ActivTrades Bahamas

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is an independent EU agency that contributes to safeguarding the stability of the European Union's financial system by enhancing the protection of investors and promoting stable and orderly financial markets.

Earlier this year ESMA introduced EU-wide regulatory changes affecting leverage for contracts for difference (CFDs) and prohibited marketing, distribution and sale of binary options to retail investors.

That has massive consequences for the retail traders, as leverage for CFDs on major currency pairs has been reduced to 1:30, indices, non-major currency pairs and gold leverage will be at 20:1, other commodities and non-major indices leverage will be 10:1, equities leverage will be 5:1 and cryptocurrency leverage will be 2:1.

ActivTrades will apply the new ESMA measures from July 29, 2018 at 11:00 am (CET).

One of the best ways to avoid being affected by those regulatory changes is to open an account with the Bahamas branch of the leading online broker ActivTrades. When you do you will still be able to enjoy using high leverage and margin conditions and continue trading as you always have without having to use a Professional Account.

You can find out more about the Bahamas branch of the leading online broker ActivTrades here.>>>