Rate Hike Unlikely on Slowing US Economy | Trading Forex
According to the Commerce Department, retail sales barely rose in September, edging up only 0.1 percent last month largely due to cheaper gasoline which pushed gas station receipts down 3.2 percent. Producer prices reported their biggest decline in eight months.
The Commerce Department report showed that retail sales excluding automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services slipped 0.1 percent last month after a downwardly revised 0.2 percent gain in August.
Reports show that the economy has been losing momentum as a result of a dollar that has strengthened against other major currencies, sluggish global growth and lower oil prices that are impeding capital spending in the energy sector. All these factors have contributed to a halt in job growth in the past two months.
No Rate Hike Foreseen
According to Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics in Toronto, "The softness of September's figures supports our view that the Fed probably isn't going to hike interest rates until early next year."The Commerce Department report also showed that business inventories remained unchanged again in August, triggering JPMorgan to cut its third-quarter GDP estimate by half a percentage point to an annual rate of 1 percent.
The economy grew only 3.9 percent in the second quarter while discretionary spending, which could provide some cushioning against weakening global growth, remained somewhat healthy as consumers bought automobiles and furniture and spent more on hobbies, clothing and dining out.
True Leverage | Trading Forex
The related subjects of leverage, margin and position sizing are not only widely misunderstood, they are also usually the key reasons why traders “blow up” their trading accounts. That’s why it is very important to make sure you understand the basics, which can be explained quickly and simply.
What is Leverage in Forex?
Leverage is your total maximum possible borrowing ratio.
Let’s say that a trader deposits $100 with a Forex broker who allows a maximum leverage of 100 to 1 (this would usually be written as 100:1).
This means that the broker will allow the trader to control maximum funds totaling 100 times his deposit of $100, i.e. $10,000.
Many people trading Forex don’t even understand there is a nominal value to the trades they make. For example, 1 lot of USD/JPY is worth $100,000. Your broker offering maximum leverage of 100 to 1 will not let you buy or sell 1 full lot of USD/JPY unless you have at least 1% of that nominal value deposited in your trading account (1% of $100,000), which is $1,000.
Depending upon market conditions, brokers may require even more than the advertised maximum leverage, which is just the furthest they are ever willing to go under the best circumstances. If conditions are very volatile, brokers typically lower the effective maximum leverage available.
Going back to our example of the trader depositing $100 with a Forex broker giving a maximum leverage of 100:1, that trader could buy or sell at most 0.1 lots of USD/JPY. This is because $100 X 100 = $10,000 and that is worth one tenth of a lot of USD/JPY.
What is Margin in Forex?
Margin is the minimum cash deposit required by the broker to cover any open trades. It is sometimes expressed as a percentage.
Using our previous example, a trader who wishes to buy or sell 0.1 lots of USD/JPY with a Forex broker offering a maximum leverage of 100:1 must deposit at least $100 as “margin” to cover that trade. Margin can be calculated as follows: Trade Value divided by leverage. Here, that is $10,000 divided by 100, equaling $100. Expressed as a percentage, the broker requires a margin deposit of 1%.
What is Position Size in Forex?
“Position size” is the quantity of what is being traded. Every currency pair is quantified by a standardized amount known as a “lot”. The value of a lot fluctuates between currency pairs. For example, as already mentioned, 1 lot of USD/JPY is always worth $100,000 while 1 lot of EUR/USD is always worth €100,000. Note that this means that unless EUR/USD is trading at 1.0000, the real values of 1 lot of USD/JPY and 1 lot of EUR/USD are going to be at least a little different. All lots are not equal!
Most brokers’ platforms express position sizes in terms of lots. Some display other measurements such as nominal value or their own unitary system. It is important to understand how your broker is quantifying position sizes. Traders tend to think in terms of how much cash and how many pips they wish to risk on a trade, making a quick mental calculation of value per pip, and then translating that into lot size. It is a good idea to use a position size calculator, as the cash value per pip fluctuates with market movements.
What is “True Leverage”?
A trader might open an account with a broker offering maximum leverage of 100:1. If you ask the trader how much leverage he or she has, they may reply, 100 to 1. This is true in a sense, but it is not their “true leverage”, which can fluctuate from moment to moment. True leverage is how leveraged you are from your trades open in the market at any given time.
As an example, let us imagine a trader opening an account and depositing $10,000. His broker offers him maximum leverage of 100 to 1. He opens a position (a trade) in EUR/USD with a nominal value of $10,000. How leveraged is he? Not leveraged at all! He has no true leverage, because his total exposure to the market is not more than his cash deposit. Even if his trade were to fall to a value of zero, he could not possibly lose more than he deposited.
True leverage is calculated as the total nominal value of all open trades divided by account equity (i.e. how much in cash the account would be worth if all open positions were closed).
Going back to our example, let’s imagine our trader opens another position with a nominal value of $10,000. He is now leveraged at 2 to 1 (we can ignore the small difference that might occur due to the first trade being in floating profit or loss), because he has two open positions, each worth $10,000.
Risk of Margin Call
A “margin call” is when your broker tells you that you do not have sufficient funds in your account to cover all your liabilities. The expression dates from the days before the internet, when trades were made over the telephone. If your margin was not enough to cover your losing trades, your broker would call and require that you either deposited more margin, or gave up on your account and accepted it as empty.
The same thing happens today, instantly and electronically, without the call.
You can use your true leverage to understand your risk of having your account wiped out, or subject to catastrophic losses from which recovery is usually extremely difficult or even impossible.
For example, if your true leverage is 2 to 1, then an adverse total price movement over all your open trades of 50% will wipe out your account.
Here is a table showing maximum adverse movement until wipe out for various amounts of true leverage:
Consider also the following table, showing how much percentage gain is required to recover from various losses to a trading account:
While these numbers might look frightening, you might think that your stop loss orders will protect you from a catastrophic loss.
This is not necessarily correct. Most of the time stop loss orders are triggered with no slippage or with a very small amount of slippage. However, consider that during the Swiss Franc uncoupling of January 2015, most traders who had a true leverage against the Swiss Franc of more than 3 to 1 were completely wiped out, as most Forex brokers ended up quoting enormous price fluctuations without allowing any traders to exit for about an hour or so after the surprise announcement.
The interplay of risk and leverage is a complicated and controversial subject and I will turn to that in the second part of this article, to follow soon.
Source
True Leverage | Trading Forex
The related subjects of leverage, margin and position sizing are not only widely misunderstood, they are also usually the key reasons why traders “blow up” their trading accounts. That’s why it is very important to make sure you understand the basics, which can be explained quickly and simply.
What is Leverage in Forex?
Leverage is your total maximum possible borrowing ratio.
Let’s say that a trader deposits $100 with a Forex broker who allows a maximum leverage of 100 to 1 (this would usually be written as 100:1).
This means that the broker will allow the trader to control maximum funds totaling 100 times his deposit of $100, i.e. $10,000.
Many people trading Forex don’t even understand there is a nominal value to the trades they make. For example, 1 lot of USD/JPY is worth $100,000. Your broker offering maximum leverage of 100 to 1 will not let you buy or sell 1 full lot of USD/JPY unless you have at least 1% of that nominal value deposited in your trading account (1% of $100,000), which is $1,000.
Depending upon market conditions, brokers may require even more than the advertised maximum leverage, which is just the furthest they are ever willing to go under the best circumstances. If conditions are very volatile, brokers typically lower the effective maximum leverage available.
Going back to our example of the trader depositing $100 with a Forex broker giving a maximum leverage of 100:1, that trader could buy or sell at most 0.1 lots of USD/JPY. This is because $100 X 100 = $10,000 and that is worth one tenth of a lot of USD/JPY.
What is Margin in Forex?
Margin is the minimum cash deposit required by the broker to cover any open trades. It is sometimes expressed as a percentage.
Using our previous example, a trader who wishes to buy or sell 0.1 lots of USD/JPY with a Forex broker offering a maximum leverage of 100:1 must deposit at least $100 as “margin” to cover that trade. Margin can be calculated as follows: Trade Value divided by leverage. Here, that is $10,000 divided by 100, equaling $100. Expressed as a percentage, the broker requires a margin deposit of 1%.
What is Position Size in Forex?
“Position size” is the quantity of what is being traded. Every currency pair is quantified by a standardized amount known as a “lot”. The value of a lot fluctuates between currency pairs. For example, as already mentioned, 1 lot of USD/JPY is always worth $100,000 while 1 lot of EUR/USD is always worth €100,000. Note that this means that unless EUR/USD is trading at 1.0000, the real values of 1 lot of USD/JPY and 1 lot of EUR/USD are going to be at least a little different. All lots are not equal!
Most brokers’ platforms express position sizes in terms of lots. Some display other measurements such as nominal value or their own unitary system. It is important to understand how your broker is quantifying position sizes. Traders tend to think in terms of how much cash and how many pips they wish to risk on a trade, making a quick mental calculation of value per pip, and then translating that into lot size. It is a good idea to use a position size calculator, as the cash value per pip fluctuates with market movements.
What is “True Leverage”?
A trader might open an account with a broker offering maximum leverage of 100:1. If you ask the trader how much leverage he or she has, they may reply, 100 to 1. This is true in a sense, but it is not their “true leverage”, which can fluctuate from moment to moment. True leverage is how leveraged you are from your trades open in the market at any given time.
As an example, let us imagine a trader opening an account and depositing $10,000. His broker offers him maximum leverage of 100 to 1. He opens a position (a trade) in EUR/USD with a nominal value of $10,000. How leveraged is he? Not leveraged at all! He has no true leverage, because his total exposure to the market is not more than his cash deposit. Even if his trade were to fall to a value of zero, he could not possibly lose more than he deposited.
True leverage is calculated as the total nominal value of all open trades divided by account equity (i.e. how much in cash the account would be worth if all open positions were closed).
Going back to our example, let’s imagine our trader opens another position with a nominal value of $10,000. He is now leveraged at 2 to 1 (we can ignore the small difference that might occur due to the first trade being in floating profit or loss), because he has two open positions, each worth $10,000.
Risk of Margin Call
A “margin call” is when your broker tells you that you do not have sufficient funds in your account to cover all your liabilities. The expression dates from the days before the internet, when trades were made over the telephone. If your margin was not enough to cover your losing trades, your broker would call and require that you either deposited more margin, or gave up on your account and accepted it as empty.
The same thing happens today, instantly and electronically, without the call.
You can use your true leverage to understand your risk of having your account wiped out, or subject to catastrophic losses from which recovery is usually extremely difficult or even impossible.
For example, if your true leverage is 2 to 1, then an adverse total price movement over all your open trades of 50% will wipe out your account.
Here is a table showing maximum adverse movement until wipe out for various amounts of true leverage:
Consider also the following table, showing how much percentage gain is required to recover from various losses to a trading account:
While these numbers might look frightening, you might think that your stop loss orders will protect you from a catastrophic loss.
This is not necessarily correct. Most of the time stop loss orders are triggered with no slippage or with a very small amount of slippage. However, consider that during the Swiss Franc uncoupling of January 2015, most traders who had a true leverage against the Swiss Franc of more than 3 to 1 were completely wiped out, as most Forex brokers ended up quoting enormous price fluctuations without allowing any traders to exit for about an hour or so after the surprise announcement.
The interplay of risk and leverage is a complicated and controversial subject and I will turn to that in the second part of this article, to follow soon.
Source
True Leverage | Trading Forex
The related subjects of leverage, margin and position sizing are not only widely misunderstood, they are also usually the key reasons why traders “blow up” their trading accounts. That’s why it is very important to make sure you understand the basics, which can be explained quickly and simply.
What is Leverage in Forex?
Leverage is your total maximum possible borrowing ratio.
Let’s say that a trader deposits $100 with a Forex broker who allows a maximum leverage of 100 to 1 (this would usually be written as 100:1).
This means that the broker will allow the trader to control maximum funds totaling 100 times his deposit of $100, i.e. $10,000.
Many people trading Forex don’t even understand there is a nominal value to the trades they make. For example, 1 lot of USD/JPY is worth $100,000. Your broker offering maximum leverage of 100 to 1 will not let you buy or sell 1 full lot of USD/JPY unless you have at least 1% of that nominal value deposited in your trading account (1% of $100,000), which is $1,000.
Depending upon market conditions, brokers may require even more than the advertised maximum leverage, which is just the furthest they are ever willing to go under the best circumstances. If conditions are very volatile, brokers typically lower the effective maximum leverage available.
Going back to our example of the trader depositing $100 with a Forex broker giving a maximum leverage of 100:1, that trader could buy or sell at most 0.1 lots of USD/JPY. This is because $100 X 100 = $10,000 and that is worth one tenth of a lot of USD/JPY.
What is Margin in Forex?
Margin is the minimum cash deposit required by the broker to cover any open trades. It is sometimes expressed as a percentage.
Using our previous example, a trader who wishes to buy or sell 0.1 lots of USD/JPY with a Forex broker offering a maximum leverage of 100:1 must deposit at least $100 as “margin” to cover that trade. Margin can be calculated as follows: Trade Value divided by leverage. Here, that is $10,000 divided by 100, equaling $100. Expressed as a percentage, the broker requires a margin deposit of 1%.
What is Position Size in Forex?
“Position size” is the quantity of what is being traded. Every currency pair is quantified by a standardized amount known as a “lot”. The value of a lot fluctuates between currency pairs. For example, as already mentioned, 1 lot of USD/JPY is always worth $100,000 while 1 lot of EUR/USD is always worth €100,000. Note that this means that unless EUR/USD is trading at 1.0000, the real values of 1 lot of USD/JPY and 1 lot of EUR/USD are going to be at least a little different. All lots are not equal!
Most brokers’ platforms express position sizes in terms of lots. Some display other measurements such as nominal value or their own unitary system. It is important to understand how your broker is quantifying position sizes. Traders tend to think in terms of how much cash and how many pips they wish to risk on a trade, making a quick mental calculation of value per pip, and then translating that into lot size. It is a good idea to use a position size calculator, as the cash value per pip fluctuates with market movements.
What is “True Leverage”?
A trader might open an account with a broker offering maximum leverage of 100:1. If you ask the trader how much leverage he or she has, they may reply, 100 to 1. This is true in a sense, but it is not their “true leverage”, which can fluctuate from moment to moment. True leverage is how leveraged you are from your trades open in the market at any given time.
As an example, let us imagine a trader opening an account and depositing $10,000. His broker offers him maximum leverage of 100 to 1. He opens a position (a trade) in EUR/USD with a nominal value of $10,000. How leveraged is he? Not leveraged at all! He has no true leverage, because his total exposure to the market is not more than his cash deposit. Even if his trade were to fall to a value of zero, he could not possibly lose more than he deposited.
True leverage is calculated as the total nominal value of all open trades divided by account equity (i.e. how much in cash the account would be worth if all open positions were closed).
Going back to our example, let’s imagine our trader opens another position with a nominal value of $10,000. He is now leveraged at 2 to 1 (we can ignore the small difference that might occur due to the first trade being in floating profit or loss), because he has two open positions, each worth $10,000.
Risk of Margin Call
A “margin call” is when your broker tells you that you do not have sufficient funds in your account to cover all your liabilities. The expression dates from the days before the internet, when trades were made over the telephone. If your margin was not enough to cover your losing trades, your broker would call and require that you either deposited more margin, or gave up on your account and accepted it as empty.
The same thing happens today, instantly and electronically, without the call.
You can use your true leverage to understand your risk of having your account wiped out, or subject to catastrophic losses from which recovery is usually extremely difficult or even impossible.
For example, if your true leverage is 2 to 1, then an adverse total price movement over all your open trades of 50% will wipe out your account.
Here is a table showing maximum adverse movement until wipe out for various amounts of true leverage:
Consider also the following table, showing how much percentage gain is required to recover from various losses to a trading account:
While these numbers might look frightening, you might think that your stop loss orders will protect you from a catastrophic loss.
This is not necessarily correct. Most of the time stop loss orders are triggered with no slippage or with a very small amount of slippage. However, consider that during the Swiss Franc uncoupling of January 2015, most traders who had a true leverage against the Swiss Franc of more than 3 to 1 were completely wiped out, as most Forex brokers ended up quoting enormous price fluctuations without allowing any traders to exit for about an hour or so after the surprise announcement.
The interplay of risk and leverage is a complicated and controversial subject and I will turn to that in the second part of this article, to follow soon.
Source
True Leverage | Trading Forex
The related subjects of leverage, margin and position sizing are not only widely misunderstood, they are also usually the key reasons why traders “blow up” their trading accounts. That’s why it is very important to make sure you understand the basics, which can be explained quickly and simply.
What is Leverage in Forex?
Leverage is your total maximum possible borrowing ratio.
Let’s say that a trader deposits $100 with a Forex broker who allows a maximum leverage of 100 to 1 (this would usually be written as 100:1).
This means that the broker will allow the trader to control maximum funds totaling 100 times his deposit of $100, i.e. $10,000.
Many people trading Forex don’t even understand there is a nominal value to the trades they make. For example, 1 lot of USD/JPY is worth $100,000. Your broker offering maximum leverage of 100 to 1 will not let you buy or sell 1 full lot of USD/JPY unless you have at least 1% of that nominal value deposited in your trading account (1% of $100,000), which is $1,000.
Depending upon market conditions, brokers may require even more than the advertised maximum leverage, which is just the furthest they are ever willing to go under the best circumstances. If conditions are very volatile, brokers typically lower the effective maximum leverage available.
Going back to our example of the trader depositing $100 with a Forex broker giving a maximum leverage of 100:1, that trader could buy or sell at most 0.1 lots of USD/JPY. This is because $100 X 100 = $10,000 and that is worth one tenth of a lot of USD/JPY.
What is Margin in Forex?
Margin is the minimum cash deposit required by the broker to cover any open trades. It is sometimes expressed as a percentage.
Using our previous example, a trader who wishes to buy or sell 0.1 lots of USD/JPY with a Forex broker offering a maximum leverage of 100:1 must deposit at least $100 as “margin” to cover that trade. Margin can be calculated as follows: Trade Value divided by leverage. Here, that is $10,000 divided by 100, equaling $100. Expressed as a percentage, the broker requires a margin deposit of 1%.
What is Position Size in Forex?
“Position size” is the quantity of what is being traded. Every currency pair is quantified by a standardized amount known as a “lot”. The value of a lot fluctuates between currency pairs. For example, as already mentioned, 1 lot of USD/JPY is always worth $100,000 while 1 lot of EUR/USD is always worth €100,000. Note that this means that unless EUR/USD is trading at 1.0000, the real values of 1 lot of USD/JPY and 1 lot of EUR/USD are going to be at least a little different. All lots are not equal!
Most brokers’ platforms express position sizes in terms of lots. Some display other measurements such as nominal value or their own unitary system. It is important to understand how your broker is quantifying position sizes. Traders tend to think in terms of how much cash and how many pips they wish to risk on a trade, making a quick mental calculation of value per pip, and then translating that into lot size. It is a good idea to use a position size calculator, as the cash value per pip fluctuates with market movements.
What is “True Leverage”?
A trader might open an account with a broker offering maximum leverage of 100:1. If you ask the trader how much leverage he or she has, they may reply, 100 to 1. This is true in a sense, but it is not their “true leverage”, which can fluctuate from moment to moment. True leverage is how leveraged you are from your trades open in the market at any given time.
As an example, let us imagine a trader opening an account and depositing $10,000. His broker offers him maximum leverage of 100 to 1. He opens a position (a trade) in EUR/USD with a nominal value of $10,000. How leveraged is he? Not leveraged at all! He has no true leverage, because his total exposure to the market is not more than his cash deposit. Even if his trade were to fall to a value of zero, he could not possibly lose more than he deposited.
True leverage is calculated as the total nominal value of all open trades divided by account equity (i.e. how much in cash the account would be worth if all open positions were closed).
Going back to our example, let’s imagine our trader opens another position with a nominal value of $10,000. He is now leveraged at 2 to 1 (we can ignore the small difference that might occur due to the first trade being in floating profit or loss), because he has two open positions, each worth $10,000.
Risk of Margin Call
A “margin call” is when your broker tells you that you do not have sufficient funds in your account to cover all your liabilities. The expression dates from the days before the internet, when trades were made over the telephone. If your margin was not enough to cover your losing trades, your broker would call and require that you either deposited more margin, or gave up on your account and accepted it as empty.
The same thing happens today, instantly and electronically, without the call.
You can use your true leverage to understand your risk of having your account wiped out, or subject to catastrophic losses from which recovery is usually extremely difficult or even impossible.
For example, if your true leverage is 2 to 1, then an adverse total price movement over all your open trades of 50% will wipe out your account.
Here is a table showing maximum adverse movement until wipe out for various amounts of true leverage:
Consider also the following table, showing how much percentage gain is required to recover from various losses to a trading account:
While these numbers might look frightening, you might think that your stop loss orders will protect you from a catastrophic loss.
This is not necessarily correct. Most of the time stop loss orders are triggered with no slippage or with a very small amount of slippage. However, consider that during the Swiss Franc uncoupling of January 2015, most traders who had a true leverage against the Swiss Franc of more than 3 to 1 were completely wiped out, as most Forex brokers ended up quoting enormous price fluctuations without allowing any traders to exit for about an hour or so after the surprise announcement.
The interplay of risk and leverage is a complicated and controversial subject and I will turn to that in the second part of this article, to follow soon.
Source
True Leverage | Trading Forex
The related subjects of leverage, margin and position sizing are not only widely misunderstood, they are also usually the key reasons why traders “blow up” their trading accounts. That’s why it is very important to make sure you understand the basics, which can be explained quickly and simply.
What is Leverage in Forex?
Leverage is your total maximum possible borrowing ratio.
Let’s say that a trader deposits $100 with a Forex broker who allows a maximum leverage of 100 to 1 (this would usually be written as 100:1).
This means that the broker will allow the trader to control maximum funds totaling 100 times his deposit of $100, i.e. $10,000.
Many people trading Forex don’t even understand there is a nominal value to the trades they make. For example, 1 lot of USD/JPY is worth $100,000. Your broker offering maximum leverage of 100 to 1 will not let you buy or sell 1 full lot of USD/JPY unless you have at least 1% of that nominal value deposited in your trading account (1% of $100,000), which is $1,000.
Depending upon market conditions, brokers may require even more than the advertised maximum leverage, which is just the furthest they are ever willing to go under the best circumstances. If conditions are very volatile, brokers typically lower the effective maximum leverage available.
Going back to our example of the trader depositing $100 with a Forex broker giving a maximum leverage of 100:1, that trader could buy or sell at most 0.1 lots of USD/JPY. This is because $100 X 100 = $10,000 and that is worth one tenth of a lot of USD/JPY.
What is Margin in Forex?
Margin is the minimum cash deposit required by the broker to cover any open trades. It is sometimes expressed as a percentage.
Using our previous example, a trader who wishes to buy or sell 0.1 lots of USD/JPY with a Forex broker offering a maximum leverage of 100:1 must deposit at least $100 as “margin” to cover that trade. Margin can be calculated as follows: Trade Value divided by leverage. Here, that is $10,000 divided by 100, equaling $100. Expressed as a percentage, the broker requires a margin deposit of 1%.
What is Position Size in Forex?
“Position size” is the quantity of what is being traded. Every currency pair is quantified by a standardized amount known as a “lot”. The value of a lot fluctuates between currency pairs. For example, as already mentioned, 1 lot of USD/JPY is always worth $100,000 while 1 lot of EUR/USD is always worth €100,000. Note that this means that unless EUR/USD is trading at 1.0000, the real values of 1 lot of USD/JPY and 1 lot of EUR/USD are going to be at least a little different. All lots are not equal!
Most brokers’ platforms express position sizes in terms of lots. Some display other measurements such as nominal value or their own unitary system. It is important to understand how your broker is quantifying position sizes. Traders tend to think in terms of how much cash and how many pips they wish to risk on a trade, making a quick mental calculation of value per pip, and then translating that into lot size. It is a good idea to use a position size calculator, as the cash value per pip fluctuates with market movements.
What is “True Leverage”?
A trader might open an account with a broker offering maximum leverage of 100:1. If you ask the trader how much leverage he or she has, they may reply, 100 to 1. This is true in a sense, but it is not their “true leverage”, which can fluctuate from moment to moment. True leverage is how leveraged you are from your trades open in the market at any given time.
As an example, let us imagine a trader opening an account and depositing $10,000. His broker offers him maximum leverage of 100 to 1. He opens a position (a trade) in EUR/USD with a nominal value of $10,000. How leveraged is he? Not leveraged at all! He has no true leverage, because his total exposure to the market is not more than his cash deposit. Even if his trade were to fall to a value of zero, he could not possibly lose more than he deposited.
True leverage is calculated as the total nominal value of all open trades divided by account equity (i.e. how much in cash the account would be worth if all open positions were closed).
Going back to our example, let’s imagine our trader opens another position with a nominal value of $10,000. He is now leveraged at 2 to 1 (we can ignore the small difference that might occur due to the first trade being in floating profit or loss), because he has two open positions, each worth $10,000.
Risk of Margin Call
A “margin call” is when your broker tells you that you do not have sufficient funds in your account to cover all your liabilities. The expression dates from the days before the internet, when trades were made over the telephone. If your margin was not enough to cover your losing trades, your broker would call and require that you either deposited more margin, or gave up on your account and accepted it as empty.
The same thing happens today, instantly and electronically, without the call.
You can use your true leverage to understand your risk of having your account wiped out, or subject to catastrophic losses from which recovery is usually extremely difficult or even impossible.
For example, if your true leverage is 2 to 1, then an adverse total price movement over all your open trades of 50% will wipe out your account.
Here is a table showing maximum adverse movement until wipe out for various amounts of true leverage:
Consider also the following table, showing how much percentage gain is required to recover from various losses to a trading account:
While these numbers might look frightening, you might think that your stop loss orders will protect you from a catastrophic loss.
This is not necessarily correct. Most of the time stop loss orders are triggered with no slippage or with a very small amount of slippage. However, consider that during the Swiss Franc uncoupling of January 2015, most traders who had a true leverage against the Swiss Franc of more than 3 to 1 were completely wiped out, as most Forex brokers ended up quoting enormous price fluctuations without allowing any traders to exit for about an hour or so after the surprise announcement.
The interplay of risk and leverage is a complicated and controversial subject and I will turn to that in the second part of this article, to follow soon.
Source
True Leverage | Trading Forex
The related subjects of leverage, margin and position sizing are not only widely misunderstood, they are also usually the key reasons why traders “blow up” their trading accounts. That’s why it is very important to make sure you understand the basics, which can be explained quickly and simply.
What is Leverage in Forex?
Leverage is your total maximum possible borrowing ratio.
Let’s say that a trader deposits $100 with a Forex broker who allows a maximum leverage of 100 to 1 (this would usually be written as 100:1).
This means that the broker will allow the trader to control maximum funds totaling 100 times his deposit of $100, i.e. $10,000.
Many people trading Forex don’t even understand there is a nominal value to the trades they make. For example, 1 lot of USD/JPY is worth $100,000. Your broker offering maximum leverage of 100 to 1 will not let you buy or sell 1 full lot of USD/JPY unless you have at least 1% of that nominal value deposited in your trading account (1% of $100,000), which is $1,000.
Depending upon market conditions, brokers may require even more than the advertised maximum leverage, which is just the furthest they are ever willing to go under the best circumstances. If conditions are very volatile, brokers typically lower the effective maximum leverage available.
Going back to our example of the trader depositing $100 with a Forex broker giving a maximum leverage of 100:1, that trader could buy or sell at most 0.1 lots of USD/JPY. This is because $100 X 100 = $10,000 and that is worth one tenth of a lot of USD/JPY.
What is Margin in Forex?
Margin is the minimum cash deposit required by the broker to cover any open trades. It is sometimes expressed as a percentage.
Using our previous example, a trader who wishes to buy or sell 0.1 lots of USD/JPY with a Forex broker offering a maximum leverage of 100:1 must deposit at least $100 as “margin” to cover that trade. Margin can be calculated as follows: Trade Value divided by leverage. Here, that is $10,000 divided by 100, equaling $100. Expressed as a percentage, the broker requires a margin deposit of 1%.
What is Position Size in Forex?
“Position size” is the quantity of what is being traded. Every currency pair is quantified by a standardized amount known as a “lot”. The value of a lot fluctuates between currency pairs. For example, as already mentioned, 1 lot of USD/JPY is always worth $100,000 while 1 lot of EUR/USD is always worth €100,000. Note that this means that unless EUR/USD is trading at 1.0000, the real values of 1 lot of USD/JPY and 1 lot of EUR/USD are going to be at least a little different. All lots are not equal!
Most brokers’ platforms express position sizes in terms of lots. Some display other measurements such as nominal value or their own unitary system. It is important to understand how your broker is quantifying position sizes. Traders tend to think in terms of how much cash and how many pips they wish to risk on a trade, making a quick mental calculation of value per pip, and then translating that into lot size. It is a good idea to use a position size calculator, as the cash value per pip fluctuates with market movements.
What is “True Leverage”?
A trader might open an account with a broker offering maximum leverage of 100:1. If you ask the trader how much leverage he or she has, they may reply, 100 to 1. This is true in a sense, but it is not their “true leverage”, which can fluctuate from moment to moment. True leverage is how leveraged you are from your trades open in the market at any given time.
As an example, let us imagine a trader opening an account and depositing $10,000. His broker offers him maximum leverage of 100 to 1. He opens a position (a trade) in EUR/USD with a nominal value of $10,000. How leveraged is he? Not leveraged at all! He has no true leverage, because his total exposure to the market is not more than his cash deposit. Even if his trade were to fall to a value of zero, he could not possibly lose more than he deposited.
True leverage is calculated as the total nominal value of all open trades divided by account equity (i.e. how much in cash the account would be worth if all open positions were closed).
Going back to our example, let’s imagine our trader opens another position with a nominal value of $10,000. He is now leveraged at 2 to 1 (we can ignore the small difference that might occur due to the first trade being in floating profit or loss), because he has two open positions, each worth $10,000.
Risk of Margin Call
A “margin call” is when your broker tells you that you do not have sufficient funds in your account to cover all your liabilities. The expression dates from the days before the internet, when trades were made over the telephone. If your margin was not enough to cover your losing trades, your broker would call and require that you either deposited more margin, or gave up on your account and accepted it as empty.
The same thing happens today, instantly and electronically, without the call.
You can use your true leverage to understand your risk of having your account wiped out, or subject to catastrophic losses from which recovery is usually extremely difficult or even impossible.
For example, if your true leverage is 2 to 1, then an adverse total price movement over all your open trades of 50% will wipe out your account.
Here is a table showing maximum adverse movement until wipe out for various amounts of true leverage:
Consider also the following table, showing how much percentage gain is required to recover from various losses to a trading account:
While these numbers might look frightening, you might think that your stop loss orders will protect you from a catastrophic loss.
This is not necessarily correct. Most of the time stop loss orders are triggered with no slippage or with a very small amount of slippage. However, consider that during the Swiss Franc uncoupling of January 2015, most traders who had a true leverage against the Swiss Franc of more than 3 to 1 were completely wiped out, as most Forex brokers ended up quoting enormous price fluctuations without allowing any traders to exit for about an hour or so after the surprise announcement.
The interplay of risk and leverage is a complicated and controversial subject and I will turn to that in the second part of this article, to follow soon.
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This is the place you purchase and promote stocks, choices, ETFs and extra. I acknowledge that securities held in my Margin account could also be pledged, re-pledged, hypothecated, or re-hypothecated for any quantity due Stadium Online in my account(s) or for a larger amount. All the information on this website is for academic functions only and is not to be construed as investment or buying and selling advice. For a few of these brokerages, in case you lose money and your account stability drops under this amount, you’ll still be charged further fees for having too low a stability.
Any Commonwealth Bank or CommSec account details supplied by you on the One Off Trade Kind are for identification purposes only, and proceeds will likely be credited in the type of cheque only. Your selections right here will inform your selection of brokerage. Share trading through this web site is a service offered by means of Westpac Securities Restricted ABN 39 087 924 221 AFSL 233723 by Australian Funding Alternate Ltd ABN seventy one 076 515 930 AFSL 241400 (“the Participant”), a participant of the ASX Group and Chi-X Australia.
In relation to investments, a buying and selling account is used as a way for an investor to purchase stocks. Before you acquire any services or products from Westpac Securities Restricted and the Participant, it’s essential to view the most recent Financial Providers Guides (FSG’s) issued by them. Margin buying and selling is extended by Nationwide Financial Companies, Member NYSE, SIPC, a Constancy Investments firm. As well as, I felt the brokerage structure and price of account opening and fees might be increased aspect when compared to different brokers who offer only Trading and Demat Account.
Additional, homeowners, employees, agents or representatives of the Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management aren’t appearing as investment advisors and may not be registered with the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee or the Financial Trade Regulatory. XTB Restricted is authorised and controlled by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 522157) with its registered and buying and selling workplace at Level 34, One Canada Sq., Canary Wharf, E14 5AA, London, United Kingdom (company quantity 07227848).
Switching your banking and investment accounts to CIBC is easy and convenient, and comes with plenty of advantages. Improve your buying and selling efficiency or be taught to trade with City Index’s videos and tutorials. Demat account is sort of a bank account by which instead of money, the shares and securities you purchase are saved in dematerialized form. Use a CommSec Share Buying and selling Account to put money into a variety of ASX-listed securities, including Australian shares, using our award-successful trading platform.
Resulting from numerous factors (akin to danger tolerance, margin requirements, trading goals, brief time period vs. long term strategies, technical vs. basic market analysis, and other elements) such buying and selling could end result within the initiation or liquidation of positions which can be different from or contrary to the opinions and recommendations contained therein. The brokerage wants all this information to allow them to contact you to debate changes in your accounts to confirm gross sales or purchases and to let you recognize about a margin name.
This can be achieved by playing with totally different forex demo accounts by varied brokers. Motilal Oswal’s on-line platforms offer the best online trading and tracking experience across all gadgets, which is cellular app, net portal, EXE, smart watch and so forth. Buying and selling accounts are often associated with day trading. This rule requires a $25,000 minimal amount within the account to commerce more than three spherical journeys during a rolling five-day interval. FxPro Group Limited is the holding company of FxPro Financial Providers Ltd, FxPro UK Restricted, FxPro Global Markets MENA Restricted and FxPro Global Markets Ltd.
ActivTrades PLC is regulated by the Dubai Monetary Companies Authority below Agency’s reference No. F003511. Trade Traded Funds are funds that trade on a inventory exchange like bizarre shares. The supplier of the share trading service (weâ€, usâ€, ourâ€) reserves the correct to finish the Introductory Interval early on one business day’s discover within the event that a customer’s buying and selling activities exceed affordable limits as decided by us in our discretion. Consider it as a bank account for your shares as a substitute of money.
For those who hold shares in certificate type, you can simply add these in to your Trading Account so that you can manage all your holdings electronically in one place. Individual brokerages could apply margin restrictions on particular stocks as a result of volatility and brief curiosity. Where you want to promote shares that are held within the name of a belief or company you should have an existing Commonwealth Checking account or bank card in the identical name as the registered title on the shares.
You may access our on-line trading platform on the internet, cellular, desktop or use our call and trade facility, in order that you don’t miss out on any market opportunities. To view the bank account you nominated on your software type, select Portfolio > Profile after you might have logged into your CommSec account. Whole up your risk capital and examine this to the required minimal stability at each brokerage. Until otherwise specified here, the traditional phrases and situations, credit criteria, fees and charges apply to the share trading service provided by Westpac Securities Limited (ABN 39 087 924 221, AFSL 233723) by Australian Investment Trade Ltd (ABN 71 076 515 930, AFSL 241400).
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This is where you buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs and extra. In relation to investments, a buying and selling account is used as a manner for an investor to purchase shares. Earlier than you acquire any services or products from Westpac Securities Limited and the Participant, you have to view the newest Financial Companies Guides (FSG’s) issued by them. Margin buying and selling is prolonged by Nationwide Financial Services, Member NYSE, SIPC, a Fidelity Investments firm. As well as, I felt the brokerage structure and cost of account opening and costs can be increased facet when compared to different brokers who provide only Buying and selling and Demat Account.
Any Commonwealth Bank or CommSec account details supplied by you on the One Off Commerce Form are for identification functions only, and proceeds can be credited in the type of cheque only. Your decisions here will inform your choice of brokerage. Share buying and selling via this website is a service supplied by way of Westpac Securities Limited ABN 39 087 924 221 AFSL 233723 by Australian Investment Trade Ltd ABN 71 076 515 930 AFSL 241400 (“the Participant”), a participant of the ASX Group and Chi-X Australia.
Your online banking and funding accounts are protected by the CIBC Digital Banking Security Assure. Share Investing Restricted is a subsidiary of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Restricted ABN eleven 005 357 522 (ANZ) however will not be an authorised deposit-taking institution below the Banking Act. In a single day means you hold the position past 4:00p.m. EST and you’ll be liable for a regulation T margin name and your brokerage would ask you to point out them an additional $25,000 which would be 50% of the $100,000.
Apart from any deposits within the Money Account, the obligations of Share Investing Limited don’t characterize deposits or different liabilities of ANZ. Let’s take another have a look at Intraday Margin which is often referred to as Pattern Day Trader Margin or PDT. Convenience, flexibility and great value aren’t all a CommSec Share Buying and selling Account offers. Now you’ll be able to fix your brokerage with our Flexi margin plan and luxuriate in lower brokerage rates on your investments. When you work for a registered broker supplier they’ll ask whether or not you were a director, a 10% shareholder or policymaking officer of a publicly owned company in addition to which company that might be. If you are a registered consultant of a brokerage agency or a ten% or extra shareholder in a company, then you could have particular disclosure obligations along with the data already provided.
A demo account can’t always reasonably mirror the entire market circumstances that will have an effect on pricing, execution and margin requirements in a reside trading setting. Whatever stocks you buy will probably be held in Demat Account. Read this Article , which may help you perceive more about how the Buying and selling & Demat account works. Account the place you hold your shares in dematerialize kind or in digital type. Day Trading Account is an account for intraday merchants, the place a trader purchase and sell their stocks throughout the similar day.
With a margin account you’re basically borrowing money from someone, like getting buyers into your trades. The SEBI passed a mandate in 1996 that every one your shares needs to be transformed to an digital format. As you undergo the account opening course of, your brokerage agency must know a good deal of personal details about you. When you use all of the horsepower of the $100,000 shopping for power you would have to close at the least a portion of that trade by the top of the day or must provide you with a regulation T margin call.
Notice that every online brokerage account signal-up course of is slightly different. A demat account gives you information about the shares you own together with the amount. Investors who trade by OTA nonetheless need to settle by their very own accounts. On T+1 day, the securities firm ought to complete the transaction allocation operations and can’t preserve the data not yet allocated. Trading international change, spot valuable metals and every other product on the Forex platform involves significant danger of loss and may not be appropriate for all investors.
Up to now, the buyers were given the bodily possession of shares, but now the shares are just credited in the Demat account of the investor. Your shares will probably be bought inside approximately two (2) business days after receipt of your request at the prevailing market price on the time the order is positioned. If client sends buying and selling order after the market closed, the order will show PO (Pending Order) Status because the dealer system has to verify the order details earlier than sending to SET System.
Day trading margin for non-IRA accounts is normally leveraged at four-to-one during market hours. One of the best ways to fund your account is via a bank wire instantly out of your checking or financial savings account into your new brokerage account. I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT MY BROKERAGE DOES NOT PRESENT INVESTMENT, TAX, OR LEGAL RECOMMENDATION OR SUGGESTIONS. The information contained on this web site doesn’t represent the supply of advice or constitute or type a part of any provide, solicitation or invitation to subscribe for or purchase any securities or other financial product nor shall it type a part of it or type the premise of or be relied upon in connection with any contract or dedication in any way.
You ought to be aware of all of the risks associated with international change buying and selling, and seek advice from an impartial financial advisor when you’ve got any doubts. As the identify implies, it is an account that helps you commerce within the stock market. To transfer shares held with the share registry into your CommSec Share Buying and selling Account it’s essential full an Issuer Sponsored Holdings to CHESS Sponsorship Switch Kind. A secure and easy to use on-line trading account with clear, honest and competitive pricing.
If you need the dealer to trade your account for you, you’ll be able to choose this. Demat account is generally for the people who would like to make investments in the market and maintain the shares within the digital type. Spend money on Australian corporations listed on the ASX , with brokerage from as little as $10.002 per trade. This would possibly include, but is not limited to, saving accounts, choices, shares portfolios, equities and funding in funds. Most, nevertheless, supply cash accounts at a participation stage of about $10,000.
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