The brokerage industry experienced tremendous growth as the Internet penetration in our everyday lives increased at the start of the 21st century. Online trading made it possible for retail traders with small accounts to participate in the largest financial market in the world – the foreign ...
Ever wonder why traders lose money in Forex? Or, more precisely, why most retail traders have difficulties making a profit when trading Forex? Lack of profit is not necessarily a Forex failure. However, the loss of capital is a failure, and retail traders, especially the ones trading for the ...
As you may know, Forex trading not only opens alluring prospects of financial gain but also involves substantial risks. Conflicts over order execution occur between the parties involved in a transaction (the broker and the trader) all too often. In most jurisdictions, local regulatory ...
Slippage as well as market execution (as opposed to instant execution) are the integral parts of trading in an ECN/STP environment. Contrary to the dealing desk model, where a broker takes the opposite side of the client’s trades and the liquidity is therefore virtual, the liquidity pool on ECN ...
Forex aggregators provide software solution for liquidity aggregation from various sources within a single view. The aggregators support various combination of order types, currencies and tiered pricing. Forex brokers nowadays seem very interested in acquiring the services of Forex aggregators ...
Scalping has always been a favorite strategy among traders to earn big bucks in mere a short period of time. Scalpers intend to open positions with large lot size and try to close them after gaining just a few pips profit, a scalper usually holds a position just around a couple of hours or ...
Straight Through Processing (STP) accounts have always been a favorite choice of brokers due to minimum spread, less risk and instant execution of orders. Many brokers offer the facility of STP accounts against some predetermined commission and initial deposit not less than $1000, hence making ...
It has not been long since FXOpen Australia opened its doors to the public with a regulated trading environment (see: https://www.fxopen.com.au/). There are only a few differences I have noticed since moving from operating with the NZ entity and the ASIC regulated entity, and I thought it might ...