No, we do not use our client's money for hedging.
We are a broker that is regulated by ASIC, and we follow strict laws in regard to what we can do with our client's money.
It is a strict implementation that we abide by in separating our client's trust from our own company's funds. But before this law was implemented, brokers could but not everyone does technically take the money used by clients to hedge their transactions with counterparties/liquidity providers. While they couldn’t use the client funds for things like company expenses, salaries and for personal use they could've done so when it was related to hedging.
Reassured the most important thing is that your money is held in a segregated client trust fund which we cannot access except for depositing and withdrawing from. It can’t be used for company expenses or to place money with our prime broker.