How Foreign Exchange Trading News Can Wreck Your Trades
Thursday, 27. October 2011 17:21
Forex trading reports gives some traders the information that they need to make a large amount of cash with daytrading or scalping techiques, but for others it just appears to lead to a giant wreck. The spikes that may happen in currency values around the time of forex trading reports announcements appear like they should offer great potential to earn profits so what fails? Here are 3 things that will have you encircled in a loss-making trade. check your broker’s terms and conditions if you need to trade around news announcements. Some will automatically close your currency trades on occasions of high volatility. The higher spread can be anywhere up to five times the normal spread for that currency pair.
Slippage occurs when you don’t get the price that you saw on your screen. It is commoner with some brokers than others because it depends on their business model and whether they need to cover the danger represented by your trade. Round the time of a foreign exchange trading news release it is more likely as the price can change in the split 2nd between you seeing it on screen and clicking a button.
The same applies to stop and limit orders : you are much less sure to get the price you were expecting at these times. This could mean a system that worked well on back tests has very different ends in real time.
Category:Forex | Comment (0) | Autor: Mudrica
