Negative Balance Protection

Whilst you can still lose all your account funds, they can't exceed them - meaning you won't ever owe us money

Greater trading protection with our strong risk management feature

NBP may help manage your downside risk by limiting your losses only to funds in account

Trade without the fear of negative equity, as your losses cannot exceed your account funds

Whilst you can still lose all your account funds, they can't exceed them - meaning you won't ever owe us money

Greater trading protection with our strong risk management feature

NBP may help manage your downside risk by limiting your losses only to funds in account

Trade without the fear of negative equity, as your losses cannot exceed your account funds

XTB is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Open a real account and enjoy trading with a reliable and trusted broker.

How Negative Balance Protection works in practice:

Let's say you go long (buy) the DE30 (based on the DAX underlying) and adopt a risky strategy of utilising the majority of your account balance in this one trade as margin. This means that any large move in the market could have a big effect on your account funds.

On Friday the market is trading slightly above your entry point, meaning you're in profit as the market closes for the week. However, over the weekend there's some political turmoil in Germany causing investor uncertainty which means that when the DE30 re-opens on Monday, its opening price is significantly lower than Friday’s close, resulting in a large loss that exceeds all the funds on your account, and putting you into a negative balance.

With negative balance protection however, you will not end up owing us this negative amount as we'll write it off for you. So when you trade with XTB, your maximum loss on any trade is the funds in your account, regardless of what the market does.

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Client money protection guaranteed by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS)*
Authorised and regulated by the the Financial Conduct Authority

*In the unlikely event of insolvency XTB Ltd clients are protected under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) up to £50,000 per person.

Negative Balance Protection

Added security & peace of mind to your trading account

Now any trading LOSSES CANNOT exceed funds in your account

Negative Balance Protection means that any trading losses cannot exceed the funds on your account, giving you greater protection. Please note however that your entire capital is still at risk.

How Negative Balance Protection works in practice:

Open a real account and enjoy trading with XTB.

Why choose XTB?

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