Choose the Right Forex Dealer (Part I)

By Ahmad Hassam

Almost 90% of the traders in currency markets are speculators. Most of the investors start forex day trading as a speculating venture to make capital gains. Once you have made the positive decision to start currency trading, you need to choose the right forex broker. The right choice will greatly influence the success of the whole enterprise.

Forex trading is hot right now. It is being called the Recession Proof Business of 21st Century. The market is overcrowded with companies and banks offering online forex brokerage services. Internet has opened the forex markets to individual retail traders and small investors. It will not be easy for you to make the right choice of a forex broker. You need a certain set of criteria. These criteria will mostly depend on your preferences, interests and means as an individual trader and will depend on your trading tactics and strategies.

What is the best method to choose the right forex broker? Compose a list of questions to ask the forex broker before making a final decision. The following are some of the suggested questions. You should ask the forex broker these questions before making a final decision.

What is the amount of the interday and overnight margin required by the forex broker? What is the corresponding leverage offered? Many online forex brokers offer margin between 1 to 5%. They provide leverage ranging from 20:1 to 200:1. Margin is the amount the broker sets aside as guarantee against your trading losses. Higher margin requirement means lower investment efficiency for you.

However, lower margin means that most of the time the forex broker will be against his own clients and will do everything possible to prevent them from winning. It will become difficult for you to work under such conditions because you will face many trading problems.

What is the minimum contract size offered? Now days, the standard contract size is a $100,000 lot. This contract size is quite affordable. This contract size also allows small individual investors to participate in currency speculation. It allows for reasonably effective money management with limited capital.

What are the requirements of minimum deposit demanded by the broker? It is common that many new traders dont have sufficient funds to open an account. The investment and financial means of trader differ. I think $10,000 is the required minimum amount corresponding to the forex market conditions. In my opinion, the optimal minimum amount is $10,000 with 2% margin requirement.

What are the terms of setting and executing stop and limit orders? The ideal condition should be the execution of the stop and limit orders at the fixed price regardless of the market conditions, its speed and its direction. Some forex brokers provide this type of execution. Other brokers reserve the right to fulfill an order with slippage.

The value of slippage depends on the current state of the market. It can fluctuate from a few pips to tens of pips. Although it is practically impossible to arbitrate the price received from the broker during the transaction. The slippage creates favorable conditions for the abuse of the trader by the broker. - 23309

About the Author:

Mr. Ahmad Hassam is a Harvard University Graduate. He is interested in day trading and swing trading stocks and currencies. Learn Forex Nitty Gritty. Develop your own Forex Trading System.

How to Use Automated Forex to Make Money

By Chuck Kessler

The fact is it is not too hard to make money with forex. The problem is it is not too hard to lose money with it either. I am going to tell you what you can do to put your forex currency trading on autopilot and make some serious money. You don't need a huge upfront investment to start, only a little courage and some spending cash.

The first thing you have to do is get the software. There are all kinds of automated forex softwares out there. Some are even free. The way you work them is first set them up and then let them run in the background on your computer. Remember you have to leave your computer on for them to do the trading.

You must remember that you computer needs to be on for these to work. You will not execute trades if you turn off your computer. Now you will also set things like your risk tolerance. You can use a conservative approach which can take a long time to make money. The reason is just like with anything else, low risk is low return.

If you opt to go for a more aggressive approach you can make a lot more money, however you can also lose a lot more money. The basic fact is the more risk the more return. Obviosuly, more risk also means more chance of losing your money.

The automated forex software uses trends and trading signals programmed into it to make decisions about trading. It uses historical currency data to make these decisions. In today's economy the currencies are all over the place, so now is the time to trade them.

Go out and get some free currency robot software, set it up and see if you can make some money. It is so exciting to have your computer running and doing trades making you money while you sleep. There is no better feeling in the world than getting paid to sleep! - 23309

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If this all sounds too complicated for you, visit my website for further information on automated forex. I give you additional tips, and can even tell you softwares that are proven to work!