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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Forex Brokers - What Are Online Forex Brokers?

By Prema De Silva

The middle man task in forex trading is assumed by forex brokers. Our orders are place through them. You don't necessarily have to open trades by means of a forex broker though. Dealing directly with banks are an choice only the richest traders have while floor trading is the other way around brokers.

Alas, most of us aren't Billionaires and lack the skill and resilience necessary for the rigors of floor trading. These brokers get a separate currency rate from their respective banks. Money is as the broker charges their clients a higher spread on the currency pair. Their profits are derived entirely from the spread. Here is a evaluation on two of the most popular forex brokers on the internet today.

Oanda is an extremely accepted forex broker. Back then, they were one of the few that offered several base currencies to smaller traders. Oanda started out as a currency converter for large businesses such as Samsung. Oanda is the creation of Richard Olsen who founded the Olsen Group. Richard Olsen is responsible for two accepted books on forex trading. The "Forex Traders bill of rights" and "Introduction to High Frequency Trading".

They have collected a good number of awards over the years including the 2009 World finance forex award. Their have variable spreads that are competitive. They use a java based trading platform that enables customers to trade anywhere in the world with a java enabled computer and an internet connection.

FXCM is the worlds most popular online forex broker to date. They are famous for having some of the lowest spreads on the market and have been slowly marketing themselves in a number of countries. It costs a mere $25 US to open a FXCM micro account and their website caters to most of the key global languages. They are currently testing out Metatrader 4 as a platform but their bread and butter platform is the trading station II. Accounts can be had in Euro, British pound, American Dollar, Japanese Yen and the Australia dollar. - 23167

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