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B-Book: How Do Forex Brokers Handle Risk?
When a retail forex broker takes the opposite of a customer's deal it has the option of either ACCEPTING or TRANSFERRING the market risk to another market participant. When a broker agrees to accept market risk when a trade is been carried out is referred to as “B-Book execution”. The act of taking the opposite of your transaction is called B-Booked execution. Your line of work is often known as "B-Booked."
Kindergarten 2022-01-21
How Forex Brokers Manage Their Risk and Make Money
A lot of retail traders have no idea of how an order is processed or how forex brokers or CFD providers really operate. It is aimed at forex traders wishing to gain a practical understanding of how forex brokers manage their risk and make money.
Kindergarten 2022-01-21
Where Are Retail Forex Traders Actually Trading?
If that’s the case, then WHERE are you actually trading? When you click “Buy” or “Sell” on your forex broker’s trading platform, where do your orders go?
Kindergarten 2022-01-21
Trading Forex with CFDs
CFD stands for “Contract for Difference”. A CFD is a tradable financial tool that reflects movements of the asset underlying it.
Kindergarten 2022-01-21
What Are You Actually Trading In Forex?
New forex traders might be puzzled how it’s possible to trade currencies they don’t physically own. They’re also often confused about how it’s possible to sell something before buying it.
Kindergarten 2022-01-21
Is the Forex Broker Licensed and Regulated?
Is the forex broker licensed and regulated? Is the company licensed, regulated, and authorized to operate as a forex broker where you live?
Kindergarten 2022-01-21
Is the Forex Broker an legitimate Organization?
With whom are you trading? Is the forex broker a reputable business? Can you put your faith in it?
Kindergarten 2022-01-21
What Are the Functions of Forex Brokers?
What is the order execution quality of your FX broker?
Kindergarten 2022-01-19
What to Look for When Choosing a Forex Broker
As a beginner trader, the first and most important decision you'll make is which forex broker to use. This is why you should always do your due diligence ("do yo DD") and DYOR (do your own research).
Kindergarten 2022-01-19
How to Avoid a Margin Call
If you fail to understand the concept of margin or not knowing what to do when faced with a margin call from your broker, you will definitely experience the shock of your trading account blow up.
Kindergarten 2022-01-19
Margin Jargon Cheat Sheet
As you move into the world of margin trading, it may sounds like you have to learn an entirely new language to truly identify what’s goin any peculiarities, also margin trading comes with its own nomenclature and jargon. In this lesson we will discuss some handy cheat sheet you may come along in any trading platform.
Kindergarten 2022-01-19
The Relationship Between Margin and Leverage
You use margin offered by your broker to create leverage. Therefore Leverage is the increased “trading power” that is available when using a margin account.
Kindergarten 2022-01-19
Caution: Different brokers in Forex tender different Margin Call and Stop Out Levels
As margin and Stop Out Levels are key to consider always while opening trade, Out of the thousands of Broker around the world, Each retail forex broker or CFD provider sets their own Margin Call Level and Stop Out Level.
Kindergarten 2022-01-19
Trading Scenario: What Happens If You Trade With Just $100?
Can you imagine What happens if you have account and wants to set trade with just $100?
Kindergarten 2022-01-19
Trading Scenario: Margin Call Level at 100% and Stop Out Level at 50%
Among the thousands of forex brokers available, each handle a Margin Call in different ways. Some brokers consider a Margin Call and Stop Out as just one and the same, meaning they will not send you a warning message, they will only just start closing your trades along with a message notifying you of the action just.
Kindergarten 2022-01-18
Trading Scenario: Margin Call Level at 100% and No Separate Stop Out Level
Series of forex brokers handle a Margin Call in different ways. Some brokers consider a Margin Call and Stop Out as just one and the same, meaning they will not send you a warning message, they will only just start closing your trades along with a message notifying you of the action just.
Kindergarten 2022-01-17
What is a Stop Out Level?
A Forex stop out is when all of a trader's active positions in the foreign exchange market are automatically closed by their broker.
Kindergarten 2022-01-17
What is a Margin Call?
The Margin Call level is the agreed minimum amount to which the Margin Level can fall before it triggers a Margin call.
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What is Margin Level?
Margin Level is simply the relationship between the Equity and the used Margin of the trading account. Expressed as a percentage, the formula used to calculate the margin level is: (Equity/Margin) x 100.
Kindergarten 2022-01-17
What is Free Margin?
There are two types of margin: "used" and "free." In one of our last sessions, we looked at the Used Margin, which is the sum of all the Required Margin from all open positions. The gap between Equity and Used Margin is called Free Margin.
Kindergarten 2022-01-14