Prices above are subject to our website terms and conditions Prices are indicative only. It was this break down of the Bretton Woods System that ultimately led to the mostly global acceptance of floating foreign exchange rates in 1976. This was effectively the birth� of the current foreign currency exchange market, although it did not become widely electronically traded until about the mid 1990s.
Today, things have changed drastically. Recent advancements in technology have empowered the individual investor to participate in the game, and trade with any of the various online trading platforms that exist today. The required documents, as previously shown, are withdrawal form, copy of ID/passport, copy of credit card statement, copy of utility bill.
Saxo employs a tiered margin methodology for FX Trading allowing us to offer margins as low as 1%. The tiering refers to applying different margin requirements to different exposure tiers, i.e. as low as 1% for a small exposure, but gradually rising as exposure increases.
Forex signal providers render Forex business quite a bit easy for traders, especially those who are relatively new in the business. Forex signal generation and provision can be either manual or automated and it provides entry/exit points of the trade streak for major or already chosen currency pairs. In manual signal generation system a simple trade signal is provided by the single provider. In automated signal generation system, the Forex system not only intimates and alerts the trade to either enter or exit the trade, but some times makes the deal by operating in synchronization with the trader's bank or broker.
Transactions in foreign currencies are not centralized on an exchange, unlike say the NYSE, and thus take place all over the world via telecommunications. Trade is open 24 hours a day from Sunday afternoon until Friday afternoon (00:00 GMT on Monday to 10:00 pm GMT on Friday). In almost every time zone around the world, there are dealers who will quote all major currencies. After deciding what currency the investor would like to purchase, he or she does so via one of these dealers (some of which can be found online). It is quite common practice for investors to speculate on currency prices by getting a credit line (which are available to those with capital as small as $500), and vastly increase their potential gains and losses. This is called marginal trading.
