Thursday, August 21, 2008

Forex vs. Equities : 5

Higher leverage
Forex market offers higher leverage as compared to all the major stock exchange trade markets. While the commonly available leverage from the online Forex dealers is 100:1, the leverage offered by the Equity brokers is as low as 2:1 margin. Such high leverage enables the Forex traders to trade much larger sum of currency than they have deposited. Also that depends on the types of Forex brokers one considers for trading.

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