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…
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…
You can always check the MMR for every instrument on the trading platform, however please use the below table for the latest MMR updates: As of ${ textDate(dateValue) } Filter & Sort Instrument(s) ${ currency } Account Currency ${ leverage…
Clients that hold an open position at the time of an FXCM expiration will have their positions closed at our rate during the market break. When a product expires, all pending Entry orders and Stop/Limit orders that are associated with…
Cryptocurrency Margin Requirements are updated shortly after market open (Sunday 18:00 ET) and then updated daily during the market break (Between 16:45 ET to 18:00 ET Daily). Cryptocurrencies are currently leveraged at 4:1 and the new margin requirement will be the equivalent…
Leverage is a function of the size of your trading position divided by the Margin Requirement. Therefore the larger the margin requirement the smaller the leverage available. The amount of leverage offered by FXCM differs depending on the instrument being…
By default in the Trading Station, a price is highlighted with a blue background when it moves up, and red when it moves down. On the charts, if the closing price of a candle or bar is higher than the…
The pip value on your trade depends on a number of variables: The lot size of your trade (1K/micro, 10K, 6K, etc.)The denomination of your account (Is your trading account in USD? GBP? EUR? etc.)The specific pair you are trading…
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…
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…
With any financial product, there is a price to Buy and a price to Sell. When verifying if a trade should have triggered it is important to make sure you are looking at the correct side of the market. Marketscope charts show 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.
