The trading conditions:

* 2 pips spread on six currency pairs.
* Providing online trading services without maintenance margin, margin call and no automatic closing of positions below the initial margin on weekdays for accounts with initial equity of up to $1 million US. The margin level have to be recognized Fridays at 23:00 CET and before public holidays.
* Leverages up to 1:200 for accounts up to $1 million US.
* Liquidity and 24/5 availability are the characteristic factors of the Forex market compared with other financial markets.

Forex Money Management and The Use of Leverage

Last week we talked about the use of a 1:2 risk to reward on our trades and the use of a trailing stop to manage those trades in an attempt to be consistently profitable. But we also have to keep track of our account balance so we have funds to be in a position to take the solid trading opportunities we find.
Too many new traders will open a trade using too much leverage in an attempt to get a big win. More often than not, these trades end up as losing more money than was necessary. I recommend only risking about 5% of your account balance at any one time. If you have a mini account with a balance of $2000, then you should risk no more than $100 on a trade. This way your losses will not keep you from having the funds to take the next trade.
This does not mean to open 10 trades at once and risk $100 on each one, but to risk no more than 5% at any one time. Buying the GBP/USD and the EUR/USD at the same time is not really that different. You are looking for USD weakness in both trades which means that you are more than likely to profit on both or to lose on both. A better approach would be to open one trade risking 5% of your account balance and not open another trade until the trailing stop on the first trade is moved up to breakeven.
Then your risk on the first trade is theoretically at zero and you can now risk that 5% on a new trading opportunity. If the market is trending strongly and offering many trading opportunities, you can take advantage of the situation by having multiple positions open at the same time while still risking no more than 5% of your equity
So when you think of money management, think about how much you are risking on the trade and how much of your account balance you are risking. They are both key elements to successful trading and should be an important part of your trading approach.

What are the best times to trade for individual currency pairs?

The foreign exchange market operates 24 hours a day and as a result it is impossible for a trader to track every single market movement and make an immediate response at all times. Timing is everything in currency trading. In order to devise an effective and time-efficient investment strategy, it is important to note the amount of market activity around the clock in order to maximize the number of trading opportunities during a trader’s own market hours. Besides liquidity, a currency pair’s trading range is also heavily dependent on geographical location and macroeconomic factors. Knowing what time of day a currency pair has the widest or narrowest trading range will undoubtedly help traders improve their investment utility due to better capital allocation. This chapter outlines the typical trading activity of major currency pairs in different time zones to see when they are the most volatile.

For example : Asian Session (Tokyo): 7 P.m.–4 A.m. EST FX trading in Asia is conducted in major regional financial hubs; during the Asian trading session, Tokyo takes the largest market share, followed by Hong Kong and Singapore. Despite the flagging influence of the Japanese central bank on the FX market, Tokyo remains one of the most important Dealing centers in Asia. It is the first major Asian market to open, and many large participants often use the trade momentum there as the benchmark to gauge market dynamics as well as to devise their trading strategies. Trading in Tokyo can be thin from time to time; but large investment banks and hedge funds are known to try to use the Asian session to run important stop and option barrier levels. Figure 5.1 provides a ranking of the different currency pairs and their ranges during the Asian trading session. For the more risk-tolerant traders, USD/JPY, GBP/CHF, and GBP/JPY are good picks because their broad ranges provide short-term traders with lucrative profit potentials, averaging 90 pips. Foreign investment banks and institutional investors, which hold mostly dollar-dominated assets, generate a significant amount of USD/JPY transactions when they enter the Japanese equity and bond markets. Japan’s central bank, with more than $800 billion of U.S. Treasury securities, also plays an influential role in affecting the supply and demand of USD/JPY through its open market operations. Last but not least, large Japanese exporters are known to use the Tokyo trading hours to repatriate their foreign earnings, heightening the fluctuation of the currency pair. GBP/CHF and GBP/JPY remain highly volatile as central bankers and large players start to scale themselves into positions in anticipation of the opening of the European session.

NO Spreads No Kidding

The information revolution has dramatically changed the way in which the financial industry conducts business. Transactions have become faster and inexpensive to conduct, more and more financial products have become available to the general public. Retail Forex is one of the investment products brought to life in the Internet age.

No matter how sophisticated technology could be, trust remains the foundation of the financial industry. Smaller commissions do not matter if the broker gives little respect to the customer, smaller spreads are irrelevant if execution is with "slippage." When I began working in the futures industry over 25 years ago, much of the business was conducted on a handshake basis. Today, when technology enables us to do business with people who we have never met in person, trust and good name becomes the most valued commodity.

There are many Forex brokers across the globe, some more trustworthy than others. Only a handful are regulated by respective governing organizations established to protect investors from bad broker practices (such as National Futures Association). Not all are committed to life-long relations with their customers, and even fewer make a genuine effort to educate their customers.

We at Forex Club understand what trading, and for that matter Forex trading, is about. Success in trading is to have the knowledge and understanding of available resources and instruments, as well as proper risk management. We mobilize our senior traders and analysts with decades of experience to provide you with superb training programs.

I sincerely wish that the information on our website will be of great educational value and enable you to have a better understanding of the markets and give you the insight to become a more successful trader.

To Know More