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Understanding How the Forex Brokers Make Profits

July 18th, 2009

When you open a forex trading account, you will be told by your forex broker that there are no commissions involved in currency trading. Most of the new traders take their broker words as true. They think that the cost of trading is minimal.

Forex brokers also called FCMs (Futures Commission Merchants) make profits through the bid-ask spread they offer to their clients for each currency pair. This bid-ask spread is the trading cost for you and the profit for your FCM.

Lets take a practical example. Bid/ask spreads are usually overlooked by the individual traders as the price they have to pay for trading. So lets calculate what your cost of trading can be in a year.

Suppose you are a day trader. You trade 5 times a day. Taking away the weekends, when you cant trade, there are 250 trading days.

As a day trader, you open and close your position before the end of the day. That means each position is traded 2 times.

Suppose; your start with an account size of $50,000. You are using a leverage of 4 only, you are cautious. So this $50,000 deposit will control (50,000) (4) = $200,000 for you.

Your Annual Turnover will be; (5) (250)(2)(200,000)= $500 M. Huge! Now lets calculate how much your broker will make and what your spread cost is. Spread Cost= (Annual Turnover) (spread)/2.

Suppose further, the bid/offer spread charged by the broker is 3 pips. 3 Pips Spread Cost= (500M) (0.0003)/2= $75,000.

Suppose, the spread offered by the broker is only 2 pips. 2 Pip Spread Cost= (500M) (0.0002)/2= $50,000.

You can see now, the cost of trading with a 3 pips spread versus a 2 pips is $25,000. Huge for you, this is 50% of your account equity. You see now that a 1 pip difference can result in $25,000 more as trading cost for you.

You will need to make a profit of $75,000 in a year simply to breakeven with a 3 pips spread. Trading costs are one of the most important reasons most active traders fail in the long run.

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Learn Forex Trading

April 21st, 2009

Many people are turning towards forex trading after losing their money in the recent stock market crash. In fact, forex trading is the best work from home opportunity. Forex trading can be done anywhere from the world if you have a computer and an internet connection. Forex trading is the answer to the today’s global recession.

Forex and stock markets work differently in many ways. Forex market is highly liquid as compared to the stock market. Stocks are basically a long term investment method where ordinary people buy stocks either individually or through mutual funds and wait for these stocks to rise in order to build their retirement portfolios.

Forex markets are open 24 hours, five days a week except on weekends. You can trade forex online anytime of the day. On the other hand stock markets are open only from 9 AM to 5PM. After the stock market closes, you have no way to buy or sell a stock.

Forex trading is a highly liquid market. Most of the participants in the forex markets are either hedgers or speculators. Big institutions are looking for hedging their forex exchange risk whereas small traders are looking for speculating opportunities and willing to take on risk. Stocks are considered to be a long term investment.

In the US stock markets there are more than 50,000 stocks listed on the different stock exchanges. As compared to that in forex markets, mostly five major currency pairs are traded: USDEURO, USDGBP, USDCHF, USDJPY, USDASD.

Another major advantage of forex trading over stock trading is the lower trading cost. In forex trading, brokers don’t charge any commission. They make their profit by the difference between the bid ask spread. In stock trading, the brokers charge a fixed percentage as commission per trade.

Stock Market Crash of 2008 was terrible. More than $11 trillion of wealth was wiped out in 2008 alone. Many people lost more than 60% of their retirement savings. Even investments in blue chip stocks considered to be safe lost considerable value.

It is feared that sotck markets will take 2-3 years at least to recover. This bear market has wiped out many investors. But there is always a bull market in forex. Even a small change in dollar or euro exchange rate may be an opportunity for you to make a fortune.

Daily more than $3 trillion get traded on the forex markets. If you combine all the stock markets of the world, even then they cannot the match the size of the forex market. Forex markets are so huge that even governments and central banks are unable to control them.

Many people have lost most of their retirement savings in the stock market of 2008. They still don’t know how they are going to recover their retirement accounts again…

Learn forex trading. Yes, forex trading is the answer to this recession. It is not difficult to learn forex trading. If you are willing to give two hours daily to forex training, I believe in 2 months, you can become a forex trader. Take forex trading as your passion or hobby. You are not going to regret it.

You can read my blog where I give many forex trading methods. Most of these methods are risk free. You can try them on your demo account before actually implementing them on your live account. I want you to try one method that works on autopilot and you can try it risk free for 60 days.

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Join Forex Autopilot Group

April 20th, 2009

$11 trillion of wealth was wiped out in 2008. Many small investor simple lost all their saving. They have no clue how they are going to rebuild their retirement plans. Everyday brings new plunge in stock prices.

This bear market has not yet reached its bottom. It is expected that the stock market crisis is going to continue for a few more years. Many people have started forex trading.

Do you know why forex trading is becoming popular? Forex trading is the Recession Proof Business of 21st century. It is being said that forex trading is going to make many millionaires in the coming decade.

Forex trading can be difficult for a newbie. It takes time to learn and master a new thing. You need commitment and discipline to succeed. No doubt, forex markers are complex.

Forex trading can be easy if you first learn how to trade forex on your demo account. You can open a demo account in 5 minutes online. When you feel confident, you can start trading forex live.

But many people now trade forex on autopilot. Yes, programming scripts have been developed known as Expert Advisors that you can install on your trading account. The Expert Advisor will trade forex for you 24/5 (dont forget, forex markets are closed on weekends).

These Expert Advisors are also called Forex Robots. Set your robot once and it will continuously trade for you, never tiring or losing its focus. All the time, it will analyze the market and only make a buy/sell decision at the right time.

With Forex Autopilot Turbo, you dont have to sit in front of your computer screen all day. Forex Autopilot Turbo is programmed to only trade in favorable market conditions. It can be set to do scalping for you or trade long term. It has been giving 96% winning trading till now.

You only need to check your account once a day for only 10 minutes to see how much money the robot has made overnight for you. Isnt this method great?

Forex Autopilot Group is a club run by Charles Floyd. He has been trading forex for many decades. He can teach you how to trade forex with a robot.

He will also teach you the principles of risk and money management. These things are very important. If you dont take care of risk and money management, you will never become successful in the long run.

Forex Autopilot Group will teach you all these things. If you join this group, you will be in touch with other forex traders online and learn many new techniques and strategies from them. This group gives you a workable plan for making your first million dollars trading forex in two years.

March to a million with Forex Autopilot Group. Give it a risk free trial for 60 days and see how it can help you in making your first million dollars.

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Trading Forex Online Risk Free

April 19th, 2009

Many people want a home based business opportunity that can generate good income for them part time. During the recent stock market crash, many have burned their fingers. So, most of them are afraid of investing in stocks. People dont know that forex trading is the best home based business. Even if they know, they think that it is not them being too difficult.

Learning something new is always an effort and without a little bit of commitment you wont succeed. You will have to learn forex trading with some commitment in the beginning. But once you have learned it, you will be happy to have done so.

Always learn a new thing with commitment. Make a conscientious decision that you are not going to quit until you succeed. With this approach you are surely going to emerge a winning forex trader.

Many people stay away from forex trading thinking that they will have to lose money in the beginning in order to learn forex trading. Now, the best thing is this that you can learn forex trading without losing a single cent of your hard earned money.

Start with selecting a good forex trading course just to educate yourself about the forex markets in general, what is forex trading, forex trading method, how to enter/exit a trade, technical analysis etc,. Buy a course that comes with a money back guarantee. So, that if you dont like the course, you can ask for a refund and go for another course.

Go through the course thoroughly step by step. In my opinion, you should be able to master the material in the course in less than two weeks.

Once you have mastered the forex trading course, open a demo account. You can easily open a demo account online in five minutes. It is as easy as that.

Start practicing the strategies that you have learned in the course. Practice and practice to figure out what works for you and what does not, demo account gives you the opportunity to do so. On the demo account, you trade with fake money or virtual money but the data is real. So you are trading in the real world but using fake money.

As you have been practicing with fake money, you are not losing your real money but you are getting valuable practical experience of trading forex. Since you are no using real money, you are not going to lose even a single cent of your hard earned money but you will be getting valuable experience trading forex. Now many people have stopped trading forex manually. They trade forex on autopilot with a robot.

The development of Metatrader platform by forex brokers opened up the possibility of developing programming scripts known as forex robots that could trade forex on auto.

In the last two years, a number of very good forex trading robots have hit the market. A few of them are very good. Do your research and select one. Buy a forex robot that comes with a money back guarantee. Install it on your Metatrader demo account. Let it run for a few weeks. See its performance.

Only buy a forex robot that gives you a money back guarantee. This will help you test it by installing it on your Metatrader demo account and running it for a few weeks. If after a few weeks you find that it has multiplied your money, keep it. If it has not multiplied your money or has given you a loss, simply ask for a refund. Since, you have been using fake money; you are not losing a single cent of your hard earned money.

Dont you like this risk free method of trading forex? Why dont you give it a try? Forex trading is the best home business. Dont miss it! You can start trading forex with $300 or even less so dont hesitate to try it. It may make you rich!

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Forex Broker Tricks

April 18th, 2009
<div style='font-style:italic;' class='byline'>by Hass67

Forex traders need to know about their forex brokers if they want to really start trading forex trading. There are many myths and scams that need to be exposed. Many retail forex traders are too simpleton to understand the games the forex brokers play with them.

Retail forex market where small traders like you and I trade forex is different than the interbank forex market. Interbank forex market is where big banks, corporations, hedge fund and other institutional investors exchange currencies. It is only open to big players.

With the advent of internet, retail forex trading became popular. Forex brokers work as intermediaries between the retail traders and the interbank market. Forex brokers popularize retail fx trading by offering online margin accounts. But beware retail forex market is not highly regulated. Due to poor regulation forex brokers can do what they want with immunity.

Know these games before you start your forex trading. The following facts can help you understand some of the games that can be played against you:

Pricing is Not Transparent: Being an OTC (Over the Counter) market, forex broker can quote prices that may not be fair but you have accept them or choose another broker. The prices that your forex broker is going to quote to you, is the price that you will get. You cannot do anything about it.

Leverage: Forex brokers let you trade forex with a high leverage like 100-1 or 200-1. Rather they will encourage you to use more leverage. Using leverage allows you to make high gains with a small price movement but it destroys you when you are on the wrong side of the market. Since most of the forex traders dont know how to trade. Giving you high leverage lets your broker gain when you lose.

Trading against you: Your forex broker will most probably will be trading against you! Since, most of the retail trades are too small in size; your forex broker cannot immediately offset this position in the interbank market. This gives them the opportunity to trade against you. The more you lose, the more your broker makes.

Non transparent Practices: Casinos and forex brokers have one mentality. They dont like you winning. If you have a winning streak, the house will get stacked against you. Your trades may not get executed due to slippage. The service may be denied to you. The forex broker may make it difficult for you to execute your trades.

Visit my Blog for finding a Forex Broker Scorecard that can help you in choosing a right broker. You also need to know what type of questions you should ask.

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