Risk management
Overtrading: five signs you are trading too much
Sixty trades when the strategy produces twenty setups means $400 of surplus cost a month — before counting the negative…
Trading fees
46 articles in this section.
Regulation & markets
What documents you need to open an account, and how to pass first time
Two document types, four reasons files get rejected, and the rule that withdrawals must return by the deposit method -…
Fundamentals
Equities or forex: compare on cost and hours, not on returns
Vietnam's stock market trades 09:00-15:00 local, squarely inside working hours. Forex runs 24/5 but with a far more complicated cost…
Fundamentals
How forex and crypto differ: leverage, fees, hours and regulation
The two get lumped together because both trade around the clock with leverage. But the fee model, the volatility and…
Trading costs
What EUR/USD actually costs per lot
Standard $11 a lot, Raw $8. But the rebate can reverse the order — the right comparison is net cost…
Fundamentals
How much capital you need to start: work back from cost, not from the minimum deposit
Brokers accept $1-5. That is what the broker will take, not what is enough to trade with. The real figure…
Trading costs
The cost of trading USD/JPY, and the swap trap
USD/JPY has a cheap spread but a heavy negative swap on the short side. One lot short for 20 days…
Regulation & markets
KYC and account verification: what to prepare
Withdrawals must return by the method you deposited with, in the account holder's own name. Do KYC when you open…
Trading costs
The cheapest hours to trade: 12:00-15:00 UTC
The average XAU/USD spread during the London session is about 6 cents. The four sessions converted to UTC, and three…
Trading costs
Is a swap-free account really free?
Swap-free removes overnight financing but recovers it through a wider spread, a daily administration fee, or excluded instruments. How to…
Trading costs
Seven ways to cut your forex trading costs
Pick the right account type, trade the liquid hours, stop holding overnight without reason, collect a rebate — seven measures…
Trading costs
Fixed spreads versus floating spreads
A fixed spread costs more in ordinary hours but does not blow out around news; a floating one is cheaper…
Fundamentals
Forex for beginners: the complete guide, in the order worth learning it
Start with cost and position size rather than indicators. Most accounts are not lost by guessing direction wrong but by…
Trading costs
Why almost every spread comparison is wrong
Six reasons a spread comparison reaches the wrong conclusion, and the four-step comparison that works. The most commonly omitted variable…
Trading costs
Account base currency and the VND conversion nobody prices
Your account is in dollars and you fund in dong. The margin on those two conversions appears in no fee…
Trading costs
Vantage deposits and withdrawals: the same-name rule and the 50 USD minimum
Vantage states the rule other brokers let you discover the hard way: funds must be in the same account holder's…
Trading costs
XM deposits and withdrawals: My Wallet, the 2–5 day window and real costs
At XM your money sits in two places, not one — and that is behind almost every 'where are my…
Trading costs
Exness deposits and withdrawals: channels, timing and the real cost
Automatic 24/7 withdrawal solves only one of three legs. The other two are where your money actually leaks.
Regulation & markets
Vantage review 2026: is Vantage regulated?
Vantage holds five licences across five jurisdictions, but only one entity actually serves you. Which one it is decides how…
Risk management
Hedging in forex: when it helps and when it costs
In most cases, hedging a retail account is a stop loss with a fee attached: the same financial result, plus…
Fundamentals
Choosing a timeframe that fits your schedule
A scalper optimises spread; a swing trader optimises swap. Two different problems. Pick the timeframe your calendar actually allows, not…
Trading costs
How to cost a forex trade in full
Spread plus commission plus swap, minus the rebate. A worked example on 2 lots of EUR/USD held overnight: $30 gross,…
Trading costs
Six hidden costs in forex trading
Swap, slippage, currency conversion, inactivity fees and out-of-hours spread widening — six charges that never appear on the fee schedule…
Trading costs
IC Markets rebate: four ways it differs from the rest
The rebate goes to an intermediary wallet rather than the trading account, account types differ sharply, and crypto is counted…
Market analysis
EUR/USD: what it is like and when it works best
The tightest spread, a moderate range and more written about it than anything else - and its best hours fall…
Trading costs
Forex trading costs: the complete guide, charge by charge
Spread, commission, swap, slippage, conversion - every component of cost, in the order it arises over the life of a…
Regulation & markets
Choosing a forex broker: the complete guide in five steps
Licence, net cost, account type, a head-to-head, then fund it. Five checks in the order they should be done, each…
Trading costs
What a forex rebate is, and how it works
A forex rebate returns part of the IB commission based on traded volume, not on profit or loss. It reduces…
Trading costs
Deposit and withdrawal costs, and how to cut them
The exchange spread on converting local currency to dollars is typically 0.5-1.5% each way - far more than the fees…
Trading costs
Which broker has the lowest spread? The question is always missing half the sum
The tightest spread usually comes with the highest commission. A ranking that compares only spreads compares half the calculation -…
Trading costs
Funding a forex account from a Vietnamese bank: channels, timing and cost
Local transfer, e-wallet or international card - three channels with very different timings and costs. The most expensive item is…
Trading costs
How forex commission is actually calculated
$3 per side and $6 round turn are the same charge. The formula for total cost per lot, and why…
Trading costs
Which broker pays the highest rebate — and why not to choose on it
The top rebate by instrument across four brokers. When one broker pays more on everything, the reason is usually that…
Trading costs
Exness or XM: the figures side by side, not a ranking
XM pays more on all six products, in places three times as much. But the starting spread is 1.6 pips…
Trading costs
XM pays the rebate into My Wallet: what changes and what to watch
XM is one of the few large brokers that pays into a separate wallet rather than the trading account. One…
Trading costs
Which Exness account to choose: the five types side by side
The rebate across Exness's five account types varies almost fivefold, from $3 to $14.40 a lot. But the high rebate…
Trading costs
Is a 100% rebate real? Taking the claim apart
The claim can be technically true and still completely misleading, depending on what follows the word "of". Four questions that…
Trading costs
Seven common misconceptions about trading rebates
A rebate is a simple mechanism surrounded by confusion, most of it created by how the industry advertises it. The…
Trading costs
When rebates arrive and where: eight brokers compared
Most forex brokers pay daily, but the destination differs: the trading account, the broker's own wallet, or an intermediary wallet.…
Trading costs
Forex broker rebates compared, instrument by instrument
Four brokers' rebate rates side by side on the same instruments in the same unit, USD per lot. Gold ranges…
Trading costs
What the spread is, and how to read it on the platform
Platforms show the spread in points, not pips: a spread of 12 on EUR/USD is 1.2 pips, roughly $12 per…
Trading costs
Overnight financing (swap), and why Wednesday is charged three times
Swap comes from the interest-rate difference between the two currencies, plus the broker's own markup. Wednesday night is tripled by…
Trading costs
What one lot of gold actually costs to trade
Convert spread into money, add commission in the same units, and find out why two traders on the same instrument…
Trading costs
ECN or Standard: the calculation that decides your account type
ECN is not automatically cheaper - it only moves the cost out of the spread. How to convert both to…
Risk management
Spread widening around news: when one lot of gold costs eight times as much
Gold spreads run from 6 cents in London to over 50 cents around a data release. Entering at the wrong…
Trading costs
Forex in 2026: leverage tightening, and where the real cost sits
The move towards 1:30 leverage, cross-border geofencing making brokers responsible for the source of funds, and the bonus ban in…