Forex Trading with tixee™

Forex is the most liquid market open to investors, with a trading volume of over Four Trillion Dollars daily. Forex, also referred to as FX and Foreign Exchange, is an Over The Counter market (OTC) with the marketplace made up of various parties, including Investors, Brokerage houses, Banks and Hedge Funds.

Trading forex involves speculating on the movement of one currency against another with forex currencies quoted in pairs, for example, the GBPUSD (Sterling Pound against United States Dollars). The price quoted for this pair is the current exchange rate between the two currencies, for example, 1.39000. That would make one GBP worth 1.39000 USD.

Trading Currencies

The first currency in any forex pair is the Base, with the second currency in the pair referred to as the Quote. In our GBPUSD example, the Sterling Pound is the Base Currency while the United States Dollar is the Quote Currency.

Forex is a 24×5 market, with trading open twenty-four hours a day, five days a week. The market is broken down into four major sessions, Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York with three peak trading sessions, the Asian, European and North American sessions, referred to as the Tokyo, London and New York sessions., these corresponding to the overlaps between the trading hours of the four major sessions, during which daily volumes reach their peak.

What Is a Standard Lot?

For the sake of uniformity, trading in forex currencies is conducted in Lots, with One Standard Lot equivalent to 100,000 units of the Base Currency. Smaller volumes are also available such as Mini Lots, equal to 10,000 units of the Base Currency and Micro Lots, equivalent to 1,000 units of the Base Currency.

Trades in forex currencies can be opened in either direction, Long (Buy) or Short (Sell). Long trades are opened in the expectation of the exchange rate rising, while Short trades are opened in anticipation of the exchange rate falling.

Forex Leveraging with tixee

Forex trading is a leveraged investment, meaning your broker will allow you to trade a certain multiple of the funds deposited in your trading account. Tixee offers leverage of up to 1:500. That will enable you to open trading positions of 500,000 USD by depositing 1,000 USD in your account. Leverage is a way of multiplying the potential profits from successful trades. A word of warning, however. Leverage can also multiply potential losses on losing trades.

Forex currency prices can be affected by various factors such as socio-economic, changes in GDP or even climatic changes, which could affect a country’s key economic indicators.

Tixee offers a range of trading accounts suitable to traders of all experience levels. Our free demo account is also available for traders looking to perfect their trading skills and strategies in a risk-free environment.

Trade Stocks with tixee™

Stock Trading is one of the most popular investment types available to retail and institutional traders. Stock trading involves buying shares in a company with the expectation of realising a profit from a rise in the stock price or, alternatively, selling shares in a company in the hope of profiting from a fall in the price of the stock.

Shares are units of ownership in a company, with the owner of these entitled to an equivalent portion of any profit the company makes. If you own 100 shares in a company with a total of 1,000 issued shares, your holding will entitle you to 10% of the company’s profits.

Trading Stocks

While stock trading is hugely popular among investors, the high capital requirements and low leverage on offer from stockbrokers can be prohibitive to many traders. This increased capital requirement has prompted the rise in popularity of Stock CFD trading (Contracts for Difference). A Contract for Difference doesn’t involve the physical ownership of Apple Stock, for example. Stock CFDs are simply an agreement between a Buyer and a Seller to exchange the difference in the price of Apple stock at a given time.

CFDs are traded in fixed quantities with Stock CFDs made on the value of 100 shares in a particular company. Stock CFDs have significant advantages to trades, with the higher leverage on offer for these trades being one key advantage. As with any trade, leverage can magnify losses as well as profits, so please use caution when trading on leverage.

Trade on Top Companies

Take Amazon shares, for example. The price of Amazon stock is close to 3,500 USD. That’s for one share! Owning any significant volume of Amazon stock would call for extreme capital requirements. However, in the case of leveraged CFD trades, a full contract of Amazon stock would only need $700 in available capital, at the maximum tixee leverage of 1:500.

Stock prices are affected by several factors. Company earnings, for example, play a vital role in the price of the stock as well as new product launches. The roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines is an example of this, with the stock prices of pharmaceutical companies with effective vaccines showing significant gains. Apple is a prime example of this phenomenon, with stock price jumps every time the tech giant releases a new iPhone model.

MT5

Stock trading with tixee is available for a wide range of stocks, from the major Blue Chips such as Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon to more speculative Penny Stocks. Tixee traders can choose between MetaTrader 5 on desktop and mobile devices, as well as our cutting-edge Web Trader and Simple Trader platforms.

Trade Energies

Trading energies means buying and selling CFDs on commodities like crude oil and gas. Energies are cornerstones to each and every economy as they are fundamental to modern-day survival. From central heating to air conditioning and simple electrical power, these are instruments that power economies all around the world making their supply and demand both important and volatile.

Trading energies is often associated with knowledge and analysis of macroeconomic and geopolitical factors which is why they are not as mainstream as currencies. The reality is that the energies market has great potential and gathers a lot of interest. You might not find and trade Tixee oil on this website but you can rest assured you will find everything you need about oil price and what you need to do to trade it.

Trading Indices with tixee™

An Index (plural Indices) tracks the value of a particular market segment like the DAX (Deutscher Aktienindex – German stock index), for example, a blue-chip stock market index currently made up of the thirty biggest German companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. In November 2020, following the WildCard scandal, Germany’s Deutsche Börse announced they would modify the index to track the forty largest companies rather than the existing thirty. This change is expected to take place towards the end of 2021. Other examples of Indices include the U.S. Dow Jones Industrial Average or London’s FTSE 100, measuring the performance of the one hundred most significant companies on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) based on their market capitalization.

Trading Indices

Indices trading with Tixee is done via CFDs, offering investors significant advantages, such as the higher leverage on offer for CFD trades. Trading indices is seen as an effective way to hedge trading risks and comes with considerable portfolio diversification opportunities. Take the example of the FTSE 100. While not outside the realms of possibility, it is unlikely that the stocks of all the companies comprising the index would see dramatic swings in value at the same time. While some stocks may fall in value, others may well see gains, giving investors a hedge against potential losses that could arise from a single stock failing, for example.

Another benefit of trading indices comes from their ease of use and flexibility. Imagine trying to buy stocks in all the companies that make up the FTSE 100. It can be done, of course, but would require high levels of capital and the associated fees and broker commissions would be prohibitive. As Indices track particular market segments, the only way to invest in the segment is via the index.

Indices are formed from a variety of weighting methods, including

Market Capitalization
Price Weighting
Volatility Weighting
Minimum Variance Weighting

Equal Weighting
Factor Weighting
Free-float adjusted Market-Capitalization
Fundamental Factor Weighting

The FTSE 100 would be a prime example of a Market Capitalization weighted index, while the DAX would fall in the Price Weighting category.

Tixee offer traders some of the most highly traded Indices from major financial centers, including the FTSE 100, Dow Jones, DAX, Australia’s ASX and the French CAC 40. Indices are traded as CFDs on the award-winning MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 platforms.

Trade Metals

Trading metals has two use cases and applications. The first one refers to the extraction and industrial use of metals. This is a very particular process that creates the opportunity for both fundamental and technical analysis. The second use case is the one that sees gold and silver as safe-haven instruments. Safe-haven instruments are stable, trustworthy assets that do not depreciate even in times of economic crisis and uncertainty. Traders turn to metals in difficult times in order to preserve the value of their investment and hedge against the volatile nature of currencies.

Strike Tixee gold by investing in metals. Get every information you need such as gold market hours and more to make the most of your metals investment.

Trading Commodities With tixee™

Commodity trading is one of the oldest forms of trade, pre-dates the invention of currency and involves speculation on the prices of physical goods such as Corn or Cattle.

Commodities are naturally occurring products and are classed as Hard and Soft, depending on the production cycle. Hard commodities describe goods sourced by mining or drillings activities. Soft Commodities refer to products that are grown, such as Corn or reared, such as Cattle.

Types of Commodities

Based on these types, Commodities fall into
four broad categories:

Metals
Energies
Livestock and Meat
Agricultural

Commodities can be traded in either direction. Long or Buy trades where the anticipation is a rise in the value of the commodity in question and Short or Sell trades, where the expectation is to profit from a fall in the price of the commodity.

Price of Commodities : Supply & Demand

The value of any commodity is primarily a factor of the supply and demand equation. Take crude oil, for example. If the supply outweighs demand, then the price of crude oil would be expected to fall. That came to the forefront after the repeated lock-downs and severe reduction in travel caused by the COVID pandemic saw a dramatic fall in demand for crude oil, marking a significant fall in the price of the commodity.

Commodity prices can see significant fluctuations brought about by climate change and geopolitical instability. Anything that impacts the smooth flow of supply can have a detrimental effect on the price of any commodity. Severe drought, for example, can affect the price of soft commodities such as Corn or wheat, as the supply and demand balance is upset due to the reduced crop yields.

Investors view commodities as an important way to diversify their trading portfolios beyond the more traditional instruments, with commodity trading taking several forms such as Futures, Options and ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds.)