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Who trades with FXCM? A wide variety of market participants utilize FXCM's resources to facilitate their forex trading operations. Find out who here.

Growth of mobile trading has followed the expansion of the internet worldwide, and is set to continue as traders discover the ease of mobile technology.

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Learn how low oil prices affect emerging currencies and how it can affect global economies. Find out how you can leverage this for your investment strategy.

Brief History Of Trading By definition, the term "trade" is the act of buying, selling, or exchanging goods with other parties. Dating back to the beginnings of human civilisation, "trade" has been the apparatus by which people have exchanged valued assets in an attempt to prosper or survive. The instrument of trade is credited with linking different cultures and acting as a conduit for the transmission of culture and ideas.…

Penny stocks are traditionally identified as equities that trade at the low end of the ranges of prices found in the market, often less than a dollar or for "only pennies."

What Is Forex Arbitrage? Forex arbitrage is defined as "the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same, or essentially similar, security in two different markets for advantageously different prices," according to the concept formalised by economists Sharpe and Alexander in the 1990s. Given the popularity of forex trading, arbitrage strategies are implemented by thousands of participants around the world. Accordingly, someone who practices arbitrage is known as an "arbitrageur." Simply…

Latency directly influences the amount of time it takes for a trader to interact with the market.

One of the ways in which a trader can learn from past success and failure is through keeping a trading journal. A trading journal is a comprehensive record of data exclusively related to a trader's performance over a period of time.