Aggressive New FX Margins and Simpler Tiered Margin Structure

Aggressive new FX Margins

On 25th April 2016, Saxo Bank introduced lower margins and a simpler margin structure for FX (spot, forwards and options) with margin requirements from only 1% for many major FX crosses. You can now trade many of our major FX currency pairs with leverage of up to 100:1
For example, the new default margin requirements for trading EURUSD can be seen below:

See our FX Margin rates here.

Simplified Margin Structure

On 25th April 2016, we also introduced a new simple margin structure for FX making the margin requirements clearer on every trade where:

• Margin requirements will be independent for each FX cross and not calculated over complex FX exposures
• Margin will be based on a simple tiered structure with incremental margin requirements for each million traded

So for a new EURUSD position of 6M, you will have:
Total Margin required = 1% for the first 3 million + 2% for the second 3 million = 1.5%

More examples

Read more about the new FX Tiered Margining

Read the article on Forex Magnates