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The Falling Wedge:
The falling wedge pattern is characterized by a chart pattern which forms when the market makes lower lows and lower highs with a contracting range. When you find this pattern in a downtrend it is considered a reversal pattern as the contraction of the range indicates the downtrend is loosing steam.
The Rising Wedge:
The rising wedge pattern is characterized by a chart pattern which forms when the market makes higher highs and higher lows with a contracting range. When you find this pattern in an uptrend it is considered a reversal pattern as the contraction of the range indicates that the uptrend is loosing steam.
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Before the internet, very few individuals traded foreign exchange as they could not get access to a level of pricing that would allow them a reasonable chance to profit after transaction costs. Shortly after the internet became mainstream however several firms built online trading platforms which gave the individual trader a much higher level access to the market. The internet introduced two main features into the equation which were not present before:
1. Streaming Quotes: The Internet allowed these firms to stream quotes directly to traders and then have them execute on those quotes from their computer instead of having to deal over the phone. This automated trade processing, and therefore made it easier for firms to offer the ability to trade fx to the individuals and still be profitable.
2. Automatic Margin Calls: What is not so obvious but what was perhaps even more key is that the internet allowed an automated margin call feature to be built into the platform. This allowed firms to accept cash deposits from clients instead of having to put them through the process of signing up to trade via a credit line. As we discussed in our last lesson it is very difficult to get a credit line to trade FX and for those who do it is a lot of paperwork and hoops to jump through before they can begin trading. This would have made it impossible to offer FX trading to smaller individual traders as the cost involved in getting them set up to trade would not be worth it.
As the electronic platform allowed clients to deposit funds and then automatically cut them out of positions if they got to low on funds, this negated the need for credit lines and made the work to get an individual account open well worth it to the forex broker from a profit standpoint.
If you don't understand all the ins and outs of margin at this point don't worry as this is something that we are going to go into much more detail on in a later lesson.
For now it is simply important to understand that what these firms did was take all the traders who were not big enough by themselves to get access to good pricing and routed their order flow through one entity that was. This allowed these firms access to much tighter pricing than would otherwise have been possible which was then passed along plus a little for the brokers to the end client.
So now you can see why although the forex market has been around for a relatively long period of time, individuals have only started to trade the market over the last few years.
Anther key thing that it is important to understand here is that the
larger a firm gets in terms of trading volume, the greater access that
firm has to tighter prices and liquidity and the more likely that firm
is to be able to pass on better pricing and execution to their clients.
This video provides an introduction to electronic communications networks (ECNs), systems that allow buyers and sellers of stocks to trade directly without an intermediary.
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Most forex traders
participate in the forex market with forex brokers. There are mainly two
types of forex brokers: market makers and electronic communications
networks (ECNs). In this article we want to introduce the latter type of
brokers, the ecn forex broker.
What is an ECN forex broker?
ECN forex broker is a financial expert that provides the clients with
direct access to other forex participants in the currency market by
using electronic communications networks (ECNs). Unlike market makers,
which always trade against their clients to make profit, an ECN forex
broker only creates opportunities of trading between forex traders.
How does an ECN forex broker work?
The ECN
forex brokers provide a medium by passing on the prices for different
market participants such as banks, market makers and other traders in
the market. Then the best bid/ask quotes will be displayed on the
trading platforms based on these prices. ECN forex brokers also serve as
counterparties to forex transactions, but it is a settlement that they
operate on instead of pricing basis. While fixed spreads are offered by
some market makers, spreads of currency pairs can be very different,
determined by the trading activities of the currency pair. In active
trading periods, sometimes you cannot get ECN spread at all, especially
in those very liquid currency pairs such as the majors (EUR/USD,
GBP/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF) and some currency crosses.
Pros and cons of the ECN forex broker
The ECN forex broker has both advantages and disadvantages. The pros and cons of the ECN forex broker are as follows.
The pros of the ECN forex broker can be presented in following aspects.
Traders can usually get better bid/ask prices for they are derived from multiple sources.
At certain time traders may trade on prices with no spread or with only very little spread.
Genuine ECN forex broker will pass on the orders to a bank or other
trading participants on the opposite side of the transaction instead of
trading against the traders.
It is very likely that the prices on the ECN forex broker are more volatile.
Traders can take on the role of market traders to other traders on the ECNs since they can offer a price between bid and ask.
The cons of the ECN forex broker can be presented in following aspects.
Many ECN forex brokers do not provide integrated charting or new feeds.
Some trading platforms are not so easy for traders to use or operate.
Since there are variable spreads between the bid and the ask prices, it
may be difficult to calculate stop-loss and breakeven points in pips in
advance.
Forex traders are obligated to pay commissions for each transaction.
It is obvious that there are both pros and cons of an ECN forex broker. Traders have to take many factors into consideration when choosing a forex broker.
Learn how to sort through the chaos and confusion on the web to learn what forex brokers are best for individual currency traders.
What forex traders need to consider regarding the regulatory environment of the forex broker they trade with.
A look at the transaction costs involved in forex trading (the bid ask spread, commissions, and how trades are executed) so that FX traders can properly understand how much their currency broker is charging them.
A look at the technical and value-added features (like news, charts, ability to trade from the web, etc) that currency traders should consider when choosing what forex broker they select.
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