Your own capital

Step two: deposit into your own account

Once the account is verified, you fund it from the Members Area of RoboForex: choose the account, choose a payment method, enter the amount and the currency. The money arrives in an account that only you can access. Withdrawals work the same way, from the same page, with your own password.

At no point does money pass through us. No transfer of funds to third parties, ever. If anyone claiming to represent Infinity asks you to send money to a person, a wallet or another account, it is not us.

What Infinity cannot do

The copy connection is a permission to mirror trades, not access to the account. There is no technical or contractual way for us to:

• withdraw or move your money out of your account;
• deposit into it or take anything from it;
• change your password, your email or any account setting;
• log in to your account or see your login details;
• stop you from withdrawing or disconnecting.

The only movement of money that involves us is the performance fee, and that is calculated and transferred by the platform itself according to the strategy’s published conditions, never as a payment you make. The next lesson explains exactly how.

The minimum, and why it exists

RoboForex requires at least 100 US dollars in the account to subscribe to any strategy, or the strategy’s own minimum if that is higher. Each of our strategy pages states its minimum deposit. The reason a minimum exists is arithmetic, not exclusivity.

Copied positions are sized in proportion to your account relative to the strategy’s, which the next lesson covers. Lot sizes come in steps of 0.01, so a small account gets small positions, rounded to the nearest step. Below a certain size the rounding is no longer small relative to the position. A copied trade that should be 0.014 lot becomes either 0.01 or 0.02, a difference of 40% in risk. If the volume rounds down below the minimum, the platform skips the trade entirely, and your account then holds a different set of trades from the track record.

An underfunded account does not lose more than a properly funded one. It tracks the strategy badly, so its results stop resembling the published ones. The minimum is the point below which we cannot honestly say your results will look like ours.

The losses are yours too

The broker’s help centre says it plainly: the Investor chooses which Trader to follow and is fully responsible for the results, including losses. The upside of the account being yours is that nobody can touch it. The other side is that when the strategy is in a drawdown, the drawdown is in your account, in your currency, and nobody covers it.

This is why the track record series exists. Before depositing, look up the strategy’s maximum drawdown, multiply it by the amount you intend to deposit, and look at that number in euros. If seeing it on your screen would make you disconnect, deposit less, or do not deposit yet. A copied strategy only works for people who stay connected through its ordinary bad patches, and the amount you deposit decides whether you can.

Withdrawing

You can withdraw at any time from the Members Area, without asking us and without disconnecting. Two practical notes:

• Open positions use margin. Withdrawing while trades are open reduces free margin. If it drops too far, new trades cannot be copied and open ones are at risk of being closed by the broker. Withdraw from equity that is not supporting a position, or pause copying first.
• A part of profit is reserved for the fee. During an investment period, the platform holds back the portion of profit that will become the performance fee. It is not available for withdrawal until it has been paid, which happens at the end of the period. The next lesson covers the timing.

Only money you can leave alone

Deposit capital that can stay in the account for the strategy’s horizon and that you could lose without changing your life. Not an emergency fund, not money that is needed on a date, not borrowed money. Every rule in this series about custody and control protects the money from other people. Nothing protects it from the market, and that is the risk you are taking on purpose.