Beware of Your Forex Broker
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Forex traders need to know about their forex brokers if they want to really start trading forex trading. There are many myths and scams that need to be exposed. Many retail forex traders are too simpleton to understand the games the forex brokers play with them.
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Forex traders need to know about their forex brokers if they want to really start trading forex trading. There are many myths and scams that need to be exposed. Many retail forex traders are too simpleton to understand the games the forex brokers play with them.

Retail forex market is new and different from forex interbank market. Forex interbank market is only open to big players like banks, corporations, hedge funds, pension funds and other institutional investors and deals with large currency transactions.

With the advent of internet, retail forex trading became popular. Forex brokers work as intermediaries between the retail traders and the interbank market. Forex brokers popularize retail fx trading by offering online margin accounts. But beware retail forex market is not highly regulated. Due to poor regulation forex brokers can do what they want with immunity.

You need to know the games; a forex broker can play with you. If you dont know what games a forex broker can play with you, you will never succeed at forex trading. Understand how the broker can trick you:

Unfair Pricing: Forex markets are Over the Counter (OTC) markets. There is no central clearing exchange. So whatever price your broker is going to quote to you, you have to take it. It will be difficult for you to find out whether the price quoted is fair or not. If you suspect that the price is not fair, choose another broker. But even with that broker there is no guarantee.

Use of Leverage: Your forex broker will love you to use a high leverage like 100-1 or 200-1 in your trading. Since most of the small forex traders are unsophisticated, they easily overexpose themselves and get wiped out in the market making gains for the broker in return.

Brokers trade against you: Since most of the retail forex trades are too small in size, forex broker is not immediately able to offset this position in the interbank market. This provides them the chance to trade against you. Most of the retail traders dont know how to trade. So you lose and your broker wins.

Unfair practices: Just like Casinos, Forex Brokers dont like winner. If you are winning too much, your forex broker may resort to denying the service to you or complicate execution of your trades so much as to make it impossible for you to trade.

Bill Poulos a veteran forex trader has developed a forex broker scorecard that you can find at my Blog. He will also teach the type pf question that you need to ask.

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