Forex rollover or swap is the interest made or deducted from the trading balance for holding an open position overnight. What is Rollover? Forex currencies are traded in pairs, therefore every open trade involves two different currencies and, obviously, two different interest rate related to them. In case the interest rate of the currency you have bought is higher than the interest rate of the currency you have sold, you get positive rollover, meaning that you earned money from the rollover...

How to figure out possible profit or loss? Let’s start with an example: Current bid/ask for EUR/USD is 1.4616/14619. This means that you can buy 1 euro for 1.4619 or sell 1 euro for 1.4616. Based on your analysis, you decide to buy Euro (and simultaneously sell dollars) and wait out of the exchange rate to rise. You buy standard lot of 100,000 units of Euro and pay 146,190 dollars. For this trade with 2% margin (leverage 50:1) your margin deposit (down payment) is about $2,923 for this...

How can anyone with, let’s say, $200 enter the market and trade large amounts of money?  This is where your forex broker comes in because it basically loans you high amounts to trade currencies. Let’s say you give the $200 as a deposit and with leverage of 1:200, you have $40,000 at your disposal. Too good to be true? How does this whole leverage thing work? Brokers vary in the amount of leverage available for traders...

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