CUlture=en-TW
Select Your Location

Europe

Europe
English English

Middle East & Africa

Middle East & Africa
English English عربى (Arabic) عربى (Arabic)

Asia

Asia
English English 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese) 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese) 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese) 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese) ไทย (Thai) ไทย (Thai) Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • My ADSS Login
  • Open Demo Account
  • Add Funds
  • Partnerships
  • ADSS Brand logo
  • Currently showing English. Choose another language? English
Create An Account
  • Trading
    • Trading

      Trade across a variety of markets, whatever your experience level. CFD trading and forex trading are all available. Find more information under each trading type, including the tools available, costs and charges, strategies, news and analysis.

      • Visit Trading section
      • CFD Trading
          • Visit CFD Trading section
            CFD Trading for Beginners
              • What is CFD Trading?
              • How to Trade CFDs
              • Why Choose ADSS as Your CFD Broker?
          • CFD Trading for Pros
              • CFD Trading Prices and Charts
              • CFD Trading Costs and Charges
              • CFD Trading Contract Expiries
          • Start Trading
              • CFD Trading Platforms
              • Our CFD Trading Apps
              • Open a CFD Trading Account
              • Open a Demo CFD Trading Account
              Open Demo Account
      • Forex Trading
          • Visit Forex Trading section
            Forex Trading for Beginners
              • Why Choose ADSS as Your Forex Broker?
              • What is Forex Trading?
              • How to Trade Forex
          • Forex Trading for Pros
              • Forex Trading Prices and Charts
              • Forex Trading Costs and Charges
      • Trading Hours Change
  • Markets
    • Markets

      Browse the markets and discover how to trade on each one, find out more details about our trading platforms and apps, and how to open an account. Markets include currency, indices, stocks and shares, commodities and cryptocurrencies.

      • Visit Markets section
      • Indices
          • Visit Indices section
            About Indices
              • Our Indices Trading Platforms and Apps 
              • Open an Indices Trading Account 
      • Currencies
          • Visit Currencies section
            About Currencies
              • What is Currency Trading with ADSS?
              • Our Currency Trading Platforms and Apps
              • Open a Currency Trading Account
      • Commodities
          • Visit Commodities section
            About Commodities
              • What is Commodities Trading?
              • Our Commodities Trading Platforms and Apps
              • Open a Commodities Trading Account
      • Tiered Margins
          • Visit Tiered Margins section
            MT4 Tiered Margins
          • OREX Tiered Margins
      • The Full Markets Information Sheet
      • Trading Hours Changes
  • Platforms
    • Platforms

      Our ADSS MT4 platform offers a unique combination of superior execution and charting tools. With an ADSS account and the MT4 platform you will have access to a wide range of trading tools that enable you to trade exactly what you want and when.

      • Visit Platforms section
      • MT4 Platform
          • Visit MT4 Platform section
            Download Trading Platforms
              • MT4 User Guide
          • MT4 Mobile
              • MT4 Mobile App
              • MT4 Mobile App on Android
      • MT4 Mobile
          • Visit MT4 Mobile section
            MT4 Mobile App on Android
  • Accounts
    • Accounts

      Various types of accounts can be opened with ADSS. Details about all the different account plans are listed here, along with how to open each one, a comparison option and more information about our ADSS demo accounts.

      • Visit Accounts section
      • Open demo account
      • Open live account
      • Add Funds
      • Legal Forms
  • Learn
    • Learn

      For help with any area of trading, our support menu has all the answers. This includes a Q&A section covering trading basics, funding accounts, market details and problems. Also find information about seminars and webinars, interactive tutorials and more.

      • Visit Learn section
      • 4 Steps to learn FX
          • Visit 4 Steps to learn FX section
            Introduction to FX Trading
          • Financial Glossary
          • Basic Trading Knowledge
          • Practical Trading Knowledge
      • eBook Library
          • Visit eBook Library section
            THE EASIEST WAY TO START COMMODITIES TRADING!
          • ULTIMATE TRADING STRATEGIES FOR THE DAX, FTSE, DOW AND S&P
          • Foreign Exchange
          • FX Technical Analysis
      • 4 Steps in Learning Technical Analysis
          • Visit 4 Steps in Learning Technical Analysis section
            1. Understanding Technical Analysis
              • Thinking in probability
              • Identify Trend
              • Making a Trade Decision
          • 2. How to get started with a Price Chart
              • Types of Charts
              • World of Candlesticks
              • Most Commonly Traded Candlesticks Patterns
          • 3. Advancing to Chart Patterns
              • Trend continuation vs Trend Reversal
              • Most Commonly Traded Chart Patterns
          • 4. Introduction to Technical Indicators
              • Usage of Technical Indicators
              • Types of Technical Indicators
              • How to combine and make combos of multiples indicators
      • Q&As
      • Financial Glossary
      • Video Library
          • Visit Video Library section
            1. LET’S START AT THE BEGINNING
          • 2. WHAT MOVES PRICE?
          • 3. TRADING TERMINOLOGY
          • 4. FOUNDATION OF FOREX
          • 5. SPOTLIGHT ON FOREX
          • 6. THE BASIC TRADING CHART
          • 7. TECHNICAL TALK FOR TRADERS
          • 8. INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
          • 9. START WITH A SIMPLE STRATEGY
          • 10. LET’S GET STARTED
  • Market Updates
    • Market Updates

      Tools for analysing the markets and defining your trading strategy are present within the analysis section of our ADSS site. This features everything from useful economic and earnings calendars to help plan your trades in advance, to market briefings.

      • Visit Market Updates section
      • Market Briefings
      • Market Connect
      • Quarterly
      • Economic calendar
      • Earnings calendar
      • Daily
      • Weekly
      • Hot Pick
  • About ADSS
  • Contact Us
  • Important Notice
  • My ADSS Login
  • Login to OREX
  • Add Funds
  • Partnerships
  • Currently showing English. Choose another language? English
Open Free Demo
Create An Account

Forex Trading

Trade forex with ADSS. The Foreign Exchange (FX), commonly known as forex, is the marketplace for trading global currencies. It is known as the largest, most liquid market in the world since it is larger than the stocks and futures markets combined. Due to the sheer size of the trading volume (US$5.1 Trillion traded daily) and continuous advancement in technology, the forex market is being accessed by more and more traders. 

Benefits of trading forex are plenty, some of which are convenient market hours, ability to trade on margin, leverage that can make your money go further and high liquidity. Learn more about forex trading with ADSS and its advantages below.

First Time Trader
Experienced Trader
Start Trading
What is Forex Trading?

Forex trading means the conversion (buying or selling) of one currency for another. For example, you are selling US Dollars to buy British Pounds or Euros, much like you would at a Bureau De Change. It always involves two currencies, known as a currency pair. Forex trading can be viewed as a network of buyers and sellers who exchange currency at an agreed rate. This form of trading can be done for practical purposes, but it’s mostly performed to earn profits from the conversion. When trading forex, you look to anticipate the movement of currency - in either direction - since you can either “buy” a currency or “sell” it against the other quoted currency. The market witnesses a daily average of $5 trillion worth of trading activities.

Benefits of Forex Trading

The Forex market is an attractive market and is one of the most actively traded markets in the world for the following reasons:

  • It is the world’s largest market with matchless liquidity
  • The market offers flexible operating times; 24-hours a day throughout the business week
  • The trading system is transparent and centralised, which allows for maximum returns on minimal investments
  • It is easier to trade owing to ongoing technological advances
  • There is potential to profit from both long and short selling
  • There are several choices of more than 60 popularly traded currency pairs

 

Trading Hours in Forex Market

The forex market is open globally, 24 hours a day, five days a week. It begins when the financial institutions in New Zealand open, and then continues throughout the day as other institutions open across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. This pattern continues through business days with overlapping time zones, meaning that trading hours are quite flexible.

 

How to Trade Forex?

Forex trading is a great choice of investment for both beginner and existing traders. Alongside the many opportunities for professional traders to diversify their trading portfolio, FX also offers a smooth trading experience for beginners. ADSS offers award-winning platforms and services to help make trading a great experience for traders of all levels of expertise.

Forex trading always involves a currency pair and you can choose from over 60 different ones. The base currency is the first one listed, and the quote currency is the second. The price of a forex pair equals how much one unit of the base currency is worth in the quote currency. Next, you need to determine to either buy and go “long” or sell and go “short”. This decision depends on your expectations from the currencies, whether to increase or decrease in value. Market factors, economic events, trading strategy and news, are all factors that influence this choice.

Buying is the right move when you forecast that the base currency will increase and the quote currency will decrease against it. Which means profits will rise as the exchange price increases. Whereas, selling demands a decrease in the base and a rise in the quote currency against the base. In this case, profits will rise with every point the exchange price falls.

What are Pips, Margin, Spread and Stop Losses in Forex Trading?

There are essential terms to understand before trading forex:

  • Pips: Short for “price interest points”, they are the digits after the decimal point in the currency price displayed. Pips help measure the variation in the exchange rate for currency pairs
  • Leverage or margin: To open a forex trade, you need a small proportion of the opening required amount. This percentage is determined by the margin or leverage settings when first creating a trading account. At ADSS leverage up to 500:1 is allowed on each forex trade
  • Spread: Difference between the sell or “bid” price and the buy or “offer” price
  • Limit orders/Stop losses: Stop loss is a way to protect losing trades and minimise losses on long positions by stopping trades at a set price lower than the current market level. To limit orders is to lock prices by closing out trades at a set level better than the current market rate
  • Lot: Batch of currency that helps standardise forex trades since it moves in small amounts. Lots tend to be large; a standard lot is 100,000 units of the base currency

Forex Currency Categories

Currencies are listed as three-letter codes in each pair with the first two letters referring for the region, and the third for the currency name. GBP/USD is a currency pair that indicates buying Great British Pounds and selling US Dollars. Most trading providers categorise currency pairs in the following sense:

  • Major Pairs: These are seven currencies that form 80% of global forex trading: USD/JPY, GBP/USD, EUR/USD, USD/CHF, USD/CAD, AUD/USD and NZD/USD. 

  • Minor Pairs: Currencies that are uncommonly traded and often consist of major currencies against each other instead of the US dollar. These include EUR/GBP, EUR/CHF and GBP/JPY.
  • Regional Pairs: Which are classified by region, such as, Australasia or Scandinavia. Examples of regional pairs are EUR/NOK, AUD/NZD and AUS/SGD.
  • Exotics: Is when a major currency is paired against one from an emerging or small economy: Examples of exotic pairs include: USD/PLN, GBP/MXN and EUR/CZK.

Types of Forex and Currency Markets

The forex market is governed by a global network of banks that are spread across four primary forex trading centers in different time zones: New York, Tokyo, London and Sydney. And since there isn’t a central location, it means you can trade forex any time of the day. Types of forex markets include the following:

  • Spot forex market, which is the physical exchange of a currency pair taking place at the exact point the trade is settled within a short period of time, meaning on the spot.
  • Future forex market is a contract to buy or sell a specific amount of a currency at a certain price and is to be settled at a planned date in the future. This type of contract is legally binding.
  • Forward forex market involves a contract to buy or sell a specific amount of a currency at a set rate and is to be settled within a range of future dates or at a set date in the future.

Most traders contemplating forex prices do not plan to take delivery of the currency itself; instead, they make exchange rate predictions to take advantage of market price movements.

In general, traders never plan to take physical possession of the currency, they simply make predictions on currency pairs to take advantage of market movements.

Why Trade with ADSS?

  • Trade spot forex market with customisable leverage up to 500:1 when opening an account to use and platforms on mobile, tablet and web 
  • Trade over 60 currency pairs in the world in the largest and most liquid market by opening a demo account today with ADSS
  • Diversify your existing portfolio and hedge against other financial investments
  • Access advanced charting tools and analysis with more than 50 indicators and customise to your own needs
  • Regulated by the Central Bank of UAE, Securities & Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK
  • Find help and assistance with our institutional standard of customer care for new traders and professionals alike
  • What is Forex Trading?
  • How to trade Forex
  • Why Choose ADSS as your Forex Broker
Professional Forex Trading with ADSS

Forex is typically traded to diversify investment portfolios and to hedge against exposures in other assets. At ADSS, we can offer you a range of account options, tailored to accommodate your unique needs and experience, as well as a great range of analytic features and technology to help you perfect your trading strategy.

Trading for Experienced and Professional Traders

Reaching a professional forex trading level requires constant practice, involvement in the market and strategy improvement. Professional forex traders are those who mastered an effective trading strategy and a plan to help them manage risks effectively. A successful strategy does not necessarily need to be overly elaborate or complicated; it mostly relies on looking at live price data and making smart predictions accordingly.

The aim of Forex trades is to profit by analysing price movements in the foreign exchange currency market. Auditing price charts and live prices lists help you maximise profitable trades. While the main goal is to conduct winning trades, it is also essential to cut losses short, which is why you always need to trade with a stop-loss action. Professional price-chart traders can also trade with a winning edge, meaning they take trading actions as a result of thorough technical analysis or understanding of fundamental analysis. Hence, professional forex trading requires a dynamic and flexible trading strategy.

Forex Trading Strategies and Methodologies

Here are the primary styles of trading forex professionally with ADSS:

  • Automated Trading is trading through a trading software system, and it is created through writing code that reflects a set of trading commands and laws. The trading software can run this code and scan the market for trading opportunities that adhere to the rules included in the code. The trader’s broker can then execute the trades automatically.
  • Scalping is a trading style that relies on frequent and short-term trades, as in getting in and out of the market often in one day. The goal is to “scalp” a few pips in a short duration without really taking into consideration setting a stop-losses action. This trading style is not recommended to experienced traders since it is similar to gambling.
  • Technical Trading refers to obtaining a thorough technical analysis of the market’s price chart before making trading decisions. Traders who prefer this trading style use technical signals and price movement patterns to trade with an edge.
  • Day Trading in the forex market is similar to scalping. This style of trading includes entering and exiting the market within one day to buy and sell currencies over a short span.
  • Position Trading is a more long-term trading strategy where the trader maintains positions open for longer interims to take advantage of significant price movements. Position trading is characterised by trading on underlying trends in the market as opposed to short-term movement.
  • Fundamental Trading or news trading is a technique in which traders analyse market news to develop their trading predictions. Fundamental news may anticipate price movements, and as a result, the market participants react. In this trading style, buying trades are mostly made on predictions of future events and selling takes place when this event occurs. Most experienced traders depend on a combination of technical and fundamental analysis.
  • Swing Trading is a trading style that attempts to obtain gains from a financial instrument over a few days or several weeks, using technical analysis to discover trading opportunities. Besides analyzing price trends and patterns, swing traders may utilize fundamental analysis to hold short or long trading positions for more than one trading session. Some swing trades may last a couple weeks, months or more.

Trading on Margin

You can increase your exposure to trades by trading on margin. Given the size of the Global FX Market – close to USD 5 trillion per day, liquidity is extremely broad. With margin trades, you can leverage your position and increase your exposure in order to further profit from your trade. The same way in which you could increase your profit potential, a leveraged trade can also increase your losses that exceed your deposited funds.

When trading forex, you’re borrowing the first currency in the pair to buy or sell the second. With a market as large as 5 trillion USD a day, the liquidity is so broad. This means that big banks and liquidity providers allow traders to trade with leverage. To do so, you need to set aside the required margin for the trade. For example, you can trade £4,000 in the market and set aside £10 in your trading account in the margin. This means you’re trading 400:1 leverage, giving you more exposure while keeping your investment down. The same way leverage increases your profit potential; it also increases losses that can exceed your deposited funds.

  • Forex Trading Prices & Charts
  • Forex Trading Costs & Charges
Start Trading

You can start trading forex with ADSS today. To start trading, you’ll need to fill out our registration form and select your account type. All of this can be done securely.

Whether you’re a first-time trader or an experienced professional, we offer an account type that’s perfect for your needs.

Start live forex trading with ADSS today, or open a Demo account to test your trading strategy. 

  • Forex Trading Platforms
  • Our Forex Trading Apps
  • Open a Forex Trading Account
  • Open a Demo Forex Trading Account

Got Questions?

  • Why ADSS?
  • Q&A Section
  • Financial Glossary

Open a Live Trading Account

We offer trading accounts that are perfect for both beginners and experienced traders. Open a live account today to start your trading journey and make a success of your trading strategies.

Get a Demo Account

A free demo account lets you practise trading without risk. Sign-up and your demo account will be credited with US$50,000, allowing you to perfect your strategies before entering the market.
  • Legal
  • Privacy Policy
  • About ADSS
  • Site Map
  • Fraud Warning
  • ADSS 2021

ADS Securities LLC (“ADSS”) is a limited liability company incorporated under United Arab Emirates law. The company is registered with the Department of Economic Development of Abu Dhabi (No. 1190047) and has its principal place of business at 8th Floor, CI Tower, Corniche Road, P.O. Box 93894, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ADSS is authorised and regulated by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates.

CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

Trading CFDs carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all everyone. Please ensure you fully understand the risks involved.

You may change your cookie settings at any time.


Close