It makes me more suspicious but I think it will be hard for FXCM to use it against at least retail customers, because they write it only 'well hidden' in their terms and nowhere else. More misleading: take a look at http://www.fxcm.com/products/compare-forex-platforms/ or in German to: http://www.fxcm.com/de/plattformen/plattformen-vergleichen/ - here they advertise which plattforms you can use at FXCM for automated trading. For I can't see a difference between programmable trading systems and automated trading, latest on the pages listed before FXCM had to inform about the 'special risk' of automated trading if they want to insist on it. But you'll never know ...