Margin, Leverage & General Trading Rules

1. Leverage Options

Bold Prime offers leverage according to the client's account type, account equity, traded instrument and applicable trading conditions.

Available leverage may range from 1:100 up to 1:3000, subject to the limits specified for each account type.

The maximum leverage of 1:3000 is available only on eligible Prime Max Accounts and remains subject to the Prime Max-specific conditions stated in this policy.

Leverage is not guaranteed and may be adjusted in accordance with these Trading Rules, prevailing market conditions, risk-management requirements or applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

2. How Leverage Works

Leverage allows a client to obtain market exposure that exceeds the amount of equity committed as margin.

For example, a leverage ratio of 1:100 means that a client may obtain market exposure of up to 100 times the amount of margin allocated to a position, subject to applicable margin requirements.

Higher leverage reduces the initial margin required to open a position but increases the potential effect of market movements on the client's account.

Clients remain responsible for selecting an appropriate leverage level and for maintaining sufficient margin to support their open positions.

3. Leverage Structure

Available leverage may depend on:

• Account type
• Account equity
• Traded instrument
• Market conditions
• Economic announcements
• Liquidity conditions
• Concentration of exposure
• Trading behaviour
• Applicable account restrictions
• The Company's risk-management requirements

Bold Prime may increase or reduce the leverage available to an individual account, group of accounts, instrument or category of clients where reasonably required for risk-management, operational, market or regulatory reasons.

Where practicable, material changes to trading conditions will be communicated through the Company's website, Client Portal, trading platform, registered email address or other appropriate communication channel.

4. Leverage During Major Market Events

Market conditions may change rapidly around significant economic announcements, political events, central-bank decisions, market openings, periods of reduced liquidity or other events capable of causing abnormal volatility.

Bold Prime may therefore apply increased margin requirements or reduced leverage to new positions opened during such periods.

Unless otherwise specified:

• Enhanced margin requirements may apply to positions opened within five (5) minutes before and fifteen (15) minutes after a designated major market event
• The adjusted margin requirement applicable when a position is opened may remain applicable to that position until it is closed

Bold Prime may also introduce temporary leverage restrictions outside these periods where extraordinary volatility, liquidity conditions or market disruption makes such action reasonably necessary.

5. Leverage by Account Type

Bold Prime Standard Account

Bold Prime Bonus Account

Bold Prime ECN Account

Bold Prime Prime Max Account

Leverage levels are subject to change in accordance with these Trading Rules.

6. Risks Associated With Leverage

Leverage magnifies both potential profits and potential losses.

Higher leverage may cause relatively small market movements to produce significant changes in account equity and may increase the likelihood of a margin call or stop-out.

Clients should consider their financial circumstances, trading experience, risk tolerance and strategy before selecting or using leverage.

The availability of maximum leverage does not constitute a recommendation by Bold Prime that such leverage is appropriate for a particular client.

7. Margin Requirements

Margin is the amount of account equity required to open and maintain a leveraged position.

Margin requirements depend on factors including:

• Position size
• Applicable leverage
• Instrument
• Account type
• Account equity
• Prevailing trading conditions

For example, at leverage of 1:100, the standard initial margin requirement is generally equivalent to 1% of the notional value of the position, subject to instrument-specific requirements.

8. Monitoring Margin

Clients are responsible for continuously monitoring their trading accounts and maintaining sufficient equity and free margin.

The trading platform may display:

Balance

Funds held in the trading account excluding unrealised profit or loss.

Equity

Account balance adjusted by unrealised profits and losses.

Used Margin

Margin currently allocated to open positions.

Free Margin

Equity that remains available after used margin.

Margin Level

A percentage calculated based on account equity relative to used margin.

Clients should not rely on receiving a separate warning from Bold Prime before a margin call or stop-out occurs.

9. Margin Call

Unless otherwise specified for a particular account, the applicable Margin Call Level is 50%.

When the Margin Level reaches or falls below the applicable Margin Call Level, the account may be considered under-margined.

The client is responsible for taking appropriate action, which may include:

• Depositing additional funds
• Reducing existing exposure
• Closing positions

A margin call does not oblige Bold Prime to contact the client or delay automatic risk-management procedures.

10. Stop-Out

Unless otherwise specified for a particular account, the applicable Stop-Out Level is 30%.

When the Margin Level reaches or falls below the Stop-Out Level, the trading system may automatically begin closing open positions without prior notice to the client.

Positions may be closed individually or collectively according to the trading platform's liquidation methodology until the account's Margin Level is restored above the applicable threshold or all relevant positions have been closed.

Stop-out mechanisms do not guarantee that an account will avoid losses exceeding available equity during abnormal market conditions, price gaps, reduced liquidity or rapid market movements.

11. Deposit Requirements

Deposits must normally be made using a payment method held in the client's own name.

Bold Prime may reject, return, suspend or investigate:

• Third-party deposits
• Anonymous payments
• Payments from unverified sources
• Payments that do not satisfy AML/KYC requirements
• Transactions presenting suspected financial-crime, fraud or security concerns

The Company may request additional documentation before crediting, accepting or returning funds.

Deposit processing times may vary depending on the payment provider, currency, verification requirements and other circumstances outside Bold Prime's direct control.

12. Withdrawal Requirements

Withdrawal requests are subject to:

• Account verification
• Sufficient available balance
• Applicable trading-volume requirements
• AML/KYC requirements
• Payment-method requirements
• Open-position and margin considerations
• Investigation of suspected unauthorised or abusive activity
• Any additional requirements contained in the Client Agreement

Where a trading-volume requirement applies, the following schedule will be used unless different conditions have been expressly stated for the relevant account or promotion:

13. General 120-Second Trading Rule

The following rule applies generally across Bold Prime trading accounts, unless different conditions are expressly stated for a particular account, instrument, campaign or written agreement.

For the purpose of calculating qualifying trading volume, a trade must remain open for a minimum of one hundred and twenty (120) seconds.

A position closed before 120 seconds has elapsed:

• Will not count toward any applicable trading-volume requirement
• Will not count toward withdrawal-volume requirements
• May not count toward promotional, bonus or other eligibility calculations where trading volume is relevant
• May be reviewed where repeated short-duration trading indicates potential exploitation of pricing, execution or system conditions

For avoidance of doubt, closing a trade within 120 seconds does not automatically mean that the trade is fraudulent or prohibited.

However, repeated or systematic short-duration trading may be investigated where there are reasonable grounds to believe that the activity forms part of a prohibited trading strategy or is intended to exploit latency, incorrect pricing, delayed price feeds or other technical conditions.

The 120-second period is calculated using the execution timestamps recorded on Bold Prime's trading systems.

14. Expert Advisors, Algorithms and Automated Trading

Expert Advisors (“EAs”), algorithmic systems and other automated trading tools are permitted unless otherwise restricted for a specific account or instrument.

Automated trading must comply with all Bold Prime policies.

Clients must not use automated systems for:

• Latency arbitrage
• Exploitation of delayed or incorrect price feeds
• Excessive or abusive order generation
• Deliberate server overloading
• Manipulation of execution systems
• Coordinated abuse between multiple trading accounts
• Exploitation of manifest pricing errors
• Any strategy designed primarily to obtain an improper advantage from a technical or operational condition

The client remains responsible for all orders submitted through an EA, algorithm, API or other automated trading system connected to the client's account.

15. Prohibited and Abusive Trading Practices

Bold Prime may investigate trading activity where there are reasonable grounds to suspect fraud, manipulation, system exploitation or abusive trading.

Prohibited practices may include, without limitation:

15.1 Latency Arbitrage

Trading designed to exploit delays between Bold Prime's quoted prices and prices available from another source.

15.2 Price-Feed or Technical Error Exploitation

Knowingly opening, modifying or closing positions to take advantage of an incorrect, delayed, frozen, off-market or manifestly erroneous price.

15.3 Coordinated Trading

Coordinating activity between two or more accounts, persons or brokers for the primary purpose of exploiting Bold Prime's pricing, leverage, bonus, execution or risk-management arrangements.

15.4 Abusive Hedging

Opening deliberately coordinated opposite positions across related accounts, accounts under common control or external brokers where the arrangement is primarily intended to exploit bonuses, pricing errors, promotional terms, execution delays or other Bold Prime trading conditions.

Ordinary hedging undertaken for legitimate trading or risk-management purposes is not prohibited solely because opposite market exposure exists.

15.5 Account or Promotion Abuse

Creating, controlling or coordinating multiple accounts, identities or transactions to circumvent account limits, eligibility conditions, trading-volume requirements or promotional rules.

15.6 Excessive Order Activity

Using automated or manual trading methods that generate an unreasonable volume of orders, modifications, cancellations or other messages capable of disrupting or degrading the trading infrastructure.

16. Review of Trading Activity

Where Bold Prime identifies potentially irregular activity, the Company may conduct a reasonable investigation.

During an investigation, Bold Prime may, where necessary:

• Request additional information or documentation
• Temporarily delay a withdrawal
• Restrict additional trading activity
• Suspend affected accounts
• Review related trading accounts
• Examine execution records and transaction history

The existence of profitable trading alone will not constitute evidence of abusive trading.

Any determination should be based on relevant trading records, system logs, account relationships, pricing data and other reasonably available evidence.

17. Actions Following Confirmed Abuse or Error

Where Bold Prime reasonably determines that a transaction resulted from fraud, manipulation, prohibited trading activity, a manifest pricing error or material breach of the Client Agreement or these Trading Rules, Bold Prime may take action permitted under the Client Agreement and applicable law.

Depending on the circumstances, such action may include:

• Excluding trades from qualifying-volume calculations
• Correcting an erroneous transaction
• Cancelling or adjusting affected orders
• Removing benefits improperly obtained
• Adjusting profits directly attributable to prohibited conduct
• Restricting trading functionality
• Suspending or terminating affected accounts
• Returning remaining eligible client funds after applicable obligations have been satisfied

Any adjustment should relate to the affected transaction or prohibited conduct and should not exceed what Bold Prime reasonably considers necessary to correct the relevant breach, error or improper benefit.

18. Prime Max Account-Specific Conditions

The following additional conditions apply specifically to Prime Max Accounts.

18.1 Maximum Leverage

Leverage of up to 1:3000 is available only on eligible Prime Max Accounts and is subject to the equity bands stated in this policy.

18.2 Account Limit

Unless otherwise approved by Bold Prime, each client may operate a maximum of one active Prime Max Account at a time.

18.3 Dynamic Leverage

The maximum 1:3000 leverage applies only within the applicable equity threshold.

If account equity increases beyond the relevant threshold, leverage may automatically adjust according to the Prime Max leverage schedule.

18.4 News Trading

New Prime Max positions opened during the applicable news period may be subject to maximum leverage of 1:200.

18.5 General Trading Rules

Prime Max Accounts remain subject to all general Bold Prime trading rules, including:

• The 120-second qualifying-volume rule
• Prohibited trading rules
• EA and automated-trading rules
• Withdrawal conditions
• Margin requirements
• Trade-review provisions

19. Market Disruption and Exceptional Circumstances

Bold Prime may take reasonable risk-management measures during circumstances including:

• Extreme market volatility
• Market gaps
• Abnormal or unavailable liquidity
• Exchange or liquidity-provider interruption
• Pricing-system failure
• Telecommunications failure
• Trading-platform malfunction
• Force majeure events
• Extraordinary political or economic events
• Circumstances outside the Company's reasonable control

Such measures may include changing margin requirements, reducing leverage, limiting order types, restricting opening of new positions or temporarily suspending trading in affected instruments.

20. Pricing and Execution

Prices displayed on the trading platform may differ from prices displayed by other brokers, exchanges, financial websites or data providers.

Orders are executed according to the pricing and execution conditions applicable to Bold Prime's trading environment.

A difference between Bold Prime's price and another market source does not by itself establish that Bold Prime's price is incorrect.

Where a genuine manifest pricing or technical error occurs, the Company may correct the affected transaction in accordance with the Client Agreement and these Trading Rules.

21. Client Responsibilities

Clients are responsible for:

• Understanding the risks associated with leveraged trading
• Monitoring account equity and margin
• Maintaining sufficient available funds
• Securing account credentials
• Ensuring that automated trading systems operate correctly
• Reviewing applicable instrument and account conditions
• Complying with Bold Prime policies
• Ensuring their trading activity complies with applicable laws
• Reviewing notices concerning changes to trading conditions

22. Changes to Trading Conditions

Bold Prime may amend these Trading Rules where reasonably necessary due to:

• Changes in market conditions
• Risk-management requirements
• Changes to products or services
• Liquidity-provider requirements
• Technical or operational developments
• Prevention of fraud or abuse
• Legal or regulatory requirements

Where reasonably practicable, material changes will be published or communicated before taking effect.

Changes required immediately for security, market integrity, regulatory compliance or risk-management purposes may take effect without advance notice.

The latest published version of these Trading Rules will apply from its stated effective date.

23. Relationship With Other Agreements

These Trading Rules supplement the Client Agreement and other applicable Bold Prime legal documents.

They do not replace the Client Agreement.

If there is an inconsistency between these Trading Rules and the Client Agreement, the Client Agreement will prevail unless the relevant document expressly states otherwise.

Specific account, instrument or promotional terms may impose additional requirements.

24. Complaints and Queries

Clients who believe that a trading transaction, margin adjustment, trade review, withdrawal decision or other action has been applied incorrectly may contact Bold Prime Support using the contact details published on the official Bold Prime website.

The client should provide sufficient information to allow the matter to be reviewed, including the relevant trading-account number, order or transaction number and supporting details where applicable.

Complaints will be handled in accordance with the Company's applicable complaints procedures and Client Agreement.

25. Final Provisions

By opening or maintaining a Bold Prime trading account and using the Company's trading services, clients acknowledge that they are responsible for reviewing and complying with the trading conditions applicable to their account.

Failure by Bold Prime to exercise a right under these Trading Rules on one occasion does not constitute a waiver of that right.

If any provision of these Trading Rules is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by applicable law.

These Trading Rules should be read together with all other legal documentation applicable to the client's relationship with Bold Prime.