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In order to ensure the safety, transparency, and integrity of trading operations, and in the belief of G2G Group Limited in providing fair and equal trading opportunities to all its clients, and in compliance with the terms of the client’s trading agreement, the company has prohibited abusive trades and the strategies derived from them, which negatively affect our clients and/or the company and/or its partners. These trades fall under any of the following categories:
Market Manipulation: Any intervention in the natural free context of trading operations by creating artificial or misleading appearances to move the price of any financial instrument in a particular direction. For example, but not limited to:
o Spoofing: Placing trade orders with the intention of canceling them before execution to manipulate prices.
o Layering: Placing multiple orders at different price levels to create a false impression of market depth.
Abusive Arbitrage: Arbitrage is the process of buying and selling assets in different markets and at the same time to exploit price differences. However, abusive arbitrage may take any of the following forms:
o Swap Arbitrage: Trading on margin of the same financial instrument by selling and buying simultaneously on an account with the company and on an account with another broker to gain a positive swap benefit provided by the company or the other broker.
o Reverse Arbitrage: Buying or selling a trading instrument in the spot market on an account exempt from swap interest and taking an opposite position in the futures market for a different account or with another broker for extended periods to benefit from the price difference between futures and spot contracts, potentially resulting in additional costs for the company.
o Latency Arbitrage: Exploiting the time delay between the company’s prices and the market prices to generate profits at the company’s expense.
High-Frequency Trading (Scalping / Pip Trading): This includes:
o Engaging in short-term trading to exploit minor price movements at a high frequency, which may disrupt trading operations.
o Any trades where positions are opened and closed within a time frame of less than 120 seconds.
Exploiting Platform Failures: Trading during periods of technical or software errors or incorrect prices on the trading platform to gain profits unfairly and unnaturally.
Use of Unauthorized Trading Programs: This includes automated trading systems (Expert Advisors), robots, or artificial intelligence programs that are not authorized by the company for use.
Account Manipulation: Using multiple accounts by one or more individuals to trade by executing coordinated trades with similar or opposite positions simultaneously.
Trading Associated with Cyber Attacks: Trading that is accompanied by deliberate cyber attacks on the company’s services and platforms, which may lead to price delays and/or order execution delays for all clients, allowing attackers to generate illicit profits and potentially causing losses to other clients’ accounts.
Trading that Exploits Negative Balance Protection: When a client is granted negative balance protection, they may accumulate consecutive but opposite positions across multiple accounts before significant economic events or before market close, generating profits from some while the company and/or foreign liquidity provider absorbs the losses from others, exceeding the client’s balance.
Trades Outside the Normal Trading Framework: Trades that fall outside the natural scope of trading by volume, pace, or the trader’s personal decision or special requirements for investment that do not align with the company’s standards.
10. Trades Aimed at Creating Execution Issues: Trades intended to cause delays in pricing to generate unjust profits.
In reference to the Trading Agreement and at the company’s sole and absolute discretion, the company reserves the right to take the following actions and/or refer to legal entities regarding accounts and/or clients responsible for abusive trading operations:
A – Adjusting the prices and spreads available to the client, and/or assessing executed orders based on accurate and real-time market prices.
B – Withdrawing any profits from the client’s account gained through the abuse of trading terms.
C – Blocking the client’s account(s) and/or terminating the contractual relationship between the company and the client.
D – Limiting the list of available account types, instruments, strategies, facilitations, and/or other products to the client.