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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!
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WHY
TRADE FOREX WITH ACTIVTRADES?
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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.
Click here for more 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.
Guaranteed Stops:
FX
Prices can often be subject to dramatic movements. By placing a stop
you can limit your loss in advance without slippage. Guaranteed stops are 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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