What is Equity?

What is Equity?   What does “Equity” mean? The account equity or simply “Equity” represents the current value of your trading account. Equity is the current value of the account and fluctuates with every tick when looking at your trading platform on your screen. It is the sum of your account balance and all floating (unrealized) profits or losses […]

What is Used Margin?

What is Used Margin?   What does “Used Margin” mean? In order to understand what Used Margin is, we must first understand what Required Margin is. Whenever you open a new position, a specific amount of Required Margin is set aside. Required Margin was discussed in detail in the previous lesson, so if you don’t know what it is, […]

What is Margin?

What is Margin?   What is margin? When trading forex, you are only required to put up a small amount of capital to open and maintain a new position. This capital is known as the margin. For example, if you want to buy $100,000 worth of USD/JPY, you don’t need to put up the full amount, you only need […]

What is Unrealized P/L and Floating P/L?

What is Unrealized P/L and Floating P/L? In your trading platform, you will see something that says “Unrealized P/L” or “Floating P/L” with green or red numbers beside them. In this lesson, we explain what Unrealized P/L and Floating P/L are. When trading, there are actually two different types of “profit or loss”, also known as “P/L”. Both are […]

What is Forex?

What is forex? Quite simply, it’s the global financial market that allows one to trade currencies. If you think one currency will be stronger versus the other, and you end up correct, then you can make a profit. Once upon a time, before a global pandemic happened, people could actually get on airplanes and travel internationally. […]

How to Make Money Trading Forex

What is forex trading? The forex (also known as FX or foreign exchange) market refers to the global marketplace where banks, institutions, and individuals speculate on the exchange rate between fiat currencies. The forex market is the largest financial market in the world. How does forex trading work? As a forex trader, you are speculating on whether […]

Currency Pair

Currency Pair A currency pair is a price quote of the exchange rate for two different currencies traded in the foreign exchange market. Forex trading is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling another. When you trade in the forex market, you buy or sell in currency pairs. Each currency in the pair is listed as a three-letter code. The first […]

Binary Options

Binary Options A binary option is a type of options contract in which the payout will depend entirely on the outcome of a “Yes or No?” or “True or False” proposition. Don’t be intimidated! Its name may sound complicated, but binary options are arguably a simpler way to trade than traditional options or currencies. Just like traditional […]

Pip in Forex

Pip A pip is the smallest value change in a currency pair’s exchange rate. In forex trading, since currency prices typically move in tiny increments, they are quoted in a standardized unit called pips. One hundred pips is a “big figure”. Pips are (usually) the smallest amount by which a currency quote can change. When trading currencies, pips […]

Lot in Forex

What is a Lot in Forex? Forex is commonly traded in specific amounts called lots, or basically the number of currency units you will buy or sell. A “lot” is a unit measuring a transaction amount. When you place orders on your trading platform, orders are placed in sizes quoted in lots. It’s like an egg carton (or egg box in British English). […]