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Financing your FX with ForexGen

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Financing your FX positions held overnight
(known as interest rollover or ‘TomNext’)

Trading strategies involve the use of interest rate differentials between the currencies in a pair and those positions that are rolled over from one trading day to the next will incur financing based upon these interest rate differentials. You pay interest on the currency that you sell and receive interest on the currency that you buy.

The interest rate applied is ‘TomNext’ which is an abbreviation for ‘Tomorrow’ or the ‘Next’ business day because the first value date is tomorrow or the next business day. The TomNext price reflects the applicable interest rate between Tomorrow/Next and the ‘Spot value’ date. At (22:00) 10:00pm London Time (Standard FX market Value-Date change time) each day, ForexGen settles all spot positions by closing the trade at the current market rate and re-opening it for the following day’s spot date at a rate that will reflect the interest rate differential.

Example:
You are long the GBP/USD pair.
You will receive interest on the GBP and pay interest on the USD.
If GBP has a higher interest rate than the USD, you will receive a net interest payment but if GBP has a lower interest than the USD, you will pay out a net interest payment.

Huge Earning Potential with ForexGen

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Forex currency exchange trading is one of the fastest growing trade markets in the world. It is also the biggest with an estimated 1.8 trillion dollars being exchanged every single day.

With these stats to it's name it should come as no surprise that one of the major reasons for this exponential growth is the fact that Forex trading offers incredible earning potential.

This is also why large multi-national corporations have been investing in foreign exchange, and specifically in ForexGen, for years and more and more individuals are utilizing currency trading to supplement their incomes and some are even living purely off the profits they make.

Developing a Forex Strategy with ForexGen

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A fool-proof trading strategy can help you gain profit from day one in the Forex market. If you spend some time to study the market you will find some price patterns that recur consistently.

You can substantiate your observations with charts or graphs using a strategy builder software and then finally develop a strategy unique for your trading habits.

So developing a sound and effective trading strategy is the important foundation of the trading. You must develop working knowledge of technical analysis as well as knowledge of some of the more popular technical studies before deciding which is going to be the best strategy for you.

A trading strategy should optimize your risk with respect to the reward, or vise versa. It should have a disciplined method of limiting the risk and make the most out of favorable market moves.

Using Technical Analysis to Build your own Forex Strategy

Technical analysis can supplement your trading strategy. Many professionals for example make use of moving averages along with other indicators. This method has an element of risk control (built-in) – where a long position will be stopped out fairly quickly in a falling market generating a stop-and-reverse signal or a sell signal in a rising market

At the initial stage you should rely on a logical system in having a view of the market. Discipline will be the keyword for establishing yourself as a successful trader. Your trading decisions should not be based on irrational emotions where you continue to experience losses with the hope of regaining the position. Your ability to limit your losses is just as important as determining the entry points.

The Forex Currency Pairs with ForexGen

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Foreign Exchange trading is in general the trading of many currencies of the world. It is emerging as the largest and least regulated market providing the greatest liquidity to investors.

This trading is always done in pairs – Currency Pairs, one currency is bought and the other is sold. Together, they make up what is known as the "exchange rate".

For example, you may buy Euros with Dollars, anticipating that the Euro to increase in value relative to the Dollar. If the Euro rises relative to the Dollar, you sell the position and can earn a profit.

Most commonly traded currencies or the “majors” are:

US Dollar (USD)
Japanese Yen (JPY)
Euro (EUR)
British Pound (GBP)
Canadian Dollar (CAD)
Australian Dollar (AUD)
Swiss Franc (CHF)

Most commonly traded currency pairs are:

US Dollar and the Japanese Yen (USD/JPY)
Euro and US Dollar (EUR/USD)
US Dollar and Swiss franc (USD/CHF)
British Pound and US Dollar (GBP/USD)

While quoting currency pairs, the first currency is referred to as the base currency and the second as the counter or quote currency. The base currency is always equal to 1 monetary unit of exchange, for example, 1 Dollar, 1 Pound, 1 Euro.

Trading Forex Currency Pairs for Maximum Profit

It is also known as domestic currency or accounting currency and sometimes also referred to as the primary currency of a Forex currency pair. The price represents how much of the quote currency is needed to get one unit of the base currency.

When a currency is quoted against US Dollar, it is known as direct rate. Any currency not against the US Dollar is called a cross rate.

The quote currency is translated into a certain number of units of the base currency. This is also referred to as the foreign currency, secondary currency or counter currency. For example, if you find that a quote of USD/JPY is at 1.30, it says that for every 1 US Dollar, you get 1.30 Japanese Yen. When you quote for AUD/JPY of 67.73, it says that for every 1 Australian Dollar, you get 67.73 Japanese Yen.

Currency pairs are generally traded as 100,000 units of the base currency. For example, if you were buying EUR/USD at 0.95 you would be paying Dollars for Euros as follows:

100,000 x .95 = $95,000 for 100,000 Euros

When you find a quote going up, it means that the value of the base currency is rising or in other words, it is getting stronger. If a quote is going down, it means that the base currency is weakening.

The dominant base currencies are:

Euro - EUR/USD, EUR/GBP, EUR/CHF, EUR/JPY, EUR/CAD
British Pound - GBP/USD, GBP/CHF, GBP/JPY, GBP/CAD
US Dollar - USD/CAD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF

The currency pairs are usually traded and quoted with a ‘bid’ and ‘ask’ price. The ‘bid’ is the price at which you are willing to buy and the ‘ask’ is the price at which price you are willing to sell.

For example, if the USD/EUR currency pair is quoted as - USD/EUR = 1.5 and you purchase the pair, this means that for every 1.5 euros that you sell, you get US$1. If you sold the currency pair, you receive 1.5 euros for every US$1 you sell.

The key to successful trading lies in selecting one or two pairs of currencies that you wish to trade in as a beginner. As you gain confidence, you may wish to add more pairs in your trading portfolio. But for a new trader or investor it is always advised to have limited pair just to ensure simplicity. And that what ForexGen Promises with.

ForexGen Partnerships

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We offer partners who are looking to grow their business the broadest range of equity and derivatives products, both exchange-traded and over-the-counter (OTC), adaptable partnership solutions, a quick and cost-efficient route to market and flexible commercial terms.

We offer a variety of partnership solutions tailored to your needs:

Introducing Brokers

Fund Managers

White Label/Branding

A partnership with ForexGen Securities will be of interest to you if you are:

Looking to retain customers and increase their profitability by offering additional products

Seeking to grow revenues by entering new markets and attracting new types of business

In need of a new partner who can offer more flexible, better value solutions and products

Offer your customer base a comprehensive range of equities and derivatives products:

Spot and forward FX, gold & silver

Global CFDs

UK, US, Canadian and European Equities

Advantages of Trading Forex with ForexGen

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Advantages of trading margined spot and forward foreign exchange:

Ability to trade on margin. Access to the FX market can be made using small capital outlays by taking advantage of superior leverage
The FX market is the largest and most liquid in the world
24 hour seamless trading. The FX market is open for a continual 5 1/2 day period allowing you to enter and exit the market at any time
Ability to establish long (opening purchase) and short (opening sale) positions
Superior market transparency. There are no multiple exchange listings of the same instrument
No standard trade sizes exist
No delivery or contract expiry to consider

Advantages of trading FX using technical analysis

Strong persistent trends
No directional bias

Advantages of trading FX using fundamental analysis

Global economic information readily available
Considerably less complicated than stock investing
Ability to trade on news and events

ForexGen Trading Platform

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Trading Platform Features, Tools & resources to aid successful trading

Windows-based click and deal trading platform providing trading executions typically under a second
Real time automated inter-bank dealing prices
Real-time margining, position keeping and mini statements detailing unrealised & realised profit & loss summaries
Charts and news
Free demo
Market, limit, stop and OCO orders available
Squawk box facilities - live audio rates of major currency pairs direct to your PC
Wide range of trading tools
Live audio rates of major currency pairs direct to your PC
Live chat interaction with dealers
Free real time charting package
Real-time news & analysis of data pre and post release
Regular economic diaries, updates and FX commentaries
Telephone trading available

ForexGen Advantages

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1] 24-hour Internet, telephone and Reuters trading
Access ForexGen, spot gold and silver prices ensuring price integrity, transparency and consistent liquidity.

2] Transparent competitive two-way pricing
We offer very competitive spreads on over 27 currency pairs, typically 1 pip spread on the major currency pairs.

3] Instantaneous auto trade executions
We are committed to ensuring you deal on the prices you see. At a glance you can see where the market can be bought and sold (under normal market conditions).

4] Low margin requirements
Access ForexGen, spot gold & silver with margin requirements starting at just 1% or leverage of 100-to-1.

5] State-of-the-art trading platforms
Free easy-to-use Windows-based click and deal mini and maxi trading platforms which are fully customisable and offer multiple stored layouts. Our platforms offer a wide variety of order types - MARKET, LIMIT, STOP and OCO. We aim to make it as easy and seamless as possible to access demonstration and live trading platforms and to open and fund your trading accounts.

6] Flexible lot sizes
You are not restricted to trading in standard lot sizes. Take advantage of our wide range of trading sizes from 0.01 million - 100 million (equivalent to $1 / point - $10,000 / point).

7] Risk management in real time
Our platform monitors and controls risk exposure in real time. Based on your margin requirement, it calculates funds needed to retain current open positions and resources available for new positions or for adding to existing open positions.

8] Hedging capability
You have complete control over whether you close or hedge your positions to reduce risk. You can run multiple positions for each currency pair which can be individually selected for closing.

9] Earn interest on cash balances
Unlike many FX brokers ForexGen Securities pays interest on those funds not being used for margin purposes.

10] 24 hour personalised customer service
Our experienced and knowledgeable people are available 24 hours a day to answer questions and provide assistance. Our professional dealers can be accessed at all times via live chat and telephone, and our technical and administrative support is second to none.

11] A fast and efficient back office system
When you fund your account and start trading, you receive straight-through-processing of your trades offering live position keeping, margining, statements, unrealised and realised profit & loss.

CFDs with ForexGen

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A CFD gives you all the benefits of the underlying cash equity whilst avoiding many of the typical costs associated with dealing in the physical share. CFD trading allows you to gain cost-effective, flexible and geared exposure to world shares and indices. We offer very competitive financing and commission charges on equity CFDs as well as tight spreads and commission free trading on Index CFDs.

The Advantages of Trading CFDs with ForexGen Securities

Market prices or better.
No fixed minimum spread or invented price.
No minimum deal size.
No minimum deposit requirement.
Low commission rates.
Low financing rates.
Low initial margins.
Separate CFD account or one account for all financial products.
No stamp duty.
Instant execution and improved liquidity.
Interest paid on your free equity balance.
Commission-free index trading.

CFDs with ForexGen

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The Advantages of Trading CFDs with ForexGen Securities

Market prices or better.
No fixed minimum spread or invented price.
No minimum deal size.
No minimum deposit requirement.
Low commission rates.
Low financing rates.
Low initial margins.
Separate CFD account or one account for all financial products.
No stamp duty.
Instant execution and improved liquidity.
Interest paid on your free equity balance.
Commission-free index trading.

Exchanges Around the World with ForexGen

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Technology has fueled the growth of global trading over the past decade, fostering dreams of a single universal marketplace. Yet, investors who have diversified their portfolios across borders and product lines might not always know how their orders are handled on a multiplicity of exchanges and market centers around the globe.

Rules and trading technologies differ significantly not only from one country to the other, but often from one exchange to the other. Rules change frequently too, as exchanges continue to evolve from members-owned monopoly utilities into competitive execution businesses.

ForexGen LLC , which provides direct access to over 50 exchanges and market centers around the world, has incorporated these various exchange rules in its SMART-routing technology to ensure that customers obtain true best execution, no matter what product they trade or where they trade it.

The business of the exchanges is in flux, due to heightened competition and the consolidation trend inherent to a utility-type sector. A number of exchanges have already demutualized and turned themselves into for-profit corporations, some of which are publicly traded. Other markets are merging to better compete in a low-margin business where innovations require substantial investments.

U.S. exchanges face important regulatory challenges as well, with the Securities and Exchange Commission mulling crucial reforms to modernize U.S. capital markets in the 21st century.

The proposed Regulation NMS would acknowledge the advance of electronic trading and likely force the remaining floor-based securities exchanges to alter their model in order to remain competitive. In anticipation of the changes, the New York Stock Exchange has already submitted a proposal for a new hybrid model.

An even bigger challenge may come from the SEC concept release on self-regulatory organizations. It questions the “advisability of implementing enhancements to the current SRO system or pursuing an alternative regulatory model,” which could lead to a single independent regulator with no business ties to the exchanges. Without a regulatory franchise, exchanges would be businesses fighting for customers.

ForexGen has followed how trading began and is still evolving on the major venues that its Universal platform accesses via broadband to trade equities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), options, futures, foreign exchange and bonds. With Universal, ForexGen provides a gateway to global markets and multiple products from a single account in a single currency.

ForexGen And Forex Currency Trading

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ForexGen And Expert Advisors

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Forex Trading - Why Cheap Expert Advisors May End Up Costing You in the Long Run

If that headline caught your attention then you are either about to get into Forex Trading or you've already been burned by using a cheap Expert Advisor that didn't make you as much money as you expected -- or worse, ended up losing you money.

ForexGen studies past price and volume changes in order to build up simulations on future price movements. ForexGen's analysts mainly make use of charts and financial formulas to gather enough information used in technical price speculations.

If you're not up to speed on Expert Advisors (EA), then are simply pieces of software designed to monitor and make trades on the Forex currency markets. In their simplest setup, you link the EA software with a live trading account. Based on market history, it makes buy/sell orders when the trend indicates the currency pair is about to move in a particular direction, with a view to making money from that trade. Many of these products are sold as allowing you to make money without any human intervention.

And although this is certainly possible for someone who properly uses the system and has some good Forex knowledge as a base, such systems can end up costing you money as well. In most situations this is because of insufficient market knowledge -- people diving straight into the deep end and making mistakes that a more mature investor would manage to avoid.

The reason for these mistakes? Quite simply, the people that buy these software systems are often left on their own once the product is brought. They have no-one watching the market for them, making them aware of daily changes in the market, nor warning when they should exit the market and stay out for a few days due to unpredictable market volatility.

To properly make serious money in Forex trading you need support. There is no point trying to be the tough guy or girl here -- after all, this is yours and your family's futures at stake. Up until now it has been hard to find a product that gave the support needed to those who are serious about making their living through online currency trading.

Thankfully the market has changed and we are starting to see products that give the support needed. Although they cost a little more than the cheap systems, the huge amount of support provided means that any initial difference in outlay is likely to be repaid very quickly through increased profits.

ForexGen trading service performance is based on respect and appreciation which is only achieved by offering intelligent trading tools for secure online trading.

ForexGen Full Analysis Of Automated Trading

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If you are an experienced ‘FOREX’ Trader or just a beginner looking for the opportunities offered in the ‘FOREX' market, ForexGen has created ForexGen Academy to give you the chance to get a ‘FOREX’ education and improve your trading skills.

Forex Trading - What Is It?

Forex Trading is the trade in foreign currencies in such a way as to make a profit whether the exchange rate is moving up or down. This is done by basically predicting what the exchange rate will do and then placing sell/buy orders for when the currency reaches a certain point. When the currency reaches that point the trade is made and the profit is received.

Automated Trading - What Is It?

Traditional foreign currency trading involved well educated and mathematically talented people predicting what movements they thought the markets would make.This all changed when computers became common place. Very quickly large corporates such as banks and currency traders began to take advantage of the power of computers. Computers were able to spot trends and do thousands of calculations in an instant - simply put, they made it easier to make money out of foreign currency trading.

Online Forex Trading - What Is It?

The increasing power of home computers has allowed software to be developed that allows everyday people to take part in the massive foreign currency trading market from the comfort of their own homes. This software is a lot more automated than the software that the big corporates use. It is designed to sit there and analyze the markets thoroughly, and then only place a trade order when it believes a profit is possible. It bases its decisions on trends and cycles - exchange rates go up and down every second of the day, so there is always a chance to make money. The software is designed to be "set and forget", however any smart trader should always keep an eye on how the software is performing.
Is Automated Online Forex Trading For You?

If you have been seeking ways to make money at home then Online Forex Trading is a real possibility. The software is designed so that even those who struggle with computers are able to use it. One of the most important things to look for in such software is that the software allows you to use it in demo mode so you can properly test the system before using it. It's also a good idea to purchase software that has a good refund period so that you have peace of mind.

For widening your knowledge and trading experience, you can easily join ForexGen online academy and start develop your own way in handling Forex trade.

Trading With ForexGen Makes You Rich

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Can Forex Trading really make you rich? If you believe all the ads on the internet then it can make you rich instantly -- but then, so can buying a lotto ticket! And we all know that not everyone makes it rich by buying lotto tickets.

ForexGen strives to give incomparable professional and individualized trading services.
As a professional online trading service, ForexGen provides several facilities for all kinds of traders.

Approached the wrong way, Forex trading can be a gamble. But that's not to say that you need to spend weeks and months studying the Forex markets in order to make money either -- if that was the case, almost no-one would be doing it.

You do need to be cautious however. Although some of the better Forex trading software systems available online have demo modes, it is one thing to practice your trading skills in a demo system -- it is quite another when you start using your own real money.

Done properly though foreign currency trading does provide a real opportunity to make money on what is often seen as a complicated market. But how do you do Forex trading properly?

For anyone involved in Forex currency trading at home -- whether they are beginners or people who have been doing it for some time -- one of the most important things is ensuring that you are kept abreast of the market conditions. Even better is being able to participate in a forum of like minded individuals, and even better than that is having the resources of a trading veteran assisting you in your online trading venture.

The reason that resources such as those listed above make such a difference is something that many people forget -- the fact that regardless of how you enter the market, you are literally competing against people who do this full-time. Expert traders who receive big bonuses for making the right buy/sell decisions. They have an innate ability to be able to tell what the market is going to do; they can beat you to the most profitable buy/sell decisions.

Therefore trading alone with no support undoubtedly means decreased profits, or worse still, loss of money. That's why it's important to surround yourself with a network of knowledge that gives you the opportunity to maximize your profits and make it rich through Forex Trading.

As ForexGen believes that its success depends totally on its client's satisfaction and success, ForexGen is sharing its growth and new site release with wonderful promotion packages. If you want to take a look and join you can kindly follow this link http://www.forexgen.com/promotions/index.php

The Glory Of FOREX | ForexGen

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The Benefits of Trading The Forex Market

ForexGen provides a unique online trading experience based on our intelligent online Forex trading package, the ForexGen Trading Station, including the best online trading system.

Historically, the FX market was available most to major banks, multinational corporations and other participants who traded in large transaction sizes and volumes. Small-scale traders including individuals like you and I, had little access to this market for such a long time. Now with the advent of the Internet and technology, FX trading is becoming an increasingly popular investment alternative for the general public.

The benefits of trading the currency market:

It is open 24-hours and it closes only on the weekends;

It is very liquid and efficient;

It is very volatile;

It has very low transaction costs;

You can use a high level of leverage (borrowed money) with ease; and

You can profit from a bull or a bear market.

Continuous, 24-Hour Trading

The currency exchange is a 24-hour market. You may decide to trade after you come home from work. Regardless of what time-frame you want to trade at whatever time of the day, there would be enough buyers and sellers to take the other side of your trade. This feature of the market gives you enough flexibility to manage your trading around your daily routine.

Liquidity And Efficiency

When there are a lot of buyers and a lot of sellers, you can expect to buy or sell at a price that is very close to the last market price. The currency market is the most liquid market in the world. Trading volume in the currency markets can be between 50 and 100 times larger than the New York Stock Exchange.

When you are trading stocks, you may have experienced events where one piece of news accelerates or decelerates the price of the underlying stock you may have bought into. Perhaps a director has been kicked out by the shareholders of a company or the company has just released a new product and big investors are buying the shares of a particular company. Share prices can be drastically affected by the actions or inaction of one or a few individuals. So if you are relying on television reports and newspapers to get your news, most of the opportunities or warnings will have come too late for you to take advantage by the time you get them.

The value of currencies on the other hand is affected by so many factors and so many participants that the likelihood of any one individual or group of individuals drastically affecting the value of a currency is minute. Because of its sheer size, the currency market is hard to manipulate. The ability for people to engage in 'insider trading' is virtually eliminated. As an average trader, you are less disadvantaged. You are likely to be playing on relatively equal ground along with all the other traders and investors whom you are competing against.

Note about price gaps:

For those people who have already traded other markets, you probably know about price 'gaps'. 'Gaps' occur when prices 'jump' from one price level to another without having taken any incremental steps to get there. For example, you may be trading a share that closes at $10 at the end of today but due to some event that happens overnight; it opens tomorrow at $5 and continues to go downwards for the rest of the day.

Gaps bring about another degree of uncertainty that may meddle with a trader's strategy. Probably one of the most worrying aspects of this is when a trader uses stop-losses. In this case, if a trader puts a stop-loss at $7 because he no longer wants to be in a trade if the share price hits $7, his trade will remain open overnight and the trader wakes up tomorrow with a loss bigger than he may have been prepared for.

After looking at a couple of forex charts, you will realize that there are little price 'gaps' or none at all, especially on the longer-term charts like the 3-hour, 4-hour or the daily charts.
Volatility

Trading opportunities exist when prices fluctuate. If you buy a share for $2 and it stays there, there is no opportunity to make a profit. The magnitude of level of this fluctuation and its frequency is referred to as volatility. As a trader, it is volatility that you profit from. Large volume transactions and high liquidity combined with fewer trading instruments generate greater intra-day volatility in the currency market that can be exploited by day-traders. The high volatility of the currency market indicates that a trader can potentially earn 5 times more money from currency trading than trading the most liquid shares.

Volatility is a measure of maximum return that a trader can generate with perfect foresight. Volatility for the most liquid stocks are between 60 to 100. Volatility for currency trading is 500.

In this respect, currencies make a better trading vehicle for day-traders than the equity markets.
Low Transaction Costs

A currency transaction typically incurs no commission or transaction fees. For a forex trader, the spread is the only cost he or she needs to cover in taking on a position. In addition, because of the currency market's efficiency, there is little or no 'slippage' costs.

'Slippage' is the cost involved when traders enter the market at a price worse than the level they wanted to get into. For example, a trader wants to buy a share at $2.00 but by the time, the order gets executed, his gets to buy the shares at $2.50. That fifty cents difference is his slippage cost. Slippage cost affects large-volume traders a lot. When they buy large quantities of a commodity, it oversupplies the market with buy orders. This applies a pressure for the price to go up. By the time they get to buy all the quantities they wanted, the average price they got their commodities would be higher than the price they intended to get them for. Conversely, when they sell large quantities of a commodity, they oversupply the market with sell orders. This applies a pressure for the price to go down. By the time they finish selling all their commodities, their average selling price is less than what they initially intended to sell them for.

Due to lower transaction costs, minimum slippage and strong intra-day volatility, individuals can trade frequently at small costs. As an approximate, you may only expect to have a spread of 0.03% of your position size. To give you an example, you can buy and sell 10,000 US Dollars and this will only incur a 3-point spread, equivalent to $3.
Leverage

There are not a lot of banks or people who would lend you money so that you can use it to trade shares. And if there are, it would be very hard for you to convince them to invest in you and in your idea that a certain share is going to go up or down. Therefore, most of the time, if you have a $10,000 account, you can only really afford to buy $10,000 worth of stocks.

In currency trading however, because you use 'borrowed money', you can trade $10,000 of a currency and you only need anywhere between fifty (For a margin lending ratio of 200:1) to two hundred dollars ( For a margin lending ratio of 50:1) in your trading account. This makes it possible for an average trader with a small trading account, under $10,000 to be able to profit sufficiently from the movements of the currency exchange rates. This concept is explained further in The Part-Time Currency Trader.

Active traders who wish to enjoy the Forex trading advantages can work with the ForexGen account. ForexGen provides leverage up to 500:1 and 100,000 - 10,000 Trade Sizes. Open an account with as little as $250. ForexGen offer swap-free accounts. Swaps will not be applied to ForexGen accounts. ForexGen will not charge a fee of per traded lot round turn.
Profit From A Bull And Bear Market

When you are trading shares, you can only profit when the price of a stock goes up. When you suspect that it is about to go down or that it is just going to be moving sideways, then the only thing you can do is sell your shares and stand aside. One of the frustrations of trading shares is that an individual cannot profit when prices are going down. In the currency market, it is easy for you to trade a currency downward so that you can profit when you think it is going to lose value. This is easy to do because currency trading simply involves buying one currency and selling another, there is no structural bias that makes it difficult to trade 'downwards'. This is why the currency market has been occasionally referred to as the eternal bull market.

Winning in trading depends on using the right strategy and controlling all the moves. Trading strategies are discussed in details at ForexGen Academy.

ForexGen Entrance To FOREX Market

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If you are an experienced ‘FOREX’ Trader or just a beginner looking for the opportunities offered in the ‘FOREX' market, ForexGen has created ForexGen Academy to give you the chance to get a ‘FOREX’ education and improve your trading skills. No hard expressions, no buzz words, and no rocket science language are used throughout these lessons.

There are many markets: markets for stocks, futures, options and currencies. These are probably the most accessible markets for everyday traders like you and I. People easily understand the basics of trading shares, so I will occasionally use examples from that market.

I began trading shares first and then I moved on to trading currencies; therefore, most of the examples I will be using in this book are derived from trading currencies.

If you do not know a lot about currency trading, allow me to introduce it to you. It is what I trade and I believe that it is one of the best markets to trade because of its efficiency. The transaction costs to execute a trade are minimal and most brokers provide you with the tools and data you need to make your trading decisions, they usually provide them for free. The market is open 24 hours a day which allows you to design your trading hours around your daily commitments. It is very volatile, which is great for those people who are looking for day-trading opportunities.

The foreign exchange market is the market in which currencies are bought and sold against one another. People may loosely refer to this market under different labels, including foreign exchange market, forex market, fx market or the currency market.

The foreign exchange market is the largest market in the world, with daily trading volumes in excess of $1.5 trillion US dollars. All transactions involving international trade and investment must go through this market because these transactions involve the exchange of currencies.

It is the most perfect market that exists because it has a large number of buyers and sellers all selling the same products. There is a free flow of information and there are little barriers to participate.

The currency exchange market is an over-the-counter (OTC) market which means that there is not one specific location where buyers and sellers can actually meet to exchange currencies. Instead, transactions are conducted by phone, fax, e-mail or through the websites of brokers who specialize in currency trading.

The major dealing centers at the time of writing are: London , with about 30% of the market, New York , with 20%, Tokyo , with 12%, Zurich , Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Singapore , with about 7% each, followed by Paris and Sydney with 3% each. Because of the fact that these centers are all over the world, foreign exchange traders can execute transactions 24 hours a day. The market only closes on the weekends.

THE MAIN 'PLAYERS' IN THE FOREX MARKET

The five broad categories of participants are: consumers, businesses, investors, speculators, commercial banks, investment banks and central banks.

Consumers, including visitors of countries, tourists and immigrants, do need to exchange currencies when they travel so that they can buy local goods and services. These participants do not have the power to set prices. They just buy and sell according to the prevailing exchange rate. They make up a significant proportion of the volume being traded in the market.

Businesses that import and export goods and services need to exchange currencies to receive or make payments for goods they may have bought or services they may have rendered.

Investors and speculators require currencies to buy and sell investment instruments such as shares, bonds, bank deposits or real estate.

Large commercial and investment banks are the 'price makers'. They are the ones who buy and sell currencies at the bid-and-offer exchange rates that they declare through their foreign exchange dealers.

Commercial banks deal with customers on one hand, and with the Interbank or other banks, on the other hand. They profit by utilizing the bid-and-offer spread. The bid price is the exchange rate that the buyer is willing to buy and the offer price is the exchange rate at which the seller is willing to sell. The difference is called the bid-offer spread. They also make profits from speculating about whether the exchange rate will rise or fall.

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A Full Review Of Forex | ForexGen

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ForexGen introduces to all its users a free online academy that would aid them in either learning more about Forex market or in developing their strategies. It is a free academy available online; you can register and enjoy ForexGen services.

So what is is Forex trading you may ask? Forex is the exchange you can buy and sell currencies. For example, you might buy British pounds (by exchanging them to the dollars you had), then, after pounds / dollar ratio goes up, you sell pounds and buy dollars again. At the end of this operation you are going to have more dollars, then you had at the beginning.

The Forex market has much higher liquidity, then the stock market, as much more money is being exchanged. Forex is spread between banks all over the planet and as a result it means 24 hour trading.

Unlike stocks, Forex trades are performed with high leverage, usually it is 100. It means that by investing $1000 you can control $100,000, and increase potential profits accordingly. Some brokers provide also so called mini-Forex, where the size of minimum deposit equals $100. It makes possible for individuals to enter this market easily.

The name convention. In Forex, the name of a "symbol" is composed of two parts — one for first currency, and another for the second currency. For example, the symbol usd/jpy stands for US dollars (usd) to Japanese yen (jpy).

As with stocks, you can apply tools of the technical analysis to Forex charts. Trader's indexes can be optimized for Forex "symbols", allowing you to find winning strategy.

Example Forex transaction

Assume you have a trading account of $25,000 and you are trading with a 1% margin requirement. The current quote for EUR/USD is 1.3225/28 and you place a market order to buy 1 lot of 100,000 Euros at 1.3228, expecting the euro to rise against the dollar. At the same time you place a stop-loss order at 1.3178 representing a maximum loss of 2% of your account equity if the trade goes against you, 50 pips below your order price, and a limit order at 1.3378, 150 pips above your order price. For this trade, you are risking 50 pips to gain 150 pips, giving you a risk/reward ratio of 1 part risk to 3 parts reward. This means that you only need to be right one third of the time to remain profitable.

The notional value of this trade is $132,280 (100,000 * 1.3228). Your required margin deposit is 1% of the total, which is equal to $1322.80 ($132,280 * 0.01).

As you expected, the Euro strengthens against the dollar and your limit order is reached at 1.3378. The position is closed. Your total profit for this trade is $1500, each pip being worth $10.

Winning in trading depends on using the right strategy and controlling all the moves. Trading strategies are discussed in details at ForexGen Academy.

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ForexGen strives to give incomparable professional and individualized trading services.
As a professional online trading service, ForexGen provides several facilities for all kinds of traders.

In my continuing quest to provide visitors of my site with a large amount of options to chose from when considering working from home I have done some research on Forex trading. I first learned of Forex trading while pursuing my MBA program. For those of you who have never heard of this, Forex trading is the exchange of foreign currency.

I know I would have never even know this was an option for making money had I not found out in class. Most of the really big corporations have departments of people that do this for a living because it can be very lucrative if done correctly. The best news I have learned about this process of exchanging currencies is that many of the websites that you can sign up with to do this offer free trial accounts to help you learn before you invest your money into trying it. You won't make any money in the trial accounts if you do well, it is just pretend money essentially but with the real market conditions. If you do well in the trial account you will know if this is something you want to try on your own.

Benefits to Forex trading are that is can be done 24/7 whereas the stock market is a business hours only exchange. It is 24/7 because it is done with countries around the world so clearly there are countries that are awake and working while we sleep. Another benefit is you are in control of the trading on your account. You do not need to hire a licensed broker to make your trades and charge you fees. Along those same lines, anyone who does any investing most likely knows that some funds require you to own then for a certain period of time or pay early withdrawal fees. You do not need to concern yourself with this either. One last benefit that I would like to point out is the fact that Forex is not really subject to the same kinds of swings in the market that stocks are subject to. Of course if you always buy and sell the same currencies then there will be market swings. But, because there are hundreds of currencies out there, there is always going to be something for you to make money on because while one currency is up in value another one is down and vice versa.

ForexGen is the easiest and fastest gateway for the traders to perform successful trading, which provides a unique institutional investor professional facilities and highly qualified individualized services for the international customer.