Client Protection

Exclusive capital protection

Should your monies be traded by a money manager or by any other third party, Dukascopy Bank SA gives you the unique opportunity to limit the possible losses on your account through its "Stop-Loss" functionality. Should your account reach the Stop-Loss level set by you, the trading would be instantly deactivated and all open positions would be closed so as to protect your remaining capital against further losses.

Additionally, Dukascopy Bank SA gives you the possibility to instantly interrupt the trading performed on your account by your attorney and to close all open positions by simply accessing a button on your online report.

Please be informed that in order to have your account traded by any third party, including any close person of you, you must grant and sign a power of attorney in favour of the latter.

Forex scams

For the safety of your money, investment opportunities shall be assessed with a tendency toward scepticism. Dukascopy Bank SA recommends cautiousness, especially regarding the following:

• Investment opportunities 'too good to be true': Stay away from Forex trading opportunities that claim to make you rich overnight. Do not use your hard-earned savings or your retirement fund, or resort to mortgaging your house, to invest in these types of schemes. Chances are that you may never get your money back.
• Guaranteed profits or claims of unusually high performance: Anybody claiming to give you a regular 30% or 40% return per month is promising something that cannot be delivered. These claims of massive profits are likely to be false and are basically tactics to lure in your money.
• Downplaying of the risks involved with currency trading: Always be wary of statements claiming that a company or individual will recover your loses or that your investment will remain safe. Forex trading involves a high amount of risk, and you may end up losing all or part of your investment.
• Difficulty obtaining background information: Don't deal with anyone who won't readily give you their background information.
• Remittance of monies to a third party: An investor willing to use Dukascopy Bank SA's trading system to trade his monies himself or by way of a money manager or third party must deposit his monies in an account opened in the investor's name with Dukascopy Bank SA or with one of its Partner Custodian Banks. Alternatively, the investor can ask his bank to issue a bank guarantee in favour of Dukascopy Bank SA. There is no other possible way.