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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Yes. In addition to our policy of transparency in reporting rollover, due to the average notional trading volume that FXCM generates to the liquidity providers it deals with, FXCM is able to pass to its clients' attractive rollover rates on…
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Margin can be thought of as a good faith deposit required 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…
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As a general rule of thumb, we recommend limiting total account leverage to a maximum of 20:1. For example, if you have an account balance of $10,000, you could trade a maximum position size twenty times larger than your account…
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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…
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No. The smallest trade size offered by FXCM will be Micro (1K) lots.
When choosing the lot size for your trade, you may want to consider a few factors: The price levels (or number of pips) you want to set your Stop/Limit The amount of capital you wish to risk The amount of…
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Effective Leverage relates to the amount of leverage that your account is using to control the total value of the positions you have open. Here is an example: Assume you have a Standard Lot of USD/CAD (100K on Trading Station…
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