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Point
Point (pip) is the smallest change in the currency price in the last digit of a quote (i.e. the last digit of a decimal).
Pipsing
This trading approach is used for gaining profit from intraday currency fluctuations. Some traders open more than 200 deals a day while holding a position open for just several minutes. Of course, the profit from each position is rather sma...
EUR/JPY pipsing
Pipsing involves daily work in front of your computer, minimum of news and maximum of luck. There is no need to know the financial mechanism of global economy regulation and countries’ GDP. Even the bullish market has a lot of pullbacks dur...
Pip value for gold
The pip value for GOLD is calculated by the trading volume.Therefore, the pip value will be equal to $1 in the trade of 1 lot; while in the trade of 10 lots 1 pip will be equal to $10, etc.* The tick size for #GOLD is 10 pips....
Intraday trading
Intraday trading is believed to be one of the most complicated types of Forex trading and, at the same time, the most widely used by independent traders. This trading system suggests opening and closing positions on Forex within one day, i....
Locking
Locking is a type of a hedging strategy aimed at minimizing risks associated with changes in markets behaviour. The difference between hedging and locking is that hedging is used for different trading instruments, while locking is used for...
Scalping
There is no single opinion about the scalping trading strategy. However, more and more traders are getting interested in this method. Why does scalping look so appealing? Probably because it is one of the few ways to make a quick profit on...
Terms of affiliate programs
Whatever type of affiliate program you choose, you will always have the following advantages:1. You make a profit on every client’s trade of 1.5 pips from the spread or 0.015% from each deal’s volume (depending on a client’s trading account...
Ultra-Short Strategy
It is a perfect strategy for beginners that can quickly lead them to complete collapse. The temptation of short-term fluctuations of a few pips can result in a trader catching from 1 to 5 pips. Having succeeded several times, traders earn 2...
Average daily trading strategy for EUR/JPY
The average daily trading strategy consists of certain steps, including analysis, setting certain targets, placing orders, and executing a deal. The main idea of such a strategy is that the trade depends on the analysis that you have carrie...
Long-term trading strategy for EUR/JPY
When you develop a long-term trading strategy for EUR/JPY, it will be useful to look at the trading history of this currency pair in the past few years.So, if you look at the weekly chart of the EUR/JPY, you will notice continuous growth fr...
Spread size
InstaForex uses fixed spreads on all trading instruments except of Major currency pairs, during the period of low liquidity (from 23:30 to 03:00 terminal time), the spread on some Forex Majors can be increased up to 10 pips;EUR/CZK, and EUR...
Determination of the Lucky Trader winners
To determine the winners of the Lucky Trader contests, the Company uses a rating, which is calculated by summing up profits for all positive trades and subtracting losses for all negative trades. However, there is only one limitation: a con...
Chapter 6. Buy and sell price of currency pairs and spread
Until now, talking about quotes, we have intentionally used only spot (current) Forex exchange rates to make our website easier to understand. However, a Forex quote consists of two rates (prices) - the sell rate (bid) and the buy rate (ask...
Chapter 9. Forex market and exchange offices
Forex trading is aimed at making money on currency speculations. We have been describing the currency market above but avoided such topics as what starting capital is needed to work on Forex and what profit can be expected. In this chapter...
Chapter 11. Margin requirement
Each time a trader opens a position through an online broker (dealing company), the part of funds on his account becomes frozen. This part is called a security deposit and used for a guarantee that a trader will never lose more than he has...
Chapter 13. Profits of Forex market players
As we have already mentioned, an individual trader gets access to Forex by means of a broker or a dealing company. Traders earn money via currency speculations. In other words, they close positions at a higher price compared to the price of...
Chapter 14. Calculation of profit and loss
We have thoroughly considered the basic terms used on Forex and the main principles of margin trading. It is the time to study how to calculate profit and loss of the opened trades. We know that a trader enters the international currency ma...
Chapter 19. George Soros: The story of one trader
Like in every sphere of life, there are outstanding persons on Forex, whose names went down in history. George Soros is one of the most successful traders in the forex history. His career began from the establishment of the Quantum Fund in...
Introducing Broker program
This type of affiliate program is created specially for the partners who deal directly with the clients, e.g. teach them Forex trading, create expert advisors and trading signals, and influence public opinion. With this program, you can rec...
CPA program
The CPA (Cost Per Action) program perfectly suits webmasters, search engine promotion and online marketing specialists who do not have a deep knowledge of the forex market. This type of partnership does not require complex calculations, ter...
No swaps charged
There are two cases when this happens:1. You have opened a deal on the pair with zero swap. Below is a list of such pairs: http://instaforex.com/en/specifications2. SWAPs have been charged, but the amount of charged swaps is less than the m...
