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It is an open secret that the most part of freshmen coming to the Forex lose their deposit in their first trading year. Some statistics shows that in percentage terms it is up to 95% from all beginning traders. A bunch of material on technical analysis and recommendations on preservation capital are in circulation and novices primarily focus on studying these works. Forex psychology in their education program is considered an afterthought and fades in the insignificance. In practice, having a good knowledge of Money Management, excellent trading system and serious capital, novices get to lose all their capital.
The market where spot (ie as per current rate) operations take place is called spot market. Operations of spot type are exactly those operations, which are the most popular on the Forex market. Quotes, which many people accustomed to in the window of trading terminal are called spot rate. It is accepted that settlement date for current conversion operations is the second business day after transaction is made. But it is only related to serious financial bodies. For common traders working on the Forex market via the Internet all current data is rendered in the terminal, trades are made within split seconds, therefore such criteria as settlement date cannot be accounted here. Also it is noteworthy that as compared with all other conversion operations, spot operations bear the highest risk. Forward conversion operations include forwards, futures, options and swaps. Listed instruments are also called derivatives. They were made in order to mitigate risks caused by unfavorable change of currency rate in the future.
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