For beginners

How Online Trading Works?

Before we look at the world of online trading, let’s take a look at the main features of the stock market.

A share of stock is a small piece of a corporation. Shareholders are the people buying stock and investing in the future of a company for as long as they own their shares. The price of a share can change in accordance with the economic conditions, the performance of the company and investors’ actions.

Forex is the gateway in the world of foreign currency and exchange. Foreign exchange is the changing of one currency into another one process. There are many reasons for such an operation, for example, trading, commerce or simply tourism. The average volume is more than $5.1 trillion in daily forex trading, according to the report from the Bank for International Settlements.

What Stands For Forex Market?

The foreign exchange market is market to trade currencies. Currencies are significant part of everyday life to practically everyone around the globe, as you need to exchange currencies for foreign trade, business, or when traveling abroad.

This international market has an original trait, namely there is no central marketplace for foreign exchange. Currency trading is more like conducted electronically over-the-counter (OTC). In other words, all the transactions take place thorough electronic devices between traders. The market is open 24 hours a day, five and a half days a week, and currencies are traded worldwide in the major financial centers of London, New York, Tokyo, Zurich, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris and Sydney—across almost every time zone. So, when the trading day in the U.S. goes to an end, the forex market just kicks off in Tokyo and Hong Kong. That is why the forex market can be extremely active any time of the day, with price quotes changing constantly.

Choosing Broker

Brokers buy and sell stocks while committing an exchange, then charging a commission in order to do so. A broker is the company licensed to trade stocks via exchange. A broker can be either website, or it can make trades by phone or electronically.

An exchange process reminds a warehouse, where people buy and sell stocks. A person or computer must match each buy order to a sell order, and the other way around. Usually it all happens electronically.

When you buy and sell stocks online, you do that with the help of a mediator, an online broker that largely takes the place of a human broker. You still use real money, but instead of talking to someone about investments, you decide which stocks to buy and sell, and you request your trades yourself. Some online brokers suggest advice how to trade and other perks.

The next important question arises how to choose a perfect broker for you. Before you can trade stocks online, you have to decide with what an online broker to trade. Your online broker will execute your trades and store your money and stock in an account. Various brokers offer various types of services, just before deciding look though several, compare them, and then make final decision. Pay attention to the following acts before choosing a broker as well:

• The amount of investment you intend to make
• The amount of time you wish to spend on trading
• Level of knowledge and trading experience in the field
• Some additional services, opportunities you may want to get

So, in order to choose a perfect broker, you should read as much information as possible about the very broker. It is also good to compare several of them to figure out the best options and conditions suitable for you.

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