Please register for a VPS by submitting the VPS Registration Form online. Please note, the VPS service is only available to Wholesale clients. At the beginning of the month (between 1st and 15th), a fee equal to 30 units of…
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In the "Dealing Rates" window of the Trading Station, follow these easy steps: Click on "Buy" or "Sell" for the currency pair you would like to trade.The "Create a Market Order" window will appear. Update all fields related to your…
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Yes. In addition to our policy of transparency in reporting rollover, due to the average notional trading volume that FXCM generates to the liquidity providers1 it deals with, FXCM is able to pass to its clients' attractive rollover rates on…
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FXCM closely tracks and clearly displays rollover rates. Please be advised, interest rates are provided to FXCM by multiple liquidity providers. Every effort is made to display rollover rates one day before they are posted to your account. However, during…
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5 PM in New York is considered the beginning and end of the Forex trading day. Any positions that are open at 5 PM EST sharp are considered to be held overnight, and are subject to rollover.A position opened at…
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When you buy the EUR/USD pair, you are buying the euro, and selling the U.S. dollar to pay for it. If the euro interest rate is 4.00%, and the U.S. rate is 2.25%, you are buying the currency with the…
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Rollover is the interest paid or earned for holding a position overnight. Each currency has an overnight interest rate associated with it, and because Forex is traded in pairs, every trade involves not only two different currencies, but their two…
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You can view up-to-date margin requirements listed by currency pair in the MMR column of the "Simple Dealing Rates" window within the platform. Margin requirements are subject to change without notice based on price fluctuations.
When you use excessive leverage, a few losing trades can quickly offset many winning trades. To clearly see how this can happen, consider the following example. Scenario: Trader A buys 50 lots of USD/JPY while Trader B buys 5 lots…
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Trading on Margin (Trading with Leverage) is a common attraction of the forex market. It allows you to open trades that are larger than the capital in your account. Example In the example above, $1,000,000 have been purchased through a long…
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The times on your FXCM statement are in UTC. You can change the time zone on your charts to UTC by clicking on System, Options, and General Trading. Edit the “Time Zone” drop down to “UTC” and click on Apply. Marketscope…
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Slippage is a factor when trading any financial market. Slippage occurs when the market gaps over prices or because available liquidity at a given price has been exhausted. Market gaps normally occur during fast moving markets when a price can jump…
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