Broker for French residents

I need help finding an emergency broker to avoid the limitation of leverage!

IC market refuses customers who live in France
pepperstone applies the limitation of leverage for French

Please help me with advice too. My broker reduced leverage without informing me, while I was in the middle of transactions!
Am a relatively new trader. Have been trading for less than 3 months with same broker. When opening the 1.0 eurchf position, I saw a message market closed! And it was 4 am ET on a Tuesday! My order didnt open. I tried again, it opened. A 1.0 eurchf position with 500.1 leverage is supposed to have $234 margin. But I was surprised to see margin at 468. Since I was using my phone, I said lemme go to my laptop and see exactly what's happening. On the MT4 I saw these details on my account making components of the margin of $468
Eur . -234
Chf.. -234
Like they had split the pair into individual currencies and applied margin to each of them.
I contacted support and one rep told me to send an email to trading department for them to investigate what happened. Now my account had initial balance of $915, with this high margin I will be stopped out quick if the market aggressively went against me. I waited for a whole 24 hrs. I had to close the position in a loss and initiate a withdrawal of my funds immediately coz after 24 hrs I didn't get any reply from support. I just got my funds right now. My question for the experienced traders, can a broker change leverage for me without informing me while am in the middle of trading?

Take a look at Blackbull markets (NZ), or Blueberry markets (AUS).
Cheers,
Paul.

Thank you Paul
Do you use them?

No not yet.
I plan to move to one of them when the ESMA rules start.

Not sure which I will choose, but I have been hearing good reports on both of them.
Cheers,
Paul

Blueberry Markets responded instantly and they don't apply the new EMSA regulation as opposed to for instance Pepperstone, also in Australia.

Fxpig, thats where I went from when IC kicked me out...Im happy so far.

May I ask why they kicked you out? What reason did IC gave to you?

You chose a broker?

I signed up with Blackbull and Bueberry this week and will start with them next week, a mior live account with both of them. o far they have been very resposive.

They didn't give me any reason, something about regulations...idk Im with FXpig and now I opened active trade account with FXCM, fxcm has very high commissions but spread is really good so it works out to the same thing. My money is insured and safe with FXCM Canada up to a million so that's a huge plus and worth the extra commissions I guess.

I went with BlackBull.
Very happy so far, and will report back after I have made a withdrawal.
Cheers,
Paul.

Are you sure IC Markets are refusing French clients?
I would be very surprised if this was the case.

Their website states:
IC Markets does not accept applications from residents of the U.S, Canada, Israel and Islamic Republic of Iran.
but says nothing about France.

You can try Finpro trading they accept clients from all over the world and yes you can get leverage up to 400:1.

How did you get on z.h.?

Salut
Zh should be aware he is living inside an european zone, which is a "soft" non-democratic zone
welcome zh in the 4th Reich !

Réveilles toi ZH

Politics aside, it is just about adapting to the changing conditions...
...like moving to an Aussie broker

No point ranting about the EU. It's a whole lot better than what we'll be left with in the UK come next year!
Oops I've gone all political... as you were

ok ok I may know this subject

but did you know this point ?
ok the EU wanted to stop binary options. Wehn they talked to the brokers, they ask to decrease the leverage for european customers, bcoz they do not want individuals to ear money on forex. Only professional traders or financial institutions keep classical leverages (1;100 1:200 .. etc)

BTW, when Brexit will be done (april 2019), all french accounts will move in London !
and european brokers will loose their customers

Thanks Jaquar. No I did't know that. There's so much behind-the-scenes stuff about these regulations that we'll never know.

Don't hold your breathe, Brexit might not happen yet!

Ic market refuses French customers, they refuse me