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Liquidity
Liquidity is the state of the market or the degree to which a definite security can be quickly bought or sold without significant losses in the price. In the banking sector, this term describes the ability of a bank to execute current payme...
InstaForex ECN trading
InstaForex is an ECN broker providing qualitative trading services on the Forex market. Cooperation with major market makers and brokers complete with large customer base provide InstaForex with high liquidity and opportunity to make fast o...
Spread size
InstaForex uses fixed spreads on all trading instruments except of Major currency pairs, during the period of low liquidity (from 23:30 to 03:00 terminal time), the spread on some Forex Majors can be increased up to 10 pips;EUR/CZK, and EUR...
Chapter 1. Introduction
Until the 1970s, the exchange rate of a particular currency was determined by the country's gold reserves. That was due to the fact that global markets were regulated by the gold standard. Each currency had its equivalent in a troy ounce. H...
Chapter 6. Buy and sell price of currency pairs and spread
Until now, talking about quotes, we have intentionally used only spot (current) Forex exchange rates to make our website easier to understand. However, a Forex quote consists of two rates (prices) - the sell rate (bid) and the buy rate (ask...
Chapter 8. Trading sessions
Despite the fact that Forex operates within 24 hours, there are certain time frames during which it can be more or less active in relation to transactions with different currencies. It can be explained by the working hours of the world’s ma...
