You can view up-to-date margin requirements listed by currency pair in the MMR column of the "Simple Dealing Rates" window within the Trading Station platform. Margin requirements are subject to change without notice based on price fluctuations.
The usable margin column, in the accounts window of the Trading Station, shows the amount of funds you have remaining in your account to open new positions or guard against losses. There are two things that can decrease your usable…
Slippage is a factor when trading any financial market. Slippage occurs when the market gaps over prices or because available liquidity, at a given price, has been exhausted. Market gaps normally occur during fast moving markets when a price can…
If the requested price of a stop or stop entry order is reached at the open of the market on Sunday, the order will be filled at the next available price and may experience negative slippage depending on the change…
When you buy the EUR/USD pair, you are buying the euro, and selling the U.S. dollar to pay for it. If the euro interest rate is 4.00%, and the U.S. rate is 2.25%, you are buying the currency with the…
Yes. In addition to our policy of transparency in reporting rollover, due to the average notional trading volume that FXCM generates to the liquidity providers it deals with, FXCM is able to pass to its clients' attractive rollover rates on…
Margin can be thought of as a good faith deposit required to maintain open positions. This is not a fee or a transaction cost, it is simply a portion of your account equity set aside and allocated as a margin…
As a general rule of thumb, we recommend limiting total account leverage to a maximum of 20:1. For example, if you have an account balance of $10,000, you could trade a maximum position size twenty times larger than your account…
Rollover is the interest paid or earned for holding a position overnight. Each currency has an overnight interest rate associated with it, and because forex is traded in pairs, every trade involves not only two different currencies, but their two…
The word “PIP” stands for Percentage in Point. In forex, a pip is what you would consider a “point” for calculating profits and losses. On Trading Station, you can see the value of a pip for each of your trades when entering…
No. The smallest trade size offered by FXCM will be Micro (1K) lots.
When choosing the lot size for your trade, you may want to consider a few factors: The price levels (or number of pips) you want to set your Stop/Limit The amount of capital you wish to risk The amount of…