XM Group, a group of companies providing brokerage services worldwide, has increased leverage to 1:500 for popular stock cash and futures indices.
The company has been there for more than a decade and offers its clients a variety of instruments for trading in demanded indices, including Amsterdam Exchange (AEX), GB (FTSE 100), France (CAC 40), Germany 30 (FDAX), EU Stocks 50 (FESX), NASDAQ 100, S&P 500, Dow Jones (DJIA 30), Japan 225 (Nikkei), etc. In addition to derivatives, more than 1000 trading instruments are also available in the cabinet, such as currency pairs, CFDs, commodities, precious metals, energies, and stocks.
The use of leverage means that you can open positions much larger than the amount of equity in your trading account. Leverage is expressed as a ratio, such as 1:50, 1:100, or 1:500.
In this way, you can trade using an amount that is 50, 100, or 500 times the amount of funds at your disposal.
The change in leverage from 1:100 (1:200 for JP225Cash and JP225) to 1:500 each affected cash contracts such as:
- US500 Cash
- US30 Cash
- US100 Cash
- JP225 Cash
- GER40 Cash
- UK100 Cash
As well as futures contracts:
- US500
- US30
- US100
- JP225
- GER40
- UK100
XM Group also provides margin trading services with flexible leverage from 1:1 to 1000:1 for clients with equity less than $20000.
Margin requirements and leverage at XM are calculated based on the total equity in your account(s):
- 1:1 to 1:1000 leverage – $5 – $20000 total equity
- 1:1 to 1:200 leverage – $20001 – $100000 total equity
- From 1:1 to 1:100 leverage – $100001 + total equity
