A Forex broker is a broker dealing in foreign exchange, just
like real estate broker who deals in real estate and properties.
Simply, a Forex broker is an advisor who advises you about the
forex market. However, the Forex market is not the perfect place
to play with as a novice and beginner as there are many
criticalities involved along with much risk bearing capacities.
Novices can very quickly get their fingers badly burnt. But
inexperience is not the only reason to consider using a Forex
broker to trade in the high-risk international currencies
market.
So, the Forex broker is an advisor who advises you about the
forex market and allows you to work for 24 hours a day with major
currencies like EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF etc against the US dollar on
the spot, i.e. according to the current prices on the forex
international exchange market. But the level of profits depends
only on your abilities as well as your timely decision.
Although the role of the Forex broker is relatively redundant
as a result of technological advancement and increased awareness,
we cannot completely underestimate his role. The new paradigm
shift has had something of a democratizing effect on the
financial markets, and in the years that have followed a plethora
of banks and brokerages have extended the range of their services
to a new market by packaging up their online trading systems for
the retail market, enabling the more modest investor to trade
from their own computer screen - even on the previously
out-of-reach currency markets. This is where the real role of
Forex broker starts.
PIP is nothing special but Price Interest Points. In the forex
market, currencies are always priced in pairs. The quoted price
is the level where we, acting as the market maker, are willing to
buy/sell the currency pair. In the wholesale market, currencies
are quoted out to four decimal places, with the last placeholder
called a point or a pip. A pip in most currencies is one
/10,000th of an exchange rate (in USD/JPY, it is one /100th,
likewise you can find for others).
Let's see some more information about Spread. As with all
financial products, forex quotes include terms like 'bid' and
'ask"'. The 'bid', in its simplest terms is the price at which a
dealer is willing to buy (and clients can sell) the base currency
in exchange for the counter currency. The 'ask' is the price at
which dealer will sell (and clients can buy) the base currency in
exchange for the counter currency. The difference between the bid
and the ask price is referred to as the spread. The spread
defines the trader's cost, which can be recovered with a
favorable currency move in the market. The value of a pip is
determined by the pair of currencies being traded, the rate at
which the currency pair is trading and the size of the position
being traded.
There are many great Forex brokers, like COESfx, who maintains
tight, competitive spreads in the four major currencies against
the Dollar, and a total of 17 currency pairs including USD/CAD
and AUD/USD. Some of the major features of COESfx are:
Real-time streaming prices
Price certainty on market orders
Competitive pricing
Fixed 3-5 pip spreads
For details, about this forex broker as well as their
offerings, please visit: http://www.coesfx.com.
Anthony Trister is a currency trader and is an owner of
OneDayTrades which offers free, mechanical forex signals and an
automated trading program for those wanting to trade forex. Free
access available here: http://www.onedaytrades.com
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