sábado, 19 de septiembre de 2015

What is Forex?

Forex

Join the world's largest financial exchange market and start earning by trading with the major market participants.
 

What is Forex?

Forex (Foreign Exchange market) – the world's largest financial market, where different currencies are exchanged against each other. Daily transaction volumes of the Forex market are, according to our estimates, as high as 3-4 trillion USD.  Compare this to about 25 billion a day volume of the New York Stock Exchange.
Among all financial markets, Forex is the easiest to access for beginners and retail traders with relatively modest money to spare.
The major participants of the Forex market are commercial and central banks, large corporations and hedge-funds. However, you do not need to have millions or thousands of dollars to start!  Due toleverage and marginal trading, you can start trading with $100 or $500 and enjoy the same trading conditions as the large market players. There are even Micro and Mini accounts that let you trade with as little as $1.
Unlike stock futures market, Forex is does not have a central location, where trading normally takes place. Banks and other market participants are connected to each other via electronic communications networks (ECNs). Forex trading continues 24 hours aday, 5 days a week from Monday to Friday. This decentralized structure allows traders to buy and sell currencies without extra fees and commissions. It also provides access to trading anytime and from anywhere in the world. 
 

8 reasons to choose Forex:

  • High liquidity and best prices. In Forex there are always traders who are willing to buy or sell. The market never sleeps. An ECN Broker offers its clients the best quotes from major banks, other ECNs and liquidity providers. The Broker actually profits from providing the best quotes and the tightest spreads.
  • Access to trading 24/5 from anywhere . The market trades 24 hours a day, 5 days a week from Monday to Friday, and your broker offers you support 24 hours a day. You can choose when to trade – the European, US and the Asian trading sessions follow each other. When trading sessions in different time zones overlap, the available liquidity in Forex reaches its maximum.
  • You can trade with as little as $100! Starting deposits in Forex are considerably lower than in other financial markets. Leveraged (or marginal) trading used in Forex lets you operate funds many times as large as your margin deposit
  • And the broker is interested in your profits. In the ECN model, you trade with other market participants not against your broker. To execute your order, the ECN Aggregator will find a matching opposite order (same price and available volume) from another market participant. The broker charges a small commission for transferring your order to the ECN and finding a match for it. With this business model, the broker is not trading against you and does not profit when you lose. On the contrary, the broker receives more commission when you increase your trade volumes.
  • In Forex, there is always a chance to earn. Stock markets can crash and securities may lose their value but when one currency is depreciating, the other will be gaining value and you can earn on that as well.
  • Market Analytics are easy to follow. There are only 4 major currency pairs in Forex. You can choose just one currency pair or several pairs to focus on. Monitoring news and market analytics for 4 currency pairs is easier than struggling to keep an eye on thousands of stocks.
  • Education and Training for Beginners You broker provides you with demo-accounts, training courses and workshops, video tutorials, news, charts and market analytics so that you can practice your trading skills.
  • Automated trading: You do not have to spend long hours in front of your computer studying charts and following all the price movements. With automatic indicators and signals you will be notified immediately of any important events or trend reversals. You can also take advantage of expert advisors, that are based on your own or somebody else's proven trading strategy. An Expert Advisor trades automatically without your participation.
 

To join the Forex market, all you need is:


PAMM Technology

PAMM Technology

PAMM — (Percentage Allocation Master Module) is a technology allowing a client (Slave) to follow a trading strategy of another client (Master). Master operates his/her personal funds through the PAMM, and by the use of PAMM technology the Master’s trading strategy is replicated on the Slave’s account.
The funds allocated for PAMM trading remain on the Master’s or the Slave’s trading account, but are segregated from the other funds and cannot be used for trading or any purposes other than PAMM. This virtual merging of the Master’s and the Slave’s funds allows identical trading conditions to be applied to all PAMM participants.
Forex PAMM account is beneficial for Slaves because they can benefit from Forex trading without having to do in-depth market research, trade and monitor positions themselves.
Forex PAMM is beneficial for Masters because they can trade funds many times larger than their own capital and receive a guaranteed fee for doing so. FXOpen PAMM technology is designed in such a way that both Masters and Slaves are protected from non-trading risks on each other's part.
Example:
Trader A opens a Master account via the Forex PAMM technology. With a Master's Capital worth of USD 10,000.
The Master then creates an Offer (i.e. a public proposal to other Clients to follow the strategy of the Master's account) with the following parameters: 30/5/10 - 6/4 - 10 000/1 000/100 - 10. The Master selects the Trading Interval for the master's account —1 Month.
Slave 1 and Slave 2 decide to follow the strategy of the Master. Slave 1 and Slave 2 allocate USD 25,000 and USD 15,000 respectively to be used in the PAMM account. This creates a virtual balance in the Master's Account at the start of the first Trading Interval of USD 50,000.

Pic. 1. Balance of the Master's account at the start of the first Trading Interval.

At the end of the month, as a result of the Master's successful trading, the balance in the Master's account increases to USD 75 000.
After all payments have been made according to the conditions specified in the Master's Offer, the profits to the Master and the Slaves are as follows:
  • Slave 1 – USD 9,500
  • Slave 2 – USD 5,700
  • Master 1 – USD 9,800


Pic. 1. Balance of the Master's account at the end of the first Trading Interval.


Mobile Forex Trading

Mobile Forex Trading


Full control over your trading accounts via a smartphone or a tablet PC.

We offer trading terminal versions for the most popular mobile platforms – iOS andAndroid. These apps are always there when you need them.  Access your trading account on the go. Mobile versions  of  the trading terminal offer the same essential features, just like your MT4 desktop terminal.

What you can do with mobile Forex trading apps:

place market and pending orders;

  • analyze market trends  with built-in technical indicators;
  • use interactive charts;
  • view account history and statements, detailing your open trades and account balance;
  • receive push notifications whenever important events occur;



















FXOpen Trader for Android

System requirements:
a mobile or a tablet PC with Android (1.6 or higher) and a stable Internet connection.
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MetaTrader 4

MetaTrader 4


MetaTrader 4 (MT4) - the leading Forex trading platform.

Over 70% of Forex brokers offer MT4 to their clients, and over 90% of all transactions on the retail Forex market are conducted via MetaTrader 4. Since 2005 MetaTrader 4 has been holding the title of the most popular Forex trading terminal and continues to receive prestigious awards year after year.

MetaTrader 4 for ECN

In 2009 FXOpen was the first broker to offer its clients direct access to Interbank liquidity and ECN trading via the MetaTrader 4 terminal. Standard Forex MT4 capacities have been extended and supplemented by FXOpen's own revolutionary solution – Liquidity Aggregator. Now FXOpen ECN ensures instantaneous and error-free order execution at the best prices from more than 10 banks and other liquidity providers (LPs).

Benefits of MT4:

  • Manual trading: trades can be placed directly from the price chart; all types of orders (market, pending, stop loss and take profit); 3 types of execution (instant execution, market execution and execution upon request), trailing stop;
  • Automated trading: download and use ready-made scripts and expert advisors or create a custom indicator or a script based on your own trading strategy;
  • Charting: charts can be displayed as bars, candles or lines; customized chart settings and templates, tick chart;
  • Analytics: 50+ built-in indicators and graphic tools for technical analysis, quotes history center, strategy tester and news.
  • MQL: simple and powerful programming language for creating scripts, trading experts, indicators and all sorts of other useful MT4 add-ins.