on the Yen regarding whether it will strengthen or weaken over the year to come.
The Euro is another open question, with the ECB recently disappointing those who were looking for more quantitative easing, which quickly pushed the EUR/USD pair as high as 1.1050. The real question now seems to be whether economic recovery in the Eurozone will arrive quickly and strongly enough to continue at least a slow upwards grind for the Euro. If so, parity with the USD will be unlikely to happen any time soon. Volatility in the Euro also looks likely to increase as it has become a currency of choice for carry trades. The meteoric rise earlier this year in the EUR/USD pair from 1.0800 to 1.1700 was highly unusual behavior, but fast moves like this might become more common.
Turning finally to China, a majority of analysts do appear to see a weaker renminbi over the course of 2016. How weak exactly is a matter for furious debate, exacerbated by the obscurity of Chinese economic statistics. If the Chinese economy slows down heavily, this could impact strongly upon recoveries in emerging markets, which in turn would be likely to weigh on the U.S. and blow the Fed’s program of monetary tightening off course, or more probably, slow it down. A slowing China also weighs heavily upon the Australian dollar.
Pulling the threads together, it becomes obvious that the weightiest issue ahead does look to be China. A stronger Chinese economy will suggest stronger Australian and (even more so) U.S. dollars, and stronger stock markets too.
Source
What to Watch Out for in Forex Q1 2016 | Trading Forex
There is a lot of consensus among market analysts right now looking ahead into the new year of 2016 regarding what we can expect in terms of major market movements.
Most see the USD continuing to get stronger and commodity currencies continuing to get weaker – at least to some extent. This suggests that the best long-term Forex trades in the market right now are long USD/CAD – a strong trend that has already been going on for a while – and short AUD/USD, which is a long-term trend that has begun to pick up again in recent weeks. The Canadian dollar is highly positively correlated with Crude Oil, and the price of both has been reaching new multi-year lows. The Australian dollar is also highly positively correlated with the price of several mineral and precious metal commodities. At the moment, it is minerals such as iron ore which are in trouble, and that is dragging down the price of the Australian dollar.
There is a lot less consensus on the subjects of the two biggest global currencies after the USD, the Japanese Yen and the Euro.
For a few years, the Japanese Yen has been seen as both fundamentally weak, due to Japan’s serious structural economic problems, and also a currency whose government and central bank both want to see weakened. Recently the second half of that statement has been seen as less true, but it is increasingly appearing as if the Japanese authorities are quite happy with the level that the Yen has already reached. The Yen is also being seen by the market more and more as a “safety” currency, so when the markets go into “risk off” mode, money flows into the Yen and the currency strengthens. Taken together, these factors make short JPY a much less attractive trade, or at least a braver trade. Opinion among the most respected analysts is quite evenly split on the Yen regarding whether it will strengthen or weaken over the year to come.
The Euro is another open question, with the ECB recently disappointing those who were looking for more quantitative easing, which quickly pushed the EUR/USD pair as high as 1.1050. The real question now seems to be whether economic recovery in the Eurozone will arrive quickly and strongly enough to continue at least a slow upwards grind for the Euro. If so, parity with the USD will be unlikely to happen any time soon. Volatility in the Euro also looks likely to increase as it has become a currency of choice for carry trades. The meteoric rise earlier this year in the EUR/USD pair from 1.0800 to 1.1700 was highly unusual behavior, but fast moves like this might become more common.
Turning finally to China, a majority of analysts do appear to see a weaker renminbi over the course of 2016. How weak exactly is a matter for furious debate, exacerbated by the obscurity of Chinese economic statistics. If the Chinese economy slows down heavily, this could impact strongly upon recoveries in emerging markets, which in turn would be likely to weigh on the U.S. and blow the Fed’s program of monetary tightening off course, or more probably, slow it down. A slowing China also weighs heavily upon the Australian dollar.
Pulling the threads together, it becomes obvious that the weightiest issue ahead does look to be China. A stronger Chinese economy will suggest stronger Australian and (even more so) U.S. dollars, and stronger stock markets too.
Source
What to Watch Out for in Forex Q1 2016 | Trading Forex
There is a lot of consensus among market analysts right now looking ahead into the new year of 2016 regarding what we can expect in terms of major market movements.
Most see the USD continuing to get stronger and commodity currencies continuing to get weaker – at least to some extent. This suggests that the best long-term Forex trades in the market right now are long USD/CAD – a strong trend that has already been going on for a while – and short AUD/USD, which is a long-term trend that has begun to pick up again in recent weeks. The Canadian dollar is highly positively correlated with Crude Oil, and the price of both has been reaching new multi-year lows. The Australian dollar is also highly positively correlated with the price of several mineral and precious metal commodities. At the moment, it is minerals such as iron ore which are in trouble, and that is dragging down the price of the Australian dollar.
There is a lot less consensus on the subjects of the two biggest global currencies after the USD, the Japanese Yen and the Euro.
For a few years, the Japanese Yen has been seen as both fundamentally weak, due to Japan’s serious structural economic problems, and also a currency whose government and central bank both want to see weakened. Recently the second half of that statement has been seen as less true, but it is increasingly appearing as if the Japanese authorities are quite happy with the level that the Yen has already reached. The Yen is also being seen by the market more and more as a “safety” currency, so when the markets go into “risk off” mode, money flows into the Yen and the currency strengthens. Taken together, these factors make short JPY a much less attractive trade, or at least a braver trade. Opinion among the most respected analysts is quite evenly split on the Yen regarding whether it will strengthen or weaken over the year to come.
The Euro is another open question, with the ECB recently disappointing those who were looking for more quantitative easing, which quickly pushed the EUR/USD pair as high as 1.1050. The real question now seems to be whether economic recovery in the Eurozone will arrive quickly and strongly enough to continue at least a slow upwards grind for the Euro. If so, parity with the USD will be unlikely to happen any time soon. Volatility in the Euro also looks likely to increase as it has become a currency of choice for carry trades. The meteoric rise earlier this year in the EUR/USD pair from 1.0800 to 1.1700 was highly unusual behavior, but fast moves like this might become more common.
Turning finally to China, a majority of analysts do appear to see a weaker renminbi over the course of 2016. How weak exactly is a matter for furious debate, exacerbated by the obscurity of Chinese economic statistics. If the Chinese economy slows down heavily, this could impact strongly upon recoveries in emerging markets, which in turn would be likely to weigh on the U.S. and blow the Fed’s program of monetary tightening off course, or more probably, slow it down. A slowing China also weighs heavily upon the Australian dollar.
Pulling the threads together, it becomes obvious that the weightiest issue ahead does look to be China. A stronger Chinese economy will suggest stronger Australian and (even more so) U.S. dollars, and stronger stock markets too.
Source
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