Broker
The company that gives you a trading account and platform, and carries out your orders.
Brokers earn from spreads, commissions and swaps. Contract sizes, maximum leverage and margin call and stop-out levels differ between brokers. Check who regulates your broker and read the specification of each market before you trade.
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- Why most retail traders lose money
- Free signal channels: what they don't show you
- Leverage in plain words
- What moves the price of gold
- 5 gold trading mistakes that drain accounts
- When gold moves: the trading sessions
- The 1% rule: how much to risk per trade
- Stop-loss: the order that keeps you in the game
- How to calculate your lot size
- Investing, trading and gambling: what is the difference?
- Index funds and ETFs: what you actually own
- Fees: the silent cost that compounds against you
- Investor behaviour: buying high, selling low, and how to stop
- Crypto futures and leverage: how liquidation works