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Forex Platform

Without a forex platform where with the exchange would be impossible to invest in the currency market. While there are different proposals for forex platform, you must choose carefully, since this platform forex depend all our movements and our future earnings.

The proliferation of Internet, and the success of the forex market as a way to make money in recent years, boosted the development of systems, allowing users to choose the forex platform more suited to your needs and tastes. Now, what is in itself a forex platform? Forex platform is neither more nor less than the place where exchange of currencies made. The purpose of unaplataforma forex, is neither more nor less, you may buy a currency to sell it in due course and obtaining a difference as profit.

Forex platform, no matter the type, consists of a forex software which can be updated to the second values of currencies, and where user operations are recorded and displayed at the time. In general, each forex platform has a support to help evacuate any questions, and helps the investor before starting a negotiation.

By opting for a forex platform, you must create an account with simple quick personal data selection and shelter, and once completed, the user will be able to start investing in it.

Recommendations for working with Forex

Find a Broker: If you are interested in learning about the forex market, find a good broker.

What is a Broker?: A Broker is a company that allows you to market in the world of Forex, they may even do it for you.

Find a good broker is the most difficult task as there are many options and sometimes the same company under a different name. In future posts I will write about this topic.

Some companies are housed in tax havens where it is very difficult to recover the money invested and the profits if necessary.

Before deciding on a particular company is seeking the same information, read reviews and testimonials from people who have had experience with them. BUT, you do not believe everything can be perfectly possible for the same company personnel participate in forums and write positive comments to attract investors.

Open a demo account: On the other hand is highly recommended that you first start with a demo account. This way you can learn all the variables involved when investing.

These accounts shall be entitled DEMO 21 to 60 days depending on the broker.

Be very careful not believe that making money and you're ready to start a real account.

It should investigate and experiment a lot, look at what time you find it easier to work.

Find out about all the policies for withdrawals, in what form is removed, whether by credit / debit card or check. If you make any additional charge.

It should be clear how they make money, where we reduce and how much.

Do not try too much at first. Focus on one currency pair and learn all about them.

Check the documentation that you send, study the tutorials available.

Contact Phone: Beware of personal data to write. Be assured that just write your phone number the next day try to contact you. Even from as far away as Cyprus. Try to make you choose some of the investment plans available and give your telephone credit card details to start at once and receive a free course on how to invest in Forex. Do not fall into the error. To get involved with a company manages the data completed by the platform of the same company, never by phone.

Define a strategy: This is that predefine how much you want to win and how much you're willing to lose. This is very important, because if you do not have a common strategy will soon close our operations where we are winning and leave open more than adequate time operations in which we lost, waiting for our luck to change.

I hope they have served.

Later we will continue writing about the Forex market.

FOREX Terminology

Greetings.

Then I give a list of terms used when trading in Forex. If you're interested in entering the world of Forex you need to know the basic terminology.

Fundamental analysis: The analysis shows how the value of the currency is affected by relevant economic facts and certain international variables.

Technical Analysis: The analysis examines the historical contribution of money to try to determine a pattern to be repeated or any indication of when the trends change.

Leverage: The amount by which we operate in the market, expressed in proportion to our capital invested. If the leverage is 200:1 can operate with 200 times our capital.

Findings: It is said that a currency appreciates when the price increases due to excess demand of the market, is an increase in the value of the currency.

Broker: An agent who handles investors' orders to buy and sell currencies. For this service we charge a fee, depending on the broker and the amount of the transaction. This commission is the spread.

Closing a Position: Delete a transaction in our portfolio, by performing the opposite operation. For example we sell a currency or buy one that had sold.

Crossing: Quote of the coin or currency of a given country measured in terms of another currency, also known as the currency pair.

Depreciation: A decrease in the value of a currency due to oversupply the market.

Depreciation Decline in value of one currency against another currency value, usually caused by an official announcement.

Currency: The name given to the currency of a country.

Forex: The FOREX word comes from the abbreviation of the word in English: Foreign Exchange (Foreign Currency). It is known for FOREX Foreign Exchange Market, one of the largest financial markets in the world, which consists of buying and selling of international currencies.

Economic Indicator: A statistic that indicates the current stability and growth of the economy, issued by the government or a nongovernmental entity (eg GDP, Employment Rates, Trade Deficits, Inflation, etc.).

Margin Call: Request for additional funds in the account to maintain the specified minimum margin to cover adverse movements in the market price.

Market Maker: An agent who is willing to buy or sell at the prices stipulated in buying and selling. A market maker runs a book operations.

Initial Margin: The initial deposit of collateral required to enter a position to guarantee compliance with that position in the future.

Bull Market: A market characterized by a prolonged period of rising prices accompanied by a widespread optimism. (Opposite of bear market)

Bear Market: A market characterized by a prolonged period of falling prices accompanied by widespread pessimism. (Opposite of Bull Market)

Base Currency: The currency in which the investor or issuer maintains the balance of your account, the currency against which other currencies are quoted. In the currency market, usually considered the U.S. dollar the currency `base 'for quotes, meaning that quotes are expressed as a unit of $ 1 USD (U.S. dollar) per the other currency quoted in the pair.

Order Cancels Order (OCO): A mode of execution, in which having given two orders (such as a Stop-Loss and Limit) if a run, the other is canceled automatically.

PIPS: It stands for "Price Interest Point" (Point of Interest Rate). Is the smallest unit of change in a currency pair.

Platform: The software of the broker through which purchase and sell foreign currencies.

Position: A position to perform the current operation to a particular currency, as expressed by the purchase or sale of the same, providing or detracting from our own.

ASK Price: price currency demand, the price at which the market is willing to sell this currency.

IDB price: price offer on the currency, the price at which the market is willing to buy the currency.

Spread: It is called the difference between the BID and ASK price of a currency. Put more simply, is the price difference between purchase price and sale of a currency.

Stop-Loss Order: It is a tool in the Forex platforms by which we can set a fixed price to close a position we have open to avoid or limit losses.

Take Profit Order: Reverse a "Stop-Loss Order", here we set the price to close a position when we have automatically determined gain.

Volatility: A statistical measure of changes in price movements in the market over time and is calculated using a standard deviation. A high level of volatility implies a higher degree of risk.

Traded volume: The volume traded, or level of operations in a given period, usually daily or yearly.

What is Forex?

Surely this question has in mind for some time as it happened to me. But I never decided to investigate what's this about Forex. So after a little research I write my conclusions.

Forex stands for Foreign Exchange (Foreign Currency Exchange). It is the largest financial market in the world where trillions of dollars are exchanged daily.

 

Participants in Forex?

  • The central banks of countries
  • Commercial and investment banks
  • Investment Funds
  • Institutions and businesses
  • Stockbrokers
  • Individual Investors

In short, ALL. Everyone can participate in the Forex market.

What is Forex Trading?

While in equity markets and Wall Street can negotiate thousands of different actions in Forex trading is basically the world's major currencies: U.S. Dollar, Euro, Yen, British Pound, Swiss Franc.

What are the hours of trading on Forex?

The Forex market is active 24 hours a day and that involves markets around the world. The first market to open is to Sydney, then Tokyo, London and finally New York.

Operations begin Sunday afternoon and closed Friday afternoon. Virtually closed on Saturdays and Sundays.

How is the minimum investment?

Before the Internet boom of the minimum investment was $ 1,000,000 to open a forex account. Currently, depending on the company chosen to negotiate the minimum amount ranges from $ 1 onwards.

How to make money with Forex?

The currency you earn by buying cheap and waiting for the right to sell or trade them when they are on the rise. Although it seems a simple procedure there are many variables involved.

You can lose money with Forex?

If people begin to experiment with Forex are more likely to lose everything. You have to know very well the behavior of the market to have any chance of winning. But to experts at a loss because, as mentioned before, there are many variables involved and the market is very complex.

There is a danger of fraud in Forex?

Yes, but that depends on the company you choose to negotiate. Some companies offer very high yields are so tempting. Provide and guarantee profits, which in a market like Forex it is impossible, nobody can guarantee anything. At the end of the first or second month is reflected in statements by the expected gain what is believed to be a very profitable business. But statements can be manipulated and after a while we ran out of money.

Tips to invest in Forex.

If you want to venture into the Forex market is important to follow these tips:

  • read and learn much
  • study the behavior of market
  • choose a reputable company
  • research on this company
  • start with low investment
  • patience
  • be prepared to lose
  • keep trying

I hope this information will serve.

Until next time.

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