Available Spreads & Margins
You can find a complete overview of spreads for the ActTrader platform by clicking the button below.
* The spreads listed in the table are typical values under normal market conditions. Please note that spreads depend on current market conditions and may vary – narrow or widen – during trading.
MARGIN REQUIREMENTS AND POLICY
Goldstarway’s Margin Requirements are among the lowest in the industry:
ActTrader Account
- 5% on individual stocks, $25 per lot on all Forex assets. Click HERE to view the exact margin requirements for each product.
The Goldstarway-GCI alliance is able to operate with such low margin requirements because it has software in place to automatically close a trading position if the “Margin Call” limit is reached. This also allows the client’s account to be protected in the event of rapid and large price movements in the market.
The “Margin Call” level is reached if the client’s equity falls below the required margin level. For example, for an ICTS Forex client account, if the client has an open position of 10 lots, a Margin Call will occur if the client’s equity in the account falls below $500. At this point, some or all of the client’s open positions will be automatically closed at the current market price of the asset.
Traders have the opportunity to monitor both the Usable Margin (UsblMr) and the currently used margin (UsdMr) directly on the platform in real time in the “Account Information” window. Positions are automatically closed if the Usable Margin (Usable Margin) falls below zero.
Watch a practical example HERE…
Goldstarway strongly recommends that its clients avoid possible “Margin Calls” – automatic closing of their trading positions by using and setting Stop Loss limits, or by managing their own funds in the account and using an appropriate number of lots when opening trading positions.
More about CFD margins
Stock CFDs are traded in lots, which are equivalent in size to 100 shares. For example, a trader can buy 1 lot of IBM CFD for 90 USD for a total position value of 9,000 USD. The required margin for this trade is 450 USD. Indices, Forex and commodities are traded in “lots”. For more information on contract sizes, please see the specifications.