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…
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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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 Directs trading hours vary by product. For Forex, trading opens on Sundays between 5:00 PM ET and 5:15 PM ET and closes on Fridays around 4:55 PM ET. For CFD trading hours, click here.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. Trading on margin can both positively and negatively affect your trading…
