Advanced Markets offers a 100:1 leverage
for all clients, with the ability to reduce
leverage upon request. Leverage is
what makes Forex attractive. Trading Forex
is done in currency “lots”.
Each lot controls 10,000 US dollars worth
of a foreign currency. An account is set
up to hold money in which profits will
be deposited and losses will be deducted.
Those deposits and deductions are done
when exiting a position. Note: Leverage
works both ways. Loses are magnified
by margins just as much as gains.
The forex margin deposit is not a down payment on a purchase. Rather, the margin
is a performance bond, or good faith deposit, to ensure against trading losses.
The margin requirement allows you to hold a position much larger than your actual
account value. Advanced Markets online trading platform has a margin-management
capability. The trading platform performs an automatic pre-trade check for margin
availability and will only execute the trade if you have sufficient margin funds
in your account. The system also calculates the funds needed for current positions
and displays this information to you in real time.
Because you access the market electronically,
you pay zero commissions, zero exchange
fees, and only $0.625 transaction fee.
(per side and per 10,000 base currency). This
translates to $1.25 for a round-trip transaction
to open and close a position ($5.00 roundtrip
for the Advanced Trader platform).
With Advanced Markets, your risk is strictly
limited. You can never lose more than you
have in your account. This means you can
never have a negative equity balance. You
can also define and attempt to limit your
risk with stop-loss for fast moving markets.
In the event that funds in your account
fall below margin requirements, the trading
station will close all open positions.
This prevents your account from ever falling
into a negative equity position even in
a highly volatile, fast-moving market.
Obtain instantaneous execution and total price certainty on all orders under US $5 million. This allows you to trade with confidence off real-time, interbank quotes provided by .
Yes, tight pip spreads are a good thing. As long as they correlate to the interbank market. Because all trades are executed automatically on a pass-through basis, our pip spreads are not artificially manipulated. Brokers can legally say no slippage when advertising, because they are the market maker.
Therefore, technically they are not slipping at the rates they quote. The issue is, those rates can be anything the broker wants, and usually drift well off the interbank market rates. Ask them for a written guarantee that there is no slippage between the rates quoted to the broker from the interbank, versus the quotes given to their customers.
Trade During News or Related Market Reports
When major reports or world events wreak temporary havoc with the forex, most brokers will delay transactions to protect themselves on your trades. That's because they are exposed to the volatility themselves, if they quote a rate and can't execute the trade profitably. Because Advanced Markets executes all trades on a strictly pass-through basis, there is no exposure due to slippage. There are no interruptions in trade executions, and the trading platform has a 99.99% uptime track record.
Forex is a 24-hour-a-day market that trades from approximately 5pm(EST) on Sunday to Approximately 5pm(EST) on Friday.
At 5pm New York Time (EST.) funds are added or subtracted to accounts with open positions. See account documents for more details.
