• [VIDEO] Currency Point: The QE acronym to enter the AUD lexicon

    [VIDEO] Currency Point: The QE acronym to enter the AUD lexicon

    • October 16, 2020

    ECB MEETINGS OF 2020 SHOULD REALLY BE CALLED ECB ‘STRATEGY REVIEWS’.
    Newly minted Chair Christine Lagarde clearly wanted to give herself ‘room’ having ordered a review to consider all aspects of its mandates, targets specifically inflation, performance, operational tools, communication and policy setting, plus others. It clearly leaves the ECB in a holding pattern, but that holding pattern means its highly unconventional policies setting won’t change until the Strategy Review is complete.

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  • Politics and Forex: Historical Impact

    Politics and Forex: Historical Impact

    • October 9, 2020

    Reading time: 8 minutes Foreign exchange, undeniably, is a key financial market. And rightly so – the Forex market’s gargantuan presence dwarfs other markets. According to the BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey, the average daily turnover in FX reached $6.6 trillion per day in April 2019, up from $5.1 trillion three years earlier. Political Influence

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  • How Do US Elections Affect the US Dollar?

    How Do US Elections Affect the US Dollar?

    • September 29, 2020

    Americans are about to vote for their next president with election day, Tuesday November 3, fast approaching. In a historic race for the White House, incumbent President Donald Trump, who represents the Republican party, goes head-to-head with Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the 47th vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. How popular

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  • The votes are in and FP Markets has been crowned ‘Best Global Value Forex Broker’ for 2020

    The votes are in and FP Markets has been crowned ‘Best Global Value Forex Broker’ for 2020

    • September 24, 2020

    FP Markets is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the Best Global Value Forex Broker for 2020. The Global Forex Awards 2020 awarded excellence in the financial industry in areas such as cutting-edge technology, low-cost trading and customer service.   This is the second consecutive year that FP Markets has been voted as

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  • A Guide to Operating MetaTrader 5 (MT5) on Multiple Monitors

    A Guide to Operating MetaTrader 5 (MT5) on Multiple Monitors

    • September 21, 2020

    Its geographical dispersion, trillion-dollar daily trading volume, and round-the-clock movement throughout the week positions the Forex market on most traders’ watchlists. The Forex market’s sheer size and continuous order flow, however, can make it difficult to stay informed through a single monitor. Multiple monitors provide a greater workspace, particularly convenient if you operate with different technical

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  • Step-By-Step Guide to Changing MetaTrader 4 (MT4) Leverage Setting

    Step-By-Step Guide to Changing MetaTrader 4 (MT4) Leverage Setting

    • September 21, 2020

    Whether you’re just beginning your trading journey, or are an old hand, you’ve likely encountered MetaTrader’s online trading platforms. MetaQuotes Software Corp., the developers behind MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5), was established in 2000. Boasting a worldwide presence, MetaQuotes consider themselves leading developers of software applications across a number of financial institutions. MT5’s

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  • Equity CFDs? The Basics of Trading CFDs Explained

    Equity CFDs? The Basics of Trading CFDs Explained

    • September 21, 2020

    Financial trading refers to the practice of buying and selling financial assets – through either an organised public exchange or an over-the-counter market (OTC) – typically using short-term timeframes. Investing, on the other hand, generally seeks larger returns over extended periods via buying and holding. CFDs, or contract for differences, are leveraged products, financial instruments

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  • How to Login and Manage Multiple MetaTrader 5 (MT5) Accounts Simultaneously? Find Out Here

    How to Login and Manage Multiple MetaTrader 5 (MT5) Accounts Simultaneously? Find Out Here

    • September 21, 2020

    MetaTrader 5, or MT5, continues to grow in popularity, despite MetaTrader 4 (MT4) remaining a favourite among retail Forex traders since its inception in 2005. Officially released in 2010 under MetaQuotes Software Corp., MT5 offers traders the freedom to navigate financial markets in real-time, including foreign exchange (Forex – currency pairs), CFDs, stock exchanges, and

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  • Understanding How VPS Trading Can Improve Your Trading

    Understanding How VPS Trading Can Improve Your Trading

    • September 21, 2020

    While discretionary trading, or manual trading, is employed by many traders in today’s markets, a marked shift towards automated trading systems has been seen. Whether a trader focuses on an individual financial instrument or several markets (think the Forex market [Forex trading], cryptocurrencies, and commodities, for example), a major appeal to automated trading systems is

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  • How to Mitigate Counterparty Risks When Trading CFDs

    How to Mitigate Counterparty Risks When Trading CFDs

    • September 21, 2020

    In comparison to the futures market, beginning in 1710 at the Dojima Rice Exchange in Osaka, Japan, contracts for difference, or CFDs, are still very much in their infancy. Much credit goes to UBS Warburg’s John Wood and Brian Keelan for their work with CFDs in the early 1990s initially traded among financial institutions. However, nobody

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  • Key Advantages of Using Autochartist MetaTrader 4 for Forex Trading

    Key Advantages of Using Autochartist MetaTrader 4 for Forex Trading

    • September 21, 2020

    Technical analysis is, and remains to this day, a popular method of analysing the foreign exchange market. Technicians attempt to plot market sentiment and psychology via chart studies, employing concepts such as support and resistance levels, trend research, Fibonacci patterns, and technical indicators. Given the broad range of currency pairs available in the Forex market,

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  • How to Calculate MT4 Swap and Rollover Interests in FX Trading

    How to Calculate MT4 Swap and Rollover Interests in FX Trading

    • September 21, 2020

    Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with – Robert Staughton Lynd Electronic trading, particularly foreign exchange trading, continues to grow in popularity. According to the BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey, the most comprehensive source of information on the size and structure of global foreign exchange (FX) and over-the-counter (OTC)

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