Unique Leverage Up to 800:1

Flexible Leverage from 1:1 up to 800:1

At Aman Investment Group clients have the flexibility to trade by using the same margin requirements and leverage from 1:1 to 800:1.

About Margin

Margin is the amount of collateral to cover any credit risks arising during your trading operations.

Margin is expressed as the percentage of position size (e.g. 5% or 1%), and the only real reason for having funds in your trading account is to ensure sufficient margin. On a 1% margin, for instance, a position of $1,000,000 will require a deposit of $10,000.

The margin in your trading account needs to be equal or above 100% in order for you to be able to open new trades, unless the new trades will result in your trading account being fully hedged.

About Leverage

Using leverage means that you can trade positions larger than the amount of money in your trading account. Leverage amount is expressed as a ratio, for instance 50:1, 100:1, or 500:1. If you have $1,000 in your trading account and you trade ticket sizes of 500,000 USD/JPY, your leverage will equate 500:1.

How would it be possible to trade 500 times the amount you have at your disposal? At Aman Investment Group you have a free short-term credit allowance whenever you trade on margin: this enables you to purchase an amount that exceeds your account value. Without this allowance, you would only be able to buy or sell tickets of $1,000 at a time.

Aman Investment Group Leverage

Depending on the account type you open at Aman Investment Group, you can choose the leverage on a scale from 1:1 to 800:1. Margin requirements do not change during the week, nor do they widen overnight or at weekends. Moreover, at Aman Investment Group you have the option to request either the increase or the decrease of your chosen leverage.

Leverage Risk

On the one hand, by using leverage, even from a relatively small initial investment you can make considerable profit. On the other hand, your losses can also become drastic if you fail to apply proper risk management.

Therefore, Aman Investment Group provides a leverage range that helps you choose your preferred risk level. At the same time, we do not recommend trading close to a leverage of 800:1 due to the high risk it involves.

Margin Monitoring

At Aman Investment Group you can control your real-time risk exposure by monitoring your used and free margin.

Used and free margin together make up your equity. Used margin refers to the amount of money you need to deposit to hold the trade (e.g. if you set your account at a leverage of 100:1, the margin that you will need to set aside is 1% of your trade size). Free margin is the amount of money you left in your trading account, and it fluctuates according to your account equity; you can open additional positions with it or absorb any losses.

Margin Call

Although each client is fully responsible for monitoring their trading account activity, Aman Investment Group follows a margin call policy to guarantee that your maximum possible risk does not exceed your account equity.

As soon as your account equity drops below 50% of the margin needed to maintain your open positions, we will attempt to notify you with a margin call warning you that you do not have sufficient equity to support open positions.

In case you are a client accustomed to telephone trading and we feel that you can’t maintain your open positions, you may receive a margin call from our dealers, advising you to deposit a sufficient amount to maintain your open positions.

Stop-Out Level

The stop-out level refers to the equity level at which your open positions get automatically closed. For Aman Investment Group ZERO, MICRO and STANDARD trading accounts the stop-out level is 20%.