Successful online forex trading requires a great level of understanding, great experience, high acumen and towering exposure. It is not a market you go over within few hours or in a day and think that you have mastered it. However, many online forex traders are failing to be on top of what is happening in the market; hence they are losing money at alarming rate. But the skilful traders are making their money because knowledge makes the difference!
As a forex trader in a Bureau d’Change before I moved into a bank, I believe I have some good level of exposure to write or talk about currency trading (forex trading). I know forex trading, experience aside, is backed by per minute information update.
How Online Forex Trading Operates:
Forex market requires that you seek new information almost always (at per minute intervals). This may mean working the telephone incessantly by calling fellow market operators for happenings in the market. In online trading, it means being on the net almost always to monitor the flagellation of currency rates which change per seconds. By so doing, you are able to prompt action to equalise or mitigate bad buy with new bids or initiate ‘sell order’ so that at the end you are able to get your brokerage (the margin known as spread or profit).
Also in online currency trading, it is not immediately you complete your ‘bid’ or ‘ask’ and ‘submit’ that your request becomes accepted. Experienced operators know this fact very well. When you fill the bid page (based on what the market prices is at that time) and click submit, a new page opens. The belief is that your request has already gone in and taken. But this is not so: there is a time lag between when you submit your bid and when your price quotes hit the trading platform. During the time intervals, currency prices have changed! Operators who have integrity to protect do explain this.
Currency Trading Attracts High Risks:
Permit me to reproduce the warning (disclaimer) published by FX Solutions (a reputable operator in online forex trading). “FX Solutions, LLC believes that customers should be aware of the risks associated with over-the-counter, spot forex. Forex trading is highly speculative in nature which can mean currency prices may become extremely volatile… Forex trading is highly leveraged, since low margin deposits normally are required, an extremely high degree of leverage is obtainable in foreign exchange trading. A relatively small market movement will have a proportionately larger impact on the funds you have deposited. You may sustain a total loss of your funds. Since the possibility of losing your entire cash balance does exist, speculation in the Forex market should only be conducted with risk capital you can afford to lose which will not dramatically impact your lifestyle. With these risk disclaimers, online forex traders are warned.”