Why the Price of Gold is changing? What is the factor?

The following factors may influence the price of metals: 1. The Allure of Gold For more than 2,000 years, individuals have owned gold for a wide variety of reasons. Investors and collectors have sought gold as a storehouse of wealth, a p...

What is the Leverage and Margin for Spot Metal Trading?

Leverage Leverage trading or trading on margin, means that you are not required to put up the full value of a position. As a result you can open a significantly larger position than you would be able to if you needed to fund your trade i...

How to Read a Spot Metal Quote? What is the Pip Value?

Reading a Spot Gold or Spot Silver quote is very similar to reading a FOREX quote. Quotes for Spot Metals are represented in the same way as quotes for currency pairs. Spot Gold traded against the U.S. Dollar is XAU/USD and Spot Silver t...

What is Spot Metals? How the Trading works?

Trading in precious metal futures market or spot market in a speculative manner provides an important alternative to traditional means of investing in precious metals such as gold bullion, coins, and mining stocks, and where substantial ...

Swaps - Roll Over Interest and how to calculate

FOREX trading involves borrowing one currency to buy another whereby the borrowed currency is charged debit interest and the purchased currency is paid interest. Rollover interest is the net effect of the money borrowed by an investor to...

Hedging Currency Risks

Investments in overseas instruments such as stocks and bonds can generate substantial returns and provide a greater degree of portfolio diversification, but they introduce an added risk, that of exchange rates. Currency management plays ...

Margin requirements and Calculation

Margin is a performance bond, or good faith deposit, to ensure against trading losses and is the deposit required to open or maintain a position. The margin requirement allows you to hold a position much larger than your actual account v...

Earn Profits on Forex Tradings by Automated Programs

We like to keep our members at the forefront of the financial world. Automatic Trading has been rapidly growing in popularity over the last few years, and is the chosen method of millions around the globe; either as their main trading to...

Example of a Forex Trading and calculation

For example, the current bid-ask price for EUR/USD is 1.5775/1.5781 meaning you can buy 1 Euro for 1.5781 dollars. Suppose you see the trend of Euro growing against dollar and feel Euro is undervalued. To execute this strategy you would ...