Forex Risk Disclosure Statement
CONSENT TO CONDUCT BUSINESS ELECTRONICALLY
1- Applying Electronically. If you decide to apply to establish a Trading Account with angmarkets.com (“angmarkets.com”), you agree to receive a Risk Disclosure Statement, Trader Agreement, Trader Account Letter, and Off Exchange Transaction Disclosure electronically.
2- Electronic Communications. Risk Disclosure Statement, Trader Agreement, Trader Account Letter, and Off Exchange Transaction Disclosure, and any notices, instructions, agreements, or any other communications regarding Transactions and your Account (all of which are referred to herein as the “Communications”) may be presented, delivered, stored, retrieved, and transmitted electronically.
3- Executing Transactions Electronically. The Agreement and Transactions will be executed using electronic records and electronic signatures.
4- Consenting to Do Business Electronically. The decision whether to do business electronically is yours, and you should consider whether you have the necessary hardware and software capabilities. Your consent to do business electronically, and our agreement to do so, only applies to the establishment and maintenance of your Account and the execution of Transactions in connection with your Account.
5- Withdrawal of Consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent to doing business electronically at any time. However, if you withdraw such consent, any Communications or Transactions between us during the period after your consent to doing business electronically, and before your withdrawal of such consent, will be valid and binding on all parties.
6- Changes to Your Contact Information. You should keep us informed of any change in your electronic or mailing address or other contact information.
7- Printing. You may print this document by selecting Print from the File menu.
8- Your Ability to Access Communications. When you select the “I Agree” button below, you acknowledge that you have the capability to access the Communications.
9- Consent to Electronic Communications. When you select the “I Agree” button below, you consent to having all Communications provided or made available to you in electronic form.
10- Consent to Executing Transactions Electronically. When you select the “I Agree” button below, you consent to executing the Agreement and Transactions by electronic record and/or electronic signature.
FOREX RISK DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
The risk of loss in leveraged foreign exchange trading can be substantial. You may sustain losses in excess of your initial margin funds. Placing contingent orders, such as “stop-loss” or “stop-limit” orders, will not necessarily limit losses to the intended amounts. Market conditions may make it impossible to execute such orders. You may be called upon at short notice to deposit additional margin funds. If the required funds are not provided within the prescribed time, your position may be liquidated. You will remain liable for any resulting deficit in your account. You should therefore carefully consider whether such trading is suitable in light of your own financial position and investment objectives.
Effect of “Leverage” or “Gearing”
Spot FOREX Transactions carry a high degree of risk. The amount of initial margin is small relative to the value of the Spot FOREX Contract so that transactions are “leveraged” or “geared”. A relatively small market movement will have a proportionately larger impact on the funds you have deposited or will have to deposit; this may work against you as well as for you. You may sustain a total loss of initial margin funds and any additional funds deposited with the firm to maintain your position. If the market moves against your position or margin levels are increased, you may be called upon to pay substantial additional funds on short notice to maintain your position. If you fail to comply with a request for additional funds within the time prescribed, your position may be liquidated at a loss and you will be liable for any resulting deficit.
Risk-reducing orders or strategies
The placing of certain orders (e.g., “stop-loss” orders or “stop-limit” orders) that are intended to limit losses to certain amounts may not be effective because market conditions may make it impossible to execute such orders. Strategies using combinations of positions, such as “spread” and “straddle” positions may be as risky as taking simple “long” or “short” positions.
Terms and conditions of contracts
You should ask the firm with which you deal about the terms and conditions of the specific currencies which you are trading and associated obligations (e.g., the circumstances under which you may become obligated, under extraordinary circumstances, to make or take physical delivery of the full currency value).
Suspension or restriction of trading and pricing relationships
Market conditions (e.g., lack of liquidity) and/or the operation of the rules of certain markets (e.g., suspension of trading in any Spot FOREX Contract because of government intervention or “circuit breakers”) may increase the risk of loss by making it difficult or impossible to effect transactions or liquidate/offset positions.
Deposited cash and property
You should familiarize yourself with the protections accorded money or other property you deposit for domestic and foreign transactions, particularly in the event of a firm insolvency or bankruptcy. The extent to which you may recover your money or property may be governed by specific legislation or local rules. In some jurisdictions, property which had been specifically identifiable as your own will be pro-rated in the same manner as cash for purposes of distribution in the event of a shortfall.
Commission and other charges
Before you begin to trade, you should obtain a clear explanation of all commissions, fees, cross-currency overnight interest debits, mark-ups, mark-downs and other charges for which you will be liable. These charges will affect your net profit (if any) or increase your loss.
Transactions in other jurisdictions
Spot FOREX Transactions executed in other jurisdictions may expose you to additional risk. Such markets may be subject to regulation, which may offer different or diminished investor protection. Before you trade you should inquire about any rules relevant to your particular transactions. Your local regulatory authority, if any, will be unable to compel the enforcement of the rules of regulatory authorities or markets in other jurisdictions where your transactions have been effected. You should ask the firm with which you deal for details about the types of redress available in both your home jurisdiction and other relevant jurisdictions before you start to trade.
Currency risks
The profit or loss in transactions in foreign currency-denominated contracts (whether they are traded in your own or another jurisdiction) will be affected by fluctuations in currency rates where there is a need to convert from the currency denomination of the contract to another currency.
Trading facilities
Spot FOREX Contracts are not traded on a regulated market and therefore do not require open-outcry facilities. The electronic trading facilities through which Spot FOREX Contracts are primarily traded are supported by computer-based component systems for the order-routing, execution or matching of trades. As with all facilities and systems, they are vulnerable to temporary disruption or failure. Your ability to recover certain losses may be subject to limits on liability imposed by the system provider, the market, the bank and/or financial institution. Such limits may vary; you should ask the firm with which you deal for details in this respect.
Electronic trading
Trading on a particular electronic trading system may differ not only from trading in the interbank market but also from trading on other electronic trading systems. If you undertake transactions on an electronic trading system, you will be exposed to risks associated with the system including the failure of hardware and software. The result of any system failure may be that your order is either not executed according to your instructions or is not executed at all.
Disclaimers
Internet failure: Since angmarkets.com does not control signal power, its reception or routing via Internet, configuration of your equipment or reliability of its connection, we cannot be responsible for communication failures, distortions or delays when you trade on-line (via Internet)
Market risks and on-line trading
Trading currencies involves substantial risk that is not suitable for everyone. See Trader Agreement for more detailed description of risks. Trading on-line, no matter how convenient or efficient, does not necessarily reduce risks associated with currency trading.
Password protection
The trader is obligated to keep passwords secret and ensure that third parties do not obtain access to the trading facilities. The Trader will be liable to angmarkets.com for trades executed by means of the Trader’s password even if such use may be wrongful.
Quoting errors
Should quoting errors occur due to a dealer’s mistype of a quote or an erroneous price quote from a Trader, such as but not limited to a wrong big figure quote. angmarkets.com will not be liable for the resulting errors in account balances. angmarkets.com reserve the right to make the necessary corrections or adjustments on the account involved. Any dispute arising from such quoting errors will be resolved on a basis or a fair market value or a currency at the time such error occurred.
Off-exchange transactions
Spot FOREX Transactions are not conducted on organized futures exchanges. The firm with which you deal may be acting as your counter party to the transaction. It may be difficult or impossible to liquidate an existing position, to assess the value, to determine a fair price or to assess the exposure to risk. For these reasons, these transactions may involve increased risks. angmarkets.com (“angmarkets.com”) may, from time to time, execute transactions as your agent on the foreign exchange market to trade currencies pursuant to an agreement between the agent and angmarkets.com, and that a trade executed with one bank may be offset by a trade by another banking agent.