The engine driving the foreign exchange market is made up of the international banks and corporations, although the individuals (like you) are able to participate in
it because currency brokers and dealers offer contracts that individuals can take part in.
Not exact matches
Higher leverage can be extremely risky, but
because of round - the - clock trading and deep liquidity, foreign exchange
brokers have been able to make high leverage an industry standard in order to make the movements meaningful for
currency traders.
now is that safe trading?Here's another I placed my sell order on AUD / USD 1.02302 the
currency dropped to 1.01739 I was suppose to earn 30 pips on this, since my net limit is set to 30 but
because of the «slippage» they entered my sell order on 1.01918 I almost lost the trade luckily I took it off the time it reached 5 pips, now as a trader do you want to use this as your
broker?
If a multinational firm based in country A is listed in both country A and country B, and I invest in this firm as a resident of country B through country B's stock exchange, either through something like an ADR or
because the company is listed directly, like Apple, am I still exposed to
currency risk as if I had bought the stock on country A's exchange directly through an international
broker (for example)?
This past week Australia's securities regulator halted Interactive
Brokers from trading
currencies because they did not have the appropriate licensing to do so.