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What Is Your Preferred Leverage?


What leverage do you use for forex trading? Play safe or use the maximum leverage? Here’s a poll for you.

Leverage is common in forex trading. Traders can leverage tiny pips into huge profits – or huge losses. Following a post in the forex blog, I was wondering how traders split: lean for safe play or for high leverage.

As always, you’re welcome to comment and say what leverage you use and why. Here’s the poll:

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I’ll follow on this at the weekend. I’m curious to see what the reuslts are…

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1 Comment

  1. Farzy99 says:

    I am desperately looking ans to a newbie question can someone answer.
    My open balance =500
    EUR USD 1.4635/40 = 5 pip spread
    Trade buy 1 mini lot =10000

    Now,
    What is the lot size (0.1 or .01)
    What is my leverage
    What is my transaction cost
    What is margin req
    How much am I left after the first trade
    How much will be the margin call come