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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The Speculative Sentiment Indicator (SSI) is a powerful contrarian indicator that can help you locate trading opportunities by gauging trader positioning and sentiment in the forex market. If the majority of traders are long, a contrarian indicator bias is short…
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FXCM closely tracks and clearly displays rollover rates in our Trading Station platform. Please be advised that interest rates are provided to FXCM by multiple liquidity providers. Every effort is made to display rollover rates one day before they are…
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5 p.m. in New York is considered the beginning and end of the Forex trading day. Any positions that are open at 5 p.m. sharp are considered to be held overnight, and are subject to rollover.A position opened at 5:01…
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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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When trading Forex on margin, there can be a few ways to determine the required margin for a trade. Fixed margin means that there is a fixed amount of margin required to open a trade. If margins were variable and…
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To calculate the required margin for your trade, you need to determine a few things: The value of the trade Your account leverage Here is an example: Let's say a trader has a USD account and you want to trade…
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Used Margin is the amount of account equity currently committed to maintain open positions. Used Margin can be thought as the trader's 'good faith' deposit on the open positionsThe account must maintain AT LEAST this amount for open trades to…
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A Margin Call will occur on a trader's account when: Usable Margin is less than 0 When a trader's Equity is less than Used Margin When positions are over-leveraged or trading losses produce insufficient equity to maintain current open positions, a…
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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 positionsThe amount that EXISTING positions can move against…
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