Trading Conditions

AOne PrimeFX offers highly competitive conditions for the following financial instruments (“Financial Instruments” or “Instruments”) (i) leveraged margin trading of financial instruments /underlying assets (“Underlying Assets”) including Currency pair (Forex), Commodity, Index, Share, ETF and Crypto based CFDs (“Leveraged Instruments” or “CFDs”), and (ii) non-leveraged trading of stock derivatives (“Stock Derivatives” or “Derivatives”).

Spreads
The Spread is the cost of trading – it is the difference between the Sell (Bid) price and the Buy (Ask) price. For example, if the USD/JPY is trading at a sell price of 101.202 and a buy price of 101.222, the difference between these two prices is called the spread. In this case the spread is 2 pips.

Margin and Leverage
When trading Leveraged Instruments, while the “Margin” acts as collateral to cover any losses that you might incur, it also allows you to hold a position much larger than your actual account value, giving you the possibility to generate large profits relative to the amount invested.

Leverage is a double-edged sword and can dramatically amplify your profits, however it can also just as easily amplify your losses. When you use excessive leverage, losing trades can quickly offset many winning trades. Leveraged trading carries a high degree of risk and may not be suitable for all investors.

As an  account holder, you’re entitled to our Negative Balance Protection program, which means that you can never AOne PrimeFX lose more than you deposited; nonetheless, a small market movement can result in a substantial loss of funds. Our Trading Platform automatically calculates your margin requirements before executing any order, and checks the level of available funds before any request to withdraw funds is made.

The margin requirements are relevant upon increasing Exposure in the account, either by opening/closing deals or by requesting to withdraw funds while having open positions in the account. The margin requirements reflect the potential risk in positions, based on volatility, liquidity and pricing availability, in any given asset. This is why margins increase during and around trading breaks.

During the European and North American winter, the weekly activity begins on Sunday at 22:05 GMT continuously until Friday, 21:00 GMT. During the Day Light Saving times in these regions, the weekly market activity begins on Sunday at 21:05 GMT and ends on Friday at 20:00. Market activity hours may vary due to public holidays or due to unusual liquidity conditions which may arise from exceptional global events. Opening or Closing times may also be altered by AOne PrimeFX due to liquidity and risk management considerations.

Although most of the instruments are traded on a 24 hour basis without interruption, some instruments, however, have special trading hours as seen in the table below (information related to Shares will apply to Stock Derivatives):

Not sure which Market includes the instrument you’re looking for? Click here to view the full list of instrument per Market.

To ensure that you are aware of all market hours and holidays, please find below a list of events that could change trading hours (information related to Shares will apply to Stock Derivatives).
At AOne PrimeFX we do our utmost to keep this information up-to-date on a best efforts basis.
Should you wish to receive more information please feel free to contact our dealing desk.

Not sure which Market includes the instrument you’re looking for? Click here to view the full list of instrument per Market.

Order Types

Market Orders
Market Orders (trade requests, e.g. Open Deal, Close Deal) are executed at the price that is in effect on the Company’s Trading Platform (client side) at the exact time of execution, provided that such price is within a predetermined tolerance level from the underlying price updated in the Company’s servers, and irrespective as to whether the underlying price is above or below the price updated in the Trading Platform (What You See Is What You Get, or WYSIWYG). In the event that the price updated in the trading platform (client side) exceeds the above tolerance level, for example, due to movements in the underlying assets between the time a client placed an order and the time it is received and executed, high market volatility and communication latency, the Order will be executed at the price updated in the Company’s servers, which shall be different from the price updated in the Trading Platform (Market Price), on a symmetrical basis. In the event of a substantial difference between the price updated in the Trading Platform (client side) and the price updated in the Company’s servers, the Order shall be rejected. Please note that there is no provision nor ability for clients to short sell Stock Derivatives, i.e. to sell Stock Derivative units unless clients already own such Stock Derivative units in their Trading Account.

Limit Orders
Limit Orders (future orders) are executed at the market price updated at the Company’s servers which may be different than the price indicated in the Order (“Slippage”). Slippage may occur in the event where the price indicated in the order is not available in the servers, for example, due to high volatility and gaps in the market prices. In such event, the order will be executed at the first available price, irrespective of the direction of the slippage, either to the client’s favor or not, in a symmetrical and transparent manner (Symmetrical Slippage).

Instruments that are not traded on a 24 hours basis (e.g. Stock Derivatives, Shares, Indices and ETFs CFDs), may experience a market gap on a daily basis and are therefore more susceptible to slippage. It is important to note that slippage does not affect the Negative Balance Protection and therefore the Client will never lose more than the amount invested (including any profit, if gained), even if a slippage occurs.

Delays in Execution
A delay in execution may occur for various reasons, such as technical issues with the Client’s internet, mobile or other communication connection to the AOne PrimeFX servers, which may result in “hanging orders”. A disturbance in the connection path can sometimes interrupt the signal and disable the platform causing delays in transmission of data between the trader’s platform and the AOne PrimeFX server.

Hanging Orders
During periods of heavy trade volume or communication latency, hanging orders may occur, which means that a Limit Order has been placed, but it is simply taking a few moments for it to be confirmed/processed. During periods of heavy trading volumes or communication latency, it is possible that a queue of Limit Orders will form. That increase in incoming orders may sometimes create conditions where there is a delay in confirming/processing certain Limit Orders. In some cases, the position may in fact have been executed and the delay is simply in the client’s side display due to heavy internet traffic.

Keep in mind that it is only necessary to enter any order once. Multiple entries for the same order may slow or lock your computer or inadvertently open unwanted positions.

AOne PrimeFX Negative Balance Protection policy guarantees that the client’s losses are limited to the funds invested in the client’s account. According to this policy, the client shall never have to face a debit balance due to trade losses when trading with AOne PrimeFX and client’s potential loss shall be limited to the funds deposited in the Client’s account and to the funds gained by the client, if any.

To implement this policy, AOne PrimeFX developed an automated monitoring tool, automatically closing in real-time all positions once a client’s account reaches Margin Level Zero (i.e. “Exposure Coverage” = 0). AOne PrimeFX will automatically close all positions at the price then offered by AOne PrimeFX. In the event that a client’s balance falls below Margin Level Zero due to the difference between Margin Level Zero and the actual Margin Level below Zero which the system closed all positions at the price then offered by AOne PrimeFX, AOne PrimeFX shall bear the mentioned difference.

Introduction
These Bonus Terms and Conditions are in regards to the Trading Bonus, Cashback Bonus and Trial Account Bonus offered by the Company (hereinafter called the ‘Bonus’), as detailed below, and is considered to be an integral part of the Company’s Terms and Conditions. All interpretation of terms included herein, are as interpreted in Company’s Terms and Conditions, which are available in Company’s website www.aoneprimefx.com
Conditions of Eligibility
The Bonuses are available to Company’s clients who have satisfied the eligibility criteria of the relevant offer and passed all required registration procedures according to the Company’s requirements as amended from time to time at the sole discretion of the Company (the ‘Eligible Clients‘).

The Company offers any Bonus at its absolute discretion, to any Client and/or country/region as it deems appropriate.

The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to decline registration of any user, including Eligible Clients, in the Bonus and/or revoke the offer of any bonus at its absolute discretion.

Residents form restricted jurisdictions, including residents of the U.S.A, are not eligible for the Trading Bonus.

Trading Bonus
Trading Bonus is granted to Eligible Clients as a percentage of the amount of funds deposited in their trading account, as agreed and determined by the Company at Company’s absolute discretion and on a case to case basis.

Trading bonus is designated for purposes of margin trading only, thus can only be used as extra margin (i.e. the Client will not be able to withdraw the Bonus granted) and shall not be allowed to be used for the purposes of trading in Stock Derivatives.

The Trading Bonus it’s granted per each Eligible Client.

Example

Eligible Client agreed with the Company to receive 30% bonus on his deposit of $1,000. Eligible Client will receive extra Margin of $300 (i.e. 30% of his deposit) as Trading Bonus.

This bonus will reflect on client’s account as follows:

Trading bonus will not be available for withdrawal at any time whatsoever. Any profit made by utilizing the Trading Bonus may be withdrawn by the Eligible Client subject to the Company’s withdrawal policy and applicable law. The withdrawable profits made out of the Trading Bonus will be visible under the section “Balance” of the client’s account.

In cases where a trading bonus is given based on a deposit made into the account, the following condition/s apply
1) In the case of a full withdrawal of equity – the entire trading bonus will be removed
2) In the case of a partial withdrawal of equity – the amount of the trading bonus will be adjusted to a ¼ of the equity that remains in the account following the withdrawal

Example

Eligible Client agreed with the Company to receive 30% bonus on his deposit of $1,000. Eligible Client has the below Equity and Balance in his Account:

Scenario A

Client has requested to withdraw the full amount of his deposit ($1,000). Trading bonus will be entirely removed.

This will reflect on the client’s account as follows:

Scenario B

Client has requested to withdraw $800, therefore the client’s Equity was decreased to $200 and the Trading Bonus in this case is restricted to 25% of the Equity amount, i.e. $50.

This will reflect on the client’s account as follows:

All Trading Bonuses shall be cancelled if the account has remained inactive for 7 consecutive weeks.

Cash Back
The CashBack program credits Eligible Clients’ account with cash on a weekly basis according and subject to the volume achieved in that week and up to a certain amount as determined in advance by the Company (“Pending Bonus”).

The Pending Bonus amount may derive from a certain or a number of deposits, as a percentage of the value of the deposit, or determined at the Company’s sole discretion.

Example

An Eligible Client who deposited $1,000 was entitled to receive up to 40% of the value of his deposit as Cash Back for trading a volume of $20,000,000. Such client will receive $400 as Pending Bonus.

This Pending Bonus will reflect on Client’s Account as follows:

Each week, the Realized CashBack which is calculated according to the client’s weekly volume shall be deducted from the Total CashBack amount (Pending Bonus) and credited to the client’s account according to the ratio between the client’s actual weekly volume (in USD) and the required volume, as indicated in the trading platform. It is clarified that the client is only entitled to the Realized CashBack and the Pending Bonus is realized only after client completes the required volume. The CashBack amount (“Realized CashBack”) is limited to the Pending Bonus allocated to the client.

The volume is calculated on an ‘in and out’ basis, which means that the opening of a $1 million (or at another currency equivalent) position and the closing of the same position, count as $2 million (or at another currency equivalent) totals towards the client’s volume requirement.

Example

Scenario A

The Eligible Client in the previous example, was offered $100 Realized Cash Back for each $5,000,000 traded. After 1 week, he has achieved the $5,000,000 volume. Therefore $100 as Realized CashBack has been moved from Pending Bonus to Equity.

This will reflect on the client’s account as follows:

Scenario B

After 2 weeks from the deposit, the client has achieved $5,000,000 volume traded and made $300 of profits. Therefore another $100 as Realized CashBack has been moved from Pending Bonus to Equity.

This will reflect on the client’s account as follows:

After being credited to the Equity, the Realized CashBack will be available for trading or can be withdrawn by the Client at any time. Any profit made by investing the Realized CashBack amount may as well be withdrawn from the Eligible Client.

The CashBack promotion is time limited, and the Client receives Realized CashBack within the first 3 months from the day he was granted with the Pending Bonus. The client is Eligible for further CashBack, when he makes further deposits.

Example

The Eligible Client in the previous examples, decided to withdraw his $300 profits and the $200 Realized Cash Back amount received. Therefore he requested a withdrawal of $500 in total. The remaining $200 of Cash Back Bonus will remain as Pending Bonus in his account, therefore the client will still be able to keep on trading with $1,000 and has two and a half months left to convert the Pending Bonus into Realized CashBack.

This will reflect on the Client’s account as follows:

All CashBacks are given in the account’s currency.

Trial Account

Users may be provided with a trial account that includes a Trading Bonus (as explained above) of US 25$ that can be used to trade the financial instruments offered in the Trial Account with a total exposure of up to US $3000.

Trading shall be made according to the Company’s Trading Conditions and the Trading Platform’s End-User-License-Agreement which are available in Company’s website, www.aoneprimefx.com

The Trial Account shall expire and all pending transactions in the Trial Account shall be terminated within 3 days of the day of the first transaction made in the Trial Account (“Trial Period”). Any amount which exceeds US 25$ (“Profit”) may either be used as margin for the user’s trading account with the Company and/or for trading Stock Derivatives, subject to the user’s successful conclusion of the company’s registration process and a minimum deposit of US 100$, or may be withdrawn to a bank account under the user’s name. Please note that (i) withdrawals are subject to the Company’s withdrawal procedures and may further be subject to a transfer fee, and (ii) any Profit not withdrawn, or transferred to the trading account and used as margin for trading purposes and/or for trading Stock Derivatives no later than 14 days from the date of opening the first transaction on the Trial Account shall be revoked.

Bonus is available only to clients registering with the Company’s platform for the first time and having satisfied the eligibility criteria as described above. One Bonus per householdIP Address.

General Terms

Any indication or suspicion, in the Company’s discretion, of any form of illegal, unfair andor abusive trading methods or conducts (including but not limited to trading activity patterns that indicate an aim to benefit financially from the Trading Bonus without taking market risk andor by opening, operating or managing more than one account per client) as well as any indication or suspicion of fraud, manipulation or a breach of the Company’s agreements, policies and conditions with respect to the Bonus Scheme will nullify all bonuses previously credited to the account and to any related account. Under such circumstances, the Company shall have the right, in its sole discretion and without derogating from its rights under its agreements with the client and applicable law, to nullify and cancel all transactions carried and/or profits or losses garnered therein and to block all relevant accounts.

Company reserves the right, as it in its sole discretion deems fit, to alter, amend, suspend, cancel or terminate any of the above mentioned Bonus, or any aspect of the above mentioned offer, at any time by giving to the Client proper notice, as per Company’s Client Agreement.

Margin Call
AOne PrimeFX does not proceed to a compulsory closing of clients’ positions as long as there is positive equity in the client’s account. This enables clients to use their equity to the full extend in order to support their open positions against price fluctuations.

Margin Information
The window displayed below provides detailed information related to the margin of an account:

• Used Margin shows the amount of Equity in an account that is currently being used as Margin for your Open Deals. In the case where Used Margin is equal to or larger than the Equity, this indicates that the account’s leverage is Maximized. During and around trading breaks, the Required Margin of some instruments (as detailed in the ‘Product Details table’) increases – and this affects the Available Margin, which might be dramatically reduced during the weekend as a result.
  Used Margin = Net Exposure in an Instrument x The Required Margin for that Instrument
• Margin Available shows the amount of equity in an account that is not currently being used and is available for further increase of net exposure. In the case where Margin Available is zero, this indicates maximum leverage usage in the account.
  Margin Available = Equity – Used Margin
• Margin Utilization shows the percentage of Equity that is being used as Margin for the currently Open Deals of the account. 100% Margin Utilization and above, indicates maximum leverage usage in the account.
  Margin Utilization % = (Used Margin/Equity) x 100
• Exposure Coverage shows what percentage of the Net Exposure of an account is held in equity as collateral.
  Exposure Coverage = Equity/Net Exposure

Maximum Exposure
As a prudential measure aimed at better risk management and avoidance of excessive exposure to a single client, AOne PrimeFX has set a maximum net exposure limitation of up to 15 (fifteen) million US dollars per client. AOne PrimeFX had also set a maximum net exposure for per instrument. To view the maximum exposure per instrument. AOne PrimeFX has the right, at its sole discretion to cancel or change such a limitation at any given moment without any prior notice.

Hedging
Hedging is defined as the opening of two Transactions on the same instrument or underlying asset at different directions (one “buy” and the other “sell”), whether or not at the same time and whether or not for the same quantity. AOne PrimeFX considers hedging transactions for the purpose of calculating the minimum margin on a cumulative basis or on a “net” basis. Furthermore, AOne PrimeFX considers the closing of one of the hedged Transactions as the opening of a new Transaction which amount’s equals to the amount of the remaining Transaction.

Netting of Transactions
In the case where more than one deal needs to close simultaneously in an account, AOne PrimeFX will close all open positions as a bulk. The transaction number assigned on each closed position is set based on FIFO rules. This means that upon the closing of the positions, the first position opened will receive the lowest transaction number and the last position opened will receive the highest transaction number.

Unauthorized Trading Practices
AOne PrimeFX supports fair trading and does not allow practices which exercise abusive trading such as lag trading, price manipulation, time manipulation or any other practices which are illegal and/or are utilized to give the Client an unfair advantage. Examples for such forbidden practices can be, but not limited to, any of the following:

• Scalping is a trading strategy that attempts to make many profits on small price changes. Traders who implement this strategy will place anywhere from 10 to a couple hundred trades in a single day in the belief that small moves in the price are easier to catch than large ones.
• Automation (e.g. EAs) or algorithmic trading is the use of electronic platforms for entering trading orders with an algorithm which executes pre-programmed trading instructions whose variables may include timing, price, or quantity of the order, or in many cases initiating the order by a “robot”, without human intervention.
• API trading is an application programming interface refers to all trading that uses a software program to interact with other programs. The API acts as the middleman between the trader and the market, relaying orders and retrieving information as needed.
• ‘Multiple accounts’ refers to the situation whereby one client sets up two or more accounts in order to disingenuously receive multiple account-related benefits from AOne PrimeFX .

Errors in Rates
Online trading technology is not perfect and in rare cases, the feed can be disrupted. This may only last for a moment, but when it does, prices can often become affected. While it may be tempting to place an “arbitrage transaction”, keep in mind that in such situations, the prices do not reflect the true market price and your actual fill may be many pips away from the displayed price. In the event that trades are executed at prices not actually offered by AOne PrimeFX , AOne PrimeFX reserves the right to reverse such trades as they are not considered valid trades. Keep in mind that these instances are usually rare, and by not trading during these moments, traders can avoid the risk associated with the above scenarios.

Maintenance Fee
Clients’ accounts in which there have been no trading activity for a period of twelve (12) consecutive months will be charged with a quarterly maintenance fee of US$15 or the account’s entire Equity if the Equity is less than US$15.

If the client does not have any available funds in its account AOne PrimeFX will not charge maintenance fee.

Conversion Fees
Trading Financial Instruments on a currency base that is different to the currency of which clients’ trading accounts with the Company are based, may expose such clients to currency conversion fees.