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Forex blog posts about spread are presented here. You can click the selected excerpt's title to continue reading on 'spread'.

How Can Forex Brokers Cheat You Legally?

November 2nd, 2010

There are many reports of scam brokers in the Forex industry. “Bucket-shop” companies attract customers’ funds and then simply run with them or they create unjust trading conditions, under which every trader loses money constantly. Those can be classified as true scams and are plain illegal. They …

Broker with Fixed 2-Pip Spreads on Majors

March 21st, 2010

2pipfixed is a Forex broker with a rather strange name; it has been added to my site today. It provides fixed 2-pip spreads on all major Forex currency pairs but the name choice is still not very wise as it limits the market flexibility of company, in my opinion. Nevertheless, the broker …

Displaying Variable Spread on Chart

November 10th, 2009

Enough with the conversion of the old MT4 indicators to MT5. I’ve decided to add something new today. One of my site’s visitors asked me to make some working MT5 indicator that would display the spread on the chart (which is really useful for variable spreads). I’ve created this indicator both for MetaTrader …

NordMarkets — Swedish Broker with Low Spreads

June 5th, 2008

NordMarkets is a new Swedish Forex broker that has a wide variety of trading account types — starting with mini and ending with the big institutional accounts. For the mini Forex accounts the trading conditions are not very interesting — $1,000 account minimum (deposits only via wire …

Forex Research Paper on Volatility, Spreads and Quotes Frequency

January 29th, 2008

Now you can download a new free research paper related to the Forex market from the e-books section of my site. It is “The Interaction Between the Frequency of Market Quotes, Spread and Volatility in Forex” that was published in the Applied Economics journal more than 10 years ago. This …

Marketiva Adds New Trading Instruments

November 16th, 2007

These news isn’t that new, but for Forex traders it would be interesting to know, that Marketiva broker now offers world indexes (Dow Jones, Nasdaq 100, S&P 500, DAX and FTSE 100) and precious metals (gold, silver, platinum …

Marketiva Lowers Spreads

April 19th, 2007

Marketiva has lowered its spreads for almost all Forex pairs. Now the spreads for all currency pairs traded on Marketiva are as follows (in pips):
EUR/USD — 2
USD/JPY — 3
GBP/USD — 4
USD/CHF — 4
USD/CAD — 4
AUD/USD — 4
EUR/JPY — 4
EUR/GBP — 3
EUR/CHF — 4
GBP/JPY — 8

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