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IBFX Australia Pty Ltd. Acquires Business Licence to Open Doors in Sydney, Australia IBFX Holdings LLC, parent company of leading U.S. off-exchange retail foreign currency (forex) broker Interbank FX LLC, announced today the opening of its Australian subsidiary, IBFX Australia Pty. IBFX Australia Pty. Ltd. has obtained a license with the Australian Securities and Investments [...]

Deltastock MetaTrader 4 is now available and allows clients to trade Forex, Spot Gold and Silver. PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 27, 2010 Delastock, a Global Forex and CFD Broker, announced the launch of Deltastock MetaTrader 4 as a standalone trading platform. Deltastock’s clients now can enjoy the ability to choose between Deltastock’s proprietary trading [...]

Pending orders are the client’s commitment to the brokerage company to buy or sell a security at a pre-defined price in the future. This type of orders is used for the opening of a trade position provided the future price quotes reach the pre-defined level. There are usually four types of pending orders available in [...]

978 Participants Registered MetaQuotes Software Corp., Interbank FX, MIG Bank, FXCM, the TRADERS’ magazine and Dow Jones hold the fourth annual Automated Trading Championship 2010. The best three developers of automated trading strategies will be revealed within three months. Assessment criterion will be the absolute profit. Winners will share the Automated Trading Championship 2010 Prize [...]

In MQL5 you can write an indicator both from a scratch and on the basis of another already existing indicator, in-built in the client terminal or a custom one. And here you also have two ways – to improve an indicator by adding new calculations and graphical styles to it , or to use an [...]

FXCM Holdings LLC (FXCM) (http://www.fxcm.com) has been awarded Best Retail Platform by FX Week at the 2010 e-FX awards for the second year in a row. The award, announced on July 13, 2010, at the FX Week U.S. conference, recognizes industry excellence in electronic foreign exchange trading from banks and vendors. FXCM prevailed over other [...]

New York, NY (PRWEB) July 22, 2010 FXDD, a leading online Forex broker, is now offering the Metatrader 5 software trading platform for practice (demo) accounts. To sign-up for an FXDD Metatrader 5 practice account, please visit http://www.fxdd.com/metatrader5 FXDD, a leading online Forex broker, is now offering the Metatrader 5 software trading platform for practice [...]

I know it’s a bit late yet this hasn’t been published yet so what the hell. Hotspot recently released their trading volume figures and the numbers are simply astounding. During May 2010 Hotspot transacted over $1 Trillion total volume… May 6th was the most volatile with almost $90 billion traded in a single day. From [...]

How do stop orders work in MetaTrader? Buy stop, Sell stop and Stop loss orders do NOT guarantee an order will be filled at a certain price.  Your specified price is known as the stop price.  Once the stop price is met or exceeded, the order becomes a market order.  Market orders instruct the broker [...]

Global currency trading volume declined 6 percent to just under $100 trillion last year, after setting records in 2007 and 2008, as hedge funds placed fewer trades than in previous years, Greenwich Associates said. Trading by fund managers fell 23 percent in 2009, leading the declines among the 1,497 corporate and institutional customers surveyed by [...]

MQL5 for Newbies: Guide to Using Technical Indicators in Expert Advisors Introduction An Expert Advisor or indicator that doesn’t use standard technical indicators in its code is rare. They are popular both for the beginners and advanced developers of trading strategies. It isn’t difficult to understand the details of indicator creation; the aim of this [...]

In MQL5 there are several ways to call indicators, and they are mostly carried out using IndicatorCreate() and iCustom() functions. Moreover, these functions only return indicator handle, and further work on indicators is done through it. So what is a handle? How to deal with IndicatorCreate() and iCustom() functions? And how your expert will get [...]

A pip is the smallest increment in any currency pair. In EUR/USD, a movement from 1.0066 to 1.0067 is one pip, so a pip is .0001. In USD/JPY, a movement from 120.45 to 120.46 is one pip, so a pip is .01. How much in dollars is this movement worth, for example, per 100,000 Euros [...]

IBFX is running two promotions for the month of March 2010.  The promotions include a $50 deposit for a new account and 10% deposit match.  For the $50 bonus promotion, there first must be a $250 deposit made by the client before the $50 bonus will be deposited.  For the 10% promotion, there is a minimum deposit amount of $2,000. Below is an [...]

The current price shown on an MT4 chart is the bid price. When looking at a price bar or candle, you must add the spread to the high bid price to know what the high ask price would have been, or add the spread to the low bid price to know what the low ask [...]

You receive the “Trade context is busy” message when you try to process two or more orders at the same time. If you have placed a trade and do not wait until it processes completely and then try to place the same trade or a different trade, the commands go into a loop and you [...]

All Forex quotes have two parts, the BID and the ASK. The Bid is the price at which you (as the trader) will open a sell. The Ask is the price at which you will open a buy. The difference between the bid and the ask price is known as the spread. Free IBFX MetaTrader [...]

IBFX Forex margin calls are significantly different than margin calls in other markets. We do not call our clients to warn them their equity has fallen to dangerously low levels. The leveraged nature of Forex trading does not allow time for a traditional margin call. Accounts trading with 100:1 margin levels are subject to a [...]

Press Release For the third year running, Interbank FX (IBFX), a worldwide provider of online off-exchange retail foreign currency (Forex/FX) trading, has been crowned Best Foreign Exchange Broker at the 2009 Shares Awards. This recognition marks the second global award recognition in one week for Interbank FX and serves as a culminating event for the [...]

Development of applications for the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal requires the knowledge of MQL4. This programming language MetaQuotes Language 4 is a fourth-generation language that has also been developed by MetaQuotes Software Corp. from their own many years experience. MQL4 is the first programming language to consider all niceties of trading on financial markets. This [...]