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Smaller retail Forex traders have traditionally been at a disadvantage. Margin deposits required for an online trading account with an Forex ECN broker were prohibitively steep. Minimum trade sizes left absolutely no room for error or to maneuver. Traders in this situation frequently had to accept substandard trading platforms, and unpredictable, variable spreads from market [...]

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Apr 7th, 2011 | Filed under MetaTrader General News

Interbank FX Releases January Performance Metrics– Average Execution Time of 7 Milliseconds, Demonstrates Faster, More Accurate FX Trading Advances commitment to transparency by allowing performance numbers to speak for themselves Interbank FX LLC, one of the industry’s leading global providers of online forex trading, continues to provide customers with transparency metrics in 2011, further signifying [...]

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Feb 10th, 2011 | Filed under MetaTrader General News

Many people have the faith in the market that it has never been static. It always varies and is always random. “A random walk down wall street” is a most high-flying book which tells about the investment also says that points achieved by a fund manager are parallel to throwing the darts on a dart [...]

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Sep 23rd, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader 4

New York, NY (Vocus) September 9, 2010 Alpari (US), a leading provider of online foreign exchange (FOREX, FX) trading services, today announced the creation of a proprietary netting plug-in, which addresses trading with the previously imposed NFA rule, “First in First Out (FIFO).” This proprietary technology allows traders to buy, sell and place opposite-side pending [...]

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Sep 10th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader Brokers

FXDD, a leading online Forex broker, has received six 2010 FX Traders’ Choice Awards, including the Eagle Award for top honors in the Global FX Broker – Best Overall category.  FXDD also took the Falcon Award in each of the following categories: Best Overall, Trading Platform Customer Service Department Accounts Department Funding Department Out of [...]

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Sep 6th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader Brokers, MetaTrader General News

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 [...]

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Aug 30th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader Brokers

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 [...]

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Aug 29th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader Brokers

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 [...]

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Aug 2nd, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader Brokers

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 [...]

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Jul 28th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader 5, MetaTrader Brokers

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 [...]

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May 17th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader 4 Tips

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 [...]

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May 5th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader General News

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 [...]

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Apr 27th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader 4 Tips

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 [...]

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Feb 8th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader Brokers

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 [...]

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Jan 25th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader Brokers

Forex traders can choose to use expert advisors or forex robots with MetaTrader. For using these MetaTraders trading robots your computer should always be connected to the internet otherwise the robots will not work correctly. There are many traders who are not able to leave there computers on constantly and others who have slow internet [...]

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Oct 23rd, 2009 | Filed under VPS Hosting

I would suggest moving on to the MetaTrader 4 Trading platform this is the platform the majority of retail forex traders use. Trade on a demo until you are comfortable then move on to a live micro account and trade with 0.10c a pip until you can make profit regular and then only then increase [...]

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Aug 25th, 2009 | Filed under MetaTrader General News

Important Note: MetaTrader 5 is in testing and the below are goals of the new platform and will MetaTrader 5 still be subject to market conditions and broker setup. This week I will try to give some insight into what these features really are and how they might impact your trading. Up first, the new [...]

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Aug 20th, 2009 | Filed under MetaTrader 5