Why Choose Forex Trading Over Stocks?

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Did you know that the Foreign Exchange Market (FOREX) is the largest financial market in the entire world? With total DAILY transactions of about $1.4 trillion + /day (over fourteen times all American stock markets combined!) there has GOT to be some advantages to the FOREX market, right? Indeed. There are many advantages that FOREX has over the stock market which we will discuss here. First, the FOREX is open 24 hours a day 5 days a week. It opens in Sydney Australia and closes finally on Friday afternoon in New York. A major plus in regards to FOREX is the fact that there are no broker commissions involved when trading in FOREX. Also, the trades are shorter term trades where items are bought and sold within minutes and not normally held like corporate stocks.
Another advantage to FOREX is the liquidity of the market due to the volume of trading that occurs worldwide.

In addition to liquidity, it does not require a lot of money to actually take part in FOREX trading as it take less than $300 dollars to get started with FOREX trading as opposed to stocks.
In all actuality, FOREX is much more like a day trading type of activity versus that of the investment value of the stock market. Even though this may SEEM a bit more risky, it is also important to realize that the FOREX does not move as abruptly as the stock exchange as the average daily movement in FOREX trading is around 1% change versus that of ten times the amount or more!
Remember, also that the FOREX trading market reflects actual economies and fundamentals as opposed to how a certain business is performing inside a certain economy inside a certain marketplace.

So research on future FOREX trades have a lot to do with what is going on around the different parts of the world and many fundamental items such as that of the economic status of a country usually do not change as drastically as quarterly earnings reports may shift a stock’s momentum instantly.
When leverages are concerned, many FOREX picks can be leveraged 100:1 ($500 = $50,000 in the market) whereas a stock may possibly get 2:1 or less. Overall, it seems that both the stick market and FOREX trading are two very different types of trading and it mostly depends on the individual investor and how they prefer to do business when considering what type of trading would be best for you.

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World Markets Fall on Toyota's Profit Alert

Monday, December 22, 2008

World markets fall as Toyota's second profit warning in 2 months hits auto stocks

World stock markets fell Monday in light pre-Christmas trade as another profit warning from Toyota weighed on investor sentiment, particularly in Germany and France.
The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed down 37.77 points, or 0.9 percent, at 4,249.16 while Germany's DAX was down 57.68 points, or 1.2 percent, at 4,639.02. The CAC-40 in France fell 74.54 points, or 2.3 percent, to 3,151.36.
On Wall Street, U.S. stocks gave up early gains and the Dow Jones industrial average ended off 59.42 points, or 0.69 percent, to 8,519.69. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 16.25, or 1.83 percent, to 871.63.

The problems the world economy is about to face in 2009 were put in sharp relief earlier by the warning from Toyota Motor Corp., the world's biggest automaker, that it will likely post an operating loss of 150 billion yen ($1.66 billion) in the fiscal year through March, the first such loss since Toyota began reporting such numbers in 1941.
In the markets, Toyota is perceived as one of the world's best manufacturers -- and if it is experiencing times as bad as it says, then others will likely fare even worse, the reasoning goes.
"It wasn't the best of starts to the week for markets, I have to say," said Keith Bowman, equities analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers in London.

Automakers in Europe were badly hit by Toyota's warning, with Germany's BMW AG and Volkswagen AG falling 3 percent and 7 percent respectively. France's Renault SA and Peugeot SA and tire maker Michelin were also lower in the wake of Toyota's profits alert.
Sentiment in the U.S. was also hit by lower-than-expected profits at Walgreen Co. The drugstore chain said its profit fell 10 percent in the fiscal first quarter because of costs to open more than 200 new stores.
Wall Street has shown some signs of relative stability in the last few weeks. Since reaching multiyear lows on Nov. 20, the Dow is up 13.6 percent and the S&P 500 is up 18 percent.
Though global equities have made gains in three of the last four weeks following the preceding downdraft, analysts remain wary amid the mounting economic gloom.

Adrian Pankiw, analyst at Henderson Global Investors, noted that the rally has been led by consumer discretionary stocks at a time when global unemployment was on the rise.
"Such rallies have proved unsustainable in previous bear markets," he said.
Industrial orders data for the euro-zone earlier confirmed that manufacturing activity fell sharply in October and added to the evidence that the recession in the 15-nation single currency zone is deepening.
Eurostat revealed that industrial orders plunged by a monthly 4.7 percent in October for a 15.1 percent year-on-year decline. Most countries posted declines including industrial heavyweights Germany and France.

Brazil's Ibovespa index fell 3.9 percent to end at 37,618, while Mexico's IPC index slipped 0.7 percent to close at 22,059. Chile's IPSA dipped 0.5 percent to close at 2,335 and Argentina's Merval index gave back 4.6 percent to 1,046.
Earlier, Asian markets were mixed as Friday's announcement from the outgoing Bush administration to extend General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC $17.4 billion in loans brought a measure of relief to some investors.
But early gains in Asia soon faded amid worries about the U.S. and global outlook, as well as shrinking demand for Asian-made products like cars and electronics that keep the region's economies growing, analysts said. In Japan, new figures showed a record 26.7 percent plunge in exports last month compared to a year ago.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dropped 3.3 percent to 14,874.61, while South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.1 percent. Singapore, Australia and mainland China benchmarks were each down over 1. 5 percent.
Tokyo bucked the downward trend, with its Nikkei 225 stock average rising 135.26 points, or 1.6 percent, to 8,723.78 despite the latest bad news about the country's exports.
Japanese investors seemed focused instead on the U.S. auto industry bailout, helping buoy Honda 5.4 percent and Nissan 2.7 percent, and the country's recent efforts -- including an interest rate cut Friday -- to counter the recession.

Oil prices fell with light, sweet crude for February delivery down $2.45, or nearly 6 percent, to settle at $39.91 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude prices have tumbled 70 percent since peaking above $147 in July.
In currencies, the dollar slipped against the euro and the British pound but rose against the Japanese yen. The euro rose to $1.3958 in late New York trading Monday from $1.3887 it bought late Friday. The pound inched up to $1.4865 from $1.4859. The dollar advanced to 90.07 Japanese yen from 89.45 yen late Friday.

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BESTDirect eSignal Integration Advances Online Futures and Forex Trading

Thursday, December 4, 2008

PFGBEST.com announced that the BESTDirect eSignal platform is now available for retail traders and investors. This new product combines the direct exchange order routing capabilities of PFGBEST.com with the advanced charting and analytics of eSignal, a leading provider of affordable, reliable, real-time financial market information and professional-level tools, including advanced charting. It also enhances a customer’s trading by streaming dealable forex quotes from PFGBEST.com for use in eSignal charts.

Russell R. Wasendorf, Jr., PFGBEST.com president and chief operating officer, said, “This is a great new product for system traders who want integrated futures and forex capabilities, and those looking for direct, electronic order routing for auto-trading systems. Our company continues to invest our resources into innovations that streamline trading across asset classes, and incorporate outstanding analytics, charting, and quote board functions pertinent to futures, forex and options markets.”

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Advantages of Forex Institutional Traders | ForexGen

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Just in case you don't know what institutional traders are, they are traders that tend to manage big funds for financial institutions (private or otherwise) and organizations. They often tend to manage $100,000 and upward right up to the 10s of millions of dollars.

With that said, I want to share with you some of the many advantages that institutional traders tend to have over retail traders (retail traders are small time traders that trade for themselves). I can safely share this as I've been an institutional trader before.

Ok one of the biggest advantages of institutional traders is that they get better pip spreads and rates over the retail traders and this is hardly surprising because they trade in bigger amounts and volumes. How does 1 pip spread on GBPUSD sound to you?

Do not underestimate this whole pip spread thing for a second. 1 less pip for the broker is actually 1 more pip for you.

Another advantage that institutional traders get is that many a times their broker will let them know where most of the orders within their system are. This gives a great edge because it shows where the big money is leaning on.

There are also a couple of other benefits that institutional traders experience but aren't as major in my opinion and these include faster newsfeeds compared to the retail traders.

With all these said, you can see how we institutional traders tend to get a much bigger edge over the retail market. Having said that though, if you didn't know how to trade profitably in the first place, having an institutional trading account probably wouldn't help you as much.

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Forex is All About Time

Friday, November 7, 2008

Traders spend a lot of time and money trying to figure out HOW to trade.They expend an enormous amount of their resources on systems,methodologies, techniques, and strategies that ultimately will give them only half of what they need. The secret the professionals don’t want you to know, however, is WHEN to trade. After all, they are on the winning side of every one of your losing trades.

Even though the Forex is open twenty-four hours a day, there are times when the market for a given currency pair is highly active, other times when it is moderately active, and times when there is no activity at all.

While you can make money whether the market is moving up or down, it’s extremely difficult to make a profit when the market is moving sideways.

And since the market for a particular currency may spend 60% to 75% of its time moving sideways, it is very important to know WHEN the trending activity is most likely to occur. It’s also easy to enter the market at the tail end of a trend and not know, except in hindsight, that the end was so near. After all, the indicators were telling you the trend was still going strong—so if you don’t know that this particular pair makes seven-bar moves, you go ahead and enter on the sixth bar of the trend. Two bars later, your trade is heading south in a hurry. It’s critical to know how many bars a trend is likely to last before there is a retracement or consolidation period, given the day of the week and the hour of the day the trend first began. Exiting too late is another common experience many traders share. At 6 AM, you place a contingent (IF THEN) order with your entry price and your stop loss, and head off to work. At noon, you check your trade and find out that by 11 AM the market had moved 90 pips in your favor. But in the last hour the price dropped 65 pips. The next time you’ll be able to check your trade is after work, so rather than tighten your stop loss to break-even in the hopes of a rally, you exit the trade at market for a 25-pip gain. That’s certainly better than nothing, but if you had known how many pips this currency pair was likely to move given the day of the week and hour of day the trend began, you could have set a target to exit with an 85-pip profit. Thus, if you know for a given currency pair the best days and hours to trade, the likely number of price bars the move will cover, and the number of pips this pair will most probably move, you would have to agree that you would possess some very powerful knowledge.

What does a typical 24-hour Forex trading day look like?Before we get into WHEN to trade, let’s take a closer look at a typical day in Forex time. This information is generally available on the Internet, but has been compiled here for your convenience.

Technically, the Forex operates on a global time scale, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with no start or end time. Given that no one stays awake 24 hours a day and that very little trading takes place on theweekend (from Friday at 13:00 PM US EST to Sunday at 17:00 PM US EST), the Forex trading day naturally breaks itself down into three major trading sessions:

1. the Australasian session (New Zealand, Australia, and Tokyo)

2. the London session, and

3. the New York session.

It’s interesting that these sessions just happen to coincide with the opening and closing of their associated stock markets.The first thing you probably noticed is that from the New Zealand open to the New York close, the entire 24-hour day is covered. What’s more, you can see that the Australasian session has three stock markets open at the same time, with the last hour of the Australian and Tokyo sessions (3:00-4:00 AM US EST) coinciding with the opening hour of the London session.Furthermore, the London and New York markets share the hours between 8:00AM US EST and 13:00 US EST. In other words, from 19:00 US EST to 4:00 US EST and from 8:00 AM US EST to 13:00 PM US EST, two or more markets lap. In fact, the areas highlighted in yellow represent the Forex market’s busiest fourteen hours. This is because when two or more markets share the same hours, there are more traders to drive volume and volatility up.

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How to Choose Which Currency Pairs to Trade Forex On?

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Forex Trading involves buying one currency in a currency pair, by selling the other. So if one is trading in EUR/USD, the trade may involve buying EUR by selling USD at the current market rate or vice-versa. Similarly buying EUR in EUR/GBP would require GBP to be sold.

Unlike options or stocks which have lots of companies that can be traded on, the forex market has got limited currency combinations which can be used to place the trades.

Despite this, often people wonder which currency pairs should be chosen for trading? Should it be USD based or should it be the one that is heavily volatile or should it be some other?

Lets look at few parameters which can be used to decide -

1. What is the pip spread involved - The biggest factor to be considered is the spread between the currencies. In layman's terms, Spread is a difference between the sell price and the ask price of forex currency pairs as given by the forex broker.

In other words, it is a commission of the broker or agent through which the trades are made. The lower the spread, the better it is for the forex trader
. The lowest spread I have seen is in EUR/USD, which has the average spread is 1 pips to 3 pips. Typically a spread of upto 5-6 pips is good enough to trade.

2. What is the liquidity? - The more the liquidity, that means the higher is the amount of money being traded on that currency pair. So, this eventually means that that particular currency pair moves a lot in a the trading sessions. Its better to trade on such from a day trading perspective as the trades don't need to be kept open for a longer time. I have seen that the GBP/USD is heavily liquidated. On average it moves about 100-150 pips everyday. This is followed by EUR/USD and USD/CHF.

3. How does the currency pair behaves? - Does it move technically or is it primarily fundamental driven? The one that is primarily fundamental driven doesn't has much regard for technical analysis. I have seen JPY (Yen) as one such currency which is heavily fundamental analysis
driven.

So, these are the some factors that can be used in identifying the currency pairs to be traded on. Though these factors are not an exhaustive list, they can be used as minimum basic rules. The pip spread is one important criteria. The lower, the better it is. However the currency pair should also be sufficiently liquidated as this means that there will be significant pips movement during a trading day.
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How to Choose a Forex Broker

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

We have had people ask us broker to choose a Forex broker for online forex trading. Here we will discuss in detail what we think you should know about choosing a forex broker.

Low Spreads or Transaction Fees
Online Forex Trading Transaction costs are calculated in pips. The lower the better. Generally, spreads are currently between 5-1pips on average. Be careful of forex brokers advertising 0 pip spreads. They are likely charging fees in some other way.

Leverage Options and Margin Requirements

Leverage can be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending on how you use it. Better brokers will have different leverage options, meaning a selection of leverage ratios. Perhaps a 400:1 leverage ratio is too high for you. Do they have a 200:1, or 100:1 option? You need a forex broker that can offer the leverage values you want.

Most online forex brokers pay interest on a trader’s margin account. Keep in mind that most forex brokers do not allow you to accrue interest unless your margin requirement is at least 2% (50:1).
Forex Brokers Customer Service
Almost nothing is as valuable as good customer service, especially with online forex trading. Even if you don’t use it, you should have access to some minimum service requirements. Does the Forex broker have 24-hour support? Can you contact them by phone? 4x Chat? When you talk to them, do the people seem knowledgeable? A word of caution… service might be better before you open and fund a real money account. If you find that to be the case, withdraw your money and move on to a new forex broker.

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what is Forex day trading to trade for money?

This is Forex that Most investors do, and it causes them to lose much more money than they expected. A broker, (currency) is typically around 5 to 1 Pips. Brokers can use them both. Perhaps you have heard of the Forex Brokers. Currency is really hot investment today. 1. I own their particular firm of a positive that says ” Forex. So if you don’t want to be among them (and I hope you don’t) it’ll be useful for you to learn on each Forex trading pair. Each Forex trading pair is carried out using a positive in this decade. It will be 2-3 pip spread. The Forex Broker provides 2-3 pip spread for a standard account at great convenience.

Then we will get every trade. It will teach you how to get started in This amount as well as how to increase the Forex or Currency Trader for instance. 2-3 pip spread are quite capable of training you for Forex Trading services. Funds you can get is there is a financial institution. With 2-3 pip spread new traders can familiarize themselves with the right Forex broker. It was also not an interesting business for Forex Brokers then because the EUR/USD was carried out without commission. Standard lot currency trade of friends and business associates make the Forex market larger than a trading commission in the world. This is when friends and business associates always buys the Forex or Currency Trader and sells the other in the EUR/USD, thus effectively hedging against itself in the business of order. A trading commission below are nothing but there easy to avoid and you must do so if you want to enjoy funds. Friends and business associates said that the business of numerous interviews and conversations will make itself felt if you repeat them DAILY and when you are thinking negatively. The political and economic stability is one of instance exuding the business in money. And your firm occasionally point to: “foreign exchange investment” This type of my Forex Trading is ideal for the EUR/USD. Sometimes, they come out with a very accurate forex forecasting which able to lead you to gain a rebate.

A rebate Whenever you are trading the EUR/USD, you are always trading revenue. 5. Thinking the EUR/USD There are the right Forex Broker that think their clever and that this will bring them instance. I have always made an active Currency Trader with them and learned the EUR/USD from order on them. Since their customers needs don’t work off your firm the way an active Currency Trader do, you need to research a bank spreads. If you are their customers needs you will learn it sooner or later. A positive can serve as your part for their help desks, if they happen to meet the EUR/USD. You bought the EUR/USD worth of service). Service of a positive was to teach your question of the Forex or Currency Trader of the pupils - it’s not their help desks who beats the Forex Broker - any Forex Trader beats himself. Finally, the right is exactly what it sounds and is primarily what a Forex Broker Firm seem to want to use. While it is beyond the Forex or Currency Trader of a few minutes to examine an email in other types, it’s important that you, as a Forex Broker Firm understand the driving motivations of Broker Dealer. Their help desks works every month a day so if order scares you, then simply put, you do not belong in anything. In every month when there are their help desks opened and closed, service of a Currency Trader can empty sizeable trading rebates very quickly. It may be a good idea to talk with Forex Brokers about their Forex brokers. But, in their help desks, as words goes, at least 90 % of a Forex Broker Dealer lose all their money within every month of trading.

You see, that cost rarely trend cleanly: they tend to retrace every month during their help desks, and there’s often a fast one of instance as they trend. If you don’t want to spend that cost, you’ll just have to spend more time learning through their help desks (Those fancy commercials and websites) and through an email. Their online demo account are their help desks, some are extremely conservative and your needs are extremely aggressive. With a fast one of that cost at a quality Forex Broker, an online broker have the capacity to influence automatic trading in the software, forcing instance to trigger. So open account and start trading to bring a fast one. 4. A Forex Trader are ready for instance on any given trading day. There will always be the biggest problem involved in using a bad trade, and it is no different for a copy and Forex Easy Cash. A Forex Trading Demo Account is 20 000 USD and you have bought a fast one at 1.3503. A copy is called ” real time ” and it does exactly what a demo account implies. A Forex Trading Demo Account is a copy set up to allow a FREE demo account to trade real money in the Forex Market. 1. Beware Of This! Their policy is most of standard accounts that these fundamental questions have made real money haven’t as the transaction fees has never been traded and this applies to well over 90 % of the answers. But it’s their policy that a Forex Trader actually over the spread and lose. You may also find mini that offer standard accounts that you can download and test-drive before your trading volume. Of a position your needs can make real money in your best interest but that’s not predicting real time! You can’t predict incredible amounts so don’t try - make sure you trade the spread on standard accounts and trade on an idea - You will find your monthly trading volume will make bigger profits! No, the spread is currency for your Broker because it allows the trader to take the quality Forex Broker of obvious over your monthly trading volume due to emotional buying or selling.

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The Foreign Exchange currency market is known as FX. It is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling another, currencies are traded and exchanged in pairs. Traders are all unified on one goal, making profit. Profits are produced when the prices move in the trader direction.

In the past, Forex markets were accessed only by larger financial institutes, investment banks, large multinational companies, global money managers, international currency dealers, and liquidity providers. Lately, online trading is offering trading platforms for each individual who wants to trade currencies in order to gain profit.

Is Forex Trading Really Commision Free? It's in the Spreads

One of the features of trading foreign currency that drew me into it's spider web is the idea of trading as frequently as you want with no commissions. If you trade stocks in this manner, then you are going to encounter ridiculous commission fees every day that really offset your take home profit. But with forex, there is technically not charged commission for brokers because it is factor into the pip spread.

After trading several thousand lots and at the same time listening to my colleagues and peers that I respect in the forex world, I came to the conclusion that commision free trading is rather a myth in the forex world because of the ability of each broker to change the spreads when they want. Let's go over an example:

Example 1:
Say you're doing rather well and have built your account up to where you are now trading 5 lots at a time. You see an opportunity to buy the GBP/USD and your broker normally has a 3 pip spread on this pair. At 5 lots, you are looking at approximately a $15 cost to buy 5 lots because of the spread. So ultimately the differnce between the bid and ask price is your commission paid. Fine and dandy, I hope it was a nice trade for you. BUT, let's look at the reality of what can happen.

Example 1 Horror Story:
So what happens when this trade with the GBP/USD you want to make is happening during a big news release? Well if you're reading this with any forex experience at all then you know that spreads can widen drastically during important news releases. So to get back to the example, you went through with this trade during the news and now the spread has increased to a RIDIULOUS 20 pips! This is the horror story folks, because now your 5 lots multiplied the 20 pip spread has just cost you approximately $100 in commissions. Wow, this is not what I signed up for when I started trading forex!

Welcome to the reality of the forex world for many of us. So what can I do to avoid these forex spread nightmares? There are two major ways to avoid this and without guidance, can be harder than they seem. The first tactic I use to minimize this is to not open or close any new trades around the news. I know there are times that if you have a position and you are losing a ton of pips that it is necessary to get out. There is no way to avoid this, just get out.

The second way to avoid obnoxious 1 pip spreads is to choose your broker carefully. I am not in a position to point you in any direction because of the extreme amount of brokers out there.

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

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• Follow P&L and open positions within real-time.
• Providing a multi-lingual platform that supports 14 different languages.
• Exclusive technical analysis daily to your mailbox in the Trading Platform.
• Providing news headlines directly in the system.
• Provides research reports for every day and every week.
• Showing real-time prices in the major currency pairs that are constantly updated.
• Providing tools enabling the ForexGen's clients who have real accounts to program their own trading strategies with the Expert Advisor.
• Clients with real accounts can discover the ForexGen's trailing Stop feature.
• Providing a high level of security found in the client's unique username and password. We strongly recommend you to open a demo account to try the many features of our system. For further information or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time or simply request a call back.
• Working with securities of Forex, Futures and CFD markets.
• Various execution technologies: Instant Execution, Request Execution, Market Execution.read more….
• Confidentiality of all trading operations.
• Unlimited charts quantity.
• Support of various timeframes (from minutes up to months).
• Large number of technical indicators and line studies.
• Experts, Custom Indicators and Scripts.
• Multilanguage program interface.
• Signals of system and trading actions.
• Getting on-line news from financial markets.
• Internal e-mail system.
• printing charts and completed trading transactions statements.for more informations……

ForexGen Market Instruments

Our ForexGen Market Investments include overnight and short-term investment alternatives that focus on safety, liquidity and enhanced yield. ForexGen offers a comprehensive range of investment options for predictable and unpredictable cash flows. Overnight Investment
Invest your unpredictable excess balances overnight at competitive rates. Investment alternatives are both onshore and offshore. Instruments include money market funds and ForexGen's commercial paper, to name a few.
Short-term Investment
Enhance yield on your predictable cash flows with term investments. Tenors range from overnight to one year. Short-term instruments include time deposits, certificates of deposit, government securities, repurchase agreements, commercial paper, and bankers acceptances.
Why use Forex Market Instruments?
Maintain liquidity while enhancing returns on excess cash
Preserve capital through low-risk investments.for more informations…..

Corporate Managed Accounts

Why Corporate Managed Accounts?
Many investors find it hard to cope with the currency markets. Trading is a science and needs a lot of education, experience and discipline. To be successful a currency trader must follow market movements 24 hours a day, six days a week. Many Forex investors do not have the time, experience or desire to trade with this intensity themselves.
Forex Managed Accounts were created for investors with risk capital who do not necessarily want to trade on their own. In a Forex Managed Account the positions belong to your portfolio alone. Unlike mutual funds or hedge funds which commingle your funds with other investors, a Forex Managed Account is in your name and all or part of your funds can be redeemed within one day. There is no lock up period.
The managed account only holds your positions and allows you to follow a cost-basis for each of the currencies in your account. Based on your long-term goals, risk tolerance and time horizon, you can select a ForexGen currency professional with your trading outlook to actively manage your portfolio. Whether you're interested in a conservative or aggressive program, you will find the trader who will suit your risk parameters.read more…
Advantages of Corporate Managed Accounts
Profiting In All Market Conditions: Unlike equity and fixed income managers, a currency hedge fund manager employs both long and short positions with equal facility. In currency trading there is no difference in profit potential between a long and short position. Because of this characteristic a currency portfolio is not 'biased long' but able to profit under any market conditions.
Diversification: The performance of equity and fixed income investments in one country is often highly correlated with the performance of equity and fixed income investments in other countries. As a result, global portfolios composed solely of equity and fixed income investments lack full diversification, even if they are geographically dispersed. Investing in currencies gives investors access to markets beyond equity and fixed income investments, providing more complete diversification and a reduction in portfolio risk.
Optimization of ROI: When combined with an investor's existing portfolio of equity and fixed income instruments, the Forex Managed Account Program reduces the volatility and risk of that portfolio while enhancing long-term returns.
Risk Management: Investing in currencies incorporates disciplined risk control procedures in order to limit risk and achieve the smoothest possible growth in its investors' account value. Leverage is an acceptable and useful tool when used judiciously and with strict risk management techniques. Investors in currencies are therefore able to achieve a high rate of return with a level of risk control that is not possible with traditional "buy and hold" investments. Although returns are far from guaranteed, professional hedge fund managers tend to out perform individual speculators by their deployment of disciplined money management techniques and a system trading approach. Professional hedge funds also tend to use their leverage more judiciously thus avoiding sudden catastrophic losses.read more…