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Old 11-30-2008, 09:06 PM   #5 (permalink)
prolog
 
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thanks

But I don't understand this part.
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The reason you enter a contract, verses just buying gold at $820 and holding it until it goes up, is that with a contract, you don't have to put the entire $820 an ounce down. You put up what might be referred to as a deposit (a small percentage down). This allows you to take advantage of leverage, and frees up your trading cash for other investments.

how about 'contract' in the above context in forex?

I don't understand the following statement
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the value of a 1 point move is $1 per contract traded.








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the trader recommended not leveraging more than 20 to 1
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5 mini forex contracts (50,000)
I understand leverage. But what is the relationship between 20:1 leverage and 5 mini forex contracts?

what is 50,000?

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