Margins calls often occur due to overleveraging. Using more leverage can magnify your gains, but it can also magnify losses which will quickly deplete your usable margin. The more leverage you use, the faster your losses can accumulate. The…
You can view up-to-date margin requirements listed by currency pair in the MMR column of the "Simple Dealing Rates" window within the Trading Station platform. Margin requirements are subject to change without notice based on price fluctuations.
You can use the below links to create as many demo accounts as you would like: Trading Station / TSWeb / TSMobile To create a Trading Station Demo account, click here. Trading Station demo accounts expire after 30 Days of inactivity.…
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…
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 of…
FXCM 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…
The word “PIP” stands for Percentage in Point. In forex, a pip is what you would consider a “point” for calculating profits and losses. On Trading Station, you can see the value of a pip for each of your trades when entering…
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…
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…
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…
RETAILS CLIENTS Available leverage is determined by ESMA and not by FXCM. FXCM EU offers different leverage for different tradeable instruments. 30:1 leverage restriction for major currency pairs 20:1 for non-major currency pairs, gold and major indices 10:1 for commodities…