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Thursday, May 30, 2013

FX Leverage: A Guide for Beginners

More and more people interested in getting money in a quick and reliable way appeal to the opportunities offered for them by the largest financial market of Forex: foreign exchange currency market to be more precise. However many naïve Forex rookies understand quickly that without certain theoretical background and practical experiences which one may get using beforehand demo accounts imitating live Forex trading only without real money there is no reason to start real-time trading because it will end with an epic fail at once.
From this point of view understanding what Forex leverage is can become a powerful advantage every new FX trader can use to earn few bucks at first and then perfecting his/her strategy of FX trading applying easily the most basic and required knowledge concerning Forex market. 

Foremost let's focus on the definition of leverage in Forex. It stands for a great opportunity offered for online traders (not only Forex can offer this but stocks market as well) which can provide success in the FX market and can also bring disappointment leading to a trader's bankruptcy sometimes.
Applying of FX leverage can be rather useful only if one is quite aware of possible risks this tool can bring. Leverage embodies a sort of an approach for trading with other trader's money so no wonder this method has its lacks and risks to lose everything. Many people find this opportunity very advantageous at the very beginning but then understand that Forex leverage can serve as a double-edged sword. Severe guarantee (meaning here a trader's deposit arrangement) forms its main lack. 

Many new traders suppose that Forex leverage serves as a trick and not quite legal which scammers use because the idea of trading other's people money seems too fantastic to be true. Nevertheless, leverage of the forex market really does it and legitimately so you don't have to worry about this. Take it as buying of a house with a mortgage and then returning money to a bank. Just imagine how many people would stay homeless without such a great opportunity a housing market offers? 
Why then this opportunity can't be applicable according to the financial market of Forex or stocks as well? The only difference is that Forex leverage provides a trader with a required mortgage. In order to render a mortgage guarantee the trader's deposit fund is used.

Forex leverage is based on the following scheme of work: a FX broker gets a credit (which is usually higher than deposit) basing on a trader's deposit letting in such way a trader open much larger positions for trading and logically get more profits if a deal is successful. Commonly a FX trader having one thousand of dollars as a deposit can trade within the range of one hundred thousand dollars of a base currency in his chosen for trading currency pair. In such way typical Forex market leverage equals 1:100. 

The most helpful aspect of using leverage is in the opportunity for trading within the margin and that is when proficient FX traders can apply Forex exchange leverage offer as they like. Taking into account FX leverage of no more than 1:15 and price movements a skillful trader can gain a lot of money.

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