Markets
Forex
Markets Invest uses a combination of the world’s fastest tier-1 banks, non-bank market makers, and ECNs to give super-tight spreads across our range of Forex products.
Why trade Forex with Markets Invest?
Foreign Exchange trading is our specialty. We have an institutional-style trading setup, supported by 3 prime brokers and over 26 liquidity providers. This means you’ll be getting incredibly sharp pricing and excellent fills on your trades. What’s better is that you’ll be able to verify our performance with trade receipts that show the bank who filled your trade, execution speed, slippage, and more.
We do this to support you, and to demonstrate that we don’t profit from your trading losses as the majority of Forex brokers do. Our goal is to help all of our clients succeed in the markets.
What is Forex trading?
Forex trading is when you buy or sell a currency pair in order to make a profit. The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a worldwide, decentralized, over-the-counter market for the trading of currencies. It is considered the largest market in the world, with daily trading volumes exceeding 5 trillion.
This gigantic volume (which dwarfs all of the major stock exchanges) combined with 24/5 trading, ample volatility, and generous trading conditions, has made the forex market a place of risk and reward for the discerning trader.
How does FOREX trading work?
FX trading involves buying one currency pair “base currency” against another currency pair “counter currency” anticipating that one currency will rise or fall against another.
Forex trading is similar to shares trading, except you’re buying or selling one currency against another. It typically involves leverage which allows you to trade a much bigger volume by using only a limited about of capital. There are many different forex strategies used for trading Forex.
See below an example of how you could trade Forex using 1:100 leverage.
Trading Conditions
View our trading conditions across our full range of products to see how trading with Markets Invest is your next best move.
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Instrument |
EUR/USD |
AUD/USD |
GBP/USD |
USD/CAD |
USD/CHF |
USD/JPY |
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Minimum Spread
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0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
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Average Spread
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0.1 |
0.1 |
0.6 |
0.6 |
0.7 |
0.4 |
ECN Account Features
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Frequently Asked Questions
Forex is the term used to describe the ‘Foreign Exchange Market,’ which is considered the most liquid financial market in the world. Trading forex involves buying one currency by exchanging it for another currency, the price of which is determined by supply and demand. Currency products are traded as pairs in which currencies are weighted against one another. For instance, AUD/USD is the Australian dollar weighted against the US dollar. If you were to buy 1 lot of AUD/USD you would be buying 100,000 Australian dollars by delivering the equivalent (roughly 71,000 in US dollars.)
Trading a leveraged security means that you have access to far more buying power within the market, then your actual balance would allow. Accordingly, a ‘down payment’ or ‘collateral’ of sort is required in order for us to provide you the leverage you wish to trade with. This ‘collateral’ is what is referred to as margin. As such, for leverage of 1:100, 1% must be put up by the client as collateral, or 1% margin.
As a broker that runs a low risk business model, we offer a standard leverage of 1:100 and a maximum of 1:200 that can be approved pending an assessment of the riskiness of your trading style.
An ECN broker provides a market for its clients to trade. This means it streams quotes from participants of the ECN and matches orders against these. It is therefore like a virtual exchange where trades and risk are transferred among participants of the ECN rather than being internalized by the broker.
The Forex market trades almost 24 hours a day 5 days a week from Monday to Friday. The hours are 5pm ET/EDT (New York) on Sunday afternoon/evening to 4:59pm ET/EDT (New York) on Friday afternoon/evening.
Our in house experts post daily articles covering the markets.
We only charge commissions on FX and metals. Our commissions start at EUR €7 EUR per 1 lot round turn. We do not charge commissions on CFDs.
We offer the following trading platforms – MetaTrader 4, Trader Evolution and FIX API.
Markets Invest has some of the tightest Forex spreads in the world. You can find the average spreads across our range of Forex pairs here
On FX pairs, the maximum lot size per trade that can be executed is 1000 lots.