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Pip value for currencies
The pip value can be estimated with the help of three methods. It will depend on the trading volume; the choice of calculation method will be reliant on the currency pair:1. If USD is the second currency in a currency pair (for example, EUR...
Currency pairs
To calculate the margin, it is necessary to know the following characteristics:* account balance and currency (1,000 USD)* leverage (1:100)* currency pair (EUR/USD)* trade size (1 lot 10,000 EUR)To assess the volume of the trade, it is nece...
Spread
Spread is the current difference between the buy price and the sell price of a currency pair or CFD.
Base currency
Base currency is the first currency appearing in a currency pair. Its value is determined by the price of the currency quoted against it. For example, if the EUR/USD currency pair rate is 1.3525, then the euro is the base currency and it is...
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...
Chart types
Forex graphic charts are usually made in two coordinates - the price (shown on the vertical y-axis) and the time (shown on the x-axis). Sometimes the tick volume chart is also made along the y-axis. The time–axis scale (also called interval...
How to choose currency pairs in ForexCopy
At the moment only a few currency pairs are available for the manual copying; their number will be increased soon. However, if you choose the Copy all pairs option, you will copy all the instruments of a trader, including futures, stocks, e...
Chapter 7. Cross currency pairs
The trading operations on Forex are carried out not only against the US dollar. We intentionally have not touched on these operations until now to make the content more intelligible. The currency rates, which do not include the US dollar, a...
Chapter 18. Commodity currencies on Forex
As we have already found out from previous chapters, the currency price is determined by a great variety of factors, such as: economic, political and some others. All listed factors concerning each country separately influence its national...
Quotation
The term “to quote” is most likely to have come from the French verb "coter" which means to mark/label with numbers. The quote is the value of one currency unit denominated in terms of another currency.For example, the EUR/USD rate is 1.275...
Trade volume for currencies
To calculate the transaction size, we need to take into account the following details:- account balance 1,000 RUB;- EUR/USD currency pair;- leverage 1/100.Let us convert RUB in USD.To do this, we need to divide the account balance = 1,000 R...
Locked positions
The margin for locked positions is calculated as follows.We have three positions with two of them are Sell and one is Buy (all these three Buy and Sell positions are locked).To calculate the margin, you need to know the currency pair, accou...
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...
Pullback trading
As a rule, market participants are divided into several groups, each of them prefer their own trading methods. It is hard to say what is the exact ratio of supporters of various methods. However, we tend to think that most traders stick to...
Hedging
Hedging is the parctice of protecting client's funds from unfavorable price fluctuations by opening a position in a contrary or opposing market. Hedging: ensures protection from possible losses by the time of forward deal settlement; provid...
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...
Medium-term trading
The medium-term trading strategy is a method based on medium-term time frames that range from several days to 1-2 months. The advantage of medium-term trading is that you can trade successfully doing other things at the same time. This stra...
Pending order
A pending order is placed when opening a trading position. A pending order is an instruction to the broker to buy or sell a currency pair when the price reaches the pre-defined level mentioned in the order.There are four types of pending or...
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...
SAR (Parabolic Stop and Reverse)
The next technical analysis indicator which should be paid attention to in the process of Forex education is the Parabolic Stop and Reversal System (PSAR). This indicator was developed by the famous trader Welles Wilder, who contributed muc...
Swing trading
The purpose of swing trading is to catch gains in the long term. This is the main difference between this method and intraday trading. Swing traders take profit every 3 to 5 days. The majority of the world's most successful traders use this...
Simple moving average
The plain form of the [[Moving Averages|moving average (MA)]] is a simple moving average, SMA. This type of technical analysis indicators is depicted as a curve on the price chart, the main task of which is to even (or filter) price changes...
Moving average envelopes
Simple moving average can be transformed into a new tool - moving average envelopes. This tool, like the [[Bollinger bands|Bollinger bands]], is used for the detection of the current price movement boundaries. FormulaThe indicator consists...
Requirements for the Real Scalping contestants
1. Clients over 18 years old have a right to participate in the contest.2. The participants open a separate DEMO account to take part in each monthly contest.3. TThe participants should provide authentic data upon registration, including th...
Requirements for the Great Race contestants
1. Owners of InstaForex accounts can take part in all steps of the contest.2. Each participant should be registered on the InstaForex website.3. The participants should provide authentic data upon registration, including the full name as it...
Special trading conditions for the Great Race contest
Trading conditions applied to accounts participating in Great Race 2020 are the following:1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 100,000 USD for all participants and cannot be ch...
Requirements for the InstaForex Sniper contestants
1. Clients over 18 years old have a right to participate in the contest2. The contestant opens a separate DEMO account to participate in each weekly contest.3. The contestants should provide authentic data upon registration, including the f...
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...
Requirements for the Lucky Trader contestants
1. Clients over 18 years old have a right to participate in the contest2. Each contestant should be registered on the InstaForex website.3. The contestant opens a separate DEMO account to participate in each two-week contest.4. The contesta...
Special trading conditions of the Lucky Trader contest
1. A contestant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 30,000.00 USD or all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancel...
Requirements for the FX-1 Rally contestants
1. Owners of InstaForex trading accounts can take part in the weekly contest.2. Clients over 18 years old have a right to participate in the contest3. Each contestant should be registered on the InstaForex website.4. The contestant opens a...
Features of ForexCopy Trading
Yes, you can adjust the subscription parameters and choose either to copy all trades or the trades on the desired currency pairs only.
The main trading conditions of the InstaForex Sniper contest
1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 10,000 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. Orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellatio...
Chapter 5. Forex quotes
When we buy something in a shop, a price tag shows us the price of an item in the domestic currency. For example, we pay $12 for a book which is common practice for us.In the Forex market, we always trade one currency against another. There...
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 10. Margin trading
In the previous chapter we compared work on Forex with the opportunity to earn from the buy/sell operations at an exchange office. It is obvious that Forex has a range of advantages that allow traders to take significant profit in a short t...
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...
Forex calculator
Notification:The value of a pip is calculated on the basis of the current rate of a given currency pair.Please note that 1 lot of InstaForex is equal to 10,000 units of the base currency.You can find below a formula to calculate the value o...
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...
The main trading conditions of the Real Scalping contest
1. A participant receives a competitive DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 20,000.00 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders open at non-market prices are subje...
Choosing a winner
The winner of the Ferrari InstaForex contest will be determined according to the following scheme: the winner is selected on the basis of the last 5 digits of a trading account, no matter if it contains 5, 6, or 7 digits. If these 5 digits...
