Many people start trading forex without knowing the games their forex broker can play with them. Choosing a right forex broker is very important for you. Dont get stuck up with an unscrupulous forex broker. Know the tricks a forex broker has for you.
Retail forex market where small traders like you and I trade forex is different than the interbank forex market. Interbank forex market is where big banks, corporations, hedge fund and other institutional investors exchange currencies. It is only open to big players.
With the advent of internet, retail forex trading became popular. Forex brokers work as intermediaries between the retail traders and the interbank market. Forex brokers popularize retail fx trading by offering online margin accounts. But beware retail forex market is not highly regulated. Due to poor regulation forex brokers can do what they want with immunity.
You need to know the games; a forex broker can play with you. If you dont know what games a forex broker can play with you, you will never succeed at forex trading. Understand how the broker can trick you:
Pricing is Not Transparent: Being an OTC (Over the Counter) market, forex broker can quote prices that may not be fair but you have accept them or choose another broker. The prices that your forex broker is going to quote to you, is the price that you will get. You cannot do anything about it.
Use of Leverage: Your forex broker will love you to use a high leverage like 100-1 or 200-1 in your trading. Since most of the small forex traders are unsophisticated, they easily overexpose themselves and get wiped out in the market making gains for the broker in return.
Brokers try to trade against you: Forex brokers act as an intermediary between the retail trader and the interbank forex market. Since most of the retail trades are too small in size and cannot be immediately offset in the interbank market, forex brokers get the opportunity to trade against you. If you go long, the broker will go short and if you go short, the broker will take the long position. As most of the retail traders are not good traders and lose most of the time, forex brokers make profit from this.
Practices that are unfair: Forex brokers and Casinos have the same mentality: they dont like winner. If you are winning too much, the house will be stacked against you. Your forex broker may make the execution of your trades very difficult or start denying the service to you. Your trade may not execute due to slippage. There are many games the broker will play against you so beware.
Once you know these facts, you can use a scorecard for evaluating different forex brokers. Bill Poulos, a veteran forex trader has developed one for you. Visit my Blog to read about it.
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How You Can Make Ten Times Your Salary- With Day Trading
Day trading – no, it’s not something that Bill Murray wished he had in Groundhog Day. It’s a style of trading on the foreign currency exchange market in which a trader completes all his trades within a single day. In other words, he may make a few dozen – or more – trades in a day with the objective of buying and selling quickly and making a profit from the fluctuations in a currency exchange rate over the course of the day.
Sound complicated? Depending on the method or system that you use to pick your trades it can be. The idea behind day trading is that currency exchange rates are subject to fluctuations over the course of the day – they go up and down depending on who’s buying, who’s selling and what rumors are floating around. In fact, day trading in the foreign currency market is probably the single segment of any type of stocks, currency or futures trading market most affected by rumors and real-time, real-world happenings. A savvy trader who is quick on his feet can roll up the profits by paying attention to what the current news is doing to the currency exchange rates.
The currency market, commonly referred to as the forex (short for Foreign Exchange), is the most liquid market in the world. The latest statistics say that daily trading on forex is in excess of $1.3 trillion U.S. dollars. That makes forex the world’s largest, most efficient market. A major part of the reason for the liquidity and volume of trade is the practice of day trading. The difference between day trading and other types of trading is in how long you hold your stocks (or in this case, your currency). In day trading, you hold nothing beyond the close of the day’s market. Think of it as a game in which the object is to keep trading cards back and forth, increasing the value of your cards – but have no cards in your hand at the end of the day.
Of course, since the currency market is a 24 hour market, there really IS no market closing – so the rules change slightly. The currency market is open from Sunday afternoon to Friday afternoon, with trading going on all the time, so you can pick your times to trade rather than being locked into the Stock Exchange timetable.
How You Make Money in Day Trading
People will tell you that the difference between a day trader and an investor is the length of time that each holds onto their stocks. That’s a superficial difference. The real difference is in the mindset of short-term vs. long-term and liquidity. An investor buys something that he believes will steadily increase in value, and holds onto it for the long haul. A day trader rides the minute fluctuations in the currency market minute by minute the way a surfer rides a wave. Because you’re trading in lots of 100,000, a tiny fluctuation can mean a big profit – or a huge loss.
Limiting Loss in Day Trading
One of the hardest concepts for new traders to grasp is that of limiting loss. Let’s say you make a trade for a currency that is heading down because you believe that it’s near its support point – the point where it will rebound and start heading back up. Instead, it breaks the point and keeps heading down – you’re losing money instead of making it. You have two choices – hold onto it because you KNOW it will start heading back up soon, or get rid of it and limit the amount of money you’re going to lose. In day trading, the name of the game is limiting your losses and maximizing your wins – decide ahead of time just how much you’ll allow each trade to lose before you sell it, and then STICK TO YOUR LIMIT. By the same token, decide how much profit you want to make, set a sell order for when the currency reaches that point – and sell when it hits the mark.
Know what you’re doing.
Day trading on the forex is like any other business. The people who make money are the ones who take the time to learn the market and understand the ins and outs of the trades that they make. Those who jump in feet first without learning the terms, rules and trends of the forex market are priming themselves to lose – and lose big. Remember, there’s no such thing as high profit potential without equivalent risk. Before you jump in, take a course in trading, or read read read all that you can.
Sound complicated? Depending on the method or system that you use to pick your trades it can be. The idea behind day trading is that currency exchange rates are subject to fluctuations over the course of the day – they go up and down depending on who’s buying, who’s selling and what rumors are floating around. In fact, day trading in the foreign currency market is probably the single segment of any type of stocks, currency or futures trading market most affected by rumors and real-time, real-world happenings. A savvy trader who is quick on his feet can roll up the profits by paying attention to what the current news is doing to the currency exchange rates.
The currency market, commonly referred to as the forex (short for Foreign Exchange), is the most liquid market in the world. The latest statistics say that daily trading on forex is in excess of $1.3 trillion U.S. dollars. That makes forex the world’s largest, most efficient market. A major part of the reason for the liquidity and volume of trade is the practice of day trading. The difference between day trading and other types of trading is in how long you hold your stocks (or in this case, your currency). In day trading, you hold nothing beyond the close of the day’s market. Think of it as a game in which the object is to keep trading cards back and forth, increasing the value of your cards – but have no cards in your hand at the end of the day.
Of course, since the currency market is a 24 hour market, there really IS no market closing – so the rules change slightly. The currency market is open from Sunday afternoon to Friday afternoon, with trading going on all the time, so you can pick your times to trade rather than being locked into the Stock Exchange timetable.
How You Make Money in Day Trading
People will tell you that the difference between a day trader and an investor is the length of time that each holds onto their stocks. That’s a superficial difference. The real difference is in the mindset of short-term vs. long-term and liquidity. An investor buys something that he believes will steadily increase in value, and holds onto it for the long haul. A day trader rides the minute fluctuations in the currency market minute by minute the way a surfer rides a wave. Because you’re trading in lots of 100,000, a tiny fluctuation can mean a big profit – or a huge loss.
Limiting Loss in Day Trading
One of the hardest concepts for new traders to grasp is that of limiting loss. Let’s say you make a trade for a currency that is heading down because you believe that it’s near its support point – the point where it will rebound and start heading back up. Instead, it breaks the point and keeps heading down – you’re losing money instead of making it. You have two choices – hold onto it because you KNOW it will start heading back up soon, or get rid of it and limit the amount of money you’re going to lose. In day trading, the name of the game is limiting your losses and maximizing your wins – decide ahead of time just how much you’ll allow each trade to lose before you sell it, and then STICK TO YOUR LIMIT. By the same token, decide how much profit you want to make, set a sell order for when the currency reaches that point – and sell when it hits the mark.
Know what you’re doing.
Day trading on the forex is like any other business. The people who make money are the ones who take the time to learn the market and understand the ins and outs of the trades that they make. Those who jump in feet first without learning the terms, rules and trends of the forex market are priming themselves to lose – and lose big. Remember, there’s no such thing as high profit potential without equivalent risk. Before you jump in, take a course in trading, or read read read all that you can.
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