Tuesday, April 16, 2013

STP Broker Vs Market Maker Brokers - "What brokers to avoid" - Article 3

Simple Steps to identify the best forex broker for you:


Does your broker offer a fixed spread?
Yes? Then you are trading with a market maker. There is not one market in the world where prices do not fluctuate. Based on that, how can a broker offer a fixed spread if they are not making false markets?

Avoid brokers who offer forex bonuses.
Offers of trading bonuses that seem too good to be true usually are. How can a broker take the risk of doubling a clients deposit and take the risk of losing it all in the real market? It would be financial suicide, and I’ll explain:

Trader A deposits $100 and receives a $100 bonus, if the broker is a true STP, this means that $100 of its own money is at risk!
Now imagine that the STP gets a $10 commission from the liquidity providers (based on spread) for every lot that is traded. If the client opens 1 lot with leverage of 1:500 the margin required is $200 without considering the spread costs. Now if that trade goes against the client, his order will be stopped out in a matter of seconds. Let’s do the maths...
1 lot traded for the broker = $10 profit
$100 bonus given away and lost
Equals - $90 (loss)

Now the same scenario with a market maker, the bonus is used as an incentive for you to sign up with them, remember you are playing a numbers game with the market making broker and the funds don’t actually go to the market and the broker has ZERO exposure.

Trader B deposits $100 and receives a $100 bonus, now the trades are not going to the market; it means that the broker has no risk here.
The client opens the same 1 lot order and losses it all within minutes.
The market maker also gets the entire spread as profit PLUS anything that the client losses.  Let’s do the maths...
1 lot traded for the broker = $15 profit (spread 1.5 [minimum])
$100 bonus is a virtual number and means NOTHING in this calculation
Clients’ losses equal $100
Brokers total profit = 100+15= $115

Yadix, a TRUE STP FOREX BROKER offers the most rewarding cash forex rebates for its clients.

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