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Forex Contests
The Forex brokers continuously arrange some types of Forex contests and competition for their clients in order to retain their interest and association with their trading site or platform. The Forex trading contests are used by the online Forex brokers for making the traders more active and vigilant in their trading experience. Basically the Forex contests are arranged to test the trading skills and abilities of the Forex traders...
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Promotions Offered by the Forex Brokers
There are many different types of trade promotions which are exclusively provided by the Forex brokers and online companies. Besides the Forex bonuses and contests there are also promotions without any specific name which are commonly offered by the Forex brokers. In order to get familiar with them let's look through these trade promotions examples...
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Forex Bonuses
In order to attract potential clients to the company, Forex brokers provide different trading promotions such as Forex bonuses. Bonuses are very popular among traders because they help to earn extra profits and some of them even give an opportunity to earn money without any investments. All the Forex bonuses can be divided into groups...
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Beneficial Offers for Traders
Today all of us are fully aware about Forex and its related matters. The number of Forex traders is increasing day by day because of the interest and profits associated with trading on the currency market. Forex is somehow different from the traditional forms of trading like the stock exchange. In order to start trading Forex the investors have to find a reliable broker or dealer which can provide them the access to the trading process on the international currency market...
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Trading Principles
All traders, who joined FOREX, seek to reach best results. But to trade with profit, traders need to know and follow some FOREX principles.
1. Have your own trading strategy. Develop your system, which is based on some significant factors for trading on FOREX.
2. Control your emotions. Unstable emotional condition may disturb in making decisions. Learn how to control your emotions and...
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Trading Process
The most important steps of trading are order opening and order closing to fix the results of the trade.
Order opening
It is possible to trade on the platform MetaTrader 4 using either market or pending orders. Market order is used to...
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Trading Psychology
Psychological preparation is very important when you want to reach good stable results. The beginner, who has just started trading process, quite often considers Forex as it is something easy to learn, but this is not true. Having earned a small sum in the beginning, he looses his head and as a result can loose absolutely everything. During first days of trading you can start writing down all the actions made by you. In a little while you notice...
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Central Banks
Central bank is a bank that provides financial services to government and commercial banks of its country.
The main functions of the central bank are:
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SWAP
Transactions on the FOREX market are made on Spot terms. It means that all the deals are made with the actual delivery of the currency next workday after their execution. But there is no need in the real delivery of the currency in case of speculative trading (speculative trading is actually something you are about to start). If you execute order...
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Analysis on the Forex Market
In order to interpret the situation on the market correctly and figure out what some actions and events will cause, you need to learn to "read", group and analyze information, received from external sources. To predict future currency fluctuations, you must learn two types of analyses: technical and fundamental. Lets find out what are the features of each one of them.
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Types of Charts
In order to display information on the quotes of the foreign exchange market, several ways of building charts exist. Charts are used by the trader to conduct technical analysis and make market decisions. They are built in two coordinates: price and/or tick volume (shown on vertical axis) and time period (horizontal). Some kind of data is used for building charts (except tick ones):
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Trading Platforms
To start trading process, the necessary condition is the presence of the trading platform. Trading platform (trading terminal) is a set of software and hardware, adapted for online trading, which provides interaction of broker and trader. In other words, trading platform – is a software, that is installed on trader's computer and used for online trading. Some platforms work through...
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How to Start
It is easy to start trading on FOREX, the complication appears when you want to trade with profit. A lot of people mistakenly consider FOREX as a kind of gambling, where everything depends on the luck. But this is not true. In order to receive stable profit, theoretical knowledge is required. This knowledge must be followed by practice. In order to test your trading skills, when you are not experienced in trading, you have a chance to...
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Basics of Forex Market
The concept of trading on the FOREX market is based on the process of buying one currency for another and inverse operation of selling it, to make profit. You can make such transactions with almost every currency of the world. Let's analyze some examples. Example 1: You have 1,600 USD and exchange rate GBP/USD is 1.6000, which means that you can buy 1,000 GBP for 1,600 USD. You buy...
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What is FOREX? Major participants
Forex (foreign exchange market or currency market) – is a young and developing market of currency exchange, whose daily turnover exceeds all the financial markets of the world (according to the Bank for International Settlements, daily turnover reached the level of 4 trillion USD in 2010, comparing to daily turnover of American stock exchanges, which is "only" 300 billion USD). The market of currency exchange started its history in...
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How to Research Stocks
For some traders, trading in stocks is a novelty, and many need help knowing where to start, how to research, or how to select stocks for trading or investing.
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The Reality of Successful Trading: Forget about the Palm Tree Fantasy
Trading isn't a leisurely activity reserved for exotic locales; it's a demanding profession that requires dedication, discipline, and a deep understanding of the markets. While the freedom to work remotely is a perk of trading, it's essential to dispel the myth that success can be achieved simply by lounging on a beach with a laptop.
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Mathematical Expectations in Trading
Mathematical expectation refers to the average outcome of a trading strategy over many trades, taking into account both profits and losses. It's a statistical concept that helps traders assess the potential profitability of their strategies.
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