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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Why Mini Forex Trading Is Important For New Traders

By Bart Icles

If you are new to Forex trading but don't know where to begin, it is best you get started by investing in a mini account. Anyone can open a mini account with just a minimum account of as low as $200 - 250, or even much lower with other services. A standard Forex account usually needs at least $2,000 - $2,500 as an initial investment amount to begin with. With a mini account, you can still do normal trading and still have the same privileges of a regular account investor.

A mini Forex account is only one-tenth of a lot size of a regular Forex account. The Pip values of a mini Forex account are also afforded this percentage. A standard Forex account has a lot size amounting to 10,000 units of the base currency - as an example is the USD, and the amount would be $10,000.

New traders who infuse minimal investments should open a mini Forex account to help them get started, and do leverage trading for additional capital funding. Leverage trading comes in the way of the trader borrowing money to help put up the needed amount for a single lot. The marginal lot is the trader's capital that is used outside this amount. The marginal lot for a mini account has a ratio of 200:1.

With its fairly large degree of leverage, it is usually advisable not to take on a large amount of leverage in your investments, especially in a standard Forex trading account. But in the case of mini Forex trading, this is just the appropriate practice and not viewed as over-leveraging. The risk factor is also much lower in a mini Forex account due to its 200: 1 ratio. This makes it is easier for the investor to do a more systematic and disciplined style of trading, in which he'll trade knowing that when he losses in a deal, it'll be in smaller and negligible amounts. Whereas in a standard Forex account the possibility of losing larger amounts may advocate a bad trading strategy, like holding on to deal which is going nowhere and in which will just mean further huge losses in the end.

If you want to invest in Forex trading with amounts not greater than $5,000 - $10,000, then go with a Mini Forex account. You'll have a better chance of staying longer in the market and without over-leveraging when you do multiple currency trades. - 23223

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