General Advice Warning

Learn to Trade Pty Ltd will only provide you with general advice, not personal advice. That means, we will not take into account your personal objectives, financial situations or needs, even if they are known. Accordingly, the advice may not be appropriate for you. We may provide general advice regarding trade size, the level of margin needed and risk management techniques appropriate for our trading strategies. Financial products are complex and all entail risk of loss. Over-the-counter derivative and foreign exchange products are considered speculative because they are highly leveraged and carry risk of loss beyond your initial investment, hence should only be traded with capital you can afford to lose. Please ensure you obtain professional advice to ensure trading or investing in any financial products is suitable for your circumstances, and ensure you obtain, read and understand any applicable offer document

Risks of Trading Margin FX and CFDs

LTT’s training can only help you manage but not avoid the risks of trading margin Foreign exchange and Contracts For Differences. Your broker’s Product Disclosure Statement details these risks including:

- High leverage - from 30:1 to 100:1 - greatly magnifies the risks and returns of trading

- Adverse market moves can lose you all your equity and more or cause your broker to call for more equity margin

- Stop losses are recommended to manage risk but may trigger “at market” orders which may be filled past the intended order level

- Markets can be volatile and jumpy, and even “gap” on surprise news/events

- Some markets can be especially illiquid and volatile if thinly traded such as cryptocurrencies

- You could become an unsecured creditor if your broker goes bust and inadequately protects its client trust accounts

- Many untrained novice traders lose much of their capital.