ForexGen

Technology has fueled the growth of global trading over the past decade, fostering dreams of a single universal marketplace. Yet, investors who have diversified their portfolios across borders and product lines might not always know how their orders are handled on a multiplicity of exchanges and market centers around the globe.

Rules and trading technologies differ significantly not only from one country to the other, but often from one exchange to the other. Rules change frequently too, as exchanges continue to evolve from members-owned monopoly utilities into competitive execution businesses.

ForexGen LLC , which provides direct access to over 50 exchanges and market centers around the world, has incorporated these various exchange rules in its SMART-routing technology to ensure that customers obtain true best execution, no matter what product they trade or where they trade it.

The business of the exchanges is in flux, due to heightened competition and the consolidation trend inherent to a utility-type sector. A number of exchanges have already demutualized and turned themselves into for-profit corporations, some of which are publicly traded. Other markets are merging to better compete in a low-margin business where innovations require substantial investments.

U.S. exchanges face important regulatory challenges as well, with the Securities and Exchange Commission mulling crucial reforms to modernize U.S. capital markets in the 21st century.

The proposed Regulation NMS would acknowledge the advance of electronic trading and likely force the remaining floor-based securities exchanges to alter their model in order to remain competitive. In anticipation of the changes, the New York Stock Exchange has already submitted a proposal for a new hybrid model.

An even bigger challenge may come from the SEC concept release on self-regulatory organizations. It questions the “advisability of implementing enhancements to the current SRO system or pursuing an alternative regulatory model,” which could lead to a single independent regulator with no business ties to the exchanges. Without a regulatory franchise, exchanges would be businesses fighting for customers.

ForexGen has followed how trading began and is still evolving on the major venues that its Universal platform accesses via broadband to trade equities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), options, futures, foreign exchange and bonds. With Universal, ForexGen provides a gateway to global markets and multiple products from a single account in a single currency.

A CFD gives you all the benefits of the underlying cash equity whilst avoiding many of the typical costs associated with dealing in the physical share.  CFD trading allows you to gain cost-effective, flexible and geared exposure to world shares and indices.  We offer very competitive financing and commission charges on equity CFDs as well as tight spreads and commission free trading on Index CFDs.

The Advantages of Trading CFDs with ForexGen Securities

• Market prices or better.
• No fixed minimum spread or invented price.
• No minimum deal size.
• No minimum deposit requirement.
• Low commission rates.
• Low financing rates.
• Low initial margins.
• Separate CFD account or one account for all financial products.
• No stamp duty.
• Instant execution and improved liquidity.
• Interest paid on your free equity balance.
• Commission-free index trading.

1] 24-hour Internet, telephone and Reuters trading
Access ForexGen, spot gold and silver prices ensuring price integrity, transparency and consistent liquidity.

2] Transparent competitive two-way pricing
We offer very competitive spreads on over 27 currency pairs, typically 1 pip spread on the major currency pairs.

3] Instantaneous auto trade executions
We are committed to ensuring you deal on the prices you see. At a glance you can see where the market can be bought and sold (under normal market conditions).

4] Low margin requirements
Access ForexGen, spot gold & silver with margin requirements starting at just 1% or leverage of 100-to-1.

5] State-of-the-art trading platforms
Free easy-to-use Windows-based click and deal mini and maxi trading platforms which are fully customisable and offer multiple stored layouts. Our platforms offer a wide variety of order types - MARKET, LIMIT, STOP and OCO. We aim to make it as easy and seamless as possible to access demonstration and live trading platforms and to open and fund your trading accounts.

6] Flexible lot sizes
You are not restricted to trading in standard lot sizes.  Take advantage of our wide range of trading sizes from 0.01 million - 100 million (equivalent to $1 / point - $10,000 / point).

7] Risk management in real time
Our platform monitors and controls risk exposure in real time. Based on your margin requirement, it calculates funds needed to retain current open positions and resources available for new positions or for adding to existing open positions.

8] Hedging capability
You have complete control over whether you close or hedge your positions to reduce risk. You can run multiple positions for each currency pair which can be individually selected for closing.

9] Earn interest on cash balances
Unlike many FX brokers ForexGen Securities pays interest on those funds not being used for margin purposes.

10] 24 hour personalised customer service
Our experienced and knowledgeable people are available 24 hours a day to answer questions and provide assistance.  Our professional dealers can be accessed at all times via live chat and telephone, and our technical and administrative support is second to none.

11] A fast and efficient back office system
When you fund your account and start trading, you receive straight-through-processing of your trades offering live position keeping, margining, statements, unrealised and realised profit & loss.

Trading Platform Features, Tools & resources to aid successful trading      

• Windows-based click and deal trading platform providing trading executions typically under a second
• Real time automated inter-bank dealing prices
• Real-time margining, position keeping and mini statements detailing unrealised & realised profit & loss summaries
• Charts and news
• Free demo 
• Market, limit, stop and OCO orders available
• Squawk box facilities - live audio rates of major currency pairs direct to your PC
• Wide range of trading tools
• Live audio rates of major currency pairs direct to your PC
• Live chat interaction with dealers
• Free real time charting package
• Real-time news & analysis of data pre and post release
• Regular economic diaries, updates and FX commentaries
• Telephone trading available

Advantages of trading margined spot and forward foreign exchange:

• Ability to trade on margin.  Access to the FX market can be made using small capital outlays by taking advantage of superior leverage
• The FX market is the largest and most liquid in the world
• 24 hour seamless trading.  The FX market is open for a continual 5 1/2 day period  allowing you to enter and exit the market at any time
• Ability to establish long (opening purchase) and short (opening sale) positions
• Superior market transparency.  There are no multiple exchange listings of the same instrument
• No standard trade sizes exist
• No delivery or contract expiry to consider

Advantages of trading FX using technical analysis

• Strong persistent trends
• No directional bias

Advantages of trading FX using fundamental analysis

• Global economic information readily available
• Considerably less complicated than stock investing
• Ability to trade on news and events

Financing your FX positions held overnight
(known as interest rollover or ‘TomNext’)
                 
Trading strategies involve the use of interest rate differentials between the currencies in a pair and those positions that are rolled over from one trading day to the next will incur financing based upon these interest rate differentials.  You pay interest on the currency that you sell and receive interest on the currency that you buy.

The interest rate applied is ‘TomNext’ which is an abbreviation for ‘Tomorrow’ or the ‘Next’ business day because the first value date is tomorrow or the next business day.  The TomNext price reflects the applicable interest rate between Tomorrow/Next and the ‘Spot value’ date.  At (22:00) 10:00pm London Time (Standard FX market Value-Date change time) each day, ForexGen settles all spot positions by closing the trade at the current market rate and re-opening it for the following day’s spot date at a rate that will reflect the interest rate differential.

Example:
You are long the GBP/USD pair.
You will receive interest on the GBP and pay interest on the USD.
If GBP has a higher interest rate than the USD, you will receive a net interest payment but if GBP has a lower interest than the USD, you will pay out a net interest payment.

We offer partners who are looking to grow their business the broadest range of equity and derivatives products, both exchange-traded and over-the-counter (OTC), adaptable partnership solutions, a quick and cost-efficient route to market and flexible commercial terms.

We offer a variety of partnership solutions tailored to your needs:

Introducing Brokers

Fund Managers

White Label/Branding

A partnership with ForexGen Securities will be of interest to you if you are:

Looking to retain customers and increase their profitability by offering additional products

Seeking to grow revenues by entering new markets and attracting new types of business

In need of a new partner who can offer more flexible, better value solutions and products

Offer your customer base a comprehensive range of equities and derivatives products:

Spot and forward FX, gold & silver

Global CFDs

UK, US, Canadian and European Equities

Foreign Exchange trading is in general the trading of many currencies of the world. It is emerging as the largest and least regulated market providing the greatest liquidity to investors.

This trading is always done in pairs – Currency Pairs, one currency is bought and the other is sold. Together, they make up what is known as the "exchange rate".

For example, you may buy Euros with Dollars, anticipating that the Euro to increase in value relative to the Dollar. If the Euro rises relative to the Dollar, you sell the position and can earn a profit.

Most commonly traded currencies or the “majors” are:

US Dollar (USD)
Japanese Yen (JPY)
Euro (EUR)
British Pound (GBP)
Canadian Dollar (CAD)
Australian Dollar (AUD)
Swiss Franc (CHF)

Most commonly traded currency pairs are:

US Dollar and the Japanese Yen (USD/JPY)
Euro and US Dollar (EUR/USD)
US Dollar and Swiss franc (USD/CHF)
British Pound and US Dollar (GBP/USD)

While quoting currency pairs, the first currency is referred to as the base currency and the second as the counter or quote currency. The base currency is always equal to 1 monetary unit of exchange, for example, 1 Dollar, 1 Pound, 1 Euro.

Trading Forex Currency Pairs for Maximum Profit

It is also known as domestic currency or accounting currency and sometimes also referred to as the primary currency of a Forex currency pair. The price represents how much of the quote currency is needed to get one unit of the base currency.

When a currency is quoted against US Dollar, it is known as direct rate. Any currency not against the US Dollar is called a cross rate.

The quote currency is translated into a certain number of units of the base currency. This is also referred to as the foreign currency, secondary currency or counter currency. For example, if you find that a quote of USD/JPY is at 1.30, it says that for every 1 US Dollar, you get 1.30 Japanese Yen. When you quote for AUD/JPY of 67.73, it says that for every 1 Australian Dollar, you get 67.73 Japanese Yen.

Currency pairs are generally traded as 100,000 units of the base currency. For example, if you were buying EUR/USD at 0.95 you would be paying Dollars for Euros as follows:

100,000 x .95 = $95,000 for 100,000 Euros

When you find a quote going up, it means that the value of the base currency is rising or in other words, it is getting stronger. If a quote is going down, it means that the base currency is weakening.

The dominant base currencies are:

Euro - EUR/USD, EUR/GBP, EUR/CHF, EUR/JPY, EUR/CAD
British Pound - GBP/USD, GBP/CHF, GBP/JPY, GBP/CAD
US Dollar - USD/CAD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF

The currency pairs are usually traded and quoted with a ‘bid’ and ‘ask’ price. The ‘bid’ is the price at which you are willing to buy and the ‘ask’ is the price at which price you are willing to sell.

For example, if the USD/EUR currency pair is quoted as - USD/EUR = 1.5 and you purchase the pair, this means that for every 1.5 euros that you sell, you get US$1. If you sold the currency pair, you receive 1.5 euros for every US$1 you sell.

The key to successful trading lies in selecting one or two pairs of currencies that you wish to trade in as a beginner. As you gain confidence, you may wish to add more pairs in your trading portfolio. But for a new trader or investor it is always advised to have limited pair just to ensure simplicity. And that what ForexGen Promises with.

A fool-proof trading strategy can help you gain profit from day one in the Forex market. If you spend some time to study the market you will find some price patterns that recur consistently.

You can substantiate your observations with charts or graphs using a strategy builder software and then finally develop a strategy unique for your trading habits.

So developing a sound and effective trading strategy is the important foundation of the trading. You must develop working knowledge of technical analysis as well as knowledge of some of the more popular technical studies before deciding which is going to be the best strategy for you.

A trading strategy should optimize your risk with respect to the reward, or vise versa. It should have a disciplined method of limiting the risk and make the most out of favorable market moves. 

Using Technical Analysis to Build your own Forex Strategy

Technical analysis can supplement your trading strategy. Many professionals for example make use of moving averages along with other indicators. This method has an element of risk control (built-in) – where a long position will be stopped out fairly quickly in a falling market generating a stop-and-reverse signal or a sell signal in a rising market

At the initial stage you should rely on a logical system in having a view of the market. Discipline will be the keyword for establishing yourself as a successful trader. Your trading decisions should not be based on irrational emotions where you continue to experience losses with the hope of regaining the position. Your ability to limit your losses is just as important as determining the entry points.

Forex currency exchange trading is one of the fastest growing trade markets in the world. It is also the biggest with an estimated 1.8 trillion dollars being exchanged every single day.

With these stats to it's name it should come as no surprise that one of the major reasons for this exponential growth is the fact that Forex trading offers incredible earning potential.

This is also why large multi-national corporations have been investing in foreign exchange, and specifically in ForexGen, for years and more and more individuals are utilizing currency trading to supplement their incomes and some are even living purely off the profits they make.