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Forex Brokers with CFD Trading

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Forex Brokers with CFD TradingForex Brokers with CFD Trading A list of Forex brokers which support CFD trading. CFD — a Contract for Difference —

Forex Trading Information

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FOREX — the foreign exchange (currency or forex, or FX) market is the and the most liquid financial market with the daily volume of more than $3.2 trillion. Trading on this market involves buying and selling world currencies taking the profit from the exchange rates difference. Forex trading can yield high profits, but it is also very risky. Everyone can participate in Forex trading via the Forex brokers.

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VPS (Virtual Private Server) — virtual environment hosted on the dedicated server, which can be used to run the programs independent on the user's PC. Forex traders use VPS to host trading platforms and run expert advisors without unexpected interruptions.
Standard Lot — 100,000 units of the base currency of the currency pair, which you are buying or selling.
Swap — overnight payment for holding your position. Since you are not physically receiving the currency you buy, your broker should pay you the interest rate difference between the two currencies of the pair. It can be negative or positive.

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What is Forex?

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FOREX - the foreign exchange market or currency market or Forex is the market where one currency is traded for another. It is one of the largest markets in the world.

Some of the participants in this market are simply seeking to exchange a foreign currency for their own, like multinational corporations which must pay wages and other expenses in different nations than they sell products in. However, a large part of the market is made up of currency traders, who speculate on movements in exchange rates, much like others would speculate on movements of stock prices. Currency traders try to take advantage of even small fluctuations in exchange rates.

In the foreign exchange market there is little or no 'inside information'. Exchange rate fluctuations are usually caused by actual monetary flows as well as anticipations on global macroeconomic conditions. Significant news is released publicly so, at least in theory, everyone in the world receives the same news at the same time.

Currencies are traded against one another. Each pair of currencies thus constitutes an individual product and is traditionally noted XXX/YYY, where YYY is the ISO 4217 international three-letter code of the currency into which the price of one unit of XXX currency is expressed. For instance, EUR/USD is the price of the euro expressed in US dollars, as in 1 euro = 1.2045 dollar.

Unlike stocks and futures exchange, foreign exchange is indeed an interbank, over-the-counter (OTC) market which means there is no single universal exchange for specific currency pair. Theforeign exchange market operates 24 hours per day throughout the week between individuals with forex brokers, brokers with banks, and banks with banks. If the European session is ended the Asian session or US session will start, so all world currencies can be continually in trade. Traders can react to news when it breaks, rather than waiting forthe market to open, as is the case with most other markets.

Average daily international foreign exchange trading volume was $1.9 trillion in April 2004 according to the BIS study.

Like any market there is a bid/offer spread (difference between buying price and selling price). On major currency crosses, the difference between the price at which a market maker will sell ("ask", or "offer") to a wholesale customer and the price at which the same market-maker will buy ("bid") from the same wholesale customer is minimal, usually only 1 or 2 pips. In the EUR/USD price of 1.4238 a pip would be the '8' at the end. So the bid/ask quote of EUR/USD might be 1.4238/1.4239.

This, of course, does not apply to retail customers. Most individual currency speculators will trade using a broker which will typically have a spread marked up to say 3-20 pips (so in our example 1.4237/1.4239 or 1.423/1.425). The broker will give their clients often huge amounts of margin, thereby facilitating clients spending more money on the bid/ask spread. The brokers are not regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (since they do not sell securities), so they are not bound by the same margin limits as stock brokerages. They do not typically charge margin interest, however since currency trades must be settled in 2 days, they will "resettle" open positions (again collecting the bid/ask spread).

Individual currency speculators can work during the day and trade in the evenings, taking advantage of the market's 24 hours long trading day.

Forex FAQ

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What is FOREX?
You can read the detailed answer in the separate section of the site — "What is Forex?".

How can I start trading Forex?
You'll need to register a trading account with a Forex broker, such as Marketiva. Then you can begin using their Forex client program to buy and sell currencies. This will take less than 5 minutes of your time!

Who owns Forex and where is it located?
It's not owned by anyone in particular. Forex is an Interbank market, meaning that it's transactions are conducted only between two participants - seller and the buyer. So as long as existing banking system will exist, Forex will be here. It's not connected to any specific country or government organization.

What the working hours of Forex market?
Forex market is open from 22:00 GMT Sunday (opening of Australia trading session) till 22:00 GMT Friday (closing of USA trading session).

What is margin?
Margin is money you need to have in your broker account to secure your open position. Different brokers require different amount of margin money to keep your positions open.

What are the "long" and "short" positions?
Long position is a "buy" position, meaning that this position will be in profit if price goes up.
Short position is a "sell" position, meaning that this position will be in profit if price goes down.

What is the best Forex trading strategy?
There is none. You should constantly develop your own strategies for every possible market situation, if you want to be in profit. Specific strategies can only be good for a certain period of time and for certain currency pairs.

How much money I need to start trading Forex?
With Marketiva you can start trading Forex with as little as $1. Usually, the minimum amount varies from $100 to $10,000 ($100,000 and more for Interbank trading).

I can't (or don't want to) install any Forex trading software on my computer. Can I still trade Forex?
If you don't want (or it is not possible) to install new software to start trading Forex then a good option for you would be using web based trading platform. You can browse our Forex brokers list to find those which support such platform. Here are those brokers which have web based trading options: Easy Forex, ForexYard, Oanda, Saxo Bank, ACM, Interactive Brokers.

I've downloaded the expert advisor for MetaTrader platform but I don't know how to install it. What should I do?
You can read the MetaTrader Expert Advisors User's Tutorial to find out how to intstall those expert advisors.
I've downloaded a custom indicator for MetaTrader platform but I don't know how to install it. What should I do?
You can read the MetaTrader Indicators User's Tutorial to find out how to intstall

Forex Glossary

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Ask (Offer) — price of the offer, the price you buy for.

Aussie — a Forex slang name for the Australian dollar.

Bank Rate — the percentage rate at which central bank of a country lends money to the country's commercial banks.

Bid — price of the demand, the price you sell for.

Broker — the market participating body which serves as the middleman between retail traders and larger commercial institutions.

Cable — a Forex traders slang word GBP/USD currency pair.

Carry Trade — in Forex, holding a position with a positive overnight interest return in hope of gaining profits, without closing the position, just for the central banks interest rates difference.

CFD — a Contract for Difference — special trading instrument that allows financial speculation on stocks, commodities and other instruments without actually buying.

Commission — broker commissions for operation handling.

CPI — consumer price index the statistical measure of inflation based upon changes of prices of a specified set of goods.

EA (Expert Advisor) — an automated script which is used by the trading platform software to manage positions and orders automatically without (or with little) manual control.

ECN Broker — a type of Forex brokerage firm that provide its clients direct access to other Forex market participants. ECN brokers don't discourage scalping, don't trade against the client, don't charge spread (low spread is defined by current market prices) but charge commissions for every order.

ECB (European Central Bank) — the main regulatory body of the European Union financial system.

Fed (Federal Reserve) — the main regulatory body of the United States of America financial system, which division — FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) — regulates, among other things, federal interest rates.

Fibonacci Retracements — the levels with a high probability of trend break or bounce, calculated as the 23.6%, 32.8%, 50% and 61.8% of the trend range.

Flat (Square) — neutral state when all your positions are closed.

Fundamental Analysis — the analysis based only on news, economic indicators and global events.

GDP (Gross Domestic Product) — is a measure of the national income and output for the country's economy; it's one of the most important Forex indicators.

GTC (Good Till Cancelled) — order to buy or sell of a currency with a fixed price or worse. The order is alive (good) until execution or cancellation.

Hedging — maintaining a market position which secures the existing open positions in the opposite direction.

Jobber — a slang word for a trader which is aimed toward fast but small and short-term profit from an intra-day trading. Jobber rarely leaves open positions overnight.

Kiwi — a Forex slang name for the New Zealand currency — New Zealand dollar.

Leading Indicators — a composite index (year 1992 = 100%) of ten most important macroeconomic indicators that predicts future (6-9 months) economic activity.

Limit Order — order for a broker to buy the lot for fixed or lesser price or sell the lot for fixed or better price. Such price is called limit price.

Liquidity — the measure of markets which describes relationship between the trading volume and the price change.

Long — the position which is in a Buy direction. In Forex, the primary currency when bought is long and another is short.

Loss — the loss from closing long position at lower rate than opening or short position with higher rate than opening, or if the profit from a position closing was lower than broker commission on it.

Lot — definite amount of units or amount of money accepted for operations handling (usually it is a multiple of 100).

Margin — money, the investor needs to keep at broker account to execute trades. It supplies the possible losses which may occur in margin trading.

Margin Account — account which is used to hold investor's deposited money for FOREX trading.

Margin Call — demand of a broker to deposit more margin money to the margin account when the amount in it falls below certain minimum.

Market Order — order to buy or sell a lot for a current market price.

Market Price — the current price for which the currency is traded for on the market.

Momentum — the measure of the currency's ability to move in the given direction.

Moving Average (MA) — one of the most basic technical indicators. It shows the average rate calculated over a series of time periods. Exponential Moving Average (EMA), Weighted Moving Average (WMA) etc. are just the ways of weighing the rates and the periods.

Offer (Ask) — price of the offer, the price you buy for.

Open Position (Trade) — position on buying (long) or selling (short) for a currency pair.

Order — order for a broker to buy or sell the currency with a certain rate.

Pivot Point — the primary support/resistance point calculated basing on the previous trend's High, Low and Close prices.

Pip (Point) — the last digit in the rate (e.g. for EUR/USD 1 point = 0.0001).

Profit (Gain) — positive amount of money gained for closing the position.

Principal Value — the initial amount of money of the invested.

Realized Profit/Loss — gain/loss for already closed positions.

Resistance — price level for which the intensive selling can lead to price increasing (up-trend).

Scalping — a style of trading notable by many positions that are opened for extremely small and short-term profits.

Settled (Closed) Position — closed positions for which all needed transactions has been made.

Slippage — execution of order for a price different than expected (ordered), main reasons for slippage are — "fast" market, low liquidity and low broker's ability to execute orders.

Spread — difference between ask and bid prices for a currency pair.

Standard Lot — 100,000 units of the base currency of the currency pair, which you are buying or selling.

Stop-Limit Order — order to sell or buy a lot for a certain price or worse.

Stop-Loss Order — order to sell or buy a lot when the market reaches certain price. It is used to avoid extra losses when market moves in the opposite direction. Usually is a combination of stop-order and limit-order.

Support — price level for which intensive buying can lead to the price decreasing (down-trend).

Swap — overnight payment for holding your position. Since you are not physically receiving the currency you buy, your broker should pay you the interest rate difference between the two currencies of the pair. It can be negative or positive.

Technical Analysis — the analysis based only on the technical market data (quotes) with the help of various technical indicators.

Trend — direction of market which has been established with influence of different factors.

Unrealized (Floating) Profit/Loss — a profit/loss for your non-closed positions.

Useable Margin — amount of money in the account that can be used for trading.

Used Margin — amount of money in the account already used to hold open positions open.

Volatility — a statistical measure of the number of price changes for a given currency pair in a given period of time.

VPS (Virtual Private Server) — virtual environment hosted on the dedicated server, which can be used to run the programs independent on the user's PC. Forex traders use VPS to host trading platforms and run expert advisors without unexpected interruptions.

Forex Books

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You can download free Forex e-books from my site. The information in these Forex e-books will help you develop your trading skills, money management abilities and the emotional self-control.

Almost all Forex e-books are in .pdf format. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open these e-books. Some of the e-books (those that are in parts) are zipped.

Since currently there are more than 80 Forex books in my collection, they are divided into five different section. Each section is dedicated to its own topic and features the download links to e-books as well as the little description of every book.

If you are the copyright owner of any of these e-books and don't want me to share them, please, contact me and I will gladly remove them.

Forex Books for Beginners

Books about Forex Market in General

Forex Books about Trading Psychology

Money Management Forex Books

Books about Forex Strategy

Books for Advanced Forex Traders

Forex Books for Beginners

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Here you will find the Forex e-books that provide the basic information on Forex trading. You can learn basic concepts of the Forex market, the technical and fundamental analysis. While all these e-books are recommended for every new Forex trader, they won't be very useful to the very experienced traders.

Almost all Forex e-books are in .pdf format. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open these e-books. Some of the e-books (those that are in parts) are zipped.

If you are the copyright owner of any of these e-books and don't want me to share them, please, contact me and I will gladly remove them.

Candlesticks For Support And Resistance — The basics of trading with candlesticks charts by John H. Forman.

Online Trading Courses — Course #1 lesson #1 by Jake Bernstein.

Commodity Futures Trading for Beginners — by Bruce Babcock.

Hidden Divergence — by Barbara Star, Ph.D.

Peaks and Troughs — by Martin J. Pring.

Reverse Divergences And Momentum — by Martin J. Pring.

Strategy:10 — Low-risk, high-return forex trading by W. R. Booker & Co.

The NYSE Tick Index And Candlesticks — by Tim Ord.

Trend Determination — A quick, accurate and effective methodology by John Hayden.

The Original Turtle Trading Rules — by OrignalTurtles.org.

Introduction to Forex — by 1st Forex Trading Academy. This trading course intends to provide to all of the students analytical tools on the trading system and methodologies. In this respect, the purpose of the course is to provide an overview of the many strategies that are being used in Forex market and to discuss the steps and tools that are needed in order to use these strategies successfully.

The Six Forces of Forex — by Scott Owens. A small e-book covering the basic and the main problems of Forex trading.

Study Book for Successful Foreign Exchange Dealing — by Royal Forex.

Forex. On-Line Manual for Successful Trading — an introduction into every aspect of the Forex trading including detailed descriptions of the technical and fundamental analysis techniques, by unknown author.

18 Trading Champions Share Their Keys to Top Trading Profits — as the name suggests, the book shares the secrets of the 18 prominent traders with the Forex beginners, by FWN.

The Way to Trade Forex — a 1st chapter of the book that will show you not only Forex basics but also some unusual techniques and strategies that can work for the newbie traders, by Jay Lakhani.

The Truth About Fibonacci Trading — the basic facts and information about Fibonacci levels and their application to the Forex trading, by Bill Poulos.

WebMoney Forex Brokers

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A list of Forex brokers that offer WebMoney electronic payment system as the method to deposit/withdraw funds to/from trading account. WebMoney Forex brokers allow their customers to use this secure, fast and low commission e-currency system to make customers' Forex experience less burdened with secondary matters.

Sort by: Order | Minimum Account | Traders' Rating | Name

Forex Broker Name Min. Account Size MT4 WebMoney CFD Browser-based
Platform Registered
with any Regulator Easy On-line
Account Opening Rating
InstaForex $1 + + + - + + 4.6
Ava FX $100 - + + - - + 6.9
FXOpen $1 + + - - + + 7.4
Forex4you $1 + + + - - + 6.6
EXNESS $100 + + + - + + 8.3
FxCompany $100 + + + - + + 8.0
10Pips $100 - + + - - + 7.0
LiteForex $1 + + + - - + 5.4
eToro $50 - + - + + + 5.5
FXcast $10 + + - - - + 5.0
Marketiva $1 - + - - + + 8.5
MasterForex $1 + + + - - + 7.4
High Street Networking $100 - + - + - - 3.1
Real Trade $20 + + + - - + 3.2
IFC Markets $1 - + - - + + 8.5
Neuimex $400 + + + - + + 4.3
FXDD $500 + + - - - + 6.6
GCI Financial $2,000 + + + + + + 7.5
Forex-Metal $1 + + + - + + 6.0
Exto Capital $1,000 - + + + + + 4.7
Forex Broker Name Min. Account Size MT4 WebMoney CFD Browser-based
Platform Registered
with any Regulator Easy On-line
Account Opening Rating
FXD24 $250 + + - - - + 7.8
FOREX UKRAINE $100 + + + - - + 7.1
Admiral Markets $10 + + + - - + 6.7
FXCH $2,000 + + + - - + 3.1
BroCo $10 + + + - + - 4.5
AL Trade $200 + + + - - + 3.1
FXM Financial Group $10 + + - - + + 8.1
Alma Forex $1 + + - - + + 3.1
UFXBank $500 - + - + - + 6.7
MoneyRain $100 + + + - + + 7.6
Boston Merchant Financial $100 + + + - + + 6.2
1pipfix $100 + + + - - + 2.0
Basel Financial $50 + + - - + + 7.5

Forex Brokers with CFD Trading

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A list of Forex brokers which support CFD trading. CFD — a Contract for Difference — special contract which allows traders to earn money on the price (stock, commodity or other) falling or rising, without buying any stock or commodity. CFD is a great way to try stock trading and is usually supported by Metatrader 4 Forex Brokers.

Sort by: Order | Minimum Account | Traders' Rating | Name

Forex Broker Name Min. Account Size MT4 WebMoney CFD Browser-based
Platform Registered
with any Regulator Easy On-line
Account Opening Rating
InstaForex $1 + + + - + + 4.6
Ava FX $100 - + + - - + 6.9
Forex4you $1 + + + - - + 6.6
EXNESS $100 + + + - + + 8.3
FxCompany $100 + + + - + + 8.0
10Pips $100 - + + - - + 7.0
LiteForex $1 + + + - - + 5.4
Plus500 $50 - - + - - + 7.3
InvestTechFX $100 + - + - + + 8.5
MasterForex $1 + + + - - + 7.4
Aurora Global Markets $1,500 - - + + + - 4.8
E-Global $20 + - + - + + 8.5
IS Markets $250 + - + - + + 4.5
Saxo Bank $2,000 - - + - + - 8.7
Interactive Brokers $5,000 - - + + + + 8.0
X-Trade Brokers $2,000 + - + - + - 4.5
Finotec $200 - - + - + + 7.4
Real Trade $20 + + + - - + 3.2
ODL Securities $2,000 + - + - + + 6.4
MF Global $10,000 - - + - + - 3.6
Forex Broker Name Min. Account Size MT4 WebMoney CFD Browser-based
Platform Registered
with any Regulator Easy On-line
Account Opening Rating
IG Markets $200 - - + + + + 8.3
CMC Markets $2,000 - - + - + - 3.8
Neuimex $400 + + + - + + 4.3
MFN $500 - - + - - + 3.6
FIBOGroup $300 + - + - - + 4.8
ActivTrades €250 + - + + + + 5.9
ABN AMRO marketindex £1 - - + + + + 7.5
GCI Financial $2,000 + + + + + + 7.5
VarengoldBankFX $1,000 + - + - + - 7.4
FxPro $100 + - + - + + 8.5
DeltaStock $100 + - + + + - 3.7
Forex-Metal $1 + + + - + + 6.0
One Financial $250 + - + + + - 7.5
Exto Capital $1,000 - + + + + + 4.7
GDI Markets $10,000 - - + - + - 6.5
GOMarkets $1 + - + - + + 6.8
Windsor Brokers $100 + - + - + - 6.2
Prime4x $100 + - + - - + 7.9
WH SelfInvest €2,500 - - + + + - 6.5
Sucden £5,000 - - + - + - 5.2
Forex Broker Name Min. Account Size MT4 WebMoney CFD Browser-based
Platform Registered
with any Regulator Easy On-line
Account Opening Rating
FOREX UKRAINE $100 + + + - - + 7.1
Admiral Markets $10 + + + - - + 6.7
EMPFX $300 - - + - - + 3.8
Bulbrokers $50 + - + - + - 5.1
HMS Markets €10,000 - - + - + - 4.8
FXCH $2,000 + + + - - + 3.1
BroCo $10 + + + - + - 4.5
AL Trade $200 + + + - - + 3.1
TeleTRADE $2,000 + - + - - + 5.4
WSD $1,000 + - + - + - 3.0
NTWO $2,000 + - + - - + 3.5
Taurus Global Markets $5,000 + - + - - + 3.4
Forex Place $100 + - + - - + 6.1
Wall Street Brokers $10 + - + - - + 8.3
MoneyRain $100 + + + - + + 7.6
Boston Merchant Financial $100 + + + - + + 6.2
United World Capital $25 + - + - + + 8.7
Azurite Markets $100 - - + + + - 5.0
1pipfix $100 + + + - - + 2.0

Moneybookers Forex Brokers

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A list of Forex brokers which support Moneybookers payment system as an option for funds deposit/withdrawal. Moneybookers is a popular British electronic payment system that is acceptable world-wide. It is regulated by Financial Services Authority in United Kingdom. Brokers accepting this payment system confirm their valid bank account details and the physical location.

Sort by: Order | Minimum Account | Traders' Rating | Name

Forex Broker Name Min. Account Size MT4 WebMoney CFD Browser-based
Platform Registered
with any Regulator Easy On-line
Account Opening Rating
InstaForex $1 + + + - + + 4.6
Ava FX $100 - + + - - + 6.9
FxCompany $100 + + + - + + 8.0
LiteForex $1 + + + - - + 5.4
eToro $50 - + - + + + 5.5
InvestTechFX $100 + - + - + + 8.5
EFOREX $25 + - - - - + 3.2
IG Markets $200 - - + + + + 8.3
GCI Financial $2,000 + + + + + + 7.5
DeltaStock $100 + - + + + - 3.7
Forex-Metal $1 + + + - + + 6.0
Exto Capital $1,000 - + + + + + 4.7
Finexo $100 - - - + + + 7.5
Forex WebTrader $25 - - - + - + 4.8
FX|Clearing $10 + - - - + + 7.7
EMPFX $300 - - + - - + 3.8
BroCo $10 + + + - + - 4.5
Forex Place $100 + - + - - + 6.1
Wall Street Brokers $10 + - + - - + 8.3
FXM Financial Group $10 + + - - + + 8.1
Forex Broker Name Min. Account Size MT4 WebMoney CFD Browser-based
Platform Registered
with any Regulator Easy On-line
Account Opening Rating
UFXBank $500 - + - + - + 6.7
MoneyRain $100 + + + - + + 7.6
United World Capital $25 + - + - + + 8.7
1pipfix $100 + + + - - + 2.0
Basel Financial $50 + + - - + + 7.5

Forex Brokers with Web Based Platform

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A list of on-line Forex brokers which fully support Forex tradingin the Internet browser window, without installing any trading software. This allows trading from almost any place that has a computer and doesn't require any additional software installation. Browser based Forex brokers usually offer Java and Flash trading platforms that run in the browser smoothly and securely.

Sort by: Order | Minimum Account | Traders' Rating | Name

Forex Broker Name Min. Account Size MT4 WebMoney CFD Browser-based
Platform Registered
with any Regulator Easy On-line
Account Opening Rating
eToro $50 - + - + + + 5.5
Aurora Global Markets $1,500 - - + + + - 4.8
Easy-Forex $200 - - - + + + 3.2
Forex Capital Trading $100 - - - + + + 7.9
ACM $2,000 + - - + + - 8.2
Forex.com $250 + - - + + - 7.1
FXCM $2,000 + - - + + + 8.3
OANDA $1 - - - + + + 8.8
Interactive Brokers $5,000 - - + + + + 8.0
High Street Networking $100 - + - + - - 3.1
Questrade FX $250 - - - + + - 7.5
MGFOREX $500 - - - + + + 3.9
IG Markets $200 - - + + + + 8.3
iFOREX $100 - - - + - + 4.1
ActivTrades €250 + - + + + + 5.9
ABN AMRO marketindex £1 - - + + + + 7.5
GCI Financial $2,000 + + + + + + 7.5
Forex Trading Edge $1,000 + - - + + + 3.1
Xforex $100 - - - + - + 7.4
DeltaStock $100 + - + + + - 3.7
Forex Broker Name Min. Account Size MT4 WebMoney CFD Browser-based
Platform Registered
with any Regulator Easy On-line
Account Opening Rating
One Financial $250 + - + + + - 7.5
Exto Capital $1,000 - + + + + + 4.7
NobleTrading $250 - - - + + + 7.8
Fit Markets $500 - - - + + - 6.9
Latitude FX $1,000 + - - + + + 7.6
Finexo $100 - - - + + + 7.5
Forex WebTrader $25 - - - + - + 4.8
ForexYard $100 - - - + - + 3.5
HY Markets $50 - - - + + + 5.8
WH SelfInvest €2,500 - - + + + - 6.5
StartForex $100 + - - + - + 5.4
UFXBank $500 - + - + - + 6.7
FXGreece $2,000 - - - + - - 1.8
Azurite Markets $100 - - + + + - 5.0 purely

Forex Broker Interviews

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Getting to know your Forex broker is very important if you want to trade with a large amount of money, or if you can't decide between two or more brokers. Interviews with the Forex brokers help to understand the broker's structure and its vision on the traders. If you are already trading actively with some broker, reading its answers on important questions will help you to get some insight on its future plans. Anyway, it is always interesting to know what someForex broker thinks about what it is doing.

Interview with FXcast Forex Broker — my first interview with FXcast (at that time) rather new Forex broker, which is known for its no-spreads Swing trading platform and the variety of e-currencies accepted as a payment method.

Interview with FXOpen Forex Broker — questions to FXOpen head manager generally were about their rebranding, Islamic Forex trading and some other Forex related issues.

Interview with eToro — this interview is about eToro innovative Forex trading platform, which offers some of the most original ways to make money via Forex market combined with the intuitive interface.

Interview with FXCM — my first interview with such a large broker, it's mainly about various issues with FXCM, including managed accounts, Refco bankruptcy

Interview with FxCompany — this interview with a rather new (at that time) MetaTrader broker goes about regulation, new features in trading and the competitiveness of the Forex brokers.

Interview with Azurite Markets — a rather new Forex broker with multiple-market trading services shares its view on the industry, the relations between the traders and the broker and its future plans.

If you want me to make an on-line interview with your Forex related company or site, or if you have an idea for my next interview please, use this form to contact me. and other topics.

WebMoney Forex Brokers

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What to Look For in a Social Bookmarking Service

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In the Web 2.0 era, social bookmarking is of significant importance. Submitting your site to social sites can be quite beneficial in your overall promotional and marketing campaign. However, there are several of such sites out there today; some of them are quite important and generate huge traffic, while others are new and are trying to establish themselves now. Submitting to all of them can be a daunting task; this is why a social bookmarking service exists.

Going through all sites can be quite time consuming and frustrating; most webmasters do not have enough time to do that, since there are so many tasks to deal with. That's where submission services come to assist webmasters with the submission. What do they do? They submit your site to the best social bookmarking websites and send you a detailed report upon completion. The cost is usually nominal compared with the amount of work done.

The best social bookmarking sites allow webmasters to get homogeneous links and ensured visibility on the Internet. Bookmarking services feature teams of experts who can manually search for the best sites and submit your site in order to boost its search engine positioning.

One of the main things you need to ensure when looking for such a service is that no black hat or spam techniques are used. Search engines do not allow websites that use spamming or other suspicious methods of marketing to rank well; make sure that the professionals you are working with can do the job using clean and clear techniques and methods. Search engine friendly techniques and spam free methods are offered by legitimate and professional services out there.

Ethical link building practices can help you increase your visibility and get streams of traffic online and become famous on the World Wide Web.

Essential Social Bookmarking Submission Tips

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Social bookmarking is the hottest thing in SEO today. If you own a website, you cannot afford not using it. If you are not, you are missing a lot. This submission allows you to get huge traffic to your website and get a serious number of back links that can improve your search engine rankings. Here are some useful social bookmarking tips:

- If you have a big website or a blog, bookmarking every single post or article is a simple waste of time. Find the best ones, those that represent your work the best and submit them. You will be known as the webmaster or blogger with the best posts out there.

- If you decided to submit your best posts, then you need to submit only to the best bookmarking websites. The social bookmarking sites that exist today are abundant; not all of them though can help you achieve your goal. Some of them are not even worth mentioning, while sites such as Digg, Propeller, Delicious and Folkd are an absolute must.

- Keep in mind that submitting your posts or website to social bookmarking sites you can gain both traffic and backlinks. It all depends though on the type of website you have. E-commerce websites do not go well on those sites because it cannot help in direct sales. People who look online and check these sites are in quest of good stories. If you cannot provide that then you will not become popular enough online. Write interesting stories and share them with other people, allowing them to share them with their friends. Social bookmarking uses the viral system and that is quite beneficial to all websites and blogs.

- If you feel that you do not have enough time to do all the bookmarking you need, use software instead. Automated bookmarking submission can save you precious time.

Understanding Social Bookmark Submitter and How it Works

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Many of us don't understand certain terms on the internet, yet we use it! One such term is that of Social Bookmark Submitter. Social bookmarking started off as a practice wherein visitors to websites bookmarked those pages for later reference on the internet with the help of metadata in the form of tags.

Bookmarking using tags caught on rather fast as they were seen as a mode of traffic generation for relatively new or obscure websites with very few visitors. The tags are accessed by search engines because of the keywords they use. Social book marking gradually grew into a search engine optimization trick and more and more newbie webmasters tried diverting traffic to their website by placing bookmarks on those sites that were already attracting lots of visitors. This practice is called back linking.

Because of the fact that social bookmarking sites invariably increase traffic to the back links they sport, there has been widespread spamming on bookmarking websites. Spamming by individual spammers is done by adding multiple links at once. Usually manual submission is time consuming and cumbersome.

There are many types of software available in the market that would enable a user to submit bookmarks to popular social bookmarking websites automatically. Doing this increases the flow of visitors to the website and thereby increases the revenue and profit. It is much more effective than paying manual submitters to submit your link to all the popular sites.

It takes less time and is also a cheaper option. Some of them even come with automatic registration capabilities that let them register automatically on the social bookmarking sites without any help from the user.

Most social bookmarking sites do not take lightly to the spamming perpetrated by submitters. The usual consequence of spamming on most of the top bookmarking sites is that the submitter will get banned and the bookmarks would probably be deleted. Somehow most software applications that promise to deliver your bookmarks to these sites en masse bypass these issues.

Some Great Social Bookmarking Tools You Can Use

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Social bookmarking has been around for as long as the Internet has existed. If you found a website or resource that you really liked and wanted others to know about it, you told your friends. The quickest way to tell them was to send them an email or post a message on a forum containing the link to that website so they could look at it and add it to their browser favorites list.

This marked it so it could be found again in the future. That was the old way to spread the word about the things that were new or exciting on the Internet. Now, there are some easier and much more effective social bookmarking tools you can use to get the word out about new things.

Social networking involves "tagging" a website of particular interest so that it can be easily accessed. The tag shows up in two places; one being the user's profile or website, the second being the original homepage of the tagging bookmark. The tag can appear on a list of favorite websites posted on a blog or website, or it can be a special website designed specifically for these tags, called a bookmarking network. Examples of popular bookmarking networks are Twitter, Facebook, Squidoo, Flikr, and Wetpaint.

Visitors to those sites can then rate the URL value according to how often a search occurs or that link is clicked on. Popular bookmarks remain at the top while less favorable links and spam are lost to new searches. Social bookmarking can be monitored for trends in the market and is used to introduce new and better products and ideas.

Many consumers, whether they realize it or not, use social bookmarking everyday to decide what products are worth investing in, where to shop, where to eat and other consumer decisions. This is because when they do a search online, the most popular searchable things that have had multiple tags come up first in the list. Tags can be a good way for consumers to gauge whether or not a product or company is legit by who manages the feeds and how often the website is tagged.

Here is a list of some great social bookmarking tools you can use today to boost your website visits and get the word out about new items of interest:

Twitter. Do you Twitter? This seems like the most asked question recently by social networking people. This free social networking site works by people who become members and post short updates as they wish on anything in general. It's advertised as a "service for family, friends and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick , frequent answers to the questions; What are you doing" (Twitter.com) The update feeds can then be posted on the person's blogs, websites or anyplace else where they want people to know about what they're doing and talking about. People often post their articles or other tidbits about their businesses with links included to get others to visit their website.

Facebook. This is an international social networking site whereby members sign up free and can post messages and updates whenever they wish. If they include links to their websites or other online items, members can go there to read more about them. Feeds are then available for adding to blogs or websites for real time updates. Facebook is growing in popularity among people who were typically participating in other social networking sites like MySpace, but its attracting more career- and business-oriented people.

Squidoo. This neat little social bookmarking site has nothing to do with sea life. In fact, not only is it a great way for people to interact and post updates, but it allows users to create simple websites called "lenses" for others to read about their special interests or topics. So if you are promoting a certain niche interest, an idea or something related to your business, you can create a page to promote this idea and include links back to your sites. Squidoo offers its members additional tools like forums to come up with ideas to promote their pages and highlights popular lenses all over the Internet.

Flikr. If you're into sharing more than words and like to include images as part of your networking efforts, then you may like Flikr. This social bookmarking site allows users to post images for others to review. Users can also talk about their experiences by joining either private or public groups. So families can use Flikr to share personal photos, or public groups can share images and talk about things of interest. Each photo is assigned a tag which can be placed on user's websites and blogs. Flikr rates images according to how many times they've been viewed and this list is posted on the community section for all to see.

Wetpaint. This is a Wiki format social bookmarking site that allows members to create a website about anything they are interested in or want to promote. It's a similar concept to Squidoo, except that it is expanded to include the ability to integrate popular feeds into both your Wetpaint site and your blogs or other websites seamlessly. Wetpaint is supported by not only all the major search engines, but also by all primary news feeds and searches conducted by Internet users. This opens up the possibility that someone who may just be doing a general search will land on your Wetpaint site.

There are so many great tools out there that you can use to get the word out about your ideas and share your blogs and websites more effectively. In just a few minutes, you can be signed up and hooked into the best of what the Internet has to offer. Be sure to check out the above social bookmarking sites to get the most out of these services and increase your website's searchability.

Why You Should Use Social Bookmarking

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The use of Social bookmarking sites can prove to be a fantastic way to boost targeted traffic to your websites. The market is inundated with numerous tools which are concentrated towards social bookmarking sites as the majority of online marketers have recognized the revenue potential from the social bookmarking sites.

A lot of great websites are overlooked due of less effective or zero exposure in the least, which is how come a lot of companies have targeted social bookmarking sites to get hold of an enormous base of possible clients. Fundamentally, targeted traffic and high caliber back links are the hallmark of social book marking web sites for internet marketers.

In order to stimulate huge amounts of traffic, it is crucial to get back links from as many social bookmarking sites as achievable. Registering and bookmarking on numerous different social bookmarking sites to receive backlinks can be a tiresome job. The Bookmarking Demon software can help you to wind up this time squandering, boring job within just few minutes.

Bookmarking demon is a tool that lets users to easily automatise backlinks from favorite social bookmarking sites. To kickoff, it offers you to automatically sign up for top thirty social bookmarking sites it incorporates. This in itself could be brilliant time saver. Bookmarking demon will likewise automatically submit your ULR to approximately one hundred social bookmarking sites with the URL, tags, and description with just a couple of clicks of your mouse button.

Let me share with you the pros of using the bookmarking demon software.

1) The software system is exceedingly user friendly and efficient. You are able to enjoy a deluge of targeted traffic and save yourself hours of manual work. This is an absolute blessing for beginners.

2) Bookmarking demon offers up valid backlinks as opposed to different similar software systems which puts up naught more than spam backlinks, which are canceled off of the sites eventually anyway.

3) Bookmarking demon takes adequate precautions to be sure that your account isn't banned for spamming by concealing your links whenever necessary.

4) This software can be an enormous money and time saver. The majority of SEO experts will charge you a good deal of cash to drive hits to your internet site, and if you mean to discover the tricks of the SEO trade, then you will have to invest a great amount of time.

5) You are offered a 100% refund inside 60 days, if you are not satisfied after employing this software system

Bookmarking demon is the finest automatic social booking submission system around. If you are used to being frustrated in generating traffic to your website, then I would for sure urge you to give bookmarking demon a try. Valued at $147, this power house software is a certainly a steal and is due to go up in price soon - buy it now and beat the increase!

Why Social Bookmarking is a Great Idea

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Social bookmarking sites are pretty abundant online. Some of them are extremely popular. Not only can you visit them to save bookmarks in a collection but you can share those bookmarks publicly. Those who want to make money from home can use sites like these to their advantage for several reasons including: SEO power, brand recognition, social networking, and reputation management. Not only are these sites free to use but they can bring your websites a lot of search engine traffic which could translate to sales and profit!

SEO Power

From an SEO perspective, social bookmarking sites are highly indexed in the big search engines. When you bookmark a website or blog entry, you can often insert categories, tags, and a review of a URL and search engines could apply that to real ranking results. By bookmarking sites of yours, you could help the search engine optimization of that site. When others also enjoy reading the page, they can often vote for the page as well which can further increase the search engine rankings as well.

Brand Recognition / Reputation Management

When you create a social marketing profile on many of the bookmarking sites, you can improve your brand recognition. By creating profiles for your company, your website, or your own professional name you give people something to find when they research you. When you sell something online, interested prospects will often investigate you by Googling you. By creating profiles on highly indexed profile sites, you create a 'name' for yourself so that people find these professional looking profiles when they research you. You can have 'some' control what people find when they search for you.

Social Networking

Search engines 'crawl' these sites but so do people. By participating on bookmarking sites, you can direct foot traffic to your site. By submitting great links and interacting with others, you can socialize your way to online success!

If people like your YouTube videos, you can market quite effectively on YouTube. If you have a lot of 'friends' on sites like Digg, Delicious, and StumbleUpon, your bookmarks have the potential of being seen by a large audience and being bookmarked by those 'friends'. One of the greatest things about social bookmarking and social marketing is the viral aspect of it. Not only can a little bit of effort bring you customers and referrals and search engine traffic but one small action of bookmarking a great article could have a viral effect that pays you on an ongoing basis. People could read that bookmark the day you mark it but they could also read it and act upon it a year from now as well!

How do you use Web 2.0 sites to your advantage?

Use social bookmarking as often as possible! Once you've created profiles and accounts, use them. Bookmark your great articles on article directories, bookmark blog posts, list the bookmark sites you use in your posts so people can bookmark for you! Add bookmark services to lifestreaming tools so your followers can see the sites you participate on. Bookmark your great YouTube videos by bookmarking them on sites like Delicious, Digg, FriendFeed, and others. Alternate your strategy and look at your website stats plus the search engines to see which sites are bringing you the most success!

All About Social Bookmark Submitters

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A social bookmark submitter is a routine that allows users to organize bookmarks on the Internet. This process uses metadata labels, which are a way to organize information. The use of metadata labels, or tags, helps the user better manage and sort through various web pages. Tagging or collaboratively tagging creates standards of common word usage and a better system of organization among users.

An example of a metadata could organize information regarding an animal like a lion. We could label that information using mammal, cats, mane, or roar. This sub-classification helps a web search engine further refine a user's search. This helps sort out and yield only those pages specific to the user's metadata requirement.

The classification of data used by social bookmarks is known as folksonomy. This word is derived from the combination of folk and taxonomy, the process of classification. Folksonomy refers to the process used by individual users, rather than technicians, to classify information. This system is popular with social bookmark submitters and creates a way for users on social sites to connect.

The process of social bookmarking dates back to the earlier days of the Internet's development, around 1996. Earlier services employed bookmarks available both within user groups and publicly. As other competitors entered the market, bookmark tagging became more innovative in its use of folders and graphics to organize information. Social bookmark submitters may also be susceptible to spam and security breaches. This can be solved with the use of most spam filters and security software.

With the various ways and devices that can be used to access information online, social bookmarking is creating a shared standard. This shared standard has the advantage of making web searches easier and faster. It enables users to store that information in a way that can be used by a similar user without the fuss of having to wade through unrelated content.