Any trader who has interest towards currency trading should know that opening a currency trading account has to be done carefully. Scam brokerage, traders, and trading companies are scattered throughout the internet and without preparations, you will fall to their tricks. Even if you can get a real broker, there are some things that you should check first in order to select the one with the most advantages over the others. These are a few aspects that must be considered when you would like to open a currency trading account:

1. Leverage

Leverage means the use of various financial instruments or borrowed capital, such as margin, to raise the potential return of an investment. In forex market, it means a loan that offered for investor by the broker that handling his forex account.

Example: Leverage 200:1 where 1 standard lot is USD10,000. This means that you will need USD10,000 /200 = USD50 in your equity to open 1 standard lot. Difference in leverage can means different profit opportunity, so make sure you have checked this factor.

2. Spreads

Spread is the different between bids and ask price. Ask is the price when you buy while bid is the price when you sell. Different trading companies offer different spread and take compensation from it. Some other brokerages will charge commissions for each trade in addition from this spread. High spreads will make it more difficult to earn profits for each trade, so make sure you have check it thoroughly.

3. Currencies to Trade

Almost all trading account can support major currency pairs such as EUR/USD or GBP/USD, but sometimes there are also opportunities in other currency pairs such as NZD/USD or GBP/CHF and you may want to try that. It is purely personal preferences; if you don’t have any interest towards the other currency pairs, then just leave it be.

4. Good Customer Support

You should know that you are deal with a real company with actual person behind it so you will want to have direct contact means such as live chat or telephones. This is an vital factor to consider since you can’t solve your problem fast if you have to wait for email replies for days or weeks; it is just not how a credible company ways to do things.

5. Software

After you open a currency trading account, there are brokers that will give you the trading or analysis software as one of their features, some others won’t. I’ll just go with the free ones.

6. Funding Option

Usually, trading company accept deposit in many major ways such as wire transfer, credit cards, etc; but you should check it too just in case they don’t support your preferred method. Make use of whichever that fit your preferences and convenience.

7. Have Dummy Trading Account

In a practice account, you can get access to the trading platforms and start practicing online trading. This demo account can also be used in other ways:

– As a means to test your strategy/signals/robots. This practice account also backed up by real live data, so you can get real test results.

-While using the practice account, you can see if the trading platform is easy to use or not. A few platforms are more difficult to use compared to the others.

8. Support Many Languages

If English is not your first language, having an account with your native language can make everything easier. Opening a currency trading account does not has to be difficult or complicated; just be sure that the account support all you need in currency trading.