What leverage does Zero offer?

Maximum leverage available depend on the type of account and asset traded:

CFD type of account:

• Up to 30:1 for forex pairs.
• Up to 20:1 for commodities.
• Up to 20:1 for indices.
• 5:1 for all US stocks & US ETFs.

Futures type of account:

Margin requirements are set by the exchange. This can vary depending on the asset class and market conditions.

Cash US stocks & ETFs type of account

The cash type of account doesn't have leverage available.

Tips

Leverage may be different for assets within the same group of instruments. Actual leverage for all instruments can be found here.

We encourage you not to focus on leverage however for two reasons:

1. The standard CFD account comes with $100k or $1M (futures and cash instruments types of account) in initial balance, more than sufficient to demonstrate your ability to generate a stable and positive return without paying attention to leverage.
2. More importantly, it is the performance of your DARWIN Index and not your underlying signals account that determines seed and third party capital allocation and potential performance fees received.

For more information about how the DARWIN's performance is built, please visit this article.