GFE Markets Premium Accounts

GFE Markets Segregated Funds

At GFE, we hold our traders’ security above all else. Our traders’ funds are held in the Company’s fiduciary segregated client bank accounts. Without doubt, the Company ensures these funds are separated from our everyday operational bank accounts.

Please note that we maintain all of our clients’ funds in reputable, tier-one EU-based banks and financial institutions. Your security of funds is paramount to all of us here at GFE Markets.

Supervision

To ensure consumer protection and traders’ safety, investment firms like ours are met with strict financial standards that they have to adhere to. Here at GFE, we abide by all these regulatory circulars and instructions, including Capital Adequacy Requirements and Anti Money Laundering standards. To withstand potential market fluctuations and unforeseen expenses, we always sustain additional liquid capital to cover all our clients’ deposits. This level of security is maintained by performing a detailed annual audit, which is carried out by an independent auditor.

Personal Trade Expert

To ensure that our traders are getting the full maximised trading experience, we support them with a personal trade expert who is an experienced senior market analyst.

Your GFE personal trade expert is your guide who will go over all of your trades (upon your request), and analyse your trading decisions.

It’s their duty to provide you with feedback that will empower you, giving you the impetus to optimise your trading results.

Whenever you request a session with your GFE personal trading expert, you receive a full 30-minute session.

Bonus Funds

When you receive a GFE trading account, you have the chance to receive bonus funds. These “bonus funds” are viewed as a pending bonus. For you to be able to access your bonus funds, you need to have executed a trade volume that is 30 times the value of the bonus, as its value appears within the GFE Markets Client Area. If you are not sure how to calculate the volume, feel free to reach out to our customer care team, as they are more than happy to assist you.

Please note that for you to be able to benefit from the bonus funds, you must reach the desired volume during a period of 90 days, which commences on the day you were granted the bonus. You are free to withdraw the free balance in your account whenever you feel the need to. Terms and conditions apply.

Volume Cashback

To be able to receive the volume cashback, you need to trade in volumes that are higher than your Premium Account requirements (please see the table above to view the desired criteria). The volume for cashback is based on your CFD positions as well as other trades. For our cashback plan, special terms apply, so please go ahead and read our Bonus Terms and Conditions.

During the last 7 trading days of the month, it’s imperative that your account balance doesn’t fall below the minimum required amount. If it does, you will lose your eligibility to benefit from this specific bonus. Your minimum balance varies depending on the plan you are on. Feel free to speak with your GFE Account Manager about the different plans we have.

Please hold back from making any withdrawals from your funds after you’ve received your cashback, for the first 30 days. If you do withdraw funds before the end of the first month, the cashback will be reversed. The amount that you try to withdraw from your cashback before the end of your first month will be removed from your overall balance.

When our Dealing Desk calculates your cashback volume, their only reference will be the Volume Calculation Rules. We do not include or calculate any volume related to other promotions or bonuses. Please note that with the volume cashback promotion, if you open both a Buy position and a Sell position on the same asset class or instrument that has the same expiration time, we’d still consider these as separate trades.

Trading Bonus

With our GFE Premium Trading account, you have the chance to benefit from a trading bonus added to your total balance. The trading bonus we give is redeemable only if you trade a volume of 30 times the value of the bonus that you’ve received. To make sure the calculation of the GFE trading bonuses is fair and accurate, we use a symmetrical method of calculation in which the profits, losses and investment amounts for each position in any trading account is done per the proportional value of the bonuses.

If you have doubts about your information on how to calculate the volume of a trade or how our bonuses are actually executed, please go ahead and ask our customer care team to simplify and explain it to you.

For the avoidance of doubt, please make sure you are familiar with the terms mentioned below and their meanings.

• Total Balance of the Account
  The total balance of the account is the balance that actually displays
  the amount of funds in your balance that you can use to open trades.

• Account Total Bonus Balance
  The account total bonus balance is the portion of the balance of your
  GFE trading account that cannot be made available for withdrawal
  until you reach the minimum trading volume. The total of this amount
  is calculated by including the active bonuses, their proportional value
  of trading profits and losses, as well as the open positions.

In the case where you have more than one bonus active simultaneously, each bonus will be given attention as an individual and separate bonus so we can apply the symmetrical method accurately.

In the case where a bonus has been active and you requested a withdrawal where the needed bonus volume hasn’t been achieved, the position will remain open. When the bonus expires, the final amount will exclude the bonus funds as well as any related profits/losses that relate to the said position.

Please note that the trading bonus funds cannot be used to open trades in stocks until the trading volume requirement has been reached.