Forex Trading

Also known as FX trading or currency trading, foreign exchange market refers to a decentralised, worldwide, over the counter market, where foreign currencies are exchanged at floating rates by financial institutions, companies, and individuals.

Wherever one currency is exchanged for another that is a part of the foreign exchange market and all those transactions create a total daily turnover of more than US $ 5 trillion per day in the global market, making it the largest financial market in the world. There is no central marketplace, and the market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.

For the Forex trader, the foreign exchange market is a marketplace of possibilities as due to the vast size of the market and the sheer volume of transactions. The value of the currencies change against each other almost constantly and provide numerous trading opportunities each day for traders to exploit. These factors have helped contribute to making the forex market the largest and most liquid market in the world.

Market Availability

The Forex market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. The market opens Monday morning Sydney time and runs non stop until 5p.m. Friday afternoon New York time with no session breaks or interruptions. So whenever you wish to get into or out of a trade the market is available for you to do so.

Market Liquidity

Over US $ 5 trillion average global turnover each business day of the year with most of that business occurring in a concentrated group of major currencies. This means that at any time under normal market conditions the ability to open a new trade or close an existing trade is unrivalled in financial markets

Low Cost

Ongoing costs remain low as we provide trading accounts with very tight spreads between the bid and ask prices and competitive commissions rates

Leverage

Low initial capital requirements. With the leverage available to our clients DV Markets have no deposit minimums as even small deposits allow for a position size big enough to take advantage of even the smaller moves in the Forex market.

Ease of Trading

The physical requirements to access the Forex market are well within the reach of the average person. A reasonable computer device, an internet connection, a trading account with a broker and trading software such as the MT4 trading platform is all that's required to get started. The MT4 platform is free and most traders would already have access to a computer and an internet connection so the start up costs are virtually negligible.

Buy & Sell

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1	AUD/USD is now trading at 0.9300/0.9301
2	You decided to buy 1 lot (100,000) AUD at 0.9301
3	1 hour later AUD/USD is trading at 0.9350/0.9351
4	You decided to close your position at 0.9350
5	Your profits = (0.9350-0.9301)*100,000
6	Net profits = 490 USD (profits/loss are always calculated in term currency (currency on the right)

Trading Account Types

DV Markets offers different account types for different traders, so you can better find their own trading needs.