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Broker
Broker is a professional market participant that carries out transactions with a particular set of tools either on behalf of and on account of the client, or in its own name and on the client's account on the basis of commutative contracts...
Chapter 2. Forex market participants
It is vital to understand what part a private investor plays in the global currency exchange market before starting trading forex. Giving an insight into the types of forex participants, as well as their influence on the market, will help y...
Exchange rate conversion
How does InstaForex exchange rate converter for deposits and withdrawals differ from other forex brokers?If you replenish your account in a currency that differs from your account one, the company uses the current market rate. The informati...
InstaForex contractors
InstaForex cooperates with many Western contractors, in particular, regulated by NFA and FSA brokers. The policy is not to give such information publicly, as it would be an advertising support for our contractors; many of them are company’s...
InstaForex ECN trading
InstaForex is an ECN broker providing qualitative trading services on the Forex market. Cooperation with major market makers and brokers complete with large customer base provide InstaForex with high liquidity and opportunity to make fast o...
Trading server system
At present InstaForex is one of the leading brokers in the Forex market. The number of the Company’s clients exceeds 2,000,000 people around the world and the trading operations’ volume of InstaForex is enhancing every day. In this regard,...
Leverage
Leverage is the ratio between the amount of the margin and the borrowed funds allocated for it: 1:100, 1:200, 1:500. The leverage of 1:100 means that a trader is required to have an amount in the trading acount which is 100 times less than...
Intraday trading
Day trading is a market strategy which has been increasingly popular due to advancements in the computer network technology. It involves speculation on short-term fluctuations of market prices. Positions are frequently opened and closed, so...
Order
Order is a command to execute a certain operation in the account. The types of orders vary, depending on the market and the instrument. Moreover, different brokers offer different sets of available order types. These sets may include (espec...
Pipsing
This trading approach is used for gaining profit from intraday currency fluctuations. Some traders open more than 200 deals a day while holding a position open for just several minutes. Of course, the profit from each position is rather sma...
EUR/JPY pipsing
Pipsing involves daily work in front of your computer, minimum of news and maximum of luck. There is no need to know the financial mechanism of global economy regulation and countries’ GDP. Even the bullish market has a lot of pullbacks dur...
Short-term trading
The “secret” of this trading strategy is that the shorter the duration of your trade, the less money you will make.Think about any investment you have ever made. Did you make a killing in one day?And even if you are so lucky, how many times...
InstaForex affiliate programs
InstaForex affiliate program is a riskless method of making a profit with InstaForex. Forex brokers earn on spreads their clients pay to open trades. You can earn the part of the broker's profit if you become an affiliate and start attracti...
Chapter 1. Introduction
Until the 1970s, the exchange rate of a particular currency was determined by the country's gold reserves. That was due to the fact that global markets were regulated by the gold standard. Each currency had its equivalent in a troy ounce. H...
Chapter 5. Buy and sell price of currency pairs and spread
Until now, talking about quotes, we have intentionally used only spot (current) Forex exchange rates to make our website easier to understand. However, a Forex quote consists of two rates (prices) - the sell rate (bid) and the buy rate (ask...
Chapter 8. Forex market and exchange offices
Forex trading is aimed at making money on currency speculations. We have been describing the currency market above but avoided such topics as what starting capital is needed to work on Forex and what profit can be expected. In this chapter...
Chapter 9. Margin trading
In the previous chapter we compared work on Forex with the opportunity to earn from the buy/sell operations at an exchange office. It is obvious that Forex has a range of advantages that allow traders to take significant profit in a short t...
Chapter 11. Interest rates and swaps
We have already clarified that margin trading supposes the usage of the loan capital, when a trader borrows assets from his broker to carry out operations on Forex. For better understanding of this chapter, let us study the principle of cas...
Chapter 12. Profits of Forex market players
As we have already mentioned, an individual trader gets access to Forex by means of a broker or a dealing company. Traders earn money via currency speculations. In other words, they close positions at a higher price compared to the price of...
Chapter 14. Difference between forex trading and gambling
There are many articles on the internet in which trading on Forex is compared to gambling in casinos, and in particular, to roulette. The authors of these articles bring out different proofs, citing mathematical extracts from the theory of...
Chapter 15. Stock exchanges and stock indices
Even though this section is devoted to forex education, we will also touch on the stock exchanges and stock indices. At first glance, it seems that the chapter is not related to Forex, but, in fact, it is. Currency rates are interrelated wi...
