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…
Friedberg Direct offers several account types to meet your trading needs including mobile trading, automated trading, or Mac-compatible platforms. You can compare the features of our platforms at the Forex Trading Platform Comparison page. The most popular platform is the award-winning Trading…
If the requested price of a stop or stop entry order is reached at the open of the market on Sunday, the order will be filled at the next available price and may experience negative slippage depending on the change…
For every instrument traded on the Trading Station platform, Initial/Maintenance Margin Requirement denoted as [MMR] is displayed in the [MMR] column of the Simple Dealing Rates window. They can also be seen here: See Current USD Margin Requirements per 10K…
Once you have completed the checkout process, you will be presented with your app download link. Clicking on that link downloads the files you need to use your app. Your app download link is located in the “Your Order” section…
Your registration key was sent in an email separate from your purchase confirmation. Please check your email for a message with the subject title, "FXCM: Your Registration Key".
Un-package the zip file you received when you downloaded the app. This will reveal a text file called “Getting Started.pdf.” This document includes general information that explains how to use the app and adjust its settings.
Each app includes its own installation instructions, which also contains general information on how to use the app. After downloading an app, unzip the downloaded file to reveal the installation instructions text file (“installation-instructions.txt”).
If you need to download your app files at any time in the future, please refer to your original order confirmation email. This confirmation email was sent to you shortly after you submitted your order.
The usable margin column in the accounts window of the Trading Station shows the amount of funds you have remaining in your account to open new positions or guard against losses. There are two things that can decrease your usable…
A Margin Call will occur on a trader's account when: Usable Margin is less than 0 When a trader's Equity is less than Used Margin When positions are over-leveraged or trading losses produce insufficient equity to maintain current open positions, a margin…
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…
