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Parties.The parties to this
agreement are you and TradeStation Securities, Inc. and all present or future
subsidiaries or affiliates of TradeStation Securities, Inc. that provide any
trade execution, clearing, settlement or reporting or other futures or
securities brokerage services to you (each such entity is referred to
individually and collectively, as the context requires, as "TradeStation
Securities"). You agree that each entity, other than TradeStation Securities,
Inc. (who is a direct party to this agreement), which is part of TradeStation
Securities, as well as any affiliate of TradeStation Securities, and each
custodian or other service provider that TradeStation Securities may use for,
or in connection with, the execution, processing, clearing, settlement or
reporting of your trades or other brokerage services, is an express third-party
beneficiary of this agreement. However, you understand that no entity other
than TradeStation Securities, Inc., or one that has individually entered into a
contract with you (such as the Subscription Agreement between you and our
TradeStation Technologies affiliate), is making any representation, obligation
or covenant in your favor, or may in any manner modify or amend this agreement
or waive or excuse any of your obligations. No third-party beneficiary of this
agreement may directly enforce any of its rights against you unless
TradeStation Securities, Inc. expressly consents in writing to such right of
enforcement by such third-party beneficiary, which TradeStation Securities,
Inc. may do or not do in its sole and absolute discretion. |
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Account Status.TradeStation
Securities agrees to accept and maintain one or more of your accounts and to
act as your broker or dealer in the execution and clearance of orders for
transactions involving the purchase and sale of commodity futures contracts;
options on futures contracts; commodities and forward contracts; option, spot
and forward foreign exchange transactions; exchange for physicals ("EFPs"); and
any other cash transaction (individually, a "Contract" and collectively,
"Contracts"). |
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Account Risks.You acknowledge the
following:
- TRADING IN CONTRACTS IS HIGHLY
SPECULATIVE AND IN NO SENSE MAY BE CONSIDERED A CONSERVATIVE
"INVESTMENT";
- BECAUSE OF THE LOW MARGIN DEPOSITS
NORMALLY UTILIZED AND THE VOLATILE PRICE MOVEMENTS WHICH CAN
OCCUR IN THE COMMODITY MARKETS, THE POSSIBILITY OF RAPID AND
SUBSTANTIAL LOSSES IS CONTINUALLY PRESENT;
- TRADING IN CONTRACTS IS APPROPRIATE
ONLY FOR THOSE PERSONS FINANCIALLY ABLE TO WITHSTAND
SUBSTANTIAL LOSSES, SOMETIMES GREATLY EXCEEDING THE VALUE OF
THEIR MARGIN DEPOSITS.
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Laws, Rules, Regulations and Indemnification. All of your transactions shall be subject to all applicable laws, rules and
regulations (collectively, "Applicable Laws") of any state, federal, regulatory
or self-regulatory statutory authority, agency, exchange, market, association,
commission or other body, including, without limitation, the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the rules
and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC"), the National Futures Association ("NFA"),
the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System, and any exchages, markets, associations, or
clearing houses or agencies where any transaction is executed, or which have
jurisdiction over the transaction or any of the parties involved in the
transaction. tradestation securities shall not be liable to you as a result of
any action taken by tradestation securities to comply with such rules.
tradestation securities' violation of any exchange or other self regulatory
organization's regulations shall not provide you with either a defense to a
claim by tradestation securities or the basis of a claim against tradestation
securities. in the event that you are a regulated institution or entity, you
recognize and acknowledge that you may be required to comply with regulations
including, but not limited to, the commodity exchange act, and that
tradestation securities has no obligation to insure that you abide by the rules
and regulations pertaining to you.
You agree to indemnify tradestation securities and
its employees, agents and affiliates from and against all claims (including
claims brought by you or on your behalf), including reasonable attorneys' fees
and costs, arising out of your use of any products or services provided by
tradestation securities or its affiliates or other acts or omissions by you or
on your behalf which violate, or conflict with, any of such applicable laws. |
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Services Commissions, Fees and Other Costs.TradeStation
Securities agrees to provide you with futures brokerage services which
generally include providing you with one or more automated or electronic
execution systems (an "EES") and other services (collectively, the "Services")
pursuant to the terms and conditions of this agreement, your agreement with our
affiliate that provides TradeStation® trading software technology and
Internet-based market data services, and any other term and condition that is
incorporated in the Account Application and Agreement of which this agreement
is a part. Your account(s) will be charged, and you agree to pay, all brokerage
commissions and other fees in connection with the execution of transactions
("Execution Fees") and will or may be charged, and you agree to pay, certain
other fees for all other products and services furnished to you ("Service
Fees"). Execution Fees may be changed from time to time without prior notice to
you and Service Fees may be changed from time to time upon thirty (30) days'
prior written notice to you and, in each case, you agree to be bound thereby.
You understand and agree that notice may be given by modifying the fees and
rates published on the TradeStation Securities Web site and that such
modification shall constitute written notice to you on the date such
modifications first appear on the Web site. You also agree that e-mails to you
constitute written notice to you on the date sent as long as the e-mails are
sent to an e-mail address provided by you. There are also other ways we may
modify this agreement and our business relationship, as well as other ways we
may notify you, which are discussed later in this agreement under the heading
"Amendment by TradeStation; Presumptive Receipt of Communications." . In the
event that your account is transferred to another broker, transfer commissions
and/or service fees may be charged. Any interest accrued in any account on
excess cash balances shall be retained by TradeStation Securities. TradeStation
Securities shall be under no obligation to pay or account to you for any
interest income or benefits that may be derived from or use of client monies,
reserves, deposits, cash equivalents or any other property. |
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Assumption of Risk/Your Discretion.TradeStation
Securities is not a fullservice brokerage. We do not engage in discretionary
trading, render investment or trading advice, financial planning services,
perform or share investment research or analysis, participate in public
offerings or private placements or make markets or deal in individual
securities, commodities, futures contracts, options or other derivative
products. TradeStation Securities is an agency-only brokerage firm the services
of which consist mainly of the provision to you of a sophisticated EES which
you, as a selfdirected or professional trader, may use to make and execute your
own trading decisions. Accordingly, TradeStation Securities will not provide
you with any legal, tax, accounting, investment, trading, planning or other
advice of any kind. TradeStation Securities' employees and agents are not
authorized to give you any such advice, and you agree that you will not solicit
or rely upon any such advice or purported advice from any such employee or
agent of TradeStation Securities, whether in connection with transactions in or
for any of your accounts, or otherwise. You acknowledge and agree that if you
receive any such advice or purported advice from any employee or agent of
TradeStation Securities or any of its affiliates, it was improperly given to
you, should not be relied upon, you will totally disregard it, and, if you do
not, you fully assume the risk of following or relying upon any such advice or
purported advice.
You further acknowledge and agree that you have
independently evaluated any EES or other Services you intend to use. You agree
and acknowledge that any trading or execution strategies or transactions
designed, programmed or implemented through any EES or any other Services
provided by TradeStation Securities or its affiliate shall be at your sole
discretion and risk, regardless of any information, examples, tutorials, user
education documentation, training, consulting services, comments, guidance,
charts, indicators, graphs, simulated performance reports, strategy techniques,
or other analyses obtained in any form from TradeStation Securities or any of
its officers, directors, employees or agents, or from accessing or using any
EES or Web site. You acknowledge and agree that the sole purposes of any of the
foregoing tools and services are to help you learn how better to use
TradeStation® trading software or to help you correctly program, test and/or
automate or otherwise implement your trading strategies or ideas. You further
acknowledge and agree that while you may be able to access through an EES
investment research reports, examples of strategies, and market data services,
the availability of such information does not constitute a recommendation to
buy or sell any particular security, commodity, contract, option or other
derivative or the likelihood of success of using any trading strategy tools.
Any investment or trading decisions you make will be based solely on your own
evaluation of your financial circumstances and investment or trading
objectives. |
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Limitations and Restrictions.You
are authorized to use the EES and other Services and materials provided by or
through TradeStation Securities for your own needs only, and you are not
authorized to resell access to any such services or materials or to make copies
of any such materials for sale to, or use by, others. You shall not delete any
copyright or other intellectual property rights notices from any such
materials. Your right to use any EES or other Services provided by TradeStation
Securities is limited to executing your own proprietary trades. You shall be
the only authorized user of any Services provided by TradeStation Securities.
All orders executed through any EES or other Services provided to you shall be
deemed authorized by you and executed with the understanding that an actual
purchase or sale is intended and that you are unconditionally and irrevocably
accepting a valid and binding legal obligation. You agree that all purchases
and sales shall be for your account in accordance with your oral, written or
electronic orders or instructions; provided, however, you acknowledge and
understand that the only valid way to place an order using the Services is to
place it through your EES or to phone-in your order live to TradeStation
Securities' trade desk. You hereby waive any and all defenses that any such
order or instruction was not in writing as may be required by the Statute of
Frauds or any Applicable Laws. |
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LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF TRADESTATION
SECURITIES FOR ACTS OF BROKERS. TradeStation Securities will
execute your transactions solely as your agent. In executing transactions on an
exchange, TradeStation Securities may utilize floor brokers (who may be
employees or other agents of TradeStation Securities), but will not be
responsible to you for negligence or misconduct of an independent floor broker
if, at the time the floor broker was selected, the floor broker was authorized
to act as such under the rules of the relevant commodity exchange and the
appropriate regulatory agency. TradeStation Securities will not be responsible
to you in the event of error, failure, negligence, or misconduct on the part of
any non-guaranteed introducing broker, commodity trading advisor, or other
person acting on your behalf and, without limiting the foregoing, TradeStation
Securities has no obligation to investigate the facts surrounding any
transaction in your Account(s) which is introduced by such nonguaranteed
introducing broker, commodity trading advisor, or other person. With respect to
guaranteed Introducing Brokers, you agree that TradeStation Securities' maximum
liability to you shall be limited to the amount of the minimum net capital
requirement (calculated in accordance with 17 C.F.R. §1.17 as of the date of
the finding of actual liability), that would have been required for the
guaranteed Introducing Broker had it been a non-guaranteed Introducing Broker.
You expressly acknowledge that a finding of liability against an introducing
broker may substantially exceed the amount of the introducing broker's minimum
net capital requirement which, in some circumstances may be as low as $45,000.
This means that your right to recover from TradeStation Securities pursuant to
the provisions of this paragraph could also be limited to $45,000. |
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Disclaimer of Warranties. You
acknowledge and agree that neither TradeStation Securities nor its employees or
agents or affiliates make any warranties or representations with respect to any
EES or other Services provided by TradeStation Securities or its affiliates,
including any related hardware, software, communication system or any charting,
technical analysis or other trading strategy tool products, services or
platforms. TRADESTATION SECURITIES' SERVICES AND ANY INFORMATION, DATA,
CHARTING, TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OR OTHER TRADING STRATEGY TOOL PRODUCTS, SERVICES
OR PLATFORMS ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS, WHERE-IS, AS-AVAILABLE BASIS AND WITHOUT
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, TIMELINESS, TRUTHFULNESS, SEQUENCE, COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, OR
FREEDOM FROM ERROR OR INTERRUPTION), OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARISING FROM
TRADE USAGE, COURSE OF DEALING, OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE. YOU
AGREE THAT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, TRADESTATION
SECURITIES SHALL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL,
PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, EVEN IF YOU HAVE
INFORMED TRADESTATION SECURITIES OF THE POSSIBILITY OR LIKELIHOOD OF SUCH
DAMAGES OR LOSSES. |
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Assumption of Risk; Technical Issues or
Extraordinary Events. You agree that TradeStation Securities shall
not be liable for, and you fully and knowingly assume all risks of, and shall
indemnify and hold TradeStation Securities and its employees, officers,
directors, shareholders, affiliated companies and agents harmless from and
against, any and all claims (including claims by or through you) or loss(es) or
other negative results, actual or perceived, caused directly or indirectly by
any equipment or software failure, software design limitation or flaw, software
bug or virus, failure of any Internet service provider, operator error, failure
of any electronic or mechanical equipment, hardware, communication system or
other system, or any component thereof, telephone or other interconnect
problems, unauthorized access, theft, security breach, government restriction,
exchange or market regulation, suspension of trading, war, terrorism,
cyberterrorism, strike or other labor dispute. Without limitation of the
foregoing, this includes any of the foregoing conditions, items, events or
occurrences that might prevent you from utilizing, or that may limit or corrupt
the use of, any EES or other Services provided by TradeStation Securities,
including, without limitation, conditions, items, events or occurrences that
cause or result in an inability or failure to initiate, execute, cancel or
modify an order or transaction or that cause other unintended results. You
further acknowledge and agree that, except as expressly set forth in this
agreement, you will not be compensated by TradeStation Securities for any "lost
opportunity" (e.g., an increase in the value of a futures contract you wished
to purchase, or a decrease in value of a futures contract you wished to sell,
or transactions you may make based on information shown or not shown to you by
your computer which was incorrect or omitted or otherwise inaccurate or delayed
in its delivery to you), even if such difficulty could have been prevented by
TradeStation Securities. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Laws,
you fully assume all risks related to each and every one of the foregoing
items, conditions, events and occurrences. |
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Termination, Trading Restrictions, Liquidation. You acknowledge and agree that TradeStation Securities may, at any time, in its
sole discretion and without prior notice, terminate your account or restrict or
prohibit trading of securities, commodities, futures contracts, options and/or
other derivatives or other property in your account for any reason. Without
limitation of the breadth of the foregoing rights, TradeStation Securities may
in its sole discretion restrict trading in your account to closing transactions
only. You shall, in all such events, nevertheless remain responsible and liable
for all of your obligations and liabilities to TradeStation Securities and its
affiliates under this agreement and all other agreements, terms and conditions
that are part of the Account Application and Agreement. |
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Automated Trading. Automated
trading functionality is designed to help you follow or track more securities
simultaneously and to assist in removing emotions from, and to increase
efficiencies in, your trading. Automated trading functionality is not designed
to allow you to leave your computer unattended. If you, or any person you have
authorized to trade your account, uses any automated trading functionality, you
hereby acknowledge and agree that there are numerous factors that may cause the
automated trading functionality to send orders that you do not want, and/or
fail to send orders that you do want (including, without limitation, ISP
failure, power failures or surges, erroneous, delayed or out-of-sequence data,
improperly designed strategies, and software or system design limitations,
flaws or errors). You hereby acknowledge and assume all risks, both known and
unknown, associated with using any automated trading functionality, and agree
that it is your responsibility to understand precisely how it works before
using it, to monitor the trading activity in your account at all times, and to
immediately take corrective action when necessary. |
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Communications and Orders. Since
all Contracts experience rapid movements in price, your attention is required
in the placement of orders and execution of the same by TradeStation
Securities.
Unless a managed (discretionary) account has been
arranged through the execution of a written trading authorization, each order
should be communicated to TradeStation Securities by you or your duly
authorized broker. Instructions should include, but may not necessarily be
limited to, the commodity involved, quantity, price, and delivery month. Any
trade not specifically authorized by you must be immediately reported by you
directly to TradeStation Securities' Compliance Department 954.652.7900. You
will be financially responsible for all trades not so reported and for any
losses arising by virtue of a course of dealing involving your grant of de
facto control over the account to your broker.
You agree that TradeStation Securities will not be
responsible for delays or inaccuracies in the electronic preparation of
statements or the distribution of market information. Nor will TradeStation
Securities be responsible for any failure beyond its control, including (but
not limited to) government restrictions, exchange reporting problems, contract
market rulings, strikes, suspension of trading, war or acts of God.
TradeStation Securities' liability to you is limited to damages arising from
its own gross negligence or willful misconduct and such damages are limited to
actual (as distinguished from consequential) damages suffered by you.
TradeStation Securities makes no representation, warranty or guarantee as to,
and shall not be responsible for the accuracy or completeness of, any
information or trading recommendations furnished to you by its employees or
agents.
Orders are good for one day only (regular day
trading session) unless specified and accepted as being "open", in which case
the order will remain open until filled or you so specify. If you do not
specify the actual exchange or forum to execute its order, TradeStation
Securities in its sole discretion shall execute your order using its best
judgment. In some circumstances, this may mean TradeStation Securities may be
on the other side of your trade. The price at which an order is actually
executed shall be binding, even if incorrectly reported. Similarly, an order
actually executed but in error reported as not executed is also binding.
In the event that you are unable to transmit an
order through the TradeStation Platform, or are unable to confirm that an
electronic order has been received by TradeStation Securities, you must contact
TradeStation Securities at 954.652.7900 and notify TradeStation Securities of
the exact nature of the problem including, but not limited to, the details of
the order (including the contract, quantity and whether the order was to buy or
sell). You agree that any order placed through this number shall be for
liquidation of existing positions only. This number is not to be called by you
for your support. You agree that when following these procedures, you shall be
liable for any losses arising out of any order that has previously been
transmitted by electronic means, as well as the order placed orally through
TradeStation Securities. |
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Reports and Notices. Should
inaccuracies or discrepancies appear on your statements of account(s), margin
calls and/or notices, you agree that it is your duty to inform TradeStation
Securities of the problem by telephone or facsimile immediately upon the
earlier of actual receipt of the statement by you, or the time the statement is
deemed received by you pursuant to this Paragraph 14. In the event that you do
not respond immediately, executed orders and statement reports shall be
considered ratified by you and shall relieve TradeStation Securities of any
responsibility whatsoever relative to the order(s) in question. All reports of
inaccuracies or discrepancies must be made to your broker and to TradeStation's
Compliance Department. |
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Offsetting Positions. If you
maintain separate accounts in which, pursuant to Commodity Futures Trading
Commission Rule 1.46 (d)(6), offsetting positions are not closed out,
TradeStation Securities hereby advises you that, if held open, offsetting long
and short hedge positions in the separate accounts may result in the charging
of additional fees and commissions and the payment of additional margin,
although offsetting positions will result in no additional market gain or loss. |
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CFTC REG. 15.05-Designation of TradeStation
Securities as agent of Foreign Brokers, Customers of Foreign Traders; and Reg.
21.03 Selected Special Calls-Duties of Foreign Brokers, Domestic and Foreign
Traders, Futures Commission Merchants and Contract Markets. If you
are a foreign broker you understand that pursuant to CFTC Regulation 15.05,
TradeStation Securities is your agent (and in the case of a foreign broker the
agent of its customers) for purposes of accepting delivery and service of any
communication upon TradeStation Securities shall constitute valid and effective
service or delivery upon you (and if you are a foreign broker, upon your
customers). You understand that said regulation requires TradeStation
Securities to transmit the communication promptly to you (or your customer) in
a manner which is reasonable under the circumstances or specified by the CFTC.
You also understand CFTC Regulation 21.03 requires that you provide to the CFTC
upon special call, market information concerning its options and futures
trading (or your customers') as outlined in the regulation. If you fail to
respond to the special call, the CFTC may direct the appropriate contract
market and all brokers to prohibit further trades for or on your behalf (or for
your customers) in the contract specified in the call unless such trades offset
existing open contracts. Special calls are made where the information requested
would assist the CFTC in determining whether a threat of market manipulation,
corner, squeeze or other market disorder existed. Under Regulation 21.03(g) if
you believe you are aggrieved by the action taken by the CFTC you shall have
the opportunity for a prompt hearing after the Commission acts. (You understand
that copies of CFTC Regulation 15.05 and 21.03 are available from TradeStation
Securities). |
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Foreign Exchange. All foreign
exchange transactions made and entered hereunder will be entered by
TradeStation Securities as principal. In other words, TradeStation Securities
will be the opposite party to the transaction with you, as opposed to merely
executing your order with a third party. You acknowledge, understand and agree
that TradeStation Securities is not acting as a broker, agent, advisor, or in
any fiduciary capacity in connection with foreign exchange transactions.
TradeStation Securities will make available the bid and/or ask price at which
TradeStation Securities is prepared to enter into a foreign exchange
transaction with you. Each bid price or ask price shall be for either a spot
contract or forward contract with a specified value date and shall specify each
foreign currency involved. TradeStation Securities expects that these prices
will be reasonably related to the bid prices and ask prices available in the
market at the time for similar transactions, but a number of factors, such as
communication system delays, high volume, or volatility can result in
deviations between prices quoted by TradeStation Securities and other sources.
You should be aware that prices on foreign exchange transactions are not
determined by open outcry or otherwise on registered exchanges, and that such
transactions are not subject to the same regulatory oversight as transactions
in regulated futures and/or options on futures contracts. TradeStation
Securities makes no warranty, express or implied, that the bid and ask prices
represent prevailing bid and ask prices. |
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Customer Representations and Warranties for
Foreign Exchange Transactions. You represent and warrant that you
are making your own independent decisions of whether to enter into a foreign
exchange transaction and whether that transaction is appropriate or proper for
you based upon your own judgment and upon advice from such advisors as you deem
necessary. You are not relying on any communication (written or oral) of
TradeStation Securities as investment advice or as a recommendation to enter
into any foreign exchange transaction. You understand that information and
explanations related to the terms and conditions of a foreign exchange
transaction shall not be considered investment advice or a recommendation to
enter into that foreign exchange transaction. You further represent and warrant
that you have not received any assurance or guarantee from TradeStation
Securities as to the expected results of trading in foreign exchange
transactions. You represent and warrant that you are capable of evaluating and
understanding each foreign exchange transaction (either on your own behalf or
through independent professional advice), and understand and accept the terms,
conditions, and risks of each foreign exchange transaction to which you are a
party. You warrant that you are willing and financially able to sustain all
losses associated with the foreign exchange transactions entered into by you
and that TradeStation Securities shall not be liable to you for the loss of any
margin deposits or other funds deposited by you in connection with such foreign
exchange transactions. |
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Market or Other Data. You
acknowledge and agree that each national or regional securities and futures
exchange or association asserts a proprietary interest in all of the market or
other data it furnishes to parties that disseminate its data. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE
AND AGREE THAT NEITHER TRADESTATION SECURITIES, NOR ANY SECURITIES EXCHANGE OR
ASSOCIATION OR ANY SUPPLIER OF MARKET OR OTHER DATA, GUARANTEES THE TIMELINESS,
SEQUENCE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY OR CONTENT OF MARKET OR OTHER
INFORMATION OR MESSAGES DISSEMINATED TO, BY OR THROUGH ANY PARTY, INCLUDING ANY
INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT NEITHER TRADESTATION
SECURITIES NOR ANY SECURITIES EXCHANGE OR ASSOCIATION OR ANY OTHER SUPPLIER OF
MARKET OR OTHER DATA REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF ANY MARKET OR OTHER
DATA IS SOLELY AT YOUR RISK.
NEITHER TRADESTATION SECURITIES NOR ANY EXCHANGE OR
DATA PROVIDER SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INACCURACY, ERROR OR DELAY IN, OR
OMISSION OF, ANY SUCH DATA, INFORMATION OR MESSAGE, OR THE TRANSMISSION OR
DELIVERY OF ANY SUCH DATA, INFORMATION OR MESSAGE, OR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE
ARISING OR OCCASIONED THEREFROM, REGARDLESS OF THE SOURCE, CAUSE OR REASON
THEREFOR.
You understand that these terms of this agreement
may be enforced directly against you by the securities and futures exchanges
and associations or other parties providing market or other data. You shall use
any such data or information (including quotes) only for your individual use
and shall not furnish such data to any other person or entity. |
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Stop Orders. Placing stop orders
using the EES has risks that regular market and limit orders do not. A stop
order is held by the EES's stop order server and then automatically released to
the appropriate avenue of execution when the EES recognizes information which
indicates that the stop order price condition has been met. The price
information comes from the exchanges and/or data providers and there are often
"bad ticks" (inaccurate, out-of-sequence, etc.) or ticks that appear to be bad
but are not (they may simply look irregular, unusual or problematic). The EES
is designed to filter as many "bad ticks" as reasonably possible. However,
there are times that bad ticks will not be filtered, and other times when the
stop order server will mistakenly filter good ticks that looked unusual at the
time. This may result in your stop order being executed at a price different
than the one you specified, or not being released for execution when your price
condition has been met. IF YOU USE THE EES's STOP ORDER FUNCTIONALITY, YOU
FULLY ASSUME THESE RISKS AND ALL OTHER RISKS THAT EES DESIGN LIMITATIONS OR
EXCHANGE OR VENDOR DATA SERVICE INACCURACIES OR FLAWS MAY PRESENT. |
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Program Trading. You understand
and acknowledge that TradeStation Securities offers neither arbitrage accounts
nor proprietary systems for Program Trading (or any other purpose). |
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22. |
Use of Investment Advisors. If you
have an agreement with an investment or trading advisor or manager or a CTA or
CPO of any kind (as the case may be, an "investment advisor") whom you have
engaged to invest and trade your funds and assets on your behalf, and whom you
have authorized to trade your account with TradeStation Securities, you
represent, warrant, acknowledge and agree that: (a) as between you and
TradeStation Securities, solely you are fully responsible for all acts,
omissions and decisions made by your investment advisor with respect to your
account, and you shall fully indemnify and hold harmless TradeStation
Securities, and its affiliates, employees and agents, from and against any and
all claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including
reasonable attorneys' fees and costs) that arise from, or relate to, any of
such acts, omissions or decisions, including, but not limited to, claims,
damages, liabilities, losses, costs or expenses assertible or suffered by you
or your trading account, and claims which others may assert by or through you
or on your behalf, or on their own behalves; and (b) your investment advisor
has given us instructions, which may be changed by your investment advisor from
time to time, concerning amounts that are to be withdrawn from your account(s)
and paid to your investment advisor (or your investment advisor's account with
us) as and for your investment advisor's fees, charges or costs payable by you
pursuant to your agreement with your investment advisor, and TradeStation
Securities is authorized by you to rely fully and completely upon your
investment advisor's instructions with no obligation or responsibility to
verify the authenticity, validity or accuracy of such instructions either with
you or any other person or entity, or any document or other material or
potential source of such information. |
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Margin and Other Collateral Requirements. You agree at all times to maintain such margin in your account as TradeStation
Securities may from time to time (at its sole discretion) require, and will
meet all margin calls in a reasonable amount of time. You agree that, if
requested to do so, you will promptly wire-transfer such funds. Market
conditions permitting, TradeStation Securities may, but is not required to
attempt to notify you of margin calls and/or deficiencies and to allow a
reasonable period for you to provide funds. Margin calls may be communicated
orally, without subsequent written confirmation. You further agree that,
notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that
the account(s) is undermargined, has zero equity or an equity deficit at any
time, or in the event that TradeStation Securities attempts to, but is unable
to contact you due to your unavailability or due to a breakdown in electronic
communications, TradeStation Securities shall have the right to liquidate all
or any part of your positions through any means available, without prior notice
to you.
Furthermore, if at any time your account does not
contain the amount of margin determined by TradeStation Securities to be
appropriate to protect it from adverse market activity, or in the case of your
bankruptcy, or any other event which may cause TradeStation Securities to be
concerned over your ability to perform, TradeStation Securities may at its sole
discretion and without prior notice, to you, "straddle" or "spread" open
positions, switch positions to another month, commodity or exchange, close out
positions in whole or part, or limit and/or terminate the right of you to trade
in the account(s), other than for liquidation. TradeStation Securities is
authorized to take whatever action it deems necessary including, without prior
demand or notice to you, hedging and/or offsetting of your positions in a cash
market or otherwise, selling or otherwise liquidating any property belonging to
the you or in which you have an interest, buying or borrowing any property
required to make delivery against any sales, including short sales, effected
for your account(s) or otherwise liquidating the positions in your account(s)
by exchange of future for physical transactions, all for your sole account and
risk. Such liquidation, sale or purchase may be public or private and may be
made without notice to you and in such manner as TradeStation Securities may,
in its sole discretion, determine.
TradeStation Securities may require margin in
excess of that required by applicable law, regulation, exchange or
clearinghouse minimums. All deposits shall be deemed made only when cleared
funds are actually received by TradeStation Securities. If a check is not
honored or paid by a bank upon presentment, TradeStation Securities will
immediately debit your account for the amount of the returned check as well as
any fees incurred. Any failure by TradeStation Securities to call for margin at
any time shall not constitute a waiver of TradeStation Securities' right to do
so any time thereafter, nor shall such failure create any liability to you.
TradeStation Securities shall not be liable to you for the loss or loss of use
of any margin deposits option premiums, or other property, which loss is the
direct or indirect result of bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, receivership,
custodianship, or assignment for the benefit of creditors of any bank, other
clearing broker, exchange, clearing organization or similar entity.
TradeStation Securities may, for any reason,
require you to transfer your account(s) to another firm. If you do not
transfer your positions promptly upon demand by TradeStation Securities,
TradeStation Securities may liquidate the positions and you agree to indemnify
and hold TradeStation Securities harmless from any and all losses resulting
from such liquidation.
You acknowledge that TradeStation Securities is
hereby specially authorized, for its account and benefit, from time to time and
without notice to it, either separately or with others, to lend, repledge,
hypothecate or rehypothecate, either to itself or to others, any and all
property (including but not limited to securities, commodities warehouse
receipts or other negotiable instruments) held by you in any of your accounts
and TradeStation Securities shall not at any time be required to deliver to you
such identical property but may fulfill its obligation by delivery of property
of the same kind and amount. |
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Satisfaction of Your Liabilities; Security
Interest and Lien.
(a) You agree to satisfy, upon
demand, any and all indebtedness to TradeStation Securities, and to pay any
debit balance in any of your accounts, no later than the deadline set by
TradeStation Securities; such deadline may and shall be determined or modified
by TradeStation Securities, subject only to limitations imposed by Applicable
Laws, in TradeStation Securities' sole and absolute discretion.
(b) All of your property held by
or under the control of TradeStation Securities is subject to a lien to secure
the payment and performance of your indebtedness, liabilities and obligations
to TradeStation Securities, and you hereby grant to TradeStation Securities a
lien on, and a valid and first priority, perfected, continuing security
interest in, the following: (i) all property, including all investment
property, held, carried or controlled by or through, or on our behalf by,
TradeStation Securities in which you presently have or in which you acquire an
interest in the future, including all property in each account in your name,
and (ii) any and all rights, claims or causes of action you may now or
hereafter have against TradeStation Securities or its affiliates, employees or
agents, and (iii) all other assets and property, tangible or intangible, fixed,
contingent or mixed, of any kind or nature owned by you that are held, carried
or controlled by or through, or on your behalf by, TradeStation Securities or
any of its affiliates, or which TradeStation Securities or any of its
affiliates has the power to access, possess or control, and (iv) all proceeds
of, or distributions on, any of the foregoing (collectively, (i) through (iv)
are referred to in this agreement as "Collateral").
(c) Any and all Collateral is held
by TradeStation Securities as secured party, and as agent and bailee for
TradeStation Securities, Inc. and any other entity that is part of TradeStation
Securities. TradeStation Securities, holding Collateral, may, without your
further consent, give, comply with and implement (i) entitlement orders or
instructions with respect to the Collateral and (ii) if the TradeStation
Securities entity holding Collateral is a commodity broker, any instructions to
apply any value distributed on account of a commodity contract. Additionally,
TradeStation Securities, holding Collateral, has the right not to comply with
(x) any entitlement order or instruction from you or a third party with respect
to the Collateral and (y) any instruction from you to apply any value on
account of any commodity contract, if TradeStation Securities decides or
instructs that such order or instruction not be complied with in order to
maintain security for the payment and performance of your obligations and
liabilities to it. You agree that the actions of TradeStation Securities in not
complying with orders or instructions as allowed in the preceding sentence
satisfy any duties it may have under the Uniform Commercial Code of any state
or jurisdiction ("UCC"), and you further agree that TradeStation Securities'
rights and remedies against you as debtor and in its favor as secured party
are, and shall be, the broadest possible rights under the applicable UCC, and
all notices and elections necessary to have those broadest possible rights are
hereby deemed specifically given.
(d) You agree that this agreement,
and your execution of this agreement by signing the Account Application and
Agreement of which this is a part, shall constitute notice of the security
interest granted to TradeStation Securities to any and all entities to whom
giving notice is appropriate or required.
(e) The reasonable costs and
expenses of collection of any of your indebtedness, obligations, liabilities or
debit balances, including but not limited to attorneys' fees and expenses,
shall be payable by you to TradeStation Securities.
(f) In order more fully to secure
the payment and performance of any of your outstanding liabilities and
obligations to TradeStation Securities, it may, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, without prior notice to you, use, apply or transfer Collateral as it
determines. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, TradeStation Securities may
register and hold Collateral in its name or the name of one or more designees.
(g) You appoint TradeStation
Securities with full power as your true and lawful attorney-in-fact, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, for the purpose of perfecting the security
interest granted in this agreement and taking any action and executing any
instrument that TradeStation Securities deems necessary or advisable to
accomplish the purposes of this agreement, including, but not limited to, the
full exercise and enforcement by it of its rights as secured party hereunder.
(h) Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in this paragraph, anywhere else in this agreement, or
in any other agreement between you and TradeStation Securities (or any of its
affiliates), and to clarify the purpose, meaning and intent of this paragraph
and any other provisions relating to security interests in any of your assets,
in no event are any assets in any ERISA plan account or IRA account you may
have with TradeStation Securities collateral or security for any of your
obligations to TradeStation Securities or any of its affiliates, and in no
event are any assets of yours in any account you have with TradeStation
Securities or any of its affiliates collateral or security for any of your
obligations under any type of ERISA plan account or IRA account you may have
with TradeStation Securities, and, in all such cases, no such security interest
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Positions and Deliveries. You
authorize TradeStation Securities to purchase and sell Contracts, in accordance
with your oral or written instructions.
You acknowledge your reporting obligations
(regarding certain sized positions) under CFTC Regulation 18.00. These sections
obligate you to notify the CFTC on Form 40 on the first day that your position
is reportable (as defined in CFTC Regulation 15.03) and for each day thereafter
as long as you hold the position.
You agree to honor all assignments and deliver the
underlying commodity in the prescribed time. If you fail to so deliver, you
designate TradeStation Securities to act as your agent to buy such commodity
contracts so that the commitment is honored. If a call or a put option is
written on a futures contract, you realize that you will be required to
purchase the underlying futures contract at the exercise price in the event you
receive a notice of assignment.
You agree to honor all assignments and pay the
exercise price in the prescribed time. If you fail to so act, you designate
TradeStation Securities as your agent to liquidate the underlying futures
contract so that your commitment will be honored. You understand that your
account will be debited for any loss and that a commission and/or other related
transaction costs will be charged for these services. You understand that,
unless the contract specifications state to the contrary, every futures
contract contemplates delivery and you shall promptly advise TradeStation
Securities if you intend to make or take delivery. When you intend to take
delivery, you shall deposit with TradeStation Securities the full value of the
commodity at least five (5) business days prior to the first notice day and, in
the case of short positions, at least seven (7) business days prior to last
trading day. Alternatively, sufficient funds to take delivery or the necessary
documents must be in the possession of TradeStation Securities within the same
periods described above. If TradeStation Securities does not receive the
aforementioned instructions, funds or documents, TradeStation Securities is
authorized, at its discretion, to borrow or buy any property necessary to honor
such obligation, and you shall pay and indemnify TradeStation Securities for
any costs, losses, penalties or damages (including, but not limited to delivery
and storage costs) which TradeStation Securities might incur in fulfilling this
responsibility.
You understand that if you do not liquidate a
position prior to the end of trading on the last day before expiration of a
security futures contract ("SSF"), you will be obligated to either make or
accept a cash payment for cash settled contracts, or accept delivery of the
underlying securities in exchange for final payment of the settlement price for
SSF contracts settled by physical delivery. Unless the SSF contract
specifications state to the contrary, every SSF contract contemplates delivery.
Before you will be allowed to make or take delivery of an SSF, you must provide
TradeStation Securities with information relating to the broker-dealer through
which you will effect delivery. In this regard you will identify the name of
the broker-dealer, the broker-dealer's Depository Trust Number, the broker
Dealer's Institutional ID number, and your account number on the books of the
broker-dealer. When you intend to take delivery, you shall provide notification
and deposit with TradeStation Securities the full value of the underlying
securities subject to the SSF at least five (5) business days prior to the last
trading day of the contract. When you hold a short position and intend to make
delivery, you shall provide notification and tender the underlying securities
subject to the SSF to TradeStation Securities at least five (5) business days
prior to the last trading day. If TradeStation Securities does not receive the
aforementioned instructions, funds or stocks, TradeStation Securities is
authorized, at its discretion, to borrow or buy any stock necessary to honor
such obligation, or to liquidate or otherwise offset the position, and you
shall pay and indemnify TradeStation Securities for any costs, losses,
penalties or damages (including, but not limited to settlement and transaction
costs) which TradeStation Securities might incur in fulfilling this
responsibility. |
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Options. YOU WILL NOT PURCHASE A
PUT OR CALL UNLESS YOU ARE ABLE TO SUSTAIN THE TOTAL LOSS OF THE PREMIUM AND
RELATED TRANSACTION COSTS. YOU WILL NOT SELL (WRITE) A CALL OR PUT OPTION
UNLESS YOU EITHER OWN THE UNDERLYING FUTURES CONTRACT OR ARE ABLE TO WITHSTAND
SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL LOSSES. You recognize that you are fully responsible for
taking action to exercise an option contract. TradeStation Securities shall not
be required to take any action with respect to an option contract, including
any action to exercise a valuable option prior to its expiration date, except
upon express instructions from you. In this connection, you understand that
exchanges have established exercise cut-off times for the tender of exercise
instructions, and that your options may become worthless in the event that you
do not provide instructions promptly. You further understand that TradeStation
Securities cut-off times may differ from the times established by the
exchanges, and hereby agree to waive any and all claims for damage or loss
which might arise out of an option not being exercised. TradeStation Securities
will not be responsible for information regarding option expiration dates and
assignment notification. Additionally, TradeStation Securities will not be
responsible for any errors or omissions regarding such information.
You understand that the TradeStation Securities
exercise policy is on a random basis. All short option positions are subject to
assignment at any time, including positions established on the same day that
exercises are assigned. Notices of assignment are allocated on a random basis
upon best efforts among all customers' short option positions which are subject
to exercise.
You understand that particular commodity options
may cease to trade at any time or expire, either of which event may result in
your financial loss. You also understand that some exchanges may automatically
exercise long in the money options pursuant to the regulations of such
exchange. Free Credit Balances. You hereby authorize TradeStation Securities to
use any free credit balance in any of your accounts in accordance with all
Applicable Laws and to pay interest thereon at such rate or rates and under
such conditions as are established from time to time by TradeStation Securities
for such account(s) and for the amounts of cash so used. Free credit balances
are carried in customers' accounts pending, and with a view towards,
reinvestment. TradeStation Securities may determine not to pay, and currently
does not pay, interest on free credit balances. |
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Authority to Pledge Collateral. You
represent, warrant and covenant that (a) you have the right to pledge and
assign the Collateral to TradeStation Securities and (b) all Collateral is and
shall at all times be free and clear of any liens, claims or encumbrances,
except in favor of TradeStation Securities or its clearing firm. |
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Deposits on Transactions. TradeStation
Securities may require you to deposit cash or other property acceptable to
TradeStation Securities as Collateral in your account(s) in such amounts as
TradeStation Securities determines in its sole discretion, and you agree to
comply with any such request by no later than the deadline set by TradeStation
Securities. |
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Consent to Loan, Pledge or Use of Securities in
Margin Accounts. To the greatest extent permitted under Applicable
Laws, you hereby authorize TradeStation Securities to lend either to itself or
to others and to otherwise use, sell or pledge any securities, commodities,
futures contracts, options, or other derivatives held by TradeStation
Securities in your margin account(s), to convey therewith all attendant rights
of ownership and to use all such property as collateral for loans and other
obligations made to TradeStation Securities. Any such property, together with
all attendant rights of ownership, may be pledged, repledged, hypothecated,
rehypothecated, sold or otherwise used either separately or in common with
other property for any amounts due to TradeStation Securities thereon or for a
greater sum. You hereby acknowledge that, as a result of such activities, (a)
TradeStation Securities may receive and retain certain benefits to which you
will not be entitled and will not share, and (b) the securities, futures
contracts or other derivatives in your margin account(s) may be used as
collateral by TradeStation Securities for loans made to it in excess of your
indebtedness to TradeStation Securities. |
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Breach, Bankruptcy or Default.
(a) TradeStation Securities may,
in its sole and absolute discretion, elect to consider you in default of any or
all agreements you may then have with it if (i) you do not pay any liability or
indebtedness or perform any obligation to TradeStation Securities by the time
you are obligated to do so; (ii) you otherwise breach, repudiate or default
under this agreement or any other agreement you may have with TradeStation
Securities or any of its affiliates or service providers; (iii) you commence a
proceeding in bankruptcy or insolvency or one is commenced against you; (iv)
any guarantor, cosigner or other party (a "Responsible Party") liable, or
providing security for, any of your indebtedness, liabilities or obligations to
TradeStation Securities or any of its affiliates or service providers defaults
in an obligation or commences a proceeding in bankruptcy or insolvency or one
is commenced against it; (v) an attachment is made against your or a
Responsible Party's account(s) with TradeStation Securities; (vi) a receiver is
appointed with respect to you, any of your assets or the assets of a
Responsible Party; (vii) if you are a natural person, you die or become
incompetent, or, if you are an entity, you merge, liquidate, sell a material
portion of your assets (directly or indirectly) or dissolve; or (viii) an
event, circumstance or condition occurs that, in TradeStation Securities'
judgment (which shall be conclusive unless it is exercised totally arbitrarily
or capriciously), materially impairs your creditworthiness, your ability to
timely perform any of your obligations or otherwise causes TradeStation
Securities to view itself (or any entity that is a part thereof) as insecure.
The occurrence of any of the foregoing is referred to as an "Event of Default."
(b) Upon the election by
TradeStation Securities to consider you in default, TradeStation Securities
shall have all of the rights and remedies of a secured party upon default under
the UCC and other Applicable Laws and may, without notice to you, among other
things, foreclose, collect, sell or otherwise liquidate any Collateral
TradeStation Securities selects in its sole discretion, in any order and at any
time, and apply, in a manner determined by TradeStation Securities, in its sole
discretion, the proceeds to satisfy any of your obligations or liabilities to
TradeStation Securities or any of its affiliates. At any sale of Collateral or
other sale or purchase permitted hereunder or otherwise, TradeStation
Securities may sell or purchase to or from itself or third parties, and you
hereby acknowledge and agree that futures contracts, options or securities
subject to such sale or purchase are instruments traded in a recognized market.
You will pay TradeStation Securities for any losses and costs incurred by
TradeStation Securities as a result of any default by you. You waive
marshalling of assets and any similar doctrine dealing with the application of
collateral. |
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Collection and Other Account-Related Costs. You hereby agree to pay, on demand, all reasonable costs, fees, expenses,
liabilities and damages incurred by TradeStation Securities, as the case may be
("Costs"), in connection with (a) enforcing its rights hereunder, or (b) any
investigation, litigation or proceeding involving your account(s) or any
property therein, or (c) the use or access by you, or any other person
authorized to act on your behalf, of an EES or other Services, or (d) any
breach or failure by you to perform any term or provision of this agreement,
any other agreement between you and TradeStation Securities or its affiliates
or any agreement governing your use of or access to any EES, or (e)
TradeStation Securities acting in reliance upon your instructions or the
instructions of any person authorized to act on your behalf. In each case, and
whether or not demand has been made therefor, you hereby authorize TradeStation
Securities to charge your account(s) for any and all such Costs. |
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Waiver; Assignment. Neither
TradeStation Securities' failure to insist at any time upon strict compliance
with the terms of this agreement, nor any continued course of such conduct on
its part, shall constitute or be considered a waiver by TradeStation Securities
of any of its rights or privileges hereunder. Except as specifically permitted
in this agreement or the Account Application or Agreement of which it is part,
no provision or condition of this agreement can be, or should be deemed to be,
waived, altered, modified or amended unless specifically agreed to in writing
by a duly authorized officer of TradeStation Securities (President, Vice
President of Finance, General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel and Chief
Compliance Officer are the only officers duly authorized for this purpose).
TradeStation Securities' failure to enforce any provision or condition of this
agreement shall not be deemed a waiver of the requirements of said provision or
condition or any other provision or condition. Any assignment of your rights
and obligations hereunder or your interest in any property held by or through
TradeStation Securities without obtaining the prior written consent of an
authorized representative of TradeStation Securities shall be null and void.
TradeStation Securities reserves the right to assign any of its rights or
delegate any of its obligations hereunder without prior notice to you, except
as otherwise required by Applicable Laws. |
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Legally Binding. You hereby agree
that the terms of this agreement shall be binding upon you and your estate,
heirs, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and
assigns. |
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Disclosure of Status. You agree to
promptly notify TradeStation Securities in writing (if you have not done so in
your Application and Agreement of which this agreement is a part) if you are
now or if you become: (a) registered or qualified with the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority or the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National
Futures Association, Inc. or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, any
state securities agency, any securities exchange or association, or any
commodities or futures contract market or association; (b) engaged as an
"investment advisor" as that term is defined in Section 201 of the Investment
Advisors Act of 1940 (whether or not registered or qualified under that act);
or as a licensed CTA or CPO or (c) employed by a bank or other organization
exempt from registration under federal and state securities laws to perform
functions that would require you to be so registered or qualified if you were
to perform such functions for an organization not so exempt. Except as
otherwise specifically set forth in your Account Application and Agreement, you
represent and warrant that you are not any of the foregoing. |
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Amendment By TradeStation; Presumptive Receipt
of Communications. Communications may be sent to you at your
postal or electronic mail address or at such other address as you may hereafter
specify in writing in any form. Modifications and amendments of or to this
agreement (including changes in Execution Fees and Service Fees) may be posted
on TradeStation Securities' Web site and shall be effective as of the date
posted. All communications so sent, whether by posting, mail, e-mail,
telegraph, messenger or otherwise, shall be deemed received on the earliest
date sent or published, whether or not actually received or reviewed. You
acknowledge and agree that TradeStation Securities may, at any time, in its
sole discretion, modify or amend the terms of this agreement or your access to
any EES or other Services provided by TradeStation Securities. Your continuing
to accept or use any EES or other Services after said modification or amendment
is published, posted or sent shall conclusively be deemed your express
acceptance of all said modifications or amendments in exchange therefor. In
addition to, and without in any way limiting the breadth or scope of any of the
foregoing provisions, you acknowledge and agree that notices and other
communications (including, without limitation, margin calls) delivered, faxed,
sent by express delivery service, e-mailed or mailed to the address (and/or
e-mail address) provided by you shall, until TradeStation Securities has
received notice in writing of a different address, be deemed to have been
personally delivered to you whether actually received or not. Notices and other
communications may also be provided to you verbally. Such notices and other
communications left for you on your answering machine, or otherwise, including,
but not limited to, margin calls and other demands of immediate payment of
indebtedness, debit balances, or other obligations, shall be deemed to have
been delivered to you, whether actually received or not. None of the foregoing
provisions is intended to suggest or imply that any notice is required to be
given you as a condition to TradeStation Securities exercising or enforcing any
of its rights or remedies under this agreement, as a secured party or
otherwise, and you understand and acknowledge TradeStation Securities may act
without or before providing you with notice of any kind, in its sole and
absolute discretion, to the fullest extent permitted and authorized by this
agreement, the applicable UCC and other Applicable Laws. Notices and other
communications from you to TradeStation Securities shall be in writing. You
hereby authorize TradeStation Securities to accept facsimile copies of this or
any other document or instruction as if it were the original, delivered in
person, and to accept facsimile signatures as if they were originals delivered
in person. |
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Ownership and Confidentiality. You
acknowledge and agree that nothing in this agreement or any other agreement
with TradeStation Securities or any of its affiliates shall constitute the sale
of any equipment, software, hardware, procedure or system utilized by any EES
or other Services provided by TradeStation Securities (collectively, the
"Technology"). You hereby agree to keep confidential and not disclose, copy,
transfer, reverse engineer, or modify any Technology, whether or not said
Technology is actually owned by TradeStation Securities, its affiliate or a
third party. You expressly agree that, in connection with any dispute, the
Technology and TradeStation Securities' or its affiliates' other trade secrets
or confidential information shall be disclosed, if at all, only upon issuance
of protective order(s) effectively limiting disclosure to maintain
confidentiality. |
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Monitoring and Recording Conversations. All communications between you and TradeStation Securities by telephone,
computer link, "live chat" or any other satellite, cable or telecommunications
device or method may or will be monitored, recorded and archived by
TradeStation Securities and may be used and shall be admissible in connection
with any investigation, inquiry or dispute that may arise, or for any valid or
legitimate business purpose that is not violative of TradeStation Securities'
privacy policy (which is easily accessible from most pages of the
TradeStation.com Web site). You voluntarily and knowingly acknowledge and
irrevocably consent to all of such monitoring, recording and archiving of your
communications with TradeStation Securities, its affiliates, and their
respective agents and employees, and acknowledge and agree that no further
notice or consent is necessary. |
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Power of Attorney. You hereby
irrevocably appoint TradeStation Securities, with full power as your true and
lawful attorney-in-fact, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Laws,
for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this agreement and taking any
action and executing any instrument that TradeStation Securities deems
reasonably necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this agreement. |
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Independence. Nothing in this
agreement shall be construed as, or to create, a joint venture, agency,
partnership or other similar relationship between the parties. |
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Choice of Law. You acknowledge and
agree that this agreement and its enforcement shall be governed by the laws of
the State of Florida. |
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41. |
Jurisdiction, venue and waiver of jury trial. You agree that if you do not elect arbitration pursuant to paragraph 43 below,
then ANY CONTROVERSY BETWEEN YOU AND TRADESTATION SECURITIES ARISING OUT OF
THIS AGREEMENT, REGARDLESS OF THE MANNER OF RESOLUTION, SHALL BE ARBITRATED,
LITIGATED (TRIED IN A COURT OF LAW), OR OTHERWISE RESOLVED BY A TRIBUNAL
LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. IN ADDITION, YOU HEREBY WAIVE
TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING. You agree to pay all expenses,
including attorneys' fees, incurred by TradeStation Securities: (a) to defend
any unsuccessful claim you bring against TradeStation Securities, or any of its
affiliates, or (b) to collect any debit balances in your accounts(s). No legal
or administrative action arising out of this contract may be commenced by
anyone more than one (1) year after any claim arises. You hereby expressly
acknowledge that this Agreement is made in the State of Florida and, further,
you hereby submit and consent to jurisdiction of your person in the Courts of
the State of Florida (federal and state) and shall be amenable to service of
summons and other legal process of, and emanating from, the State of Florida.
The validity, construction and enforcement of this agreement shall be governed
and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of Florida
without reference to the principles of conflicts of laws. |
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Agreement to Shorten Statutes of Limitations. You and TradeStation Securities agree that no action in law, equity,
arbitration or administrative proceeding arising out of this agreement, any
transactions effected pursuant to this agreement, or the relationship between
you and TradeStation Securities, may be commenced more than one (1) year after
the aggrieved party knew or should have known a cause of action existed. You
acknowledge that you are expressly agreeing to waive the two-year statute of
limitations provided by the Commodity Exchange Act, including the two-year time
period for commencing a Commodity Futures Trading Exchange reparation
proceeding, and any and all other applicable statutes of limitations exceeding
one year, including but not limited to, any statutory or common law state or
federal statutes of limitation, the statute of limitation provided by the
National Futures Association for commencing an arbitration action, and the
statute of limitations for initiating arbitration actions before contract
markets. You understand that your agreement with this paragraph is not
necessary to open an account with TradeStation Securities. |
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Arbitration. THE FOLLOWING
ARBITRATION PROVISION IS OPTIONAL AND MAY BE ACCEPTED OR DECLINED BY INITIALING
THE APPLICABLE BOX ON THE FUTURES ACCOUNT APPLICATION. PLEASE REVIEW THESE
PROVISIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE MAKING YOUR ELECTION ON THE FUTURES ACCOUNT
APPLICATION. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating
to your futures account against TradeStation Securities, its parent company,
affiliated companies, or any past or present officer, shareholder, affiliate,
agent, alleged agent, employee or associated person of TradeStation Securities,
including any dispute regarding the scope and applicability of this section,
shall be settled by arbitration upon either 1) the contract market on which the
disputed transaction was executed or could have been executed, or 2) National
Futures Association. Any award rendered thereon by the arbitrators shall be
final and binding on each and all of the parties thereto and their personal
representatives and judgment may be entered in any court of competent
jurisdiction. Notification of your intent to arbitrate must be sent by
certified mail to TradeStation Securities at its office in Plantation, Florida.
At such time as you may notify TradeStation Securities that you intend to
submit a claim to arbitration, or at such time as TradeStation Securities
notifies you of its intent to submit a claim to arbitration, you will have the
opportunity to elect a qualified forum for conducting the proceeding from a
list TradeStation Securities will provide to you within 10 days of receipt of
such notice. If you fail to make a selection within 45 days of receipt of such
list, TradeStation Securities then has the right to make a selection from the
list. TradeStation Securities acknowledges that it will be required to pay any
incremental fees which may be assessed by a qualified forum for provision of a
mixed panel, unless the arbitrators determine that you have acted in bad faith
in initiating or conducting that proceeding. THREE FORUMS EXIST FOR THE
RESOLUTION OF COMMODITY DISPUTES: CIVIL COURT LITIGATION, REPARATIONS AT THE
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION ("CFTC") AND ARBITRATION CONDUCTED BY A
SELF-REGULATORY OR OTHER PRIVATE ORGANIZATION. THE CFTC RECOGNIZES THAT THE
OPPORTUNITY TO SETTLE DISPUTES BY ARBITRATION MAY IN SOME CASES PROVIDE MANY
BENEFITS TO CUSTOMERS, INCLUDING THE ABILITY TO OBTAIN AN EXPEDITIOUS AND FINAL
RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES WITHOUT INCURRING SUBSTANTIAL COSTS. THE CFTC REQUIRES,
HOWEVER, THAT EACH CUSTOMER INDIVIDUALLY EXAMINE THE RELATIVE MERITS OF
ARBITRATION AND THAT YOUR CONSENT TO THIS ARBITRATION AGREEMENT BE VOLUNTARY.
IF YOU ACCEPT THIS PROVISION BY PLACING YOUR INITIALS IN THE "ACCEPT" BOX ON
THE FUTURES ACCOUNT APPLICATION YOU: (1) MAY BE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO SUE IN A
COURT OF LAW; AND (2) ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY ARBITRATION OF ANY CLAIMS OR
COUNTERCLAIMS WHICH YOU OR TRADESTATION SECURITIES MAY SUBMIT TO ARBITRATION
UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. YOU ARE NOT, HOWEVER, WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO ELECT INSTEAD
TO PETITION THE CFTC TO INSTITUTE REPARATIONS PROCEEDINGS UNDER SECTION 14 OF
THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT WITH RESPECT TO ANY DISPUTE WHICH MAY BE ARBITRATED
PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT. IN THE EVENT A DISPUTE ARISES, YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED
IF TRADESTATION SECURITIES INTENDS TO SUBMIT THE DISPUTE TO ARBITRATION. IF YOU
BELIEVE A VIOLATION OF THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT IS INVOLVED AND IF YOU PREFER
TO REQUEST A SECTION 14 "REPARATIONS" PROCEEDING BEFORE THE CFTC, YOU WILL HAVE
45 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF SUCH NOTICE IN WHICH TO MAKE THAT ELECTION. |
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Severability. If any term,
provision or condition ("term") of this agreement shall be held to be invalid
or unenforceable by reason of any law, rule, administrative order or decision
by any court, or regulatory or self-regulatory agency or body, or in
arbitration, said term shall be deemed modified only to such extent as is
necessary to correct the invalidity or unenforceability and shall not affect
the validity and enforceability of this agreement or any other term of this
agreement, and the intent of this agreement and that term shall be honored to
the fullest possible extent in the circumstances. |
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Headings. The heading of each
paragraph is for descriptive purposes only and shall not be deemed to modify or
qualify any of the rights or obligations set forth in such provision. |
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Trademarks. TradeStation®,
EasyLanguage®, RadarScreen®, OptionStation® and Test Before You Trade® are
registered trademarks of TradeStation Technologies, Inc., an affiliate of
TradeStation Securities, and are used by TradeStation Securities pursuant to a
trademark license. |
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Consent to Identification Procedures, Credit
Reports and Other Information. You voluntarily and knowingly
consent to the following: TradeStation Securities may use your name, address,
social security number, date of birth, home telephone number and/or other
biographical or personal information about you (collectively, "Personal
Information") to comply with applicable federal, state, local,
quasi-governmental, self-regulatory and other laws, rules, regulations,
recommendations, interpretations, authorizations, licenses and registrations,
and other Applicable Laws, or for any valid or legitimate business purpose. The
purposes for the use of Personal Information include, but are not necessarily
limited to, verification of your identity and other factual information you
present to us, verification that you are not listed as a specially designated
national or blocked national by the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign
Asset Control (OFAC), and to investigate or verify your creditworthiness,
business history and your history with legal and administrative authorities.
Whatever procedures are used by TradeStation Securities shall not be violative
of the terms of its privacy policy (which is easily accessible from most pages
of the TradeStation.com Web site). You authorize TradeStation Securities, in
its sole discretion, to make or obtain reports concerning your credit standing,
business conduct and history with legal, regulatory and administrative
authorities. You may make a written request for a description of the nature and
scope of the credit reports made or obtained by TradeStation Securities and the
same will be provided to you within a reasonable period of time. You further
agree to provide TradeStation Securities, on request, with such additional
information or certifications as may be required by TradeStation Securities or
Applicable Laws. |
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Cumulative Rights. The rights,
remedies, benefits and privileges of TradeStation Securities under (a) this
agreement, (b) any other written agreement or document executed or delivered by
you, and (c) any written agreement with an affiliate of TradeStation Securities
(collectively, the "Related Agreements"), whether part of the Account
Application and Agreement or otherwise, are cumulative and shall be interpreted
to convey to and upon TradeStation Securities and its affiliates the broadest,
most expansive, most enforceable rights, remedies, benefits and privileges. Any
inconsistencies or conflicts between or among any of the Related Agreements
shall be disregarded, as TradeStation Securities may at any time, or from time
to time, choose, so that TradeStation Securities may enjoy to the fullest
extent possible the right, remedy, benefit or privilege that it, at any time or
from time to time, seeks to assert, enforce or avail to itself. |
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Request for Electronic Transmission of
Statements and Other Documents and Information. You hereby request
that all confirmation statements of activity and all periodic account
statements, as well as all tax documents and related notices, be delivered to
you solely by electronic transmission to the e-mail address indicated by you in
the Account Application and Agreement of which this agreement is a part. You
represent to us that you do not want to be mailed hard copies of any such
statements, documents or information (however, you acknowledge that, until
further notice, TradeStation Securities shall, as a courtesy to you and at no
extra charge, also mail to you hard copies of your monthly, quarterly and
annual account statements, including year-end tax documents). You warrant and
represent that the above-referenced e-mail will promptly print out for you the
relevant customer statements, documents and information in the form received by
you. You understand that there is a risk of failure of any electronic
transmission, and will not hold TradeStation Securities liable directly or
indirectly for such failure. If you fail to receive a statement of activity of
which you are aware, you will contact a TradeStation Client Service
representative at the Brokerage Client Service telephone numbers posted on the
TradeStation Securities Web site on the business day following the day of any
such activity. You acknowledge that if you choose not to accept electronic
statements and documents, TradeStation Securities may charge your account a fee
for each hard-copy statement and document delivered. This consent shall be
effective until revoked by you in writing, and delivered to TradeStation
Securities. In addition, you acknowledge that, for your protection and the
protection of TradeStation Securities, any request to change the e-mail address
designated in your Account Application and Agreement must be in writing and
must bear the same signature as the one on your Account Application and
Agreement. In the event such a request is received from a legal entity, such as
a corporation, LLC or partnership, the request must be accompanied by
appropriate documentation establishing that the person signing the request
possesses the requisite authority to bind the entity. |
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