At the top of your trading platform click on the Report, button to view your Combined Account Statement. On the statement the "Condition" column indicates the order type that closed the trade. The "Created By" column indicates where the order…
Margin and leverage are two sides of the same coin. While margin is the good faith deposit traders need to maintain open positions, leverage is the ratio between the margin that the trader had to set aside, and the notional…
Usable Margin: is the amount of account equity that is currently not being used to maintain open positions. Usable Margin should be thought of as two things: The amount available to open NEW positions The amount that EXISTING positions can move…
Please register for a VPS by submitting the VPS Registration Form online. Clients who trade with an average notional volume at least 500K per month for the previous 3 months will have the cost of the VPS service reimbursed. This…
Margin can be thought of as a good faith deposit to maintain open positions. This is not a fee or a transaction cost, it is simply a portion of your account equity set aside and allocated as a margin deposit.…
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The Speculative Sentiment Indicator (SSI) is a powerful contrarian indicator that can help you locate trading opportunities by gauging trader positioning and sentiment in the Forex market. If the majority of traders are long, a contrarian indicator bias is short…
To install a Trading Station indicator that was downloaded from the FXCM App Store please open the “.zip” file downloaded from the FXCM App Store. This should reveal a “.exe” file. Run the file to start the installer. Press “Next”…
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…
With any financial product, there is a price to Buy and a price to Sell. When verifying if a trade should have triggered it’s important to make sure you are looking at the correct side of the market. Marketscope…
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