davidjohn6366
71 posts
Oct 10, 2022
3:11 PM
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A difference of under a penny might not matter to the foreign traveller, but when you are trading hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars then these small changes will really add up. A standard lot on a typical retail forex trading platform will be $100,000, and with a trade of this size a single pip fluctuation would be worth $10. This means that if you could capture 100 pips of price movement on an open position, or 1 penny worth of difference in the exchange rate, then you would have earned $1,000 on your open trade or doubled the size of the trading capital for that specific trade. From these numbers you can see that trading with leverage makes a very big difference to your bottom line profits, and can allow you to increase or decrease your account balance rapidly.
Many forex brokers promote the fact that they offer commission free trading, but this does not mean that it is actually completely free to place ???? trades. The broker still earns a commission when you trade, but instead of a direct commission they will create a difference between the price that you can buy a currency at and the price that they will sell it to you at. This price difference is called the spread, and you will find that more popular currency pairs have smaller price spreads than the more exotic and less traded currency pairs.
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