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Forex Trading

Spreads / Margins

The spot foreign exchange market, at times, exhibits extreme price volatility, a condition known as a "fast market." Fast market conditions may be caused by various factors including, but not limited to, news releases such as non-farm payroll numbers, order imbalances-significantly greater orders of one type, "buys" than another type "sells."

To Access New Currency Pairs

Double click any currency pair and a drop down menu will be available, then just choose the currency pair you want displayed. Or highlight a currency pair and click the currency pair drop down above the currency pairs and choose the currency pair you want displayed. See examples below.

Selecting A New Currency Pair

New Currency Pairs Selected

We display the price spreads to the best of our knowledge. There have been rare occasions in the past where worldly events have forced as to widen spreads without sufficient warning. Review our Fast Market Policy for more information.

Rollover/Interest Policy (Premium)

In the spot forex market trades settle in two business days. If a trader sells 10,000 Euros on Tuesday, the seller must deliver 10,000 Euros on Thursday unless the position is held open and "rolled" over to the next value date. As a service to our traders, FX Solutions automatically rolls over all open positions to the next settlement date at 17:00 Eastern Time.

Rollover or "cost-of-carry" involves the applying of a daily debit or credit to a trading account based on positions held open at 17:00 Eastern Time and on the interest differential between the two currencies in the pair(s) being traded. In the majority of cases, if a trader is "short" the currency bearing the higher interest rate then their account will be debited, if they are long then their account will be credited. For example, a short USD/JPY position will incur an interest charge as one is effectively "short" US Dollars and "long" Japanese Yen. Dollar short-term interest rates are currently at 3.5% while Yen rates are around 0.5%, a negative 3% difference. This interest differential forms the basis of the daily premium debit/credit which is applied to all open trades at 17:00 Eastern Time, Monday through Friday each week.

FX Solutions operates a "3 Tier" system of daily premiums that reflect the degree of leverage chosen by the client.

Tier 1 - 50:1 or less

This set of rates is available to accounts that select leverage of 50:1 or less. The rates offered are directly based on the interest rate differentials in the interbank cash market and closely reflect the rates available to more unleveraged, institutional-type participants in that market.

Tier 2 - 100:1

This set of rates will apply to accounts that select a leverage of 100:1. The rates are based on those available in the interbank market but include an additional spread which will take into account the higher degree of leverage chosen.

Tier 3 - 200:1 or higher

This set of rates will apply to those accounts that select leverage of 200:1 or higher. Although based on the rates available in the interbank market, these rates have been adjusted to include a "cost of capital" spread. This spread is based on the institutional lending rate charged to cover the capital costs of maintaining positions on a leveraged basis. By choosing a significantly higher degree of leverage, a client is basically borrowing against the net capital of the brokerage company.

At 17:00 Eastern Time each day, funds are subtracted from or added to accounts with open positions because of this automatic roll over.

Note

On Wednesdays, the amount added or subtracted to an account as a result of rolling over a position is three times the usual amount. This "3-Day" rollover accounts for settlement of trades through the weekend period. When there are bank holidays in either settlement country the normal roll schedule does not apply.

* The "end of day" premium process commences at 17:00 Eastern Time each day and can take several minutes to complete. Trades that are open at 17:00 Eastern Time will generally receive or be charged a premium based on the change of value date. Clients seeking to place trades to earn interest should always make sure that they have sufficient equity in their account to "maintain" those trades. They should not rely on the application of the end-of-day premium to sustain their positions and FX Solutions will not be held liable for any account that receives a margin call under these circumstances.