Right click anywhere in the Chart window for the instrument you wish to place an alert on. Hover the mouse over the Trading button, and then select Alert in the menu that opens to the right. Once you have clicked on it, go to the ...

To add indicators to the Chart, click on Insert in the toolbar, and then click on Indicators after which you can select the indicator of your choice from the ones available or add a custom indicator. To remove an indicator from the Ch...

CFDs or Contracts for Difference are derivative products that allow you to trade underlying assets such as commodities, energies or indices which would normally be traded on the Futures market, on the Spot market. CFDs are traded in c...

Since CFD Futures are derivative contracts based on the Futures market, they carry some of the same characteristics which includes expiry or rollover dates. Each letter after the CFD symbol corresponds to a rollover or expiry month. ...

Indicators are visual software tools that allow a trader to gather more information or data about the movement of the markets and consequently make more educated trading decisions. There are hundreds of trading indicators used worldw...

Whether the market is rising or falling, you can trade currencies with XM. Since online trading is conducted Over the Counter (OTC) and not through an exchange, you can speculate on both rising and falling prices without having to ow...

Trade volume is the size of the order you are executing and can be referred to in terms of the number of standard lots or units of a standard lot. Each standard lot is equal to 100,000 of the base currency. A unit of a standard lot...

When you exchange currencies at the exchange rate, you are usually quoted two prices, the Bid and the Ask. The Ask is the price at which you buy a certain currency and what the market is willing to sell at. Consequently, the Bid is t...

Foreign exchange trading is the buying or selling of one currency in relation to another. Since all currencies are priced differently, this price difference can result in profit as the values of the currencies change. The FX market is...

Trading leveraged products means you are entering positions with much higher volumes than the amount available in your account. This offers you the unique opportunity to make more profits by investing fewer funds but you also run the ...