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Adding Leverage To Your Forex Trading | PL: 10  Category: General | Comments (0) 2010-08-09 08:48:22 Adding Leverage To Your Forex Trading In the foreign exchange markets, it is common to find leverage of 100:1 or even more. However, just because the market maker or broker may offer you leverage as high as 100:1, it doesn't mean you have to use all the leverage available. In fact, if you are a savvy trader, you will only use high leverage when you can calculate and manage the risks associated with the high leverage to your advantage. We'll show you how this is profitable without being problematic. Margin and Leverage...   Tags: leverage, margin, pips   Member: Rudi, Munic | 4 Snaps

Forex trading: how to set stop loss order and when to exit drifting positions | PL: 22  Category: General | Comments (0) 2010-06-17 08:43:39 Forex trading: how to set stop loss order and when to exit drifting positions Every trader enters a position with the expectation of a favorable financial gain. Of course your past trades have been successful but this trade is not occurring in a way that you want it to be. The trade simply stays flat. You might end up holding a position for long because you strongly belief that it will change on of a sudden. But this is not the case because the position still keeps drifting for almost two weeks and you are now wondering what action you should do. How do you decide...   Tags: drifting position, Forex market, forex trading, margin call, target profit, trade position   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps

Forex Money Management: Leverage and Margin Basics | PL: 16  Category: General | Comments (0) 2010-06-14 08:51:53 Forex Money Management: Leverage and Margin Basics Two very important concepts of forex money management are leverage and margin. Leverage allows forex traders to invest much more into currency trading than is available in their trading accounts. Thus, forex traders can operate larger funds. Margin is the real funds that are required to be held in the trading account as a collateral to cover any possible losses. Forex Money Management: Leverage Profits and losses in the forex market tend to be higher than what you would experience in the...   Tags: Money Management, Leverage, Margin Basics   Member: EF | 51 Snaps

Placing Stops | PL: 12  Category: General | Comments (0) 2010-05-10 08:11:44 Natural size Placing Stops Stop placement is where we separate the kids from the adults. Stop placement is the sole responsibility of you as the manager of your trading business. It is one buck that you cannot pass. You are the end of the line when it comes to placing stops. Let me show you why you, and only you, can decide where to place the stop. There are several considerations: The size of your margin account has the greatest effect on stop placement. When you look at a trade and see where the stop...   Tags: stop placement, forex trading, margin   Member: Giancarlo | 11 Snaps

Forex Leverage: A Double-Edged Sword | PL: 15  Category: General | Comments (0) 2010-04-06 09:01:10 Natural size Forex Leverage: A Double-Edged Sword One of the reasons why so many people are attracted to trading forex compared to other financial instruments is that with forex, you can usually get much higher leverage than you would with stocks. While many traders have heard of the word leverage, few have a clue about what leverage is, how leverage works, and how leverage can directly impact their bottom line. What is leverage? Leverage involves borrowing a certain amount of the money needed to invest in something. In the case of...   Tags: forex leverage, margin, required margin, margin-based leverage   Member: Luíz, São Paulo | 3 Snaps

The Story of a Margin Call | PL: 35  Category: Training | Comments (0) 2010-01-29 00:24:39 Natural size The Story of a Margin Call In Part 3 of our money management series, i will like to present to you Tom. This is a story of how short lived his Forex career is due to poor money management. This is a story of a margin call. Having deposited $200 for a micro account, Tom is all ready to go and feeling on top of the world. He heard his friends saying that Forex is a trending market. Just follow the trend! It was Friday 07 AUG 09. 0820HRS. He heard people commenting about Non Farm Payroll and how much...   Tags: forex, trading, margin call, margin   Member: Koala | 1 Snaps

ECB Policy - Understanding the European Central Bank | PL: 33  Category: General | Comments (0) 2010-01-12 08:16:48 Natural size ECB Policy - Understanding the European Central Bank Although the ECB has other roles, such as protecting the value of the Euro, the only variable it must consider while setting deciding its interest rate policies is consumer price inflation, since the main task of the central bank is maintaining price stability which is defined as inflation close to, but below two percent. As the governing body of the Eurosystem of Central Banks, the ECB is also responsible for maintaining the stability of the European financial system, although it has no...   Tags: ECB, European Central Bank, HCPI, Marginal Lending Rate, Deposit Rate, EONIA, Euribor, Eurepo   Member: ForexFraud | 29 Snaps

Forex Trading – Lose More than Invested | PL: 14  Category: General | Comments (0) 2009-12-24 07:14:23 Forex Trading – Lose More than Invested Thanks to margin, today online forex trading is available to any investor. Margin allows a trader to control 100 - 500 times more the amount of money actually deposited. When there is a chance of profit, there is also a possibility of loss. By borrowing sums that a trader doesn’t actually possess, is it possible to lose more money than invested? Is there a possibility of negative balance? Can you end up owing a large sum of money to the forex broker? And if so, how can you protect yourself from...   Tags: forex loss, forex risk, margin, leverage   Member: Brian | 1 Snaps

The Dreaded Margin Call - What it is and how you can avoid it | PL: 47  Category: Training | Comments (0) 2009-11-25 08:44:43 Natural size The Dreaded Margin Call - What it is and how you can avoid it Your neighbor at a party is telling a captivating story of how he had experienced a margin call from his broker. Like the rest of the crowd, you put on a face that is a combination of shock and sympathy, but in your head, you are thinking “What the heck is he talking about?” In the foreign exchange market, everybody uses leverage to trade currency. Basically we borrow money from our brokers to carry out our trade. But when we borrow too much money and our positions start to go against us,...   Tags: forex trading, margin, margin call, used margin, balance, available margin   Member: Brian | 9 Snaps

Forex trading margin and leveraging explained | PL: 57  Category: Training | Comments (0) 2009-11-04 07:17:50 Forex trading margin and leveraging explained Traders tend to confuse the concept of margin and leveraging. This is one of the aspects in forex trading that confuses many traders and also to include the new traders. Forex trading is very complex and beginners have to understand the basics before they jump into the market. In this section we will look at the margin and leveraging and it will be outlined in brief detail so that the beginners and other traders will understand its meaning. Generally, trading with borrowed money is...   Tags: Broker, capital, forex trading, leverage, lot, margin   Member: ecommerce-journal | 146 Snaps