Professional Trading
Gain access to benefits and features not available to retail clients.
(Professional clients lose certain investor protections including negative balance protection, which means your losses can exceed your deposit.)
Call 020 7638 6996 or email to discuss opening a trading account.
Are you eligible for a professional trading account?
To quality as a professional trader you would need to be able to meet two of the following eligibility criteria.
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Have you placed 10 relevant trades of a significant size per quarter in the last year?
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Does your financial instrument portfolio exceed €500,000?
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Do you, or have you, worked in the financial sector for at least one year?
Why use Guardian Stockbrokers professional trading account?
Dedicated relationship manager
Highly experienced and qualified, and on hand to assist you as much or as little as you need.
Open your professional trading account now
Dedicated relationship manager
Easy-to-use platforms
Huge range of markets
Multi Award Winning
Premium services
​Trusted and regulated
Benefits and considerations of having a professional trading account
Professional clients can benefit from:
Cash rebates
If you trade large volumes you can receive a rebate on your charges back to you each month.
Lower margin rates
Trade on 17,000 markets.
Collateral facility
Use up to 95% of your share collateral as margin.
Access to additional products Ability to trade restricted products.
Lower margins
Professional clients need to consider
Higher leverage
ESMA believe this could lead to poor outcomes.
Sophisticated Language
As a professional client we will assume that you are sophisticated enough to understand more complex language.
Assumed experience
Professional clients are expected to have a higher level of knowledge and understanding than a retail customer.
No Negative balance protection
Trade on 17,000 markets.
Professional trading account FAQs
Question: What is the difference between a standard retail trading account and a professional account?
Answer:
Standard accounts require you have more margin to open positions. Standard accounts offer negative balance protection, which means you will never lose more than is in your account.
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Question: What protections will I not get?
Answer:
Negative balance. Negative balance protections are not applied to professional clients. This means you have an obligation to make payments in order to bring negative balances back to zero.
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Sophisticated language. When we communicate with you we may use more sophisticated language than we would with a retail client.
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Knowledge and experience. We will assume that you have a certain level of knowledge and experience in leveraged products.
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Best execution. When transacting for retail clients we must priorities overall price and cost. In the case of professionals we will take into account factors such as speed of execution and how likely the trade will be executed.
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Guardian Stockbroker reviews

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​Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
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I could not more highly recommend Guardian Stockbrokers, everyone has been brilliant. The attentiveness, training and technical detail provided, has enabled a fast track learning and an ability to manage the portfolio in a way that would far exceed my own capabilities. It is almost as though they own the positions themselves; via their due-diligence and proactive manner of continuous monitoring. Above and Beyond.
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​Positive: Professionalism, Responsiveness
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Professional and proactive I’m really happy that they were recommended to me.
I would recommend Guardian Stockbrokers.
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​I've known Guardian Stockbrokers since their inception.
When dealing with trading, you want to work with people that are professional, personable and trustworthy.
Guardian Stockbrokers are all of the above.
I'd recommend them any day!
Choose Guardian Stockbrokers to be your partner in trading
Dedicated relationship manager
Easy-to-use platforms
Huge range of markets
Multi Award Winning
Premium services
​Trusted and regulated