Available about Forex trading in Russia

© Oleg Papkov, 2023

ISBN 978-5-0053-1202-0

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Introduction

In Russia, as in other countries, there is such a profession as a trader. Who is it?

A trader is a specialist armed with knowledge and skills, and trading, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, in the currency markets (Forex), stock, futures, commodity and other markets.

The goal of the trader is to profit from the inevitable change in the rate of a particular trading instrument.

We will also consider and learn how to trade in the currency trading market. The Forex market.

Many people ask the question: is it possible to earn money through the Internet? If possible, how much per month, per day? Where and how? There are many ways. One of the earnings on the Internet is currency trading on the Forex market. The forex market is the currency trading of different countries.

This activity is allowed in Russia and, moreover, it is regulated by the laws on the stock and foreign exchange markets. Many brokers are licensed by the Central bank of the Russian Federation. From the income from the Forex market with physical persons. a person is charged the usual tax on the income of an individual.

Read what the Forex market is. Unlike the stock market, where stocks are traded, investment portfolios are collected, futures and options are traded, currency is traded on the Forex market. However, recently brokers have expanded the list of instruments on which you can trade. They included trading in oil, metals (contracts for gold, silver), commodities, some indices, and cryptocurrency. Our favorite and popular ratio of the ruble to the dollar in the Forex market is called the currency pair or currency instrument USDRUB and has a chart of the exchange rate.

Chart of the USD RUB currency pair

Forex trading is earning money with an investment. That is, you will need to make a certain capital, a certain amount, which you will then dispose of. Portions of which you will then use to earn money through the Internet on the Forex market.

Just a person from the street, meaning unprepared in any way, will not be able to trade on Forex. Rather, it can, but it will be clowning and at a loss. He will be able to trade, but without knowing the basics, studying some theory, without working out some practice, a person will not be able to successfully earn money, as experienced traders earn, almost at the click of their fingers. He needs to become a trader. That is, a person little prepared. But there is nothing to be afraid of. Many people learn to drive, but millions have long been well – versed in driving.

A Forex trader is different from a stock exchange trader.

That is, we can say with confidence that Forex trading is earning money on the Internet. Moreover, using the technique, their knowledge, listening to the advice of experienced traders, observing the trading system almost like a robot, a human trader can earn a lot of money. Incomparable with any earnings on the Internet.

Forex trading via the Internet has some advantages compared to trading, for example, on the stock exchange in stocks, futures, etc., for example, on the Moscow Stock Exchange or in general on the stock markets. What are the advantages?

There are a lot of qualified foreign exchange brokers who have been working in this market for a long time. About brokers-here. Forex is exactly currency trading. And many brokerage companies offer their services in this market.

If on the stock market and, in particular, with brokers on the Moscow Stock Exchange, the so-called” entry fee” or initial investment is a fairly large amount. Then forex brokers are very democratic. Free opening of a personal account, trading and demo account with a broker. And the beginning of trading with some brokers can start literally with$ 10 + bonuses that are offered by the brokers themselves. At the top of the site there is an advertisement of the broker Alpari, telling about the action of doubling the amount on your deposit, when replenishing the account. Click on the banner and use it.

There are brokers offering Forex trading training. I, personally, was trained by the Russian forex broker Forex Club in 2006 and I do not regret it at all. This broker has a bunch of branches all over the country, almost in every major Russian city.

After training, you will learn how to trade either manually or automatically, either according to the signals. Automatically – this is trading with Expert Advisors. There are paid or free Forex Expert Advisors that trade automatically. They are also called forex robots. You can get acquainted with my work here.

Learn how to use forex indicators. Like the standard indicators that are included with a particular trading platform, there are indicators written by third-party people for the platform.

Learn, open an account and trade.

So, what is the Forex market?

International Forex Market (Forex). What’s it? Its scope and actors

The Forex market, with a turnover of 4 trillion dollars a day, is a huge ocean. And everyone wants to take their stream away from this ocean.

Forex (Forex, sometimes FX, from the English Foreign Exchange – “foreign exchange”) – the market for interbank currency exchange at free prices (the quote is formed without restrictions or fixed values). The combination “forex market” (English: Forex market, FX-market) is often used.

In the English-speaking environment, the word “Forex” can mean not only mutual currency exchange, but also the whole set of currency transactions, as well as foreign currencies as such. In Russian, the term Forex is usually used in a narrower sense-it means exclusively speculative currency trading through commercial banks or dealing centers, which is conducted using leverage, that is, margin currency trading. At the same time, the terms “international forex ‘and’ international forex market ‘are a tautology, due to the fact that’ foreign exchange” initially implies operations with foreign currency.

Operations on the forex market for purposes can be trading, speculative.

I.e., part of the operations on the market is carried out purely for the purpose of purchasing significant amounts of a particular currency. These are purely trading operations. And hence, in particular, significant changes in the exchange rate of a currency instrument, a currency pair.

The Forex market (foreign exchange market) is an interbank market that was formed in 1971, when international trade moved from fixed to floating exchange rates. The main principle of Forex is to exchange one currency for another. At the same time, the exchange rate of one currency relative to another is determined by the supply and demand of market participants. The exchange is made according to the ratio to which both parties to the transaction agree.

Forex is not a “market” in the traditional sense of the word. It does not have a single center, it does not have a specific trading place, such as a currency futures market or a commodity exchange. Trading takes place over the phone and through computer terminals simultaneously in hundreds of banks around the world. Thanks to the emergence and development of the Internet, it became unnecessary for a private investor to resort to the services of large banks, and it became possible to conduct trading via WWW from their home or office computer.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are bought and sold every few seconds, which is the essence of so-called currency trading. The ability to generate income in the foreign exchange market is based on the simple fact that each national currency is the same commodity as wheat or sugar. And its cost is just as relative. Since the world is changing faster every year, the economic conditions of a particular country (labor productivity, inflation, unemployment, etc.) are increasingly dependent on the level of development of other countries. And this affects the value of its currency relative to other currencies and causes changes in exchange rates.

We will also consider the trade of a private trader and the speculative trading mode.

Deposit – the amount of funds on the trading account with the broker.

To successfully trade on the Forex market (Forex), you need to understand that…

Now I am likely to disappoint many beginners: 90% of traders in the Forex market, one way or another, drain their first deposit. This is because those who start trading have little idea what they are dealing with. When using a large, high leverage (you will learn later what it is), working in the Forex market can be compared to driving a Formula 1 car. As a rule, those who start, getting into a Formula 1 car, try to immediately press the gas pedal, not really understanding how to steer and what the instruments on the control panel show. Don’t feel the “dimensions”. Just like in real life.

So, let’s go. The trader works in the market through a broker.

Eg. You have chosen a broker. Registered on the broker’s website. Thus, you have created your personal account on the broker’s website. Now you need to create an invoice. (Register and create a Demo or Trading Account with a broker, for example, Alpari, RoboForex, Cerich, Forex Club.) A broker usually has the ability, in addition to several types of real trading accounts, to create and use a demo account. It is quite clear that first you need to open a demo account. This account has virtual money. But the terms of trade are as close to “combat” as possible. You can choose a large deposit. And feel, so to speak, the scale. The speed of both winning and losing. And volumes. On a demo account, you can experiment as you want. The money is virtual.

In the future, it will be clear to you that when choosing an account, you need to choose its characteristics very carefully. The account and currency pair have their own internal characteristics.

Now, of course, you need to download the trading platform from the broker’s website and install it on your computer. For example, MetaTrader 4. This is a very common and fairly simple and democratic trading platform. A brief description and basic skills of working with the platform are described in the chapter below.

When you open an account, the broker gives you the account number and password. After installing the platform and launching it, you need to connect to your chosen account in MetaTrader 4. (Enter its number and password in a special window). In our case, this is the number and password of our demo account.

Are we ready to trade? No. We still need to open the chart of the selected currency pair. In the open window of a currency pair or Forex instrument, we see a quote chart or quotes. Or, they say, the exchange rate of the currency pair. A little later, we will understand how to make deals and how to make money on it. And now a small excursion. To choose the right direction of the transaction, buy or sell, we need to analyze the movement of the exchange rate on the chart in the MetaTrader 4 platform. What should we be guided by?

You can list them. Indicators of movement. Technical and fundamental analysis of the chart. Other, similar currency pairs. To know what are the transaction, the market or pending. Know the characteristics of the transaction. What lot will the deal be opened with? You should know that the trade has two closing orders. One is for limiting losses, called a Stop Loss. And the other is for profit-taking, called Take Profit. What kind of deal to choose a stop loss. What to follow when choosing.

Transactions are also called orders in another way. There are market orders and pending orders. Market orders are executed immediately. They are executed at the current BID price-the sale price or ASK price-the purchase price, which is usually slightly higher. And sets them for you by your broker. In contrast, pending orders can be placed at any price and will be executed when the exchange rate reaches this price. Now let’s understand what we are buying or selling and what we are looking at on the trading platform.

Bid, bid – the selling price of the base currency for the quoted one. In the currency quote, it is indicated on the left.

Ask is the price at which the purchase of the base currency is made for the one quoted on Forex.

Spread – the difference between the best prices of sell and buy orders at the same time for an asset.

Let’s imagine this situation: you opened an account in rubles (RUB) with a broker, put an amount in rubles (RUB) there, and for some part of rubles (RUB) you want to buy euros (EUR) for dollars (USD) on the euro-dollar (EURUSD) pair. That is, you need to change rubles (RUB) at the USDRUB exchange rate to dollars (USD) and already buy the coveted euros (EUR) with the dollars (USD) you have earned. This is the essence of the deal. All this will be done for you by the broker on your command, that is, when you click the appropriate BUY/SELL button (BUY/SELL), indicating how much (LOT) USD.

The exchange rate is indicated on Forex by the symbol XXX/YYY, where XXX is the base currency and the quoted currency. For example, EUR / USD – euro-dollar, USD/RUB-dollar-ruble. In the first case, USD is the quoted currency, in the second case, USD is the base currency.

Let’s understand how the price of the currency exchange rate of the instrument is formed.

The Forex currency. The Bid and Ask prices

Those who trade in Forex are not alarmed by the difference in prices between the best Ask buy price and the best Bid sell price. It happens the other way around. The absence of a spread, the so-called zero spread, is alarming. Because it becomes unclear who forms this zero spread. The presence of a spread, the difference between the best buy price and the sell price – is a natural process rather than an artificial one.

And yet, many call the spread the broker’s earnings. Yes. If not from the commission, then from the spread, the broker earns on us on each of our transactions. I think that the spread exists and it is constantly changing, it is not wise to blame brokers. Let’s try to disassemble this mechanism and see what’s inside :).

Let’s go to the market and go to the stalls where they sell apples. Behind the counter, sellers – in front of the counter, buyers. And if it’s a wholesale market, it’s even more interesting.

It is clear that sellers want to sell more expensive, and buyers want to buy cheaper. So much for the price difference. So much for the spread. And all are standing. Posted their prices. Nobody buys anything.

This state can be called a little differently: everyone posted their pending orders.

But now there is a buyer who urgently needs to buy some apples on the market, namely all that the seller has, but at any nearest cheap price, i.e. 75 kg at 101 rubles. No more expensive.

I bought. The market situation has changed. The seller left satisfied with 75 kilograms for 101 rubles.

The price went up and the cheap seller left.

The best selling price has changed and increased. Now it is 101 rubles per kilogram.

That is, the activity of a market buyer who wants to urgently buy a product, buy, as they say in Forex from the market, provoked an increase in prices and a change in the spread.

Now let’s assess the situation in which the seller urgently appeared ready to sell all his goods at any nearest price that the buyer will offer.

Availability of a seller from the market

We are looking at how the market situation will change after this action.

From the market seller, prices dropped

The spread increased and the best price to buy Ask decreased and became 97 rubles.

Indication of the spread in MT4.

Here is how the price index is displayed with the help of the price glass in other platforms.

The depth of market in MetaTrader 5.

And in another platform.

It is clear, according to a slightly simplified mechanism, how the movement, the change in the exchange rate of the currency instrument occurs. How Bid, Ask and Spread prices are formed.

But let’s go back to the brokers and their demo account.

Broker – an intermediary that provides a meeting of buyers and sellers in the market. To be able to perform operations on the Forex market, you need to choose a broker that meets the necessary criteria and open a trading account with him.

Demo account – a training account with virtual money, where a novice trader can train, make transactions without the risk of losing capital.

Forex Broker

A good broker, Forex brokerage office (Forex) is 50% of success in trading on the market. Explains what to follow when choosing. Who are brokers and how to work with them?

For those in a hurry, you can take a look at —https://brokers.ru/brokers

Explanations on the regulators and types of broker work and account types are just below.

Work in the Forex market (Forex) is not directly possible, and it is useless and meaningless. You will have to work remotely via the Internet, and this is more convenient, through brokerage offices or brokers.

Forex brokers are firms that specialize in transactions in the foreign exchange market, sometimes stock, futures, etc., which, in theory, must have a Forex license for this activity, for example, from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in Russia. The presence of a license, and this can be checked in the specialized sections on the website of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, is like a “quality mark” for a brokerage office. Because in order to get a license in Russia, for example, a broker needs to fulfill a phantasmagoric number of requirements in accordance with Russian legislation. Not like over the Hill. Russian brokers licensed by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation are preferable. Finam Forex currently has such a license.

So why do we need them? But why? To work in the Forex market, first, we must have a working amount in the currency, or ruble equivalent. And this amount we will have to give to save and for our work to our chosen broker. This is, as it were, a banking structure. But its duty is to enter into a contract with us, to act on the open market, in accordance with the contract concluded with us and with our orders to open or close transactions. They do this not for free, but for a fee. Or it is income from the spread. We have already learned what this spread is. Or with a commission on each of our transactions.

As elsewhere, there are responsible brokerages whose goal is stable and leading work in the market and a stable legal income. There are also “sharashkin offices”, the so-called” kitchens”, the purpose of which is to” cut down your loot” and dissolve.

Normal brokers do not make noise, do not bother you, like gypsies sometimes. They simply exist, work, and advertise their activities in the usual way. “Kitchens”, as a rule, call on phones and brazenly impose themselves, hunting for your money.

Let’s see what a simple speculative trade looks like in the Forex market. Let’s say you opened an account with a broker, the parameters of which suit you, and deposited a certain amount to it. Now you can act with a fraction of this amount, called a Lot or lot share. For example, with Lot A, we ask the broker to open a deal to buy some currency at the price of X. Based on the subsequent price increase. And after some time, if the growth assumption was correct, you give the broker the opposite order to the previous one. About the sale of the same Lot A at price Y. Price Y is greater than price X. The sale of the Lot And you helped out a greater amount of original currency than you invested. The difference is yours.

Leverage is the ratio between the amount of collateral and the borrowed funds allocated for it by the broker. Leverage of 1: 100 means that you need to have an amount 100 times less than the amount of the transaction on your broker’s trading account in order to make a trade.

Well, if you are at least a ruble millionaire. You can invest a significant amount for the Forex market. Accordingly, you can get a significant profit on the difference. But, if you do not have a significant amount. In this case, the broker gives you the opportunity to use leverage. What is leverage? For example, a leverage of 1: 100 means that the broker increases your invested amount by 100 times. Thus, it gives you the opportunity to work on the open market for a much larger amount. For example, when buying a currency, it increased your amount 100 times. You have worked a large amount and your profit is calculated from the increased amounts. The danger is that if you choose the wrong direction of the transaction, your losses are also calculated from large amounts. Therefore, you need to be very careful in using the amount of leverage.

A demo account with a broker is a great opportunity to practice trading with virtual money. You need to start with it.

Previously, the broker was contacted by phone. Now all this happens through a trading platform (software package) on a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

The so-called brokerage “kitchens” are not set up for you to make a profit. Rather, you can say that they are determined to appropriate your deposit with various organizational and technical tricks.

For example, it is not timely to execute your order about the beginning or end of the transaction, or to execute your orders not at your ordered price. There may be input and temporary distortions of quotes.

Therefore, the conclusion suggests itself. When choosing a broker, it is necessary to check the license. In the case that no license has been to look carefully at the reviews about this broker. The essential question is how many years this broker has been working in the Forex market. Well-known, long-established brokerages are not interested in deceiving you. And they spend a lot of time maintaining their reputation.

A very important issue is the resolution of legal conflicts that may arise during trading. For example, if a broker has its head office outside the Russian Federation, the solution of many legal issues can be very complicated. On the contrary, if the broker is located within the Russian Federation, and even more so has an extensive network of offices in cities, then interaction with it in case of legal conflicts is much easier.

I can’t recommend a specific broker to you. Each has its own set of services and trading accounts. I can only speak for myself. I studied with a Forex Club broker. I work with the RoboForex broker. You have to choose a broker yourself, having found it through the search engines Google and Yandex, expending great efforts on the evaluation of the terms, read the reviews or search data on the license. I’m not going to point the finger at anyone here. Like a good one. This one’s bad. Everything changes all the time. In short, the broker who can safely pay you the money you earned, and choose. This is almost the most important thing in all trading on the Forex market. I.e., the contract-offer or whatever you need to read very carefully not only before the first transaction, but even before making money on your deposit.