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Basic questions about trading conditions
Can I trade CFDs on American shares in a demo account? A demo account does not provide CFDs trading. In order to trade CFDs, you should open a live account According to the website, a 6% annual interest rate is accrued on th...
Company's license
InstaForex is a group of companies that are registered in different countries and operate under the InstaForex brand. The group includes various legal entities and authorized agents that provide services to clients in accordance with the lo...
Agreement with the company
How can I conclude a business contract with InstaForex?In accordance with the legislation of many countries, the conclusion of a contract in writing is not mandatory. Registering a trading account, you accept the Public Offer Agreement whic...
CFDs on demo account
May I use a demo account for CFDs on shares?Trading on demo accounts is similar to trading on live accounts. Thus, trading on demo accounts there are no limits to what kind of trading instrument one uses....
Triple swap
Carrying over a position from Wednesday to Thursday, a triple swap is accrued. It happens as the Forex market is the spot market. It means calculations of all the deals are made on the second working day after a trading operation was done....
Terminal time
The winter terminal time is set to UTC+2. In the summer period, clocks in the terminal are turned forward one hour to UTC+3. The terminal time is shifted twice a year due to the Europe switching to day-light saving time and vice versa, on t...
InstaForex contractors
InstaForex cooperates with many Western contractors, in particular, regulated by NFA and FSA brokers. The policy is not to give such information publicly, as it would be an advertising support for our contractors; many of them are company’s...
Account protection
Bank-level security of a trading accountAny client can protect his/her trading account against hack attacks enabling the service of SMS code. It includes the request of one-time SMS code for every withdrawal. So a trader gets 100% protectio...
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...
Account security
Such positive feature as bank-level security of a trading account was developedEvery client can protect his trading account from hack attacks by means of SMS-password service activation every time making a withdrawal. Thus, activating the S...
Providing analytics
Forex news is available on our website. Moreover, there is section containing Forex analytical reviews, you can find it on. Economic Calendar helps you to be aware of the main economic events of the world. Besides, you are able to subscribe...
Types of cent accounts
InstaForex offers clients an opportunity to trade on the Forex market using three types of accounts at once: Micro Forex, Mini Forex, Standard Forex. In order to make such a technology possible a nonstandard 10,000 lot was established, whic...
Complaints about trading platform
In accordance with paragraph 5 of the InstaForex Companies Group public offer agreement, when contentious cases occur, the Client is entitled to file a claim with the Company. Claims are accepted within two working days from the date the pr...
Cent accounts
International online broker InstaForex offers its clients the opportunity to trade on the Forex market using accounts, the currency of which is expressed in the US Cents.Cent.Standard and Cent.Eurica account types are meant for beginning tr...
Trading servers
At the moment trading system of InstaForex includes 11 trading serves, 9 are for live accounts and 2 for demo accounts. Servers in the USA:InstaForex-USA.com (choose in the list of servers, or type in InstaTrader settings - InstaForex-USA.c...
Trading server system
At present InstaForex is one of the leading brokers in the Forex market. The number of the Company’s clients exceeds 2,000,000 people around the world and the trading operations’ volume of InstaForex is enhancing every day. In this regard,...
InstaForex lot size
InstaForex provides an opportunity to trade on Forex using three types of accounts in one: Micro Forex, Mini Forex, and Standard Forex. In order to make it possible, the company came up with a non-standard 10000 lot, which at the trade of 0...
Contract specification
Contract specifications are the basic trading terms such as spread, lot size, minimal transfer amount, minimum possible change in the trade volume, initial margin, margin for locking positions, etc. for each instrument.
Pip value for currencies
The pip value can be estimated with the help of three methods. It will depend on the trading volume; the choice of calculation method will be reliant on the currency pair:1. If USD is the second currency in a currency pair (for example, EUR...
Pip value for shares
The pip value for shares is calculated by a trade volume.Therefore, the pip value in the trade of 1 lot will be equal to $1; in the trade of 10 lot 1 pip will be equal to $10, etc.It can be also calculated by using the following formula:v....
Pip value for gold
The pip value for GOLD is calculated by the trading volume.Therefore, the pip value will be equal to $1 in the trade of 1 lot; while in the trade of 10 lots 1 pip will be equal to $10, etc.* The tick size for #GOLD is 10 pips....
Currency pairs
To calculate the margin, it is necessary to know the following characteristics:* account balance and currency (1,000 USD)* leverage (1:100)* currency pair (EUR/USD)* trade size (1 lot 10,000 EUR)To assess the volume of the trade, it is nece...
Stocks
To calculate the margin for shares, you need to know the transaction size and the share price.For example, the share price totals $47 with the transaction size of 5 lots.When calculating, you should take into account that 1 lot = 100 shares...
Locked positions
The margin for locked positions is calculated as follows.We have three positions with two of them are Sell and one is Buy (all these three Buy and Sell positions are locked).To calculate the margin, you need to know the currency pair, accou...
Trade volume for currencies
To calculate the transaction size, we need to take into account the following details:- account balance 1,000 RUB;- EUR/USD currency pair;- leverage 1/100.Let us convert RUB in USD.To do this, we need to divide the account balance = 1,000 R...
Trade volume for gold
To calculate the transaction size for gold, we need to take into account the following details:To calculate the volume of the trade we will take into account the following conditions:- free margin (1,000 RUR)- leverage (1:100)Convert RUR to...
The main trading conditions of the Real Scalping contest
1. A participant receives a competitive DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 20,000.00 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders open at non-market prices are subje...
Special trading conditions for the Great Race contest
Trading conditions applied to accounts participating in Great Race 2020 are the following:1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 100,000 USD for all participants and cannot be ch...
Special trading conditions of the Lucky Trader contest
1. A contestant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 30,000.00 USD or all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancel...
Special trading conditions of the FX-1 Rally contest
1. A contestant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 40,000 USD or all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellat...
The main trading conditions of the InstaForex Sniper contest
1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 10,000 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. Orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellatio...
Special trading conditions of the InstaForex Sniper contest
1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 10,000 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. Orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellatio...
Stop out
Stop out is an order generated by the server to force close a position in a trading account when the Margin level reaches 10% or less. To become familiar with the Stop out conditions, please follow "For traders" - "Trading conditions" - Acc...
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 8. Forex market and exchange offices
Forex trading is aimed at making money on currency speculations. We have been describing the currency market above but avoided such topics as what starting capital is needed to work on Forex and what profit can be expected. In this chapter...
How to receive 55% Bonus
To get the Welcome Bonus 55%, please open the trading account of Standard type in USD, US Cent, EUR or EUR Cent currency, deposit it and fill the 55% bonus form at "For traders" - "Trading conditions" - "InstaForex bonuses" - 55% Bonus sect...
How to receive 100% Bonus
To get the 100% Welcome Bonus, please open a trading account of Standard type in USD, US Cent, EUR or EUR Cent currency, pass the account verification, deposit it and fill the 100% bonus form at "For traders" - "Trading conditions" - "Insta...
