In ForexSQ we know that probably the best and fastest way to invest in the stock market is to do it through a stockbroker. Once an account is opened, the investor finds himself in a world of multiple trading and investing opportunities. However, opening an account is perhaps the easy part. The hard work takes place before, first when you have to choose the broker, and then when you start buying and selling equities.
A stockbroker brings you multiple opportunities. You can buy or sell stocks or any kind of financial asset. Opportunities go from buying Apple stocks to shorting Ford options. Also, most stockbrokers allow you to invest in currencies, commodities, bonds, rates and more. You can be an active intra-day trader, dedicating yourself 100% to the task, or be a daily trader who programs operations once a day or a long-term investor that trades once in awhile.
You can use fundamental or technical analysis as an instrument for trading. Another possibility is to contract a service that provides you with price signals. Whatever you choose, the key is your attitude toward your trades. Is the decisive point. Being a disciplined trader is what could make the difference between success and failure, between gambling and investing.
Risk management. Brokers won’t do it for you.
The stockbroker is a company that provides you a service, executing buy and sell orders, you ideally use it to obtain a return on an investment (earn money) but you can also lose money. Risk management is crucial and is up to the investor. It becomes practically essential, particularly if you deal with leverage, an instrument that allows you to increase the potential of your gains (and also your losses). The broker sets leverage limits but is the investor who deals with it.
At some point, when a trade goes badly, you will be tempted to blame the market or the brokers. When you point your finger to others but yourself for a trade that went wrong, you are probably wrong. Usually, brokers’ trading platforms work without problems and without trying to make you lose money. But sometimes they could experience malfunctioning or strange things could happen, usually under extreme market circumstances, like in low volume hours when spreads can explode, triggering a stop loss, that is reached for only a second just before price bounces back into the opposite direction. Experience can help a lot in order to avoid these circumstances and also it would help you know when you have to make a complaint to the broker and when not to.
Risk Disclosure Analyzing your financial situation, you should decide whether you should start Forex trading or not. Rates of currencies can go down or rise higher any day, any hour, any minute so you should risk only that much which you can afford to loose.
Editors’ Picks
EUR/USD moves sideways below 1.1800 on Christmas Eve
EUR/USD struggles to find direction and trades in a narrow channel below 1.1800 after posting gains for two consecutive days. Bond and stock markets in the US will open at the usual time and close early on Christmas Eve, allowing the trading action to remain subdued.
GBP/USD keeps range around 1.3500 amid quiet markets
GBP/USD keeps its range trade intact at around 1.3500 on Wednesday. The Pound Sterling holds the upper hand over the US Dollar amid pre-Christmas light trading as traders move to the sidelines heading into the holiday season.
USD/JPY corrects further to near 155.80, gives up entire BoJ policy-led gains
USD/JPY surrenders its entire gains made on the BoJ policy announcement day, and retraces to near 155.80. Investors are in vogue over the outlook of the BoJ’s monetary tightening campaign. The Fed is expected to cut interest rates by at least 50 bps next year.
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EUR/USD Price Annual Forecast: Growth to displace central banks from the limelight in 2026 Premium
What a year! Donald Trump’s return to the United States (US) Presidency was no doubt what led financial markets throughout 2025. His not-always-unexpected or surprising decisions shaped investors’ sentiment, or better said, unprecedented uncertainty.
Gold Price Annual Forecast: 2026 could see new record-highs but a 2025-like rally is unlikely Premium
Gold hit multiple new record highs throughout 2025. Trade-war fears, geopolitical instability and monetary easing in major economies were the main drivers behind Gold’s rally.
GBP/USD Price Annual Forecast: Will 2026 be another bullish year for Pound Sterling? Premium
Having wrapped up 2025 on a positive note, the Pound Sterling (GBP) eyes another meaningful and upbeat year against the US Dollar (USD) at the start of 2026.
US Dollar Price Annual Forecast: 2026 set to be a year of transition, not capitulation Premium
The US Dollar (USD) enters the new year at a crossroads. After several years of sustained strength driven by US growth outperformance, aggressive Federal Reserve (Fed) tightening, and recurrent episodes of global risk aversion, the conditions that underpinned broad-based USD appreciation are beginning to erode, but not collapse.
Bitcoin Price Annual Forecast: BTC holds long-term bullish structure heading into 2026
Bitcoin (BTC) is wrapping up 2025 as one of its most eventful years, defined by unprecedented institutional participation, major regulatory developments, and extreme price volatility.
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