Well that's a bit disappointing. When I last looked this was a public discussion forum and you don't get to choose who makes comments. It's tough if you don't like what is being said.
I am truly sorry you feel the members here are fighting with you. That is absolutely not the case. You have made a public accusation and that accusation has to stand the test of public scrutiny, or else what would be the point?
I see you are on the same bandwagon as forexteamau. You are making claims that simply show that you do not understand the market you are operating in. The broker can, and does, change leverage.....whenever they like.....ALL brokers do it. You can shout "scam" from the highest building if you like but you agreed to it in the terms and conditions. Do yourself a favour and go do some research on why it would be beneficial for a broker to reduce leverage. Try and understand why it happens and learn to work with it. Next week, I will go as far as writing an EA for you guys that will report all leverage changes on your platform. How is that for a deal. All I ask for is that you come back and explain why a broker changes leverage and, no the answer is not to scam you.
The same goes for swaps. They change regularly. It's not a scam, it is simply the way it is. It would be worth your while to go study what swaps are and why they might change.
If you want to claim price manipulation that might be a more cogent argument and you even showed a chart. Did you bother to compare with other brokers to see if the pricing was unreasonable. You can claim unreasonable spread as well, as one chap did recently. Also fair enough, we might not agree on what represents an unreasonable spread but at least that is an argument I can stand. He was also trading GBPJPY(with a different broker), so there is something to consider for the future.
If you want to understand why you can run into problems with hedged trades I leave you with this little demo trade I did yesterday.....you may remember I stated that your % margin means nothing when it comes to hedged trades
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You will see that I loaded up 100 lots of buy and 100 lots of sell for a total of 200 lots. This required 0 margin, so I opened a 1 lot buy trade, which required $200. Because of this $200, my margin % sits at 1800% which should be plenty, right? Can you guess what happened when the spread widened? You don't have to here is the result :-
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I did increase the lots a bit more to 125 per side because I didn't want to wait all night for the margin call. You can however see that I only ever had 1 lot of unbalanced exposure, not that it made any difference....I did it to demonstrate that margin % can be misleading.......you can have massive exposure with a high margin % The margin call occurred when the spread hit 810 points.
Anyway, enough of that, you can take all of this as defacto defense of IC markets, of you can take it as useful information and try to understand it. None of this discussion takes away from your right to have the broker and regulator answer you questions.
I will make you one promise though.....brokers will be changing leverage and swaps next year. Will you still be fighting it or will you be making money trading because you have learnt how to beat them at their own game?