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Ultra-Short Strategy
It is a perfect strategy for beginners that can quickly lead them to complete collapse. The temptation of short-term fluctuations of a few pips can result in a trader catching from 1 to 5 pips. Having succeeded several times, traders earn 2...
Transaction volume
Volume of trading operation is the number of lots multiplied by the lot size.
Account history displaying
To view your trading history, right-click on the “Account History” tab and select “All history” in the drop down menu.
Conversion arbitrage
Conversion arbitrage operations are buying/selling transactions with a currency or CFD between the company and the customer, which implies making at least two opposite buy/sell trades of equal volumes.
Features of ForexCopy Trading
Yes, you can adjust the subscription parameters and choose either to copy all trades or the trades on the desired currency pairs only.
Closing trades on the contest account
All trades will be closed at market price during the weekend.
Chapter 4. Types of forex transactions
The concept of a forex exchange transaction is closely connected with financial conditions. We classify the precious metals market, the credit market, the stock market, and Forex as the financial markets where financial instruments are obje...
Leverage
Leverage is the ratio between the amount of the margin and the borrowed funds allocated for it: 1:100, 1:200, 1:500. The leverage of 1:100 means that a trader is required to have an amount in the trading acount which is 100 times less than...
Williams Alligator indicator
Williams' Alligator technical indicator is a combination of three Balance Lines (Moving Averages):The three moving averages comprise the Jaw, Teeth, and Lips of the Alligator:Jaw (blue line) – a 13-period smoothed moving average built at th...
Money Management
Money Management is a set of rules and specific techniques used for minimizing the risks and maximizing profit.The risk is a maximum amount of assets that will be lost until a decision about closing of an unprofitable position is made. Thus...
Hedging
Hedging is the parctice of protecting client's funds from unfavorable price fluctuations by opening a position in a contrary or opposing market. Hedging: ensures protection from possible losses by the time of forward deal settlement; provid...
Locking
Locking is a type of a hedging strategy aimed at minimizing risks associated with changes in markets behaviour. The difference between hedging and locking is that hedging is used for different trading instruments, while locking is used for...
Automated trading
Automated trading is the final step on the path of becoming a trader. If a trader is able not only to create his own trading strategy, but also to code it properly and make it workable, then his/her financial independence is guaranteed.What...
InstaForex affiliate programs
InstaForex affiliate program is a riskless method of making a profit with InstaForex. Forex brokers earn on spreads their clients pay to open trades. You can earn the part of the broker's profit if you become an affiliate and start attracti...
Dow Theory
The Dow theory is a theory describing the stocks prices behavior with time. The theory is based on a series of publications by Charles H. Dow (1851-1902), an American journalist, the first editor of 'The Wall Street Journal' and one of the...
Average daily trading strategy for EUR/JPY
The average daily trading strategy consists of certain steps, including analysis, setting certain targets, placing orders, and executing a deal. The main idea of such a strategy is that the trade depends on the analysis that you have carrie...
Price, trading volume and open interest
The price is not the only weighty factor to be considered while analyzing Forex market. Besides the currency exchange rate, its trading volume plays an important role, too.There is the postulate of the Dow Theory that tells that the trend m...
Short-term trading
The “secret” of this trading strategy is that the shorter the duration of your trade, the less money you will make.Think about any investment you have ever made. Did you make a killing in one day?And even if you are so lucky, how many times...
Rules on withdrawing 30% Bonus
The 30% Bonus can be withdrawn only after BUY or SELL trades are completed. The total volume of the trades must equal X*3 InstaForex lots, where 'X is the sum of received bonuses (the total amount of all bonuses including cancelled or partl...
Bonus reduction after withdrawal of funds
In case the bonus amount exceeds $2,000 and over 10% of trades are of less than 0.01 market lot (0.1 InstaForex lot, i.e. 1 pip approximately equals $0.10), the bonus can be reduced to $1,000. In case the bonus amount exceeds $10,000 and ov...
Special trading conditions for the Great Race contest
Trading conditions applied to accounts participating in Great Race 2020 are the following:1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 100,000 USD for all participants and cannot be ch...
Determining the winners of the Great Race contest
1. All trades of the contestants are automatically closed at current prices at the end of each step of the contest.2. The owners of the largest deposits are declared the winners.3. If the results of the contest show that two contestants hav...
Special trading conditions of the Lucky Trader contest
1. A contestant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 30,000.00 USD or all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancel...
Determination of the Lucky Trader winners
To determine the winners of the Lucky Trader contests, the Company uses a rating, which is calculated by summing up profits for all positive trades and subtracting losses for all negative trades. However, there is only one limitation: a con...
Special trading conditions of the FX-1 Rally contest
1. A contestant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 40,000 USD or all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellat...
Determination of the FX-1 Rally winners
1. All trades of the contestants are automatically closed at current prices within the first 10 minutes after the contest is over. The participants acknowledge that the closing prices may vary due to a several minutes difference in closing...
ForexCopy system
The ForexCopy system is a system which enables online copying of trades from a trader's account and their opening on the followers' accounts.
Application for ForexCopy Trading
All applications for copying trades can be accepted automatically or manually, it depends on preferences of a ForexCopy trader. If the application for copying has not been approved within 72 hours (3 days), then it is canceled automatically...
Execution speed in ForexCopy
The system may have up to 15 second time lag in copying. Nevertheless, the copied trades will be identical to the original ones opened on a trader's account.
Unsubscribe from ForexCopy Trading
Yes, you can cancel the subscription after you close all the trades copied from this ForexCopy trader's account. After that, go to Client Cabinet-> ForexCopy system-> My traders to unsubscribe.
Restrictions on ForexCopy Trading subscription
You can cancel the subscription of a ForexCopy follower to your account only in case the subscription has been profitable, and a follower closes all the trades copied from your account.
The main trading conditions of the InstaForex Sniper contest
1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 10,000 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. Orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellatio...
Chapter 1. Introduction
Until the 1970s, the exchange rate of a particular currency was determined by the country's gold reserves. That was due to the fact that global markets were regulated by the gold standard. Each currency had its equivalent in a troy ounce. H...
Chapter 5. Forex quotes
When we buy something in a shop, a price tag shows us the price of an item in the domestic currency. For example, we pay $12 for a book which is common practice for us.In the Forex market, we always trade one currency against another. There...
Chapter 6. Buy and sell price of currency pairs and spread
Until now, talking about quotes, we have intentionally used only spot (current) Forex exchange rates to make our website easier to understand. However, a Forex quote consists of two rates (prices) - the sell rate (bid) and the buy rate (ask...
Chapter 7. Cross currency pairs
The trading operations on Forex are carried out not only against the US dollar. We intentionally have not touched on these operations until now to make the content more intelligible. The currency rates, which do not include the US dollar, a...
Chapter 8. Trading sessions
Despite the fact that Forex operates within 24 hours, there are certain time frames during which it can be more or less active in relation to transactions with different currencies. It can be explained by the working hours of the world’s ma...
Chapter 9. Forex market and exchange offices
Forex trading is aimed at making money on currency speculations. We have been describing the currency market above but avoided such topics as what starting capital is needed to work on Forex and what profit can be expected. In this chapter...
Chapter 10. Margin trading
In the previous chapter we compared work on Forex with the opportunity to earn from the buy/sell operations at an exchange office. It is obvious that Forex has a range of advantages that allow traders to take significant profit in a short t...
Chapter 14. Calculation of profit and loss
We have thoroughly considered the basic terms used on Forex and the main principles of margin trading. It is the time to study how to calculate profit and loss of the opened trades. We know that a trader enters the international currency ma...
How to gain profits with InstaForex StartUp Bonus
You can open and close trades on Forex on your own or subscribe to copying deals of successful traders through the InstaForex ForexCopy system.Trade via browserTrade via mobile app:Android MetaTrader 4iOS MetaTrader 4Trade via PCCopy trades...
Refer Friend Bonus
Yes, you can. Kindly check the letter with the bonus account details, there is an affiliate link for inviting new clients. If your friend (attracted person) will follow your affiliate link and open the account with the StartUp bonus, you (a...
Rules of 55% Bonus withdrawal
The 55% bonus can be withdrawn only after BUY or SELL trades are completed. The total volume of the trades shall be equal to X*6 InstaForex lots, where X – the total volume of received bonuses (the total volume of all bonuses including canc...
Cancellation of 55% Bonus
The company reserves the right to cancel the 55% bonus without prior warning, so we strongly recommend refraining from use of bonus funds in developing your trading strategy. The company is not responsible for any consequences of bonus canc...
Reduction of 55% Bonus
In case the bonus amount exceeds $2,000 and over 10% of trades are of less than 0.01 market lot (0.1 InstaForex lot, i.e. 1 pip is approximately equal to $0.10), the bonus can be reduced to $1,000. In case the bonus amount is over $10,000 a...
Withdrawal of the Club Bonus
The Club Bonus can be withdrawn only after BUY or SELL trades are completed. The total volume of the trades must be equal to X*3 InstaForex lots, where X=the total volume of received bonuses. For the accounts opened in the RUR currency, the...
Withdrawal of the Coupon Bonus
The Coupon Bonus can be withdrawn only after BUY or SELL trades are completed. The total volume of the trades must be equal to X*5 InstaForex lots, where X=the total volume of received bonuses. If there are Coupon bonus and either 30% or 55...
The main trading conditions of the Real Scalping contest
1. A participant receives a competitive DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 20,000.00 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders open at non-market prices are subje...
Special trading conditions of the InstaForex Sniper contest
1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 10,000 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. Orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellatio...
Determination of the InstaForex Sniper winners
1. All trades of the contestants are automatically closed at current prices at the end of the contest.2. The owners of the largest deposits are declared the winners.3. If the results of the contest show that two contestants have deposits of...
How to activate SwapFree?
You can activate the SwapFree service in the Client Area under Account Settings > Personal Information.Please note that the trades must be closed to activate the SwapFree service....
Rebate Service
The InstaForex Rebate Service is a unique program that refunds a portion of the spread* for every transaction made, regardless of its outcome. With this service, you can receive 1.5 points from each transaction, trading in your usual mode....
