Forex related questions

In financial trading, the word margin is used to describe a deposit used as collateral for taking positions in the market.

Trading with margin allows traders to open positions on “credit”, thus increasing the client’s investment power.

RTFX allows clients to use 100:1 leverage (thus requiring a 1% margin requirement). See our Trading Conditions Table for more details.

As you can see in the Trading Condition Table, the Warning Threshold is set at 0.50% of your margin. For example, with a 10K deposit, you can open a 1 million position. You will be notified when your position has reduced your margin by 50% (meaning your account balance is 5K from 10k). This we call “Warning Threshold”.

Similarly, the Trading Condition Table sets the Last Threshold at 0.20%. This means that RTFX will automatically close your 1 million position once your margin has been reduced to 20%. Conversely, your 1 million position will remain open until your account balance reaches 2K from 10K. This is what we call the “Last Threshold”.

Trading hours are from Sunday evening at 23:30hrs CET until Friday evening at 22:00hrs CET.

Positions held overnight are automatically rolled over (swapped) to the next trading day. The result of carry for holding a position overnight can either increase or decrease the average price of your position, depending on 1) the currencies involved in the transaction 2) the direction of the position (long/short) 3) the interest rate differential between the currencies involved.

Yes. A market maker is a counterparty who provides prices directly to clients and is prepared to buy or sell at these rates.

The minimum transaction is € 10K for Silver accounts, € 50K for Gold and € 250K for Platinum.

DD means Dealing Desk.

A “one-cancels-the-other” order is an order stipulating that if one part of the order is executed, then the other part is automatically cancelled.

A stop order is an order to buy or sell a currency pair when its price reaches a predefined price, limiting the investor’s loss or locking one’s profit. Orders are monitored by RTFX even if the client is not connected to its trading platform.

A limit order is an order to buy or sell a currency pair at a specified price. Orders are monitored by RTFX even if the client is not connected to its trading platform.

Trading in single step-mode means that a trader can execute a trade with one click, avoiding going through the Trade Ticket’s step, thus speeding up the trading action. This mode can be set up through the platform when logged in. Under ‘Setting’ select ‘Single Step Mode’, or otherwise use ‘ALT + S’, on your keyboard.

Trading in lots mode is the same as trading with currency units, where 1 lot represents 100,000 currency units.

Order execution is guaranteed under normal market conditions but not guaranteed under hectic market conditions. Under hectic market conditions or when the order level falls within a price gap on the market opening, the order is executed at the best first quote available. Stop loss might then be executed at a level less profitable for the customer. Placing stop orders just before the publication of an important economic indicator might result in worse than expected executions.