Mar 1 2010
A beginner always has a lot of questions, especially if he is an inexperienced trader. We’ll give you an answer to the question, what is the order. Forex order is a currency’s buy or selling instruction given to the dealer.
There are two types of orders (types of transactions):
1. Market orders.
They are the orders to buy or sell one currency for another at present market price. Dealer gives you an asking price, you agree or reject it. One type of orders have acquired popularity on the market recently, this is the so-called Quote order (Quote is a query about double quotation). "Quote" is an inquiry of trader to dealer simultaneously about both prices for buying and for selling (Ask and Bid), when a trader gets an answer, he can choose the operation (buying or selling) and close a transaction.
2. Suspended market orders.
Suspended market order is an instruction to sell or buy currency at stated price and only the stated volume. On Forex, as well as on other markets there are two types of suspended market orders – orders below the market and above the market.
2.1 Orders “below the market” or Stop-orders.
The order “below the market” means that you wish to buy more expensively, than a current level of prices in the market or to sell more cheaply, than a current price level in the market. The term "below the market" says that you give to the dealer the order to do an operation at the price, which will be worse for you, in comparison with the current price level in the market.
In a funny sort of way instead of buying cheaper, you buy more expensively, but many trading strategies use such orders. For example, it is considered that this accelerates movement.
There are two types of Stop-orders:
2.1.1 The first is a buy stop order. This is the order for buying above a current level of price in the market (sometimes say "above the market").
2.1.2 The second is a sell-stop order. This is an order for selling below a current level of price in the market.
2.2. The second type is Limit-order.
Limit-order is the order to buy more cheaply, than the current level of prices in the market is or to sell more expensively. You give to a dealer the order to buy or to sell at the most favourable price, in comparison with the current level of prices, which can be, as you predict, in the future.
So, there are also two types of Limit orders.
2.2.1. The sell limit-order is an order on selling at the price above the current level of prices in the market (selling more expensively, than now).
2.2.2. The buy limit-order is an order on buying at the price below the current level of prices in the market (buying cheaper, than now).
The choice of a
foreign currency trading service is not an easy task. And one shouldn't dash to make a decision on such a service.
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Mar 1 2010
International currency market Forex seems to many people a phenomenon, which is absolutely incomprehensible and inaccessible for the person in the street. So, what is Forex and do you put your savings at so risky type of earning or not?
Forex is a large international stock exchange of currency. Mechanism of stock exchange consists in buying and selling of currency of different countries at the market rate. Don’t take the term "market" literally. Special feature of currency market Forex is the fact, that it is not the market sensu stricto. Forex does not have concrete place of trade, as, for example, a contract market has. Trade at currency stock exchange Forex is going on by means of computer terminals and phones simultaneously in many banks of the world. 24 hours a day biddings are open in Forex. It is necessary to remember about risk connected with this kind of earnings. Today you can win a great sum, and tomorrow you can lose everything. Normal functioning and development of the currency market Forex is impossible without risk. For earning something at a currency stock exchange it is necessary to spend a lot of money, time and nerves. Don’t forget that there is no easy money, believe in success, but don’t believe advertising showing great promise of becoming a millionaire for some days. Statistics shows that only 5 % of participants of the market get success, and other 95 %, unfortunately, fall between two stools. Successful traders, who earn much in the currency market, follow chosen strategy, designing of which can take years of persistent work.
We are fed up with advertising of the share market Forex, because it is everywhere. It is on television screens, in the posters with its promises of incalculable treasures. Certainly, Forex is an extremely interesting and perspective type of business, but how much money can an average person get? True sums of incomes are always hushed up, and it evokes suspicions and lack of self-confidence. So how much money can you get?
Firstly, just put out of your head the thought that one hundred rocks, which you deposited, will give you a possibility to keep the home fires burning and especially to buy private residences, cars and yachts. This can be only in advertising. Of course, you can receive the income in 200 – 300 % in a month. But it is impossible to always trade like this. Even if a trader has a good strategy of trading on Forex, he doesn’t always run a surplus. Losses are unavoidable. Even the best business tycoons take losses.
It is extremely difficult to divine profitability in Forex. Everything depends on skills of currency speculator and amount of finance which he has. Normal income is 10-30 % per annum from the permanent deposit.
The choice of a
foreign currency trading service is not an easy task. And one shouldn't dash to make a decision on such a service.
It is very important that you follow a final piece of advice - today the Internet technologies give you a truly unique chance to choose exactly what you need at the best terms which are available on the market. Funny, but most of the people don't use this chance. In real life it means that you should use all the tools of today to get any
foreign currency trading info that you need.
Search Google and other search engines. Visit social networks and check the accounts that are relevant to your topic. Go to the niche forums and participate in the online discussion. All this will help you to create a true vision of this market. Thus, giving you a real chance to make a wise and nicely balanced decision.
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Feb 25 2010
Large broker houses are an etalon of qualitative work on the Forex market for the most of financial companies. Serious investors choose them, first of all, for dependability reasons. But collapse of such giants of Forex market as American “Refco” and Swiss “Sovereign Financial Group” forced many people to take a different view on a question of choosing a broker. So, what is it necessary to draw attention to in when deciding to begin cooperation with this or that financial company?
In the first place, it is reliability of the Forex broker.
Dependable financial intermediary is the broker of long standing, with licence and a subsidiarity to regulating authorities, with insurance scheme of liability before the clients, smoothly running system of risk-management in the company, a legal transparency and security of contractual relationships. Company should be respectable enough, but everyone understands this term in their own way.
Long standing guarantees nothing: collapsed large western companies existed in the market long enough. However, the risk of money loss in short-lived companies is higher, than if you confide your money to the broker, who gives his clients systematic access to financial markets. Long standing is efficient system of risk-management (otherwise, the company would already have failed), experienced personnel, safe partners, bankroll etc. So to make a long story short, company of long standing has a great advantage of experience over beginners in the market.
Unfortunately, as practice shows, presence of licences and a subsidiarity to regulating authorities (state or trade), also do not guarantee safety of your money. However, it is a serious advantage in choosing a broker.
Firstly, licensing process cuts off obvious swindlers. Every company is obliged to uncover their owners before the state, to give authorized documents and full accounts. Besides, regulating authorities control the operation, financial rates of the company.
Secondly, there is always an organization, in which client can address a complaint. So, in the USA CFTC (Commodities Futures Trading Commission) control brokers in the Forex market, this is the governmental commission in the status of federal agency. In England, this is FSA (Financial Services Authority), and so on. So, choosing a broker it is necessary to pay attention to what licence he has got, who gave it to him and for what term.
If you gave a good buck to the broker, it would be a good thing to inquire about guarantees of safety of your means that your broker can give you. In England and USA segregated accounts and guarantees of money return from the government can be such guarantees. Some newly-fledged brokers insure their responsibility before clients in insurance companies. And it’s not an only way to show clients their dependability. It can be, for example, a guarantee of large American or European bank.
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foreign currency trading service is not an easy task. And one shouldn't dash to make a decision on such a service.
It is very important that you follow some general tips - today the web technologies give you a really unique chance to choose exactly what you require at the best terms which are available on the market. Strange, but most of the people don't use this opportunity. In real practice it means that you must use all the tools of today to get any
foreign currency trading info that you need.
Search Google or other search engines. Visit social networks and have a look on the accounts that are relevant to your topic. Go to the niche forums and participate in the discussion. All this will help you to create a true vision of this market. Thus, giving you a real opportunity to make a smart and nicely balanced decision.
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Feb 25 2010
Beginning close collaboration with some company, pay attention to an agreement, which you sign and which will define your work. The contract should describe completely all essential conditions of your cooperation with the broker on the basis of civil legislation.
Serious companies are guided in its activity not only by the contract, but also by public regulations of accomplishment of operations, of approving transactions in which all numerous nuances (trading conditions, types of warrants, lawsuits and so on) are described in detail. Absence of regulations should put potential client on his guard.
Many brokers work after the bookmaker scheme, proposing their clients to stake on rates of exchange. If it suits you, remember and be ready for situation, when your stake will not be liable to judicial protection.
Many traders ask a question: «What is my income derived from in a case of successful transaction? » Usually, all dealing centres work like that: the broker assumes responsibility for small positions, and large positions are transferred on larger contractors. So, the client’s winnings are paid either from the losses of other clients, or from the broker’s own pocket (that’s why broker should have great volume of his own means, financial reserves). Large positions, usually it is a volume from 1 million and more, are shifted onto larger participants (banks, for example). Such moving of risks is called “covering of net-position”. Frequently covering is not implemented in small beginning companies, and clients risk in a case of a big win to fall between two stools. That’s why try to find out, how risk-management procedure is organized in this company and where the dealing centre covers net-position. Certainly, all details will not be told to you (it is a trade secret), but you will find out something. If your broker refuses flatly to speak about this, think whether you need this broker at all.
Let’s talk about reputation. It is a difficult question, whether your company has a positive reputation. And if it does, then how is it possible to understand this. Alas and alack, but neither presence of prestigious awards, nor high places in ratings are indicators of good reputation. This is a question of money. But if your company has negative reputation (defrauded clients, trials, etc.), it is possible to find this out easily, surfing the Internet and reading specialized forums.
Working terms of high quality traditionally are: exact quotations and competitive spreads, trade with the guaranteed execution of buy stop orders, a modern trading platform, broad tools, crediting of percent to client’s trading deposit.
It is obligatory to obtain more information about quotations. It is good, if a financial company can confirm entitlement to retransmission of quotations by the contract. It means that it is not purloin. It happens that some dealing centre receives quotations directly from another broker.
The choice of a
foreign currency trading service is not an easy task. And one shouldn't hurry up to make a decision on such a service.
It is very important that you follow a final piece of advice - today the Internet technologies give you a really unique chance to choose exactly what you want for the best price on the market. Funny, but most of the people don't use this chance. In real life it means that you must use all the tools of today to get any
foreign currency trading information that you need.
Search Google or other search engines. Visit social networks and have a look on the accounts that are relevant to your topic. Go to the niche forums and participate in the discussion. All this will help you to build up a true vision of this market. Thus, giving you a real chance to make a wise and nicely balanced decision.
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Feb 25 2010
Periodically in quotations any broker has "overshoots", i.e. non-market transactions, which are obviously above or below the current prices. These overshoots can strongly damage an open position of the client (for example, if he closed it with a heavy loss by stop order). It is desirable, to find out in broker’s regulations or in conversation, how such overshoots are filtered and whether they are filtered in general and also, how vexed questions that appeared as a result of non-market quotations are regulated. Solid brokers usually off all transactions as a result of overshoot and return losses to losers and write off a profit from earned.
Usually beginners in the Forex market, choosing a broker first of all pay attention to the size of spread. And dealing centres, by-turn, decoy clients by bright advertising, which says « we have only the spread on (the name of currency pair) from one point and lower». Skilled traders know that solid and dependable broker would certainly not dump in this sphere, and not so captiously think of the size of spread. But, of course, few like to pay more when it is possible to pay less.
Point-of-sale terminal and usability.
Common standard of point-of-sale terminal’s work for brokers in the Forex market are:
- Presence of a free demo-account (where there will be a possibility to do some transactions with virtual money, to test trading strategy).
- Graphic support, possibilities of technical analysis, or export of the data to systems of the technical analysis (Omega, etc.).
- Operational safety and low objectives to user’s computer and the speed of Internet connection.
The important factor when choosing a broker is the wealth of tools which are available for trading to clients of the company. Because, after all, it is very important to try your wings in the different markets, with different tools and conditions. Many brokers give the possibility to trade except currencies by synthetic tools like such contracts as CFD per American or European shares.
An important point is crediting of percent to the trading account of the client, and also possibility of trading by discrete lots. Well and working standards of the largest brokers are:
- Twenty-four-hour news support for clients in the trading terminal.
- Daily analytical treatments of the markets of currencies, shares, indexes, metals.
- Day-and-night technical support.
- Presence of the personal manager for big clients
So, a good broker is made up of several important components:
1. Reliability,
2. Good trading conditions and
3. Conveniences of work.
There are many companies and banks which represent various combinations of these criteria. We hope that our advices will help you to find a good broker and to avoid typical errors in it choosing the Forex market.
The selection of a
foreign currency trading service is not an easy task. And one shouldn't dash to make a decision on such a service.
It is very important that you follow a final piece of advice - today the Internet technologies give you a really unique chance to choose what you need for the best price on the market. Funny, but most of the people don't use this opportunity. In real practice it means that you should use all the tools of today to get any
foreign currency trading information that you need.
Search Google or other search engines. Visit social networks and check the accounts that are relevant to your topic. Go to the niche forums and join the online discussion. All this will help you to build up a true vision of this market. Thus, giving you a real opportunity to make a wise and nicely balanced decision.
And also sign up to the RSS feed on this blog, because we will everything possible to keep this blog tuned up to the day with new publications about the topic of
how to trade foreign currency and important trends on the currency exchange market.
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