{"id":3459,"date":"2018-11-26T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasteyourtime.co\/?page_id=3459"},"modified":"2020-07-21T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:54:11","slug":"negative-balance-protection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/trading-dictionary\/n\/negative-balance-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Balance Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><b>DEFINITION of negative balance protection<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Negative balance protection is a precautionary measure that brokerage firms take in order to safeguard their clients. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>WHAT IT IS IN ESSENCE<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This policy ensures that traders will not lose more money than deposited. In cases, their account goes into negative as a result of their trading activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Even if the market moves quickly or gaps, negative balance protection does not apply to professional traders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an increasingly volatile forex market, this is one of the most important questions traders can ask. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Referring to negative balance protection, which can prevent a trader from entering into debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frankly, a negative balance is the ugly side of borrowing. It results from sudden adverse market shifts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whereby the market value of a customers\u2019 assets, shrinks below the market value of his borrowing. And before a stop-loss or a close-out trade unwinds the losing trade. As a result of these adverse shocks, customers find themselves losing all of the account equity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, owing to any shortfall between assets and liabilities before the position was stopped out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The negative balance is an economic impossibility for the dealer. It only applies when brokers route positions to a 3rd party.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>HOW TO USE<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alas, not every retail forex broker offers negative balance protection. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the inexperienced trader, the lack of a margin call can mean the difference between losing money and going into debt. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a subtle but crucial difference. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In forex trading, you may tolerate losing the money you can afford to lose but going into debt is never acceptable. Regardless of how much experience you have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It ensures that traders who possess losing positions don\u2019t enter into a negative balance in their forex trading account<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Providers of leveraged products in the ESMA (The Essential Services Maintenance) regulated region (including the UK) are required to enforce it on a per-account basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION of negative balance protection Negative balance protection is a precautionary measure that brokerage firms take in order to safeguard their clients. WHAT IT IS IN ESSENCE This policy ensures that traders will not lose more money than deposited. In cases, their account goes into negative as a result of their trading activity. 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