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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Various Types Of Forex Trade Orders

By Chris Wigtune

Forex brokers provide retail investors access to the forex market through the interbank exchange allowing them to invest in a market that was once only open to banks, large hedge funds, Central banks and countries.

There are several different types of orders traders are able to place in order to execute trades into the market ranging from stop loss orders, to take profit orders, to limit orders, to buy/sell stop limit orders to trailing stops.

Limit orders are used in order to place take profit levels once a trade is opened. Limit orders are also called take profit orders because of this.

Traders use stop losses to protect their capital once a new trade is opened as well as to protect gains once a trade is in profit by moving the stop loss to lock in gains. Stop losses are a traders best friend and should always be used for each and every trade once they trade is put one.

Trailing stops are order types used by traders in order to help lock in a predetermined amount of profit as a trade moves into profit. For example if a trailing stop is 20 pips that would mean the intial stop is -20 pip. Once a trade moved 30 pips into profit the stop loss would now be 10 pips.

A buy stop limit and sell stop limit order are used by traders to buy or sell at a price that is above or below the current market price by setting a predetermined price level for the trade to trigger.

Today forex brokers are providing more choices than ever to traders and investors when it comes to the types of trade orders they offer as well as the leverage and unit sizes traders can trade with.

Today traders have more choices than ever when it comes to order types offered by forex brokers. Trades take advantage of this options to profit from the markets. - 23162

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