How does gradual margin close out work?

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When your loss-making positions reach the point where you only have enough equity to cover 50% of your losses, our margin close-out process starts automatically to protect you from spiraling losses. Please note the automatic margin close-out process is a regulatory requirement, and cannot be deactivated.

The process is as follows:

  1. All pending orders are canceled following FIFO logic (earliest created orders are canceled first): until equity/margin ratio is 75%.
  2. Open positions are sorted by creation timestamp (oldest first).
  3. Before closing each position, the final result is calculated to determine how much of the position needs to be closed.
  • Positions on markets which are closed in the moment of close-out will be skipped until market is open
  • A position may be partially closed if that is sufficient to restore the ratio to 75%.

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