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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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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.…
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FXCM takes the required steps to ensure that the execution of our quoted prices provide clients with the best possible result. On some occasions, due to fast moving markets, executions may be at a price which is no longer the…
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Stop and limit orders are placed from the "Open Positions" window based on the total amount of positions per symbol. To place a stop or limit order: From the "Open Positions" window, right click on the positions for the symbol…
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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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FXCM offer three types of API Connections: FIX, JAVA and Forexconnect. For detailed documentation on the API comparisons, visit FIXAPI, ForexConnectAPI, JavaAPI
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No. The smallest trade size offered by FXCM will be Micro (1K) lots.