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XTB Limited — Making Trading Easier

Join thousands of traders in choosing XTB as your forex broker. We are an FCA regulated forex broker based in the heart of London. We offer outstanding research and education tools for all of our clients, such as daily live webinars for both beginner and expert trader a like, and we supplement that with outstanding customer service. Combine that with a choice of trading platforms and transparent spreads, you can see why so many clients trust us with their forex trading.

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What is Forex Trading?

Forex trading, otherwise known as FX or Currency Trading, is the exchanging of one currency for another at an agreed price. In each forex trade there is a base currency and a quote currency. For example, in the popular currency pair EUR/USD, the Euro (EUR) is the base and the US Dollar (USD) is the quote. The base currency is always at the front of a currency pair.

Continuing the EUR/USD example, in a forex trade you would speculate whether the Euro will either rise in value against the Dollar (appreciate) or fall in value against the Dollar (depreciate). What triggers this rise or fall in value can rely on a number of things, such as geopolitical or economic factors, like a country’s unemployment rate or a national bank’s interest rate decision, or technical analysis factors — which we cover in our free live webinars.

At XTB Limited, we let you trade forex via Contract for Difference (CFD) trading.

How can I trade Forex CFDs?

CFDs provide you with a fast and flexible way to start trading forex. A trade is opened when the client either ‘buys’ or ‘sells’ one or several contracts, and the trade is closed when the opposite action is taken. The difference between the two contracts at the beginning and the end of the trade.

Using our EUR/USD example, let’s say that the currency pair is trading at 1.2000. if you think the Euro’s value will appreciate against the Dollar, you would ‘buy’ at this price and aim to close the trade later, by ‘selling’ the contracts back at a higher price.

Trading forex via CFDs has a number of distinct advantages. CFDs are designed to let you go ‘long’ or ‘short’ a market very quickly, giving you the flexibility to take advantage of any volatility in the markets. You can also trade on margin — meaning that you can open much larger positions for a relatively smaller deposit. This gives you the opportunity to trade at higher levels and earn larger profits — but this also means that, should the market move against you, losses can exceed your original deposit. That’s why it is very important to learn about forex trading and to absorb as much information as you can.

Where can I learn more about FX trading?

Make no mistake, trading currencies can be a risk if you are not properly prepared. Both new and experienced traders alike should make use of the wide range of trading tools and education content that we have to offer.

In our trading platform, you will find a number of risk management tools to help manage your trading. These include guaranteed and trailing stops, guaranteed limit orders and guaranteed order fills, meaning that you can open and close your trades at the price that you want — guaranteed. And with our no re-quote policy combined with our average execution speed of 85 milliseconds, we’ll give you peace of mind when trading.

We supplement our risk management tools with an extensive education course that is completely free to clients and non-clients. These online courses will cover everything that you need to know about forex trading, with topics covering how to use our platform, money management, market psychology and a thorough technical analysis course. This TA course isn’t like the courses offered by other forex brokers, it’s a course designed to show you real and actionable technical analysis and market geometry, to give you that trading edge.

No other forex broker offers as much education and risk management to its clients, all while being regulated by the most reputable authority of all: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). That’s why XTB is the best broker for anyone serious about their forex trading.