Trading Account Management
Trading Basics
- What products can I trade with STARTRADER?
- How do long and short positions work in CFD trading?
- How to calculate profit and loss for CFD positions?
- What is the difference between pips and points?
- What are the ask price and bid price?
- What is the maximum and minimum lot size available for trading?
Orders & Trade Execution
- What is a pending order and how do I determine the placement distance?
- What is your execution mode?
- What is slippage and why does it happen?
- What is slippage and how does it affect my trades?
- Why is the price triggered by my order different from the one on my chart?
- Why wasn’t my pending order executed?
Margin, Leverage & Risk Management
- What is a margin call or stop-out, and how can I avoid it?
- What happens if my account balance becomes negative due to stop-out?
- Can I trade if I have no free margin?
- How to calculate margin requirement?
- What is free margin and how is it calculated?
- What does margin level mean and how is it calculated?
Trading Costs & Fees
- What fees and charges apply when I trade?
- What are spreads and how are they calculated?
- What are swap and overnight fees?
- What fees apply to Swap-Free accounts?
- How is the swap fee calculated and where can I find the swap rates?
- What does rollover mean?
Stop Loss, Take Profit & Trade Management
- What are stop loss (S/L) and take profit (T/P)?
- Why was my stop loss or take profit executed at a different price?
- Why can't I see my stop loss or take profit on the chart?
- Why wasn’t my stop loss or take profit executed?
- What is a trailing stop order?
- Why am I receiving the “Invalid S/L or T/P” error when setting stop loss or take profit?