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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…

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 positions The amount that EXISTING positions can move…

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 2:1 and the new margin requirement will be the equivalent…

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…

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…

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…