Margin, Stop-Out and Liquidation: What Happens When an Account Runs Out of Margin

Leverage lets a small deposit control a large position. The same arithmetic works against you: when Equity falls far enough, positions are closed automatically, and that can happen with no warning and no call. This article sets out exactly what the platform will and will not do for you.

What the Risk Disclosure says

"You acknowledge that: — Small price movements may result in disproportionate losses — Your entire Account may be liquidated without notice

Where margin or stop-out requirements are not met, or as otherwise permitted under the Client Agreement, the Company may close or liquidate positions at any time and apply stop-out without prior notification."
— Risk Disclosure V6, section 6

What we do not undertake to do

This is the part traders most often assume wrongly. The Risk Disclosure is explicit:

"The Company has no obligation to: — Warn you of losses — Notify you of margin calls — Monitor your account on your behalf" — Risk Disclosure V6, section 12.2

So a margin call is not a promised phone call or email. If you rely on being told, you are relying on something the agreement does not give you.

Automated risk controls do not shift the responsibility

GreatBless runs several controls that can act on an account: stop-out, the Mandatory Daily Drawdown lock, Trader's Guard rules you enable yourself, Auto-Lock SL/TP, and compliance or security restrictions.

Two points to keep straight:

🔹 They act independently, and the first one to apply acts. They do not queue behind each other, and a Company-enforced action can override a client-facing setting where reasonably necessary to reduce exposure, comply with law, correct an error, or protect the trading environment (Client Agreement V7).

🔹 They are not a safety net you can lean on. The Risk Disclosure states that these controls are operated for the Company's own risk management, or because you chose to enable an optional feature, and that they do not transfer responsibility for your risk to the Company.

⚠️ There is no promise anywhere in these documents that a control will fire in time, or fill at a particular price. Liquidation happens at prevailing market prices; under gaps, fast markets, or thin liquidity, the realised result can be worse than the level that triggered it.

What reduces the risk, in practice

1. Set a Stop Loss on every position. See Auto SL/TP Protection.

2. Size positions against Equity, not Balance — floating losses reduce Equity immediately. See Balance and Equity in Forex.

3. Use lower leverage if you cannot watch the account.

4. Understand the daily drawdown lock before it fires — see Daily Drawdown Trading Lock.

5. Check margin before the weekend and before major news, when gaps are most likely.

Sources: Risk Disclosure V6, sections 6, 7, 12 and 13; Client Agreement V7. Published 9 September 2026. This article summarises those documents for convenience — where it differs from them, the signed documents prevail.