Versus Trade Lot Size and Margin at 1:2000
What a lot ties up on a USD account, and why a MAS-licensed broker could not offer a Singapore trader the same leverage.
Open a Versus Trade account →Versus Trade takes orders from 0.01 to 200 lots with leverage stated up to 1:2000. On a standard 100,000-unit forex lot, 1:2000 means one full lot ties up around $50 of margin instead of the $5,000 a MAS-licensed 20:1 account would require. The number that deserves more attention is the stop out: it sits at 0%, so a losing position is held until the account's usable margin is gone.
Lot sizes and risk settings at a glance
- Order size runs from 0.01 lots to 200 lots on every account type.
- A standard forex lot is 100,000 units of the base currency; on gold, 1 lot is 100 troy ounces.
- Maximum leverage is stated as up to 1:2000, varying by account and instrument.
- Margin call is set at 30% and stop out at 0%.
- Versus Pairs use fixed leverage instead: 1:20 on stock pairs, 1:100 on most others.
- MAS caps retail leverage at about 20:1 on major pairs — that ceiling does not apply to this account.
What one lot means on this account
A lot is the unit the platform trades in, not a measure of risk. One standard forex lot is 100,000 units of the base currency; one mini lot is 0.1 and one micro lot 0.01, which is the smallest order Versus Trade accepts. On gold, one lot is 100 troy ounces. The 100,000-unit unit is the industry standard lot.
The ceiling is 200 lots per order. Between 0.01 and 200 there is a factor of twenty thousand, which is why position sizing — not leverage — is the decision that determines whether an account survives.
What 1:2000 actually frees up — a worked example
Leverage does not change what a position is worth; it changes how much of your own money is locked while you hold it. At 1:2000, a $100,000 position requires about $50 in margin. The same position at the 20:1 ceiling MAS applies to licensed brokers would require $5,000.
Run it at the size most people actually open with. On a $100 account, 0.01 lots of EUR/USD is roughly $1,000 of exposure and about $0.50 of margin at 1:2000 — trivially affordable, and moving roughly $0.10 per pip. The same $100 at one full lot is $100,000 of exposure moving about $10 per pip: a 10-pip move against you is a tenth of the account, and 1:2000 is exactly what makes that order possible to place.
These figures are arithmetic from the broker's stated maximum leverage and standard contract sizes. Actual leverage varies by instrument and account, and the broker adjusts it — check the contract specification for your symbol in MetaTrader before sizing. For the mechanism itself, see leverage.
Margin call at 30%, stop out at 0% — what that changes
The broker sets margin call at 30% and stop out at 0%. The first is a warning that your margin level has fallen below the level needed to hold open positions; the second is where positions are closed automatically.
A 0% stop out is unusually low. Many brokers close positions at 20% or 50%, which leaves some equity behind; at 0% a position is carried until usable margin is exhausted. The client agreement pairs this with negative balance protection — losses cannot exceed the amount held in the account — so the floor is zero rather than debt, but the floor is still zero.
Swap-free here is conditional, not automatic
The broker assigns swap-free automatically to accounts registered from the 34 countries it lists as Islamic. Singapore is not on that list.
A Singapore-registered account starts at the swap-free level anyway, but the broker states it can be moved to standard swap if positions are mostly held overnight rather than traded intraday. The swap-free level covers 8 major pairs, 14 minors, XAUUSD, WTI, cryptocurrencies and indices; swaps still apply to other metals, energies, exotic pairs and stocks.
If your strategy is to hold positions for days, do not plan around swap-free: it is the level most likely to be withdrawn from exactly that pattern of trading. A swap is an overnight rollover charge.
Why a MAS-licensed broker cannot offer you this
MAS caps retail leverage at roughly 20:1 on major currency pairs, with lower caps on minors, shares and crypto. A firm holding a Capital Markets Services licence cannot hand a Singapore retail client 1:2000. The cap and the licence behind it are set by the Monetary Authority of Singapore; a firm’s status is searchable in the MAS Financial Institutions Directory.
That is the trade being made here, stated plainly: the leverage is available because the broker is outside the Singapore framework, and so is everything else that framework provides. Trading CFDs with leverage carries a high risk of losing money quickly.
Frequently asked questions
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Related Versus Trade pages
Borrowed exposure behaves worst around long weekends, when margin requirements can be widened before a break while liquidity thins ahead of it. A Singapore trader holding through such periods is doing it outside the MAS retail leverage cap: see which firms MAS actually licenses and how leverage works.