Introduction to Trading

If you've ever exchanged currency before, you've already participated in the forex market, even without realising it. At its core, forex is about the relative value of one currency against another, and that relationship is constantly changing. For traders, those changes are where the opportunity lies. Understanding the 10 strongest currencies in the world can help traders identify stable assets for...

Most people have heard the basics - it's big, it's liquid, it runs 24 hours. But the reasons experienced traders keep coming back to forex go much deeper than that.

The idea behind CFD is simple, it lets you “bet” on the price movement of an asset without owning it. In this article we are going to explain what that means, how a CFD trade works and what are the risks. Before you continue reading about CFD Trading, you can read another article "What is Forex trading".

Leverage is one of those words that gets thrown around in trading circles like everyone's supposed to just know what it means. But if you're new to forex, it can sound more complicated than it actually is.

Open any forex platform and quote a currency pair, and you'll notice the price you can sell at is never quite the same as the price you can buy at. That tiny gap is the spread, and it's a part of the cost of every single trade you place. A lot of traders learn price charts, indicators, and news events long before anyone explains what that gap actually is or why it changes size depending on the broker,...

Margin trading is speculative buying and selling of assets using a brokerage firm's funds, which it lends against collateral.

If you've ever left a CFD position open overnight and noticed a small charge show up on your account the next morning, this is the swap rate in action. It's one of those small costs that doesn't get much attention until it quietly eats into a trader's profits. You have to understand how it works if you hold trades for more than a day, the math you have to do.

Forex Trading terminology is an integral part and every beginner trader should learn it, if haven't by now.