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“Why, just next week, is the leverage being lowered this much?”

We received a notification from a foreign broker that they will apply “Dynamic Leverage” from August 17 to 21.

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Based on the scheduled major economic indicators and market conditions from August 17 to August 21, we will temporarily adjust the leverage for the target products.

Dynamic leverage is a system that automatically adjusts the maximum leverage temporarily in response to market price fluctuations and high-risk moments such as important events.
Normally you can trade with high leverage, but in situations like the ones described below, to reduce the risk of forced liquidations or negative balances due to sharp price movements, the maximum leverage will be lowered.

Please note that it will be applied during the following time slots.

■ Application time
・From 15 minutes before major economic indicator releases to 5 minutes after the release
・Friday: from 3 hours before market close for each product
・Monday to Thursday: from 30 minutes before market close for each product
・Monday: up to 30 minutes after market open for each product

■ Main economic indicators
■ Target products and maximum leverage
・FX: 200x
・Crude oil: 10x
・Gold: 100x
・Silver: 50x
・Commodities: 5x
・Stock indices: 100x

※During the dynamic leverage application period, please be careful with position management as liquidity may decrease and price fluctuations may widen.
※Outside the dynamic leverage application period, you can trade with the usual maximum leverage.

FX up to 200x, Gold 100x, Silver 50x, Crude oil 10x, Commodities 5x, Stock indices 100x. Considering the usual high leverage, these are quite significant restrictions.

Is this just a warning? Or should we truly be vigilant this week?

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? Is it okay that required margin suddenly increases?

For example, if you are trading FX at 1000x and you have a position worth 1,000,000 yen, the required margin is about 1,000 yen. If this becomes 200x, it's about 5,000 yen. For Gold, from 1000x to 100x, a simple calculation shows a 10x increase.

What’s scary is how existing positions are treated.

If the required margin is recalculated due to leverage changes, even if prices have moved little, the maintenance margin rate can fall sharply, theoretically triggering a liquidation condition.

Normally one would assume only new positions are affected, but whether the same change applies to existing positions depends on the account and terms, so this needs to be confirmed.

? Why only August 17–21? A risk layering technique

In reality, there will be a reasonable amount of material next week.

On August 17, Japan’s Q2 GDP速報 for April–June is scheduled, and on the 19th the FOMC minutes for July 28–29 are scheduled.

Furthermore, the Middle East situation and crude oil prices are unstable. With talks between the US and Iran stagnating, crude oil is rising, and geopolitical risk could shake the market through inflation and interest rates.

Add in the summer light trading. Reuters also mentions a “sluggish summer phase.”

In other words,it’s natural to view it as a week where not one, but several factors—monetary policy, GDP, geopolitics, oil, and light summer trading—converge.

? High leverage + zero-cut prohibition?

This leverage restriction does not appear to be merely a response to indicators.

With high-leverage trading, not only the market itself but alsothe impact of broker-side leverage changes on marginshould be paid attention to.

Furthermore, using high leverage plus zero-cut to target large moves around events like FOMC or GDP will become much harder due to these restrictions.

From the broker’s viewpoint, it is a rational risk management, but from a trader’s viewpoint, the rule “leverage decreases when volatility is large” is quite strict.

Next week, not only market moves but alsobroker-rule changes themselves become risk factorsand you will need to manage positions more conservatively than usual.

? Watch out for the one-click FX liquidation line too?

When validating actual code, the one-click FX liquidation line is calculated using what the terminal recognizes asthe current total margin and the stop-out threshold. Therefore, if the required margin changes due to dynamic leverage, the displayed line will basically follow.

However, this is only a rough estimate calculated from the current margin state. It cannot completely reproduce the mechanism where the leverage tier itself changes due to price movements, the unrealized gains/losses of multiple positions, or special margin calculations performed on the server.

In other words,in a normal fixed-leverage environment, this estimate is quite useful, but in a special environment like dynamic leverage, the actual liquidation line may differ.

Especially when considering that the broker-side leverage can move, it is risky to view the liquidation line as a single absolute boundary.Display values should be treated as a guide, and you should also consider actual margin maintenance rate and the broker’s rules.

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