Friday, October 16, 2009

Forex Trading Strategy: Leverage Your Capital to Multiply Profits


Many beginning traders do not fully understand the concept of leverage. This one forex trading strategy, leverage capital to multiply profits. Basically, if you have a start-up capital of $ 5000 trade and commerce in a 1:50 margin you can effectively control a capital of $ 250,000. However, a two percent move against you and your trading capital is completely wiped out. If you are a currency trader principle should not use more than 1:20 margin until you get comfortable and profitable and then and only then can try to use higher margins.

What margin of 1:20 mean? This means that with $ 5000 to control a capital of $ 100,000. Say you are trading the currency pair EUR / USD and by using our entry strategy you have decided to enter the trade on a long side. This means you are betting that the depreciation of U.S. dollars against the will of Euros.

Let's say current EUR / USD rate of 1.455. Again, if the trade is $ 5000 of capital, it is actually using 1:20 as the exchange of 100,000 U.S. dollars to Euros. If the current rate is 1.455 you will receive 100,000 / 1.455 = 68,728 Euros.

If the trade goes in the direction of his room to work in their favor and 1% in dollars means 20% increase in its start-up trading capital. Therefore, if EUR / USD rate moves from 1.455 to 1.469, you can exchange your 68,728 Euros back to $ 101,000 for a profit of $ 1,000. Since its launch commercial capital was $ 5,000, is actually a 20% increase in your account. However, if the trade goes against you and USD appreciated 1% vs. Euro your account would be reduced to $ 4000.