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In this day and age, Forex market has become the world's largest financial market ever existed. Literally trillions of dollars worth traded on a daily basis around the clock. with roughly 30 hours break every weekend. Players in the market ranging from multi-billion dollar institutions to individuals with deposits as little as few hundreds. This year after the impact of the world financial crisis, Forex markets gained more power and more fans. This is a market that prospers in such conditions. Forex trading is very risky, do not fall into the trap: If you are new to the forex perils I suggest you read and tweet this important Forex advice article by Maya Ebasi.: Learn how to Protect Yourself from Financial Ruin in Fx trading
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The FOREX term comes from Foreign Exchange. where you buy one currency with another, or sell a currency to buy dollars. Currencies come in pairs so each one has a value attached to it like EURUSD which means the value of EUR in US dollars. If you buy EURUSD then you will profit when this pair goes up in the chart which is known as heading north, and you will be losing if EURUSD goes south. If you sell this pair then the exact opposite is true. Trading Foreign Exchange: A Changing Market in a Changing World , Structure of the Foreign Exchange Market , Forex Market Hours, in this page below

The above links are provided in case you would like to do some reading about Forex trading.

To the right you can read recent trading news and view up to the second Forex quotes, you can also covert between the major currencies and view upcoming events that will have a great effect on currency prices.

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Europe and US Market Clues

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The whole idea of Forex currency trading is to buy cheaper and sell at a higher price which will result in profits. You may also start by selling first and later buying at a lower price. Most Forex brokers allow hedging which means that you can have opposite trades running at the same time. So the act of selling will not close an already open position that you bought the same currency pair. Otherwise, without hedging enabled a sell position would close an open buy position and vise versa. You can open a Demo Account and practice all you want with virtual money until you learn all you can about market behavior and amounts of orders before you go live with Forex trading. Forex Trading can fully automated via the use of Expert Advisors on Metatrader 4 trading Platform

In order to make substantial profits on momentary or daily changes in currency prices, Forex trading is done with high leverage provided by the broker. Leverage of 1:100 is the most common for average size accounts ranging from $1000 to $100000. Higher leverage is available up to 1:500 but not recommended since it presents a much greater risk.

Most beginners and losers press hard on leverage and when the market goes against them, they can not stay long before a margin call occurs in their account and eats up their deposits. Successful traders are very careful with leverage usage and usually they do not use more than 5% of their buying power which is known as Free margin. Read my Forex Market Blog post about using the right leverage

 
 

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On the above chart, The GBPUSD pair went up for 1 hour as shown by the 60 candle sticks above. a move from 1.6400 to 1.6500 or exactly 100 pips which translates to the following in your account:
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1.Buy 10 000 EURUSD at green signal and close order at red Signal = Profit $100
2.Buy 100 000 EURUSD at green signal and close order at red Signal = Profit $1000
3.Buy 1000 EURUSD at green signal and close order at red Signal = Profit $10
4.Sell 10 000 EURUSD at green signal and close order at red Signal = Loss $100
5.Sell 100 000 EURUSD at green signal and close order at red Signal = Loss $1000
6.Sell 1000 EURUSD at red signal green close order at red Signal = Loss $10
 
7.Buy 1000 000 EURUSD at green signal and close order at red Signal = Profit $10000
8.Sell 1000 000 EURUSD at green signal and close order at red Signal = Loss $10000
So, what is the proper size of a forex account to perform any of the above operations?

First, let us see the range of the market above, in 2 hours a 100 pip change occurred, so an account of $100 deposit would have been wiped out with $10k lot losing trade and same account would have grown to $200.00 with $10k winning trade.

In the above example, I consider this currency price change over 1 hour period of time to be very moderate as I experienced much more violent changes occurring in a much shorter periods of time over the past weeks.

Just few months ago when the feds announced USD quantitive easing I was sitting in front of my monitor managing my 25k live account on some bitching brokerage firm that I do not want to mention here, just when I had 500k buy positions and 500k sell positions, about to open another buy position on the EURUSD so I break the balance and make money if the pair goes up, something totally unbelievable happened, the pair opened 5 cents higher in the very next minute, this never happened ever before, but now it did and it could happen again.

So what went wrong with my all balanced trades? I got a margin call instantly even though I had 90% available free margin in the minute before, and the margin call with this particular broker means liquidating all open positions without exceptions. They return money laid out for open positions which I mentioned it account to 10% of total account.

Why did I get a margin call with all perfectly hedged trades, as I discovered later, I had assigned profit limits to my up trades, and the trades were closed profitable allowing the sell trades losses to mount to eat up all usable margin in the account.

the second minute the price dropped one entire penny, the third minute the price went up 2 entire pennies, but what can you do after the broker freezes the platform for a full 3 minutes !, and this was the occasion that made me go back to MT4 trading platform, and I will never trade with another broker not allowing MT4.

The above story shows that a 700 pip price change in one day is quite possible and this is called market volatility. To be protected against such occasions, account sizes should be as follows:

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$500 to trade 5k lots one order at a time or 3 trades 2 in opposite directions
$1000 to trade 10k lots one order at a time or 3 trades 2 in opposite directions
$10 000 to trade 100k lots one order at a time or 3 trades 2 in opposite directions
$100 000 to trade 1000k lots one order at a time or 3 trades 2 in opposite directions
Of course, if you traded for a while and have doubled your deposit already you can take bigger chances  with money you already made, otherwise you should stick to the above rule so you won't be sorry.

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Best Forex Trading Advice you can get anywhere !

Got thousands of dollars? do not shove it into a Forex account right away, First Learn in Forex Demo trading Mode, better yet, open a live mini account for under $300 and trade mini lots, Look at your numbers this way:

When you make $50.00 Profit in your live-practice account, think of it as $500 in your standard account

When you lose $100.00 in your live-practice account, think of it as $1000.00 you could lose with a standard account.

When you Double your multi hundred account think of it as You could double your standard Forex account

When you drain the entire mini account you could think of it as if You have drained a multi thousand Forex account

Continue practicing your mini live account until it either turns to a standard account, or become too small to make the smallest order size which is a micro lot of NZDUSD. at that time you either have to add funds or quit the entire idea, but by doing this the right way you could have saved yourself thousands of dollars in possible losses.

Forex Market Hours

 Forex Market Hours : just move mouse between vertical bars to view times

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Simply move mouse cursor between the bars to see time on Eastern, GMT and Dubai Time zones.
The Forex market is open 24 hours, 5 days a week. Monday thru Friday business hours of the above cities

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There is considerable exposure to risk in any off-exchange foreign exchange transaction, including, but not limited to, leverage, creditworthiness, limited regulatory protection and market volatility that may substantially affect the price, or liquidity of a currency or currency pair.

More over, the leveraged nature of forex trading means that any market movement will have an equally proportional effect on your deposited funds. This may work against you as well as for you. The possibility exists that you could sustain a total loss of initial margin funds and be required to deposit additional funds to maintain your position. If you fail to meet any margin requirement, your position may be liquidated and you will be responsible for any resulting losses. To manage exposure, employ risk-reducing strategies such as 'stop-loss' or 'limit' orders.

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