Change in Leverage – Cryptocurrency

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Dear Trader,   The Cryptocurrency market continues to be highly volatile and is exposed to high liquidity risk. As a result our risk management team has decided to further increase the margin requirement for all Cryptocurrencies from 20% to 50%. However, BTCUSD will remain at 20%.   This adjustment will be effective from  Friday the … Continue reading Change in Leverage – Cryptocurrency

What is Forex?

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The foreign exchange market is a decentralised, over-the-counter (OTC) global market. The daily volume of the Forex market surpasses $4 trillion as day worldwide. To put this in perspective the daily volume traded on the New York stock exchange is $25 billion making it the largest financial market in the world. The total Forex volume … Continue reading What is Forex?

History of the Forex Market

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Foreign exchanges markets we first developed to facilitate cross border trade conducted in different currencies by government, companies and individuals. In the early days the foreign exchange markets primarily existed to facilitate the international movement of money, however even in the early days there were speculators. These days a large portion of the Forex market … Continue reading History of the Forex Market

Forex Market Basics

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How Does Forex Trading Work? Forex trading is similar to trading share or futures except that when trading forex you are buying or selling one currency against another. One of the key advantage forex trading has over other financial instruments is that relatively small lot sizes can be traded, lot sizes can be as small … Continue reading Forex Market Basics