FOREX
The Foreign Exchange market (also referred to as the Forex
or FX market) was created in the 70 as the international monetary system
progressively evolved from fixed to floating exchange rates. Unlike other financial
markets that operate at a centralized location (i.e. stock exchange), Forex market has no
central location. It is a global electronic network of banks, financial institutions and
individual traders, all involved in the buying and selling of national currencies.
Another major feature of the Forex market is that it operates 24 hours a day,
corresponding to the opening and closing of financial centres in countries all across the
world, starting each day in Sydney, then Tokyo, London and New York.
Foreign currency trading is open to private and institutional traders. Open a FOREX
account today to enjoy trading opportunities so many have already experienced.
In the Forex market, you pay no commissions and no exchange fees because you deal directly
with the market maker in a purely electronic online exchange. The unique cost is reflected
in the bid/ask spread, as low as 2 pips! Discover them clicking
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FOREX TRADING WITH ACTIVTRADES
Liquidity: Forex is the largest
financial market in the world, with over $2-3 trillion exchanged every day.
MetaTrader4 trading Platform:
Free trading tool, real-time graphs, customizable technical indicators, trading systems
programming tool, advanced orders like trailing stops and braket orders, alerts, and more.
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details on MetaTrader4.
Tight Spreads: ActivTrades' low
FX spreads improve net trading results, especially for active traders. Activ Trades offers
efficient dealing practices to offer the lowest spreads in retail Forex
No Commissions, No Fees: There
are no commissions on your Forex trading, and the MetaTrader platform is free of charge.
24 Hours Trading:
Forex is open for trading 24-hours a day, participants in the FX market can trade at any
given event, any given time.
Flexibility: It
is possible to open indistinctly long and short positions. With no restrictions on short
selling (as in stocks for instance), participants have the chance to take position in any
situation, bull market, bear market or sideways.
Hedging and Speculation:
You can trade FX to speculate or simply to hedge your investments in foreign currencies.
Mini-lot trading: ActivTrades
allows FX trading with mini-lots, which are fractions of one lot. For instance, it is
possible to trade 0.1 lot EURUSD, allowing to take a position worth as low as 10'000
with only 25 at 400/1 margin requirement.
Margins*: The
leverage on FX (up to 1:400) is much higher compared to futures (1:15)
or stocks (1:4), giving traders the ability to control large amounts of currencies with
small margins, making trading highly profitable, but also highly risky
Minimum Account Size: Minimum account size to open an FX trading account
is 250. Furthermore, accounts can be funded by credit card.
*Please note: "Increasing leverage
may increase gains or losses on any given trade". Please read the Risk Disclosure at
the bottom of the page.
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