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What is FxPro Quant

Risk Warning: Contracts for Difference (‘CFDs’) are complex financial products that are traded on margin. Trading CFDs carries a high level of risk since leverage can work both to your advantage and disadvantage. As a result, CFDs may not be suitable for all investors because you may lose all your invested capital. You should not risk more than you are prepared to lose. Before deciding to trade, you need to ensure that you understand the risks involved taking into account your investment objectives and level of experience. Past performance of CFDs is not a reliable indicator of future results. Most CFDs have no set maturity date. Hence, a CFD position matures on the date you choose to close an existing open position. Seek independent advice, if necessary. Please read FxPro’s full ‘Risk Disclosure Statement’.

FxPro UK Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (registration no. 509956). FxPro Financial Services Limited is authorised and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (licence no. 078/07) and authorised by the Financial Services Board ('FSB') (authorisation no. 45052). With regards to the FSB authorisation, FxPro provides execution services amd enters into principal to principal transactions with its clients on FxPro's prices; these transactions are not traded on an exchange. In addition, Contract for Differences (CFDs) with FxPro are not regulated by the FAIS Act and intermediary services are not provided.

What isFxPro Quant

FxPro Quant is a revolution in algorithmic trading. A visual strategy builder that allows you to programme your own trading algos for MT4 and cTrader. Now you can create EAs and cBots that trade according to your own rules.

FX & CFD PLATFORMS

The world is yours. Over $5.3 trillion USD changes hands on the forex market every day. There are opportunities everywhere, and QuestradeFX, FX PRO and Questrade MetaTrader 4 are your gateway.

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Questrade MetaTrader 4

The bar has officially been raised. Equipped with real-time data and technical analysis tools, the Questrade MetaTrader (MT4) has everything you need to trade FX and CFDs.

Quick trade setup: monitor rates and trade from the charts with one-click dealing
Manage your risk: full hedging capabilities that allow both long and short positions in the same currency pair
Micro lot trading: beginner trader? Perfect. Experience live trading with smaller currency lot sizes and lower margin requirements
Advanced risk management tools: control your risk with trailing stops and auto-liquidation rules for insufficient margin
Smarter trading: EA-optimized environment available for trader-customized or off-the-shelf and automated strategies
Mobile trading: iPhone and Android mobile apps are available

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Download:Live version Demo version

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QuestradeFX

Intuitive and powerful, the QuestradeFX platform gives FX and CFD traders an inside track on currencies, commodities and global indices.

With QuestradeFX watchlist feature, you can create your own custom list to focus on the products that interest you the most
Choose between “Instant” and “Market” execution modes to best suit your trading strategy
Take advantage of micro lot trading. Experience live trading with smaller lot sizes and lower margin requirements
Use enhanced market data to stay on top of market developments from a single screen with our integrated economy calendar
The convenient tree structure allows you to view products by type

FREE TRIAL

Access:Live version Demo version

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QuestradeFX PRO

Take FX and CFD trading to the next level. This desktop platform offers even more for new and experienced FX and CFD traders:

Act on live market opportunities with near instantaneous execution
Customize your platform to suit your trading style and set your charting to the markets that interest you
Beginner trader? Perfect. Experience live trading with smaller currency lot sizes and lower margin requirements with micro lots
Access over 70 technical indicators including Ichimoku and Fibonacci extensions and projections
Experience improved chart-based trading, with streamlined order entry and positions management features

Broker Guide To Forex.com: Trading Using FOREXTrader Pro

Forex.com's primary trading platform is FOREXTrader Pro, which is a fully customizable trading platform available via the web, download and all major mobile operating systems. In this tutorial, the web version of the software will be demonstrated, since it's compatible with PCs, Macs and mobile browsers of all types that have access to the Internet. The first step is logging into the platform via Forex.com by clicking on the "Login" button in the upper right corner of the homepage. After logging in, the homepage will appear showing a number of different features and options needed to trade forex.

Homepage shwoing different features and options.

Figure 2: Homepage showing different features and options.

Features and options from left to right in a clockwise manner include:

Trading Panel - The trading panel provides the primary way to buy or sell currency pairs with 16 currencies showing by default. Additional currency pairs can be added by right clicking on the gray background and checking the desired currency pairs.
Forex Charts - The forex charting panel provides charts and technical indicators for any currency pair and time period. Various technical indicators and drawing tools are also available on the left side of the charting panel.
News Tools - The news panel provides the latest news from the Dow Jones Newswire, Forex Insider's news feed and a full economic calendar that includes macroeconomic events with consensus forecasts to determine the significance of readings.
Market - The markets panel provides current market prices for major currency pairs, customizable watch lists and prices for other popular markets. The watch list in particular provides a great way to track desired currency pairs.
Trading Ideas - The trading ideas panel includes chart patterns identified by Autochartist at various stages of development, including emerging ideas and completed ideas. Clicking on any of these options will bring up a window with additional information about the chart pattern, including confidence levels and price levels.

Main Menu and Shortcut BarThe top of the homepage includes a series of dropdown menus, including File, Edit, Order, Research, Reports, Tools, Window and Help. Traders should browse through these major options and only the most important options will be discussed here:

Order Entry - The Order menu dropdown has an option called Enter Order that enables traders to manually enter an order without using the other homepage tools.
Pivot Points - The Research menu dropdown has a number of different options, including pivot points, which provides daily price levels to watch.
P&L Reports - The Reports menu dropdown has several options, including the Realized P&L option that will show profits and losses over a set period of time.
Account Funding - The Tools menu dropdown has many options, including the Fund Your Account option that provides a way to add funds to the account.
Windows - The Windows menu dropdown lets traders customize what windows are displayed or hidden on the homepage interface.
Find Help - The Help menu includes many options for traders seeking assistance, with the Live Chat being the easiest way to get questions answered.

The Shortcuts Bar includes a number of other tools designed to provide quick access to important features and options. Some of the important buttons include:

Plus Icon - The "+" button is a quick and easy way to enter orders using the same screen as the Order Entry option in the menu above.
Calculator Icon - Provides a pip calculator to determine pip value, required margin, bid rates, trade size and leverage.
Report Icon - Provides a quick summary of the account's value, including realized P&L, interest, deposits, fees rollover and balances.
Dollar Icon - Provides a quick way to fund the account, including ways to either add funds or withdraw funds.

Placing a TradeTraders can place trades using the trading panel at the top of the screen, which shows 16 popular currency pairs by default. Simply select the number of lots desired, or specify an exact number of contracts, and then click either buy or sell to place the trade. Right clicking on the background yields additional currency pairs that can be added to the window.

Once the trade is placed, a pop-up will appear showing the transaction details, and the trade will be logged in the Open Positions window at the bottom right of the screen. The trade can be closed by initiating an offsetting order on the Trading Panel or by right clicking on the position in the Open Positions box and selecting Manage, and then Liquidate Current Position.

Using Charting ToolsFOREXTrader Pro features numerous charting features, including popular technical indicators and drawing tools. Charts can be found in the middle right side of the screen and can be created for any currency pair and timeframe desired using the dropdown menus at the top of the chart. Technical studies and drawing tools are also available on the left side of the chart, while trades can be placed by clicking on the Sell and Buy buttons on the top right of the chart window.

The first icon on the left side will display a dropdown menu with various technical studies that can be applied to the chart, including everything from Bollinger Bands® to moving averages and linear regressions. The next icon below that provides a number of different drawing tools, including Fibonacci studies and Gann Fans, among other things.

Just to the left of the charting tools, traders can access Autochartist trading ideas that are sorted into completed, emerging, trade ideas and technical analysis categories. Traders can click on these ideas to view various potential chart patterns with confidence ratings and forecasted price movements and recommended stop loss points to assist with trading.

Research and Reporting ToolsFOREXTrader Pro offers access to a wide range of fundamental research tools, including an economic calendar, Dow Jones Newswire and Forex Insider. These tools can be found on the bottom left portion of the screen. Clicking on a news story or event will bring up additional information in greater detail for review.

Reports can also be generated to show account value, transaction history, open positions, order history, rollover history and realized profit/loss information. To access this information, simply click on the "reports" link on the top menu bar and select the desired report. Reports can also be exported in many cases to Excel or PDF formats for easier viewing.

Strategy CenterThere are several additional features that are available only on the downloadable Microsoft Windows version of FOREXTrader Pro. Perhaps most important is the Strategy Center, which enables forex traders to create customized trading strategies using a combination of logic rules, technical indicators and various levels where predefined actions should happen. Trading strategies can then be applied to different currencies in order to generate buy and sell signals.

Unlike many other custom strategy solutions, the strategy center uses drag-and-drop wizards to avoid writing any lines of code. Forex traders can therefore avoid having to learn an entire programming language, like MetaTrader's MQL in order to create custom strategies. However, MQL and other programmable languages can be more powerful in some ways.

Some popular predefined strategies include:

MACD Momentum System - A system that takes advantage of trend-following and momentum indicators in order to determine secular trends. The MACD measures the convergence and divergence of various moving averages providing this insight.
Bollinger Band System - A system that uses closing price, exponential moving averages and two standard deviations to create so-called Bollinger Bands to define the upper and lower trading limits over the near-term and long-term.
EMA Crosses MA System - A system that takes advantage of two different types of moving averages, including exponential moving averages and simple moving averages, in order to predict short-term and long-term trends.

The Pros & Cons Of A Forex Trading Career

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Low Costs: Forex trading can have very low costs (brokerage and commissions). There are no commissions in a real sense – most forex brokers make profits from the spreads between forex currencies. Hence, one does not have to worry about including separate brokerage charges, eliminating an overhead. Compare that to equity or other securities trading where the brokerage structure varies widely and a trader must take such fees into account. (See related:Forex Broker Guide.)
Suits Varying Trading Styles: The forex markets run all day, enabling trades at one’s convenience, which is very advantageous to short-term traders who tend to take positions over short durations (say a few minutes to a few hours). Few traders makes trades during complete off-hours. For example, Australia’s daytime is the nighttime for the East Coast of the US. A US-based trader may trade AUD during US business hours, as little development is expected and prices are in stable range during such off-hours for AUD. Such traders adopt high-volume, low-profit trading strategies, as they have little profit margins due to a lack of developments specific to forex markets. Instead, they attempt to make profits on relatively stable lowvolatility duration and compensate with high volume trades. Traders can also take long-term positions, which can last from days to several weeks; forex trading is very accommodating in this way. (See related: How To Become A Successful Forex Trader.)
Offers Very High Liquidity: Compared with any other financial markets, the forex market has the largest number of market participants. This provides highest level of liquidity, which means even large orders of currency trades are easily filled efficiently without any large price deviations. This eliminates the possibility of price manipulation and price anomalies, thereby enabling tighter spreads that lead to more efficient pricing. One need not worry about the high volatility during opening and closing hours, or stagnant price ranges during the afternoons, which are trademarks of equity markets. Unless major events are expected, one can observe similar price patterns (of high, mid or low volatility) throughout the non-stop trading.
No Central Exchange: Being an over-the-counter market operating across the globe, there is no central exchange or regulator for the forex market. Various countries’ central banksoccasionally interfere as needed, but these are rare events, occurring under extreme conditions. Most such developments are already perceived and priced into the market. Such a decentralized and deregulated market helps avoid any sudden surprises. Compare that to equity markets, where a company can suddenly declare a dividend or report huge losses, leading to huge price changes. In addition, the chances of insider trading are almost nil (especially on major currency pairs), as there are no insiders in the forex market, which is dependent on global factors and perceived developments.

Such deregulation also helps keep costs low. Orders are directly placed with the broker who executes it on their own. Another advantage of deregulated markets is the ability to take short positions, something that is banned for a few security classes in other markets.

Volatility Is a Trader’s Friend: The major currencies frequently display high price swings. If trades are placed wisely, high volatility assists in enormous profit making opportunities.
Variety Of Pairs To Trade: There are 28 major currency pairs involving eight major currencies. Criteria for choosing a pair can be convenient timing, volatility patterns, or economic developments. A forex trader who loves volatility can easily switch from one currency pair to the other. (See related: Top 8 Most Tradable Currencies.)
Low Capital Requirements: Due to tight spreads in terms of pips, one can easily start forex trading with a small amount of initial capital. Without more capital, it may not be possible to trade in other markets (like equity, futures or options). Availability of margin trading with highleverage factor (up to 50-to-1) comes as the icing on the cake for forex trades. While trading on such high margins comes with its own risks, it also makes it easier to get better profit potential with limited capital.
Ease: There are hundreds of forex technical indicators to draw on for short-term trades, and several fundamental analysis theories and tools for long-term forex trading, creating enormous choice for traders with varying levels of experiences to make a swift entry into forex trading.

In essence, there are lots of advantages to forex trading as a career, but there are disadvantages as well.

Cons

Lack of Transparency: Due to the deregulated nature of the forex market dominated by brokers, one actually trades against professionals. Being broker-driven means that the forex market may not be fully transparent. A trader may not have any control on how his trade order gets fulfilled, may not get the best price, or may get limited views on trading quotes as provided only by his selected broker. A simple solution is to deal only with regulated brokers who fall within purview of broker regulators. The market may not be under the control of the regulators, but the activities of brokers are.
Complex Price Determination Process: Forex rates are influenced by multiple factors, primarily global politics or economics that can be difficult to analyze information and draw reliable conclusions to trade on. Most forex trading happens on technical indicators, which is the primary reason for the high volatility in forex markets. Getting the technicals wrong will result in a loss. (See related: Forex Technical Analysis.)
High Risk, High Leverage: Forex trading is available on high leverage, meaning one can get profit/loss exposure multiple times of the trading capital. Forex markets allow leverage of 50:1, so one needs to have only $1 to take a forex position worth $50. While a trader can benefit from leverage, a loss is magnified. Forex trading can easily turn into a loss-making nightmare, unless one has a robust knowledge of leverage, an efficient capital allocation scheme, and strong control over emotions (e.g., the willingness to cut losses short).
Self- Directed Learning: In the stock market, a trader can seek professional assistance fromportfolio managers, trade advisors, and relationship managers. Forex traders are completely on their own with little or no assistance. Disciplined and continuous self-directed learning is a must throughout the trading career. Most beginners quit during the initial phase, primarily because of losses suffered due to limited forex trading knowledge and improper trading.
High Volatility: With no control over macro-economic and geopolitical developments, one can easily suffer huge losses in the highly volatile forex market. If things go wrong with a particular stock, shareholders can put pressure on management to initiate required changes, and they can alternatively approach regulators. Forex traders have nowhere to go. When Iceland went bankrupt, forex traders holding Icelandic krona could only watch. The alleged scams involving the Iraqi dinar exist because there is no authority to control its valuations. (Related: Is Iraqi Dinar a Wise Investment?) The 24/7 markets make it difficult to regularly monitor prices and volatility. The best approach is to keep strict stop losses for all forex trades and trade systematically through a well-planned approach.

The Bottom Line

Often perceived as easy moneymaking career, forex trading is actually quite difficult, though highly engaging. Perseverance, continuous learning, efficient capital management techniques, the ability to take risks, and a robust trading plan are needed to be a successful forex trader.

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Pro Accounts
In addition to offering standard accounts that fit all traders, we are aware that many Forex traders need specialized treatment. Thus Pro accounts offer those operating in Forex more often. You can easily start operating in our Pro accounts with a minimum deposit of $ 2,000, which gives you immediate access to the best spreads and lower commissions.

Holders of our Pro accounts take precedence when we present new products and reduce costs, while continuing to benefit from the variety of products standard accounts, including all pairs of Forex and CFD instruments. Additional features of the Pro accounts are:

Spreads from 0.2 pips in EURUSD and other major pairs
Commission on both sides of 3 USD per standard lot
Leverage up to 500: 1
Spreads on gold from 20 cents
Customer service 24 hours
Analysis newspaper and free market from the Corner Trader (Trader's Corner)