Articles, tagged with "margin account", page 4
18th January 2008
Time and time again I hear the statement that trading on a margin account is a risky business. In fact the NFA and CFTC require that all brokers and agents inform the public of the risks of trading on the foreign exchange.
So how much risk is actually ...
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Author:
Martin Bottomley
26th July 2007
Millions of people use margin debt on a daily basis. Traditionally what this means is the following. You buy 1000 shares of IBM and let's say you pay a $100 per share. You owe the brokerage firm $100,000. This is the market value of your account if it is ...
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Author:
Richard Stoyeck
16th June 2007
For many years the foreign exchange market was the preserve of major players such as national banks and multi-national corporations. In the 1980s however new rules were introduced which permitted smaller investors to enter the market through a margin acc...
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Author:
Donald Saunders
26th April 2007
Global forex trading is a lesser known facet of money making or wealth creation among the general population. You will no doubt hear about stock markets and share prices daily and also about oil prices and other commodities, but when it comes to forex tra...
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Author:
Peter Lim
03rd February 2007
Investing: An investment is defined as an item of value purchased for income or capital appreciation. In reference to stocks, traders who label themselves "investors" usually play stocks from the Big Boards (which we will discuss later) and choose their i...
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Author:
rob rens
27th January 2007
Daytrading or Swingtrading: Especially online, people will throw around the terms daytrading, swingtrading, and flipping a stock. In essence, they are all similar and overlapping styles of trading. Daytrading is when you buy an sell a stock within the sam...
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Author:
rob rens
16th December 2006
Trying out a forex demo account is a method used by literally thousands of potential forex traders and investors to determine if forex trading is truly for them. With a demo account, an interested person can go online and see exactly how an account woul...
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Author:
rew
01st December 2006
You will undoubtedly have heard of the foreign exchange, or Forex, market and will also probably be well aware of the buzz that currently surrounds it. You may also have heard of the many advantages that it offers over other forms of trading, such as trad...
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Author:
Donald Saunders
24th July 2006
Copyright 2006 Richard Stoyeck
Why is it that some people only buy one or two stocks? Others may have 15 stocks but have 50 percent of their investment assets in just one of those 15 stocks. In Wall Street we refer to this type of behavior as concentra...
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Author:
Richard Stoyeck
06th April 2006
Apparently because of all the margin calls that went on during the internet bubble and the number of people who lost their shirts, the NASD came up with a regulation to protect us and the institutions from ourselves.
This amendment to the NASD's Rule 2...
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Author:
Caterina Christakos
14th March 2006
It's probably hard for some people to believe, but the global FOREX trading market dwarfs that of equities, even though the former gets little attention and the latter is talked about incessantly on the news.
The daily volume of global FOREX trading no...
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Author:
Dan Ho
28th July 2005
An online forex broker is a firm that facilitates retail trading using Internet technologies. Global Forex Trading (GFT), one of the popular online forex brokers. It provides retail traders with a free demo trading account, allows users to open a live acc...
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Author:
Dave Lavinsky
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