Yearly Archives: 2023

Margin is the minimum fund you need in your brokerage account to make trades. Your broker uses margin to guarantee your ability to open new positions and maintain them. Buying on margin occurs when you borrow from your broker to trade securities. This is done by making an initial deposit payment to the broker to […]

In the financial markets, oftentimes the actual value of a security or an asset cannot be traded as a single unit. To tackle this, the term “lot” is used to represent a standardised number of units of an asset, with 1 lot typically representing the minimum number of units an investor can purchase. In forex […]

A limit order is a trade order in which the trader specifies a certain price for buying or selling a security to their brokerage rather than accepting the current market price. Limit orders allow the investor to capture prices at specific, desired levels. Start Trading with Vantage Access markets including forex, commodities, indices, shares/stocks and […]

Leverage allows you to open a bigger position using a fraction of your capital while borrowing the rest from the broker. Leverage is typically based on the broker’s margin requirement and is often represented as a ratio. While leverage allows you to trade a larger position with a smaller capital, it can be a double […]

Key interest rate is a specific interest rate on a government bond, which is used to define a yield curve. Changes in the key rate can have broad implications on other interest rates in the economy. Start Trading with Vantage Access markets including forex, commodities, indices, shares/stocks and more, at low cost. Start trading CFD […]

JPY is the official currency of Japan, represented by the symbol “¥”. It is one of the most traded currencies in the world and is used as a reserve currency by several countries. Start Trading with Vantage Access markets including forex, commodities, indices, shares/stocks and more, at low cost. Start trading CFD stocks by opening […]