Picking an Online Forex Broker: Spreads
When it comes to spread options, online Forex brokers fall into two categories: variable and fixed. Like the debate about dealing desk, there are reasons for and against going with ...
Some Easy Forex Solutions
There is a lot of literature available on the web discussing how easy Forex trading is. This is very true, if you consider a couple of sensible caveats. First, trading in Forex is certainly ...
How to Get a Good ForEx Education?
You’ve probably noticed by now that universities don’t offer concentrations (or majors if you are an American) in currency trading. In fact, there is no trading career that starts ...
Calculating Margins and Spreads in ForEx Part II
… once again continuing from yesterday where we’d just finished calculating the percentage of margin a 100:1 account is using.
So, you’ve put up $100, on a 100:1 margin, which ...
U is for Uncovered Positions
Let’s start with the concept of “cover” in finance, and specifically in ForEx. The definition is a little technical: offsetting a transaction in such a way that you eliminate ...
T is for Trades
Trades are the essential part of ForEx. When you buy a currency, it doesn’t give you dividends or pay you interest, which makes working with ForEx different from other equity investments. ...
Buying Long or Selling Short in Practice
Going or buying long doesn’t necessarily require a future. You can buy now and hold on to your equity waiting for it to go up. But selling short does require the use of a future. ...
S is for Spot Exchange Rate
Also known as the Spot Quote, or the Spot Price, the Spot Exchange rate in its strictest definition is the price as it is right now. It gets its name from looking at the exchange rate ...
Futures and Selling Short in ForEx Part II
…continuing from yesterday’s discussion about a miller and a farmer negotiating the price of grain.
How the farmer and miller come to an agreement on the price depends on both of ...
E is for Electronic Currency Conversion
Electronic Currency Conversion is not really an important part of ForEx. It is, however, important to anyone thinking of starting trading in the currency market, because it’s where ...

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