What is Margin
Margin goes hand in hand with leverage. Leverage is the amount you can magnify your position, margin is the amount of money you have to put up to trade a position.Currently in the US, brokers can offer…
What is Leverage
One of the biggest attractions to the Forex markets is the leverage FX brokers are able to provide. Traders are leaving Stocks and Futures to trade Forex because the leverage is so attractive. So what is leverage?Leverage…
Meaning of Long and Short
There are several Forex terms you will hear over the next little while, but the ones you will hear the most refer to the ups and downs of the market.Terms that relate to the markets going up:Buy…
Fundamental and Technical Analysis
There are 2 major ways to analyze the markets to make our decisions to enter a trade. They are: Fundamental analysis Technical analysisThere is nothing saying that you have to analyze the markets in only one of…
What is the Order, or Ranking, of the major Currencies?
Have you noticed that when you see a currency pair, it is always in the same order? I mean the base currency is always the base currency and the quote currency is always the quote currency for…
What is a Currency Pair?
In order to trade in the Forex markets we need something that increases or decreases in value. Pairing 2 currencies together gives us this market value fluctuation we are looking for.Each currency can be exchanged for another…
What is a Pip?
A pip used to be the smallest increment that a currency generic synthroid levothyroxine pair’s rate of exchange could change.Pip stands for “Percentage In Point”.For example, if a currency pair’s exchange rate is 1.2000 and then changes…
What Is Forex?
Now that you have considers trading the Forex markets, it might be a good idea to know what it is you are trading.The word Forex is short for Foreign Exchange.Known as the Forex market, FX, and Currency…
Why Forex?
If you are still making up your mind to trading the Forex markets as opposed to stocks or futures or any other tradable market, I can give you a few reasons why I like the Forex markets.…
So You Want To Trade Forex
Hello there, I would like to take just a minute to congratulate you on your choice to learn more about trading Forex. The Forex markets are a wild and wonderful place to be, and if you are…