Ever blown a trading account???
I have been dabbling in the forex market for over 5 years, have live accounts with more than 10 brokers, and have blown account & accounts with
ALL of them without exception
.....so, yes, I have a lot of experiences with blowing accounts and, each time it happened, I sworn it would never happen again
BUT, of course, I would make the same stupid mistake & mistakes again ( being greedy and over trading) and repeat the process all over again.
On every account blow/stop out always come with margin call, forced closure of largest losing positions, and finally complete stop-out.
However, my last account stop-out with ICMarkets did not go through the process at all. One second the account was well hedged with over 450% free margin, but then all of a sudden and without any warning, the trading account was with a negative balance.
I use to trust that broker but the last account stop-out left me with a very bad taste in my mouth and with full conviction that the broker somehow manipulated my trading account......top on my list of suspicions are sudden reduction of leverage in their server, or someone switched me to one of the broker's many bad servers which have much wider spread.
Whatever happened to cause that very sudden, most unusual, and strange account stop-out, the broker never could provide me any sensible & tangible explanation except to tell me why account stop-out happen (as if I don't know after having experience so many times already).
Lesson learned is never to trust your broker too much (as I did) because they are in the business to make money and a lot of them will and can manipulate your trading account(s) especially on MT4 trading platform.