Professional Trading
Are You Eligible?
In order to be eligible to be categorised as a professional client with Hantec Markets, you must meet two of the three criteria below. Please select which of the following apply to you:
Have you placed 10 leveraged trades of a significant size per quarter in the last year?
Does your financial instrument portfolio, including cash deposits, exceed €500,000?
Do you, or have you, worked in the relevant financial sector for at least one year?
Important Factors
Risk Higher Leverage
Professional accounts are not subject to the leverage
restrictions introduced by ESMA for Retail Clients. Higher
leverage amplify losses.
Negative balance protection
Retail clients benefit from negative balance protection meaning
that their losses cannot exceed deposits. This protection is not
available to professional clients.
Segregated Client Funds
Your funds will be held in segregated accounts at top tier
banks, in the same way we re required to hold our Retail
Client funds.
Risk warnings
Hantec Markets will not be required to provide you with the
current risk warnings we must provide to retail clients or any
standardised risk warning that is introduced in future in relation
to transactions in complex financial products. We will assume
that you have the relevant knowledge and experience levels to
understand the risks in trading leveraged products.
Communications and financial promotions
We may use more sophisticated language when dealing with
you as a Professional Client than we do with our retail clients.
However, we will always communicate in a clear, fair and
straightforward way.
Professional Trading Conditions
Forex Conditions MetaTrader
Major currency pairs (underlying currency pair is composed of any 2 of the following currencies: USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CAD or CHF).
Initial Minimum Funding | $/£/€ 1,000 |
Leverage | up to 1:200 |
Margin Requirements* | 1:100 = 1% 1:200 = 0.5% |
Commissions | None |
Spread Type | Floating |
Execution | Market Execution |
Minimum Order Size | 0.01 lot = 1,000 of base currency |
Stopout Level** | Equity = 20% of used margin |
Server Time | GMT |
Account denomination | USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD & AED |
Gold – XAU | Silver – XAG | |
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Margin Requirements* | $1,500 per lot for 1:100 | $1,500 per lot for 1:100 |
Minimum Order Size | 0.1 lot= 10 ounces | 0.1 lot= 500 ounces |
Initial Minimum Funding | $/£/€ 1000 | $/£/€ 1000 |
Leverage | up to 1:200 | up to 1:200 |
Commissions | None | None |
Spread Type | Floating | Floating |
Execution | Market Execution | Market Execution |
Stop out Level** | Equity = 20% of used margin | Equity = 20% of used margin |
Server Time | GMT | GMT |
Account Denomination | USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD & AED | USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD & AED |
US Oil
Target Spread | 0.05 |
Pip Cost (Native CCY) | $1.0 |
Min. Trade Size | 1 |
Maximum Lots per Trade | 100 |
Margin Requirement Per Min Trade Size USD* | 200 |
Minimum Stop Distance (Points) | 0.1 |
Trading hours (GMT+2)** | Sunday 23.00 – Friday 21.45 |
Break Time (GMT+2)** | Daily from 22.15 until 23.00 |
Initial Minimum Funding | $/£/€ 1,000 |
Leverage | up to 1:200 |
Commissions | Included in the spread |
Spread Type | Floating |
Execution | Market Execution |
Stop out Level*** | Equity = 20% of used margin |
Server Time | GMT |
Account Denomination | USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD, PLN & AED |
UK Oil
Target Spread | 0.05 |
Pip Cost (Native CCY) | $1.0 |
Min. Trade Size | 1 |
Maximum Lots per Trade | 100 |
Margin Requirement Per Min Trade Size USD* | 200 |
Minimum Stop Distance (Points) | 0.1 |
Trading hours (GMT+2)** | Monday 01.00 – Friday 21.45 |
Break Time (GMT+2)** | Daily from 22.15 until 01.00 |
Initial Minimum Funding | $/£/€ 1,000 |
Leverage | up to 1:200 |
Commissions | Included in the spread |
Spread Type | Floating |
Execution | Market Execution |
Stop out Level*** | Equity = 20% of used margin |
Server Time | GMT |
Account Denomination | USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD, PLN & AED |
24 hours a day as follows:
Bullion is now Sunday 22:00 (GMT+2) to Friday 22:00 (GMT+2) with a daily break between 22:00 (GMT+2) and 23:00 (GMT+2)
FX is Sunday 22:05 (GMT+2) to Friday 21:55 (GMT+2) with a daily break between 21:58 (GMT+2) and (22:03 GMT+2)
Please take note that trading hours may change during holidays. Clients will be informed of any changes by email.
You can contact us anytime the markets are open, we’re here 24 hours a day 5 days a week.