By Octa Arifiani
From 1931 until 1973 the Forex market went through a series of changes. The Forex market, as we know it today, originated in 1973. "Foreign Exchange" is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. Basically, there is no real product to buy or sell in forex market. Currencies are traded in pairs, for example Euro/British Pound (EUR/GBP) or US Dollar/Japanese Yen (USD/JPY).
Since forex market is opened to public in 1998, many people start to pay attention in forex investing, especially by doing an online forex trading. Forex trading has proven to be a highly profitable investment, so that there is always someone new which dive into this market in every each passed day.
Forex trading is usually backed by the forex brokerage as the market makers. For the online investors, there are also exist online forex brokers for them. By using an online forex broker services, trader could grab the benefit of 24 hour non-stop forex market. Traders can do their trade no matter where or when. Broker is an important part in forex trading, but not every beginner really knows who and what they are. Below are the frequently asked questions about broker:
(Q) What’s forex broker?
A forex broker is a person or companies that buy and sell currency pairs in forex trading as per private or individual investor decisions. Broker charge some amount of money to traders who use their services as their commission. Most of brokers are earn their money through this mechanism. But not every broker did. There are also some brokers who didn't ask for any trading commission to their services subscribers (traders). These kinds of brokers get their money by profiting through the spread of buy and sells in their currency pairs price.
(Q)Can We Invest in Forex Trading Without a Forex Broker?
Of course you can. BUT, it means you have to provide some numerous amounts of funds to get yourself ready and eligible to entering the forex market. Not everybody can afford that. One of our benefits to trade by using brokers service is that they are asking margin requirement which much less than what its actually need to trade without them. As individual investors, especially for they who don't have such of hi-financial power, we do need a broker to getting involved in forex trading business.
(Q)What is Margin Requirement?
Margin requirement is the amount that an investor must deposit in a margin account before buying on margin or selling short, as required by the Federal Reserve Board's Regulation T. ( rel=nofollow [http://www.investorwords.com/2959/margin_requirement.html]Investorwords). Example: Broker X margin requirement is 2%; it means that you can trade up to $50,000 if the amount of your margin account is $1,000. Some brokers are using a fixed margin, and other are using adjustable margin which usually depends on how much you fund your margin account.
(Q)Who is the best forex broker at this moment?
That question can’t be answered with certain answer. The fact is, there is no perfect trading platform. Every forex trading platform which owned by a particular broker is unique. There are always a pros and cons from each of it to trade off when comparing one to another. You have to make more detailed comparatives and deeper examination on each forex broker before making a further decision.
(Q)What information do I have to know about forex broker?
While looking for a broker, first you have to make sure that they are a trustable company. At least they are a registered broker. It would be better if you can find s their business track record. Here a checklist of 'trader must know' about broker information:
About the company
» Their regulator
» Their client base
» Their contact information - email, phone/fax, headquarter address, contact person etc
About their trading platform
» Leverage
» Commissions
» Pip Spread (fix, floating, costumized)
» Account types offered (demo,mini,regular)
» Minimum account size for every account type
» Their trading platform supports (real time price, news ticker, history monitoring, stop loss, signal, auto trade, account money management etc)
About their services
» Supported languange/s
» Live support
» Trading course or guide
(Q)Where do I can find more information about forex broker?
Thanks to the internet, nowadays information isn’t so hard to find. We can find almost any information we need by simply search for it.
Outro
Many people said that forex trading is not so difficult and highly profitable. The fact is, no matter how good we are, we can't avoid the risk within forex trading. For minimizing our risk, at least we have to understanding the theory behind this system.
To properly developing our forex trading system, we have to make sure that there no single aspects is left behind. Picking a trading strategy that most suit you, know how to incorporating the fundamental analysis, and applying technical analysis of in the forex trading. All of them must be mixed together to get a solid trading system of yours.
A good forex broker will always provide you with their high quality and fast data transfer (for the charts, quotes, news, etc) to support your trading. And they'll always treat you by their best services and supports no matter how much amount of funds is in your account. Some forex broker are offering an online course, a private assistant, signal service, etc to guide their costumer in their trade. It could be quite a good start to learn trading from them. Lastly, good luck for you and your investment future...
Happy trading,
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