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Dear Customer,

We’re writing to let you know that we are making some important changes to our service including the roll out of new features designed to give you even greater protection during periods of high market volatility.

From Sunday 1st October 2017 all accounts will have a negative balance protection feature, meaning your trading losses cannot exceed your account balance. This change, alongside our existing 30% margin close out feature, is designed to give you greater protection during volatile markets, so you can trade with the understanding that you cannot go into a negative balance, you should remember however that should your positions move against you, you will still be able to lose all of the funds deposited into your account

In addition and to reflect the above, we are making some changes to our terms of business, risk warning notice and market specification table regarding the maximum exposure on Cryptocurrencies.

The changes to the Table of Specification are as follows:

Change of comment no 2 (Section Cryptocurrencies) to the following:

2. The maximum amount of Client involvement in Open Positions (either long or short) on BTCUSD, ETHUSD, XRPUSD, LTCUSD and DSHUSD may not exceed 100000 EUR, 75000 EUR, 30000 EUR, 30000 EUR, 30000 EUR respectively.

Summary of changes:

Negative balance protection - new feature to begin from Sunday 1st October 2017

Up to €100,000 maximum exposure on Cryptocurrencies (long or short) across all accounts, not per account

Terms of Business - updated, takes effect from 1st October 2017

Risk Warning Notice - updated, takes effect from 1st October 2017

Specification table - updated as stated above, takes effect from 23rd September 2017

You should have received an email with all the highlighted changes and new documentation affecting the Terms of Business and Risk Warning Notice. Please check your email inbox or spam in case you haven’t seen it. If for any reason, you have not received our notification please contact our Customer Support Team or your account manager.

If you have any other questions regarding these changes, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our Customer Support Team on 020 3695 3085 or email us at ukservice@xtb.co.uk. If you do not wish to opt into these changes, please contact us to close your account.

Kind regards,
The XTB UK team

Dear Clients,

Please find an updated version of the events that could affect your trading for this week: 

Rollovers:

Wednesday 20.09 – AUS200, NATGAS
Thursday 21.09 – OIL

Due to national holidays, trading on the following instruments will be cancelled:

Monday 18.09 – USDCLP, JAP225
Tuesday 19.09 - USDCLP

Dividends Cash Indices (paid in cash):

18.09 – Monday – US100.cash, US500.cash
19.09 – Tuesday – US500.cash
20.09 – Wednesday – UK100.cash, US500.cash                                                  
21.09 – Thursday – US500.cash 
22.09 – Friday – SPA35.cash, FRA40.cash, EU50.cash

Corporate actions for Equity CFD, ETF CFD and Synthetic stocks announced until 15th  September 2017.

Dividends Equity CFD (paid in cash):

18.09 – Monday – AVGO.US, BBY.US, ECL.US, ENI.IT, ES.US, PHM.US, STM.FR, STM.IT
19.09 – Tuesday – ERJ.US, GALP.PT, STX.US, TIF.US, TUP.US, WRB.US
20.09 – Wednesday – CFR.CH, SNV.US, TSS.US,
21.09 – Thursday – AAP.US, BVS.UK, CINF.US, CRST.UK, DRX.UK, FLS.US, FRT.US, LCL.UK, OMC.US, OML.UK, PFC.UK, PTEC.UK, RCL.US, RDW.UK, SRE.US, WEIR.UK, ZBH.US
22.09 – Friday – ENG.PL, IFF.US, PGE.PL

Equity CFD Split:

20.09 – Wednesday – BIM.FR

Please be aware that CA (dividends, rights issues, spin offs and splits) are announced on daily basis and may not be included in the above schedule.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

XTB Team

Dear Clients,

Today, there is a change of delivery date for DE30, EU50, FRA40, ITA40, MEXComp, NED25, POR20, SPA35, SUI20, UK100, USDIDX and W20 instruments. Clients who have open positions will be credited or debited with proper swap points amounts.

These are:

 - SUI20 23 swap points for long position; -23 swap points for short position

 - USDIDX 223 swap points for long position; -223 swap points for short position

 - UK.100 415 swap points for long position; -415 swap points for short position

 - W.20 -70 swap points for long position; 70 swap points for short position

 - SPA35 29 swap points for long position; -29 swap points for short position

 - ITA.40 127 swap points for long position; -127 swap points for short position

 - NED25 35 swap points for long position; -35 swap points for short position

 - EU.50 160 swap points for long position; -160 swap points for short position

 - MEXComp -293 swap points for long position; 293 swap points for short position

 - FRA.40 110 swap points for long position; -110 swap points for short position

 - DE30 110 swap points for long position; -110 swap points for short position

 - POR20 12 swap points for long position; -12 swap points for short position

In order to check the dates when rollovers will apply you can visit our rollover table.

Should you have any question do not hesitate to contact us.

XTB Team

Dear Clients,

Today, at the end of trading day DE30, EU50, FRA40, ITA40, MEXComp, NED25, POR20, SPA35, SUI20, UK100, USDIDX and W20 underlying instruments will change their delivery dates. Current difference between prices of futures with consecutive delivery terms is:

- DE30 approx. -11.5 index points 

- MEXComp approx. 270 index points 

- NED25 approx. -0.35 index points 

- POR20 approx. -11 index points 

- EU.50 approx. -16.0 index points 

- USDIDX approx. -0.245 index points 

- FRA.40 approx. -11.5 index points 

- SPA35 approx. -30 index points 

- UK.100 approx. -40.5 index points 

- ITA.40 approx. -135 index points 

- W.20 approx. 4.0 index points 

- SUI20 approx. -23 index points 

It means that if nothing occurs between today's closing and tomorrow’s opening, open price for MEXComp and W20 should be higher, and lower for remaining mentioned instruments by given values.

Change of position value connected with base change will be corrected by swap points equal to base value. Clients with limit and stop orders close to current price are kindly requested to adjust their position to changes in base value. Otherwise stop and limit orders will be executed according to standard procedure.

In order to check the dates when rollovers will apply you can visit our rollover table.

Should you have any question do not hesitate to contact us.

XTB Team

Dear Client,

Today, there is a change of delivery date for OIL.WTI instruments. Clients who have open positions will be credited or debited with proper swap points amounts.

These are:

 - OIL.WTI  -42 swap points for long position; 42 swap points for short position

In order to check the dates when rollovers will apply you can visit our rollover table.

Should you have any question do not hesitate to contact us.

XTB Team

Dear Clients,

Today, at the end of trading day OIL.WTI  underlying instruments will change their delivery dates. Current difference between prices of futures with consecutive delivery terms is:

- OIL.WTI  approx. 0.49 USD

It means that if nothing occurs between today's closing and tomorrow’s opening, open price for OIL.WTI  should be higher.

Change of position value connected with base change will be corrected by swap points equal to base value. Clients with limit and stop orders close to current price are kindly requested to adjust their position to changes in base value. Otherwise stop and limit orders will be executed according to standard procedure.

In order to check the dates when rollovers will apply you can visit our rollover table.

Should you have any question do not hesitate to contact us.

XTB Team