Leverage Your Capital
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Ways to leverage your capital to multiply the profits
The beginner traders in the Forex Market do not understand the actual concept of leverage. If you have a capital of 10,000 USD and in case you trade on 1:50 margin, then you can only manage to control the capital upto 500,000 USD and in case 2 percent moves against you, the complete trading capital is lost. In case you are just a beginner, we suggest you not to use more than 1:20 margin unless you become very comfortable in the market and earn reasonable profit.
Investing a capital at 1:20 margin means that in case you are trading an amount of 10,000 USD, you are controlling a capital of 200,000 USD. Consider that you are trading the currency pair are GBP/USD and you decide to enter the Foreign Exchange Market for a long term. This suggests that you are trading that the value of USD will decrease against the value of GBP.
In case you are trading in EUR/USD currency pair and the rate of this currency pair is 1.455 and in case you invest a capital of 5000 USD using the same margin of 1:20 leverages. Here you are exchanging 100,000 USD to Euros. As per the Foreign Exchange Market, if the current exchange rate EUR/USD is 1.455, you might earn a profit of 68,728 EUR. (more…)