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Support, resistance and trend types
The primary task of technical analysis of financial markets in general and the Forex market in particular is finding a trend on a plotted chart. The Dow theory discerns three types of trends: long-term, medium-terms and short-term trends. T...
Support and resistance levels
Support level – is the prices level which has a rather big potential for buying with the purpose to stop and upturn the price fall. Support level is shown on the chart by a horizontal or almost horizontal line, which connects a few bottoms....
Server crash/connection issues
1. If the server error occurred due to the company’s fault and you sustained losses due to the error, you have the right to send a complaint to the company. Complaints are accepted within two working days from the moment when the case occur...
Server connection lost
The platform fails to connect to the server. What should I do?If you see the "No connection" message in the status line in the bottom right corner, please do the following:1. Close the platform and restart it.2. Close the platform, press th...
Problems with depositing/withdrawing funds
In case a partial sum was transferred or other problems concerning deposit and withdrawal arise, please send a request to support@mail.instaforex.com.In the request, you need to specify your account number along with a code word and provide...
Stop Loss order
Stop loss, or safety order, is an order placed with a broker to automatically close a position when the price reaches a certain level. You can set the safety order to minimize losses in case of unexpected market moves.Stop loss is an order...
Canceling of withdrawal
If you have requested money withdrawal but the request is still being processed, you can cancel this withdrawal by clicking on the link: https://secure.instaforex.com/en/cancel-withdrawal.aspxYou can also contact the Finance Department:E-Ma...
Pipsing
This trading approach is used for gaining profit from intraday currency fluctuations. Some traders open more than 200 deals a day while holding a position open for just several minutes. Of course, the profit from each position is rather sma...
Pullback trading
As a rule, market participants are divided into several groups, each of them prefer their own trading methods. It is hard to say what is the exact ratio of supporters of various methods. However, we tend to think that most traders stick to...
Breakout trading
Breakout trading means buying an asset after it has moved above a certain price level (and vice versa for selling). The breakouts can emerge on any time frames. The 5-minute and 15-minute charts are popular among day traders practicing brea...
Money Management
Money Management is a set of rules and specific techniques used for minimizing the risks and maximizing profit.The risk is a maximum amount of assets that will be lost until a decision about closing of an unprofitable position is made. Thus...
Hedging
Hedging is the parctice of protecting client's funds from unfavorable price fluctuations by opening a position in a contrary or opposing market. Hedging: ensures protection from possible losses by the time of forward deal settlement; provid...
Locking
Locking is a type of a hedging strategy aimed at minimizing risks associated with changes in markets behaviour. The difference between hedging and locking is that hedging is used for different trading instruments, while locking is used for...
Medium-term trading
The medium-term trading strategy is a method based on medium-term time frames that range from several days to 1-2 months. The advantage of medium-term trading is that you can trade successfully doing other things at the same time. This stra...
Chaos Theory
The sky is the limit for traders when it comes to financial speculations. They either use casino methods or neglect risk management. Sometimes they delve into mathematics in search for patterns in the obviously chaotic behaviour of the mark...
Mirror theory
The Elliott Wave Theory was once quite popular and remains widely-used to this day. However, every popular theory undergoes various modifications and additions. A good example of this is a complex mixture of the Chaos Theory and the Wave th...
Trend reversal patterns
The charts of any currency price movement with any units of time measurement form periodical and identical patterns of different type. Some of these figures are always formed on the charts before the trend ends, when the operation volume in...
Trend continuation patterns
In technical analysis, there is a possibility to observe graphical figures which confirm the current trend. They are known as figures of the trend continuation. They depict a relatively short period of market consolidation after which break...
Long-term trading strategy for EUR/JPY
When you develop a long-term trading strategy for EUR/JPY, it will be useful to look at the trading history of this currency pair in the past few years.So, if you look at the weekly chart of the EUR/JPY, you will notice continuous growth fr...
EUR/JPY pipsing
Pipsing involves daily work in front of your computer, minimum of news and maximum of luck. There is no need to know the financial mechanism of global economy regulation and countries’ GDP. Even the bullish market has a lot of pullbacks dur...
SAR (Parabolic Stop and Reverse)
The next technical analysis indicator which should be paid attention to in the process of Forex education is the Parabolic Stop and Reversal System (PSAR). This indicator was developed by the famous trader Welles Wilder, who contributed muc...
Chart types
Forex graphic charts are usually made in two coordinates - the price (shown on the vertical y-axis) and the time (shown on the x-axis). Sometimes the tick volume chart is also made along the y-axis. The time–axis scale (also called interval...
Price, trading volume and open interest
The price is not the only weighty factor to be considered while analyzing Forex market. Besides the currency exchange rate, its trading volume plays an important role, too.There is the postulate of the Dow Theory that tells that the trend m...
Support, resistance and trend types
Moving average – the simplest type of technical indicators on the financial markets. Since these indicators of technical analysis represent the oldest type of analysis, they are frequently used by professionals and, consequently, are...
Bollinger bands
The idea of Bollinger Bands Technical Indicator (BB) is similar to MA envelopes, which were discussed in the previous chapter, and are used to identify the optimal points of opening position on Forex and other financial markets. Unlike MA e...
Moving average envelopes
Simple moving average can be transformed into a new tool - moving average envelopes. This tool, like the [[Bollinger bands|Bollinger bands]], is used for the detection of the current price movement boundaries. FormulaThe indicator consists...
Short-term trading
The “secret” of this trading strategy is that the shorter the duration of your trade, the less money you will make.Think about any investment you have ever made. Did you make a killing in one day?And even if you are so lucky, how many times...
Trend and range fluctuations
The trend exists as long as prices maintain the tendency to rise and to fall through time. When the trend is uprising, every following support and resistance level exceeds the preceding. During the downtrend every following level of low and...
Trend lines
A straight line, connecting two neighboring lows, shows the minimal strength denominator of bulls; and the line, connecting two neighbouring tops, shows the lowest strength denominator of bears. These lines are called trend lines. Trend lin...
Andrew's pitchfork
Dr A. Andrews suggested the method of plotting the probable trend and channel lines using the median of triangle, made by the recent three lows and highs. Thus, to estimate the upmoving trend, the chain of low A, high B, and low C is taken,...
Trendline correcntion, the fan principle
As time goes by, the speed of price movement within a trend can change. It can increase which corresponds to the bigger angle of the [[Trend Lines|trend line]], or decrease and make the [[Trend Lines|trend line]] not that steep. In these ca...
Tic-Tac-Toe chart
Point and Figure charts differ from the bar charts in two significant ways. At first, bar charts are constructed on time intervals regardless of whether there is any change in price. A new plot on a Point and Figure chart is made only if th...
Delay in deposit/withdrawal of funds
Late withdrawal or replenishment of funds can have many different reasons. But very often this happens not through the fault of the company, but due to some external factors.Some of the most common reasons for delays are:- finding the site...
Time of depositing/withdrawing funds
Deposit transactions via Neteller processed instantly, via Yandex.Money within 3 hours. Money transfers from Visa/MasterCard cards are processed over the time interval from 0 up to 24 hours depending on the method of payment. Cash deposits...
Account details lost
Situation 1You've forgotten your trader password.Solution: contact our support team for assistance via any means of communication, specifying your account number and code word. In addition, specify the new trader password you would like to...
Spike
Spike - see Non-market quote
Indicator
Indicator is a signal of some trend changes in the market. You can use different indicators of technical analysis when working on the foreign or stock exchanges, but it is not recommended to use more than three. To understand indicators bet...
InstaForex contractors
InstaForex cooperates with many Western contractors, in particular, regulated by NFA and FSA brokers. The policy is not to give such information publicly, as it would be an advertising support for our contractors; many of them are company’s...
Special trading conditions for the Great Race contest
Trading conditions applied to accounts participating in Great Race 2020 are the following:1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 100,000 USD for all participants and cannot be ch...
Types of cent accounts
InstaForex offers clients an opportunity to trade on the Forex market using three types of accounts at once: Micro Forex, Mini Forex, Standard Forex. In order to make such a technology possible a nonstandard 10,000 lot was established, whic...
Mobile trading
InstaForex supports trading via mobile devices. You will find mobile platform applications for iOS and Android on our website: https://www.instaforex.com/trading_platform...
Special trading conditions of the Lucky Trader contest
1. A contestant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 30,000.00 USD or all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancel...
Account type change. Eurica/Standart
You can switch the type of your account from Standard/Eurica to Eurica/Standard in your Client Cabinet. To do this, you need to enter the login and password to your trading account opened with the InstaForex company. In the menu of the Cabi...
Special trading conditions of the FX-1 Rally contest
1. A contestant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 40,000 USD or all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellat...
Rejection in document verification
Check your status in the Client Area in the Account Verification section and carefully read the letter with verification results that was sent to your email. To successfully complete the verification process, follow the recommendations sent...
File upload error
If an error occurred or nothing happened when you were uploading your documents, try to do the following:try to verify your account using another Internet browser;clear cookies and cash on your browser;check the total size of the files (it...
MT5 leverage amount
Yes, it is possible. Please contact Technical Support service via online chat or send a request to support@mail.instaforex.com specifying your account number and code word.Yes, it is possible. Please contact Technical Support service via...
The main trading conditions of the InstaForex Sniper contest
1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 10,000 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. Orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellatio...
Chapter 9. Forex market and exchange offices
Forex trading is aimed at making money on currency speculations. We have been describing the currency market above but avoided such topics as what starting capital is needed to work on Forex and what profit can be expected. In this chapter...
What accounts are not allowed to participate in StartUp Bonus program
The StartUp bonus can be received by new customers only, who had never opened accounts in our company or in case of lack of balance records during last 6 months. For additional consultation please contact client support department e-mail: s...
Non-name card verification
If you want to verify a bank card with no name on it, you need to upload a document showing the information about this card such as the number, the validity period, and the card owner’s name. Importantly, you need to hide a part of the card...
How to make bank card photo?
First of all, make sure that the place where you are taking a photo is well lit. If your bank card is of a dark color, put it on a light surface, and vice versa put a light-color card on a dark surface. The information on a card should be r...
Introducing Broker program
This type of affiliate program is created specially for the partners who deal directly with the clients, e.g. teach them Forex trading, create expert advisors and trading signals, and influence public opinion. With this program, you can rec...
Bank card photo processing
You can cover a part of your bank card with a stripe of paper, leaving only the first 6 and last 4 digits visible. The rest of the card’s digits should remain uncovered. Take a photo of the card ensuring that all corners and edges are clear...
Refunds to unverified cards
You need to contact our Client Support Service or the Finance Department, using any communication method that is convenient for you. Check out available contact options here. Our staff will give you instructions on how to proceed....
Trading server system
At present InstaForex is one of the leading brokers in the Forex market. The number of the Company’s clients exceeds 2,000,000 people around the world and the trading operations’ volume of InstaForex is enhancing every day. In this regard,...
Methods to withdraw and deposit finds
InstaForex offers a wide range of payment methods. The process of funding a trading account is quite easy and will not take much time: 24 hours for a bank card transfer, 2 minutes for a transfer via payment systems, 1-3 days for a ban...
No email confirming account opening
The problem can be caused by one of the following reasons:1. You have entered the wrong mailbox during registration.2. You have installed SPAM filters on your mailbox, mistakenly blocking our mail.3. Your mail does not work (letters from ot...
The main trading conditions of the Real Scalping contest
1. A participant receives a competitive DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 20,000.00 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. All orders open at non-market prices are subje...
Special trading conditions of the InstaForex Sniper contest
1. A participant receives a DEMO account after registration in the contest.2. The minimum deposit is 10,000 USD for all participants and cannot be changed.3. Leverage is 1:500.4. Orders opened at non-market prices are subject to cancellatio...
How to recover the code word?
To recover the code word, you need to send a request to the customer support department at support@mail.instaforex.com. Your email should contain: - account number;- new code word;- attached scan/photo of your identity document;- the most c...
How to reset a password?
To recover the trader password, you need to send a request to the customer support department at support@mail.instaforex.com. Your email should contain:- account number;- new code word;- attached scan/photo of your identity document;-the mo...
Closing order offline
To close a deal, you can contact the support service via messengers or via a live chat. You will be required to provide your account number, a code word, and an order ticket. With this information, the customer support manager will be able...
List of technical errors when working with platform
While working with the trading platform traders may face some technical errors (messages). They could appear at the moment of information exchange between the platform and the server. Below, there is a list of the most common errors.1. ...
Basic questions about trading conditions
Can I trade CFDs on American shares in a demo account? A demo account does not provide CFDs trading. In order to trade CFDs, you should open a live account According to the website, a 6% annual interest rate is accrued on th...
VPS in trading
Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a service that allows users to trade non-stop in the forex market, regardless of a trader’s physical location and the capability to access trading platforms.In fact, a VPS is similar to a remote computer with...
Technical problems when ordering VPS
If you have problems with ordering the VPS hosting due to technical reasons such as page reset, error message, etc., you need to make sure you have enough funds to pay for the VPS services.Most likely, the amount of your free margin (withou...
Editing personal data via support service
To edit the data, please send a request to the email support@mail.instaforex.com. In the email, you should specify the issue and your code word. You can find the code word in the email that was sent after the account registration with the s...
How to make a screenshot of the egov Client Area correctly
When using Windows, you can press the Print Screen button or use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of your computer’s screen. Hitting this button copies an image of the screen to the clipboard. Then, the image could be inserted a...
ATTENTION: SCAMMERS!
There are numerous types of online scams including phishing, website cloning, and others. They all aim to gain access to your personal data and e-wallets. Now scammers even create fake trading platforms in an attempt to deceive InstaForex u...
An IPO and IPO shares explained.
IPO stands for Initial Public Offering. During this process, a private company offers its shares to the public for the first time, i.e. it becomes publicly traded. The most common reason for this is the need to raise capital and expand busi...
Cashback Service
The InstaForex cashback service is an opportunity to get back a portion of the commission from closed deals. Thanks to this program, you can refund to your trading account 5% and more from spreads, swaps, and commissions incurred during tra...
