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Wednesday 25 May 2011

Choosing the right Forex Broker

This article aims to provide information to the most of the investors who usually trade in forex market through a forex broker. The main source of income for Forex Brokers is Forex Brokerage which is the money earned by them as commissions or fees for brokerage services they provide.

Before choosing a forex broker you must find out if the said broker is a registered one as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This helps in a protection against people who use unfair trade practices or fraud in the name of Forex Brokerage. It is important that an online forex broker needs to be associated with a financial institution like a bank, so as to provide funds for margin trading. It’s not easy to identify and choose the right Forex broker and so it’s better that you take some time and work up on the details so that you avoid any scams. It might be a good option to talk with friends and other colleagues at work about their experience with their brokers. Mouth advertising is the best in terms of trust and values, so your friends’ suggestion can lead you to take the right path and finally make a decision to hire a particular Forex Broker

When you plan to invest online while choosing one of the several online forex brokers, you can try and contact their customer support or help desk, observe how fast they respond back to you and try to solve your queries. This can be a method of measuring the quality of a forex brokerage company and the services they provide.

You may also try a demo forex account provided by a forex brokerage company and see how well it works. When you try the demo forex account make sure to know what features are provided, does it provides automatic trading facility, what do feel about the reliability of the application etc.

Last but not the least; do make sure to know about the minimum balances to be maintained in the account as well as interest payments on those. Do this to make sure your money remains in the safe hands and is insured.