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Alpari (UK) Limited (“Alpari (UK)”), one of the leading global foreign exchange (“Forex”, “FX”) brokers, is introducing spread betting on the popular MetaTrader 4 platform. Additionally, in the United Kingdom, all profits from spread betting are totally tax free*. Spread betting allows people to bet on whether the price of an asset will rise or [...]

As of 26/10/2011 Deltastock substantially reduces the spreads on 8 of the most heavily traded currency pairs in the MetaTrader 4 platform. The new target spread on EUR/USD is 1 pip, down from 1.8 pips, which is a reduction of 44%. The target spreads for additional 7 currency pairs will also be reduced by as [...]

InvestTechFX 0.5 PIP was only previously offered on standard accounts beginning with 1,000 USD balances, it was an industry-first, and exclusively for the six major forex currencies pairings. Now traders who operate mini accounts starting at 100 USD and up can utilize InvestTechFX’s rank as the lowest spread out in the market and the best [...]

The general understanding of traders is that the increased spread model without a side commission is better than paying a side commission with a raw spread. From the visual perspective a trade without a side commission may look better than seeing the commission next to each trade, however traders should take into account few other [...]

Spread MetaTrader indicator — displays current spread in the main window of the chart. You can modify the font parameters, indicator’s position and the normalization of the spread value. The spread is redrawn after each tick, ensuring the most current and active spread value. This can be useful for brokers with variable spreads or with [...]

FXDD, a leading online Forex broker, announced that the firm now provides Forex trading accounts using Japanese yen as a base margin currency in addition to the U.S. dollar. FXDD expects to offer similar options in other major currencies including the Euro, British pound and others shortly, the firm said. With more than 100,000 customer [...]

All Forex quotes have two parts, the BID and the ASK. The Bid is the price at which you (as the trader) will open a sell. The Ask is the price at which you will open a buy. The difference between the bid and the ask price is known as the spread.

The current price shown on an MT4 chart is the bid price. When looking at a price bar or candle, you must add the spread to the high bid price to know what the high ask price would have been, or add the spread to the low bid price to know what the low ask [...]