Forex Vs. Futures | SigmaForex

Forex Vs. Futures:

Futures is Exchange traded contracts are not issued like securities, but they are "created" when one party buys (goes long) a contract from another party (who goes short). In the beginning there are no contracts, so the number of long contracts must equal the number of short contracts. This always goes through the exchange, which means that the exchange is the counter party for all trades. However, the exchange does not take any net positions. In this way clients do not know with whom they have ultimately traded. Compare this with securities, in which an issuer issues the security. After that, it is a legal entity that is traded independently of the issuer. Even if the issuer buys back some securities, they still exist. Only if they are legally canceled can they disappear.

Forex	Futures
Largest and most liquid market in the world	Liquidity dependent on month of traded contract
24-hour trading action for 5.5 days a week	Varying trading hours based on the markets
Can profit in both bull and bear markets	Tend to have extended bearish periods
Can short-sell anytime	Trading restricted by limit up/down rule
Minimum slippage and order errors	More room for slippage and error
100:1 leverage on standard-sized accounts	Smaller leverage
Extremely low margins 1% or better	Higher margins usually 5-8%
No commissions	Commissions on every trade
Most liquid market in the world	Limited liquidy
Instant executions, all-electronic market	Delayed fills possible in open markets
No limits on market moves	Some markets have maximum daily movement limits that can trap you in losing position
Usually free streaming quotes	Expensive fees for streaming quotes

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Forex White Label Program

As your partner, our goal is to support you through the planning and launch phases and beyond to ensure a mutually successful and long-term business relationship
Establish your brand in the Forex Brokerage industry.
Our Forex White Label program is for individuals and institutions that want to establish a brand name and a presence in the Forex industry. As a white label partner, you will be provided with a platform branded with your name and logo as well as content for your introducing broker website. Also Sigma white label partner program enables banks and brokers to satisfy their customers' demand for online trading tools. Our trading solutions enable you to harness and develop already existing customer trading relationships and extract greater returns from them whilst streamlining internal trading operations and rendering them as efficient as possible. You will also enjoy our 24-hour market, full service of back office support, and other administrative and support functions.

Ideal candidates for the Forex white label program include:

• Financial services firms that want to establish a new Forex brokerage division. For example, banks, insurance companies, etc.
• Trading firms and/or online brokers that want to offer a greater range of products to their customers. you will be providing your clients with a great value-added service while increasing the profitability of your firm.
• Companies offering Forex tools and advisory services - This can be websites or newsletters that provide an analysis of the Forex or futures market, advisory businesses, etc. that want to expand their web presence by offering online Forex trading capabilities to their existing client base.
• Forex White Label Introducing Brokers will enjoy the most advanced Forex trading software in the market. The web-based white label trading platform provides real time, streaming currency prices and instantaneous one click execution, real time management of currency positions, in addition to complete back office support and reporting features. Along with other tools to help traders make trading decisions. The software is also compatible with most operating systems. This means that your customers can trade currencies from any computer, anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day.

Why should you take advantage of our White Label Program?

1. Take advantage of powerful, easy-to-use Forex trading technology
2. A qualified online trading platform that offers sophisticated forex charts, a large scale of indicators and trading mechanism , hedging feature, trailing stops that adjust pip by pip, real time streaming quotes and more! .
3. Take advantage of automated trading systems or Forex Expert Advisors.
4. Low spreads
5. Flexibility. You can customize your own fee structure and dealing spreads for your Forex IB business.
6. SigmaForex trading services are provided without Dealing Desk which prevents the effect of any one on the prices and pip spreads
7. Online access to customer reporting.
8. Receive all software upgrades and updates at no extra cost.

Like any Forex broker, our goal is to increase the trade volume of our operation. While customers are offered commission-free trading, as an introducing broker you are free to establish your own fee structure via commissions or adding extra pips to the dealing spreads. It is discussable between you and your clients. Only you can decide what you will make.

Available White Label Services
White branding

For qualified firms or individuals with an existing customer base, we can provide a customized Forex trading platform branded with your company name and logo. Sigma's White Label Program helps suitable firms set up an online presence in the Forex industry quickly and cost effectively.
Firms looking for a behind-the-scenes partner will benefit from Sigma’s customizable trading platform branded with your name and logo and available in multiple foreign languages. White label customers are also provided with detailed web content, online reporting, and other important services to make it easier for their Forex businesses to succeed. By partnering with Sigma, white label partners receive a full range of administrative tools and resources including lead generation and tracking tools, detailed web content, online reporting capabilities, and more.

If you want to discuss your potential Forex White Label Introducing Brokerage business with us via mail

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Sigma devotes serious effort to serve the emerging retail segment of the Forex community. Its commitment to providing an excellent customer service, innovative currency trading technology, and dealing practices, establishes Sigma as a notable force that traders look forward to for an advanced Forex charting, Forex news, and fund safety.

Customers funds deposited with Sigma, are held and maintained separately in separated trading accounts at our partner banks. Sigma also provides its customers a variety of account plans, and services to choose from when creating or adjusting a profile.

The professionals at Sigma are dedicated to providing the guidance you need to accomplish your investment objectives.

SigmaForex Asset Market Model

• Asset Market Model

The explosion in trading of financial assets (stocks and bonds) has reshaped the way analysts and traders look at currencies. Economic variables such as growth, inflation, and productivity are no longer the only drivers of currency movements. The proportion of foreign exchange transactions stemming from cross border-trading of financial assets has dwarfed the extent of currency transactions generated from trading in goods and services. The asset market approach views currencies as asset prices traded in an efficient financial market. Consequently, currencies are increasingly demonstrating a strong correlation with asset markets, particularly equities.

• Understanding Technical Analysis

The two primary approaches of analyzing currency markets are fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Fundamentals focus on financial and economic theories, as well as political developments to determine forces of supply and demand. One clear point of distinction between fundamentals and technicals is that fundamental analysis studies the causes of market movements, while technical analysis studies the effects of market movements.

Technical analysis examines past price and volume data to forecast future price movements. This type of analysis focuses on the formation of charts and formulae to capture major and minor trends, identify buying/selling opportunities, and assessing the extent of market turnarounds. Depending upon your time horizon, you could use technical analysis on an intraday basis (5-minute, 15 minute, hourly), weekly or monthly basis.

Sigma devotes serious effort to serve the emerging retail segment of the Forex community. Its commitment to providing an excellent customer service, innovative currency trading technology, and dealing practices, establishes Sigma as a notable force that traders look forward to for an advanced Forex charting, Forex news, and fund safety.

Customers funds deposited with Sigma, are held and maintained separately in separated trading accounts at our partner banks. Sigma also provides its customers a variety of account plans, and services to choose from when creating or adjusting a profile.

The professionals at Sigma are dedicated to providing the guidance you need to accomplish your investment objectives.

Sigma Forex Chart Patterns

Chart Patterns

1) Symmetrical Triangles:

A chart pattern used in technical analysis that is easily recognized by the distinct shape created by two converging trend lines. It designed by drawing two trend lines that connect a series of sequentially lower peaks and a series of sequentially higher troughs. The signals to buy or sell when there breakout between the triangle & the price line

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2) Head & shoulder:

The pattern contains three successive peaks with the middle peak (head) being the highest and the two outside peaks (shoulders) being low and roughly equal.
Trading Signals
Place a stop-loss just above the last peak below the neckline
After the breakout, price often rallies back to the neckline which then acts as a resistance level. Go short on a reversal signal and place a stop-loss one tick above the resistance level.

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3) Wedges:
Falling Wedges:

Falling wedges is a bullish pattern that begin from the top then the prices contract.
This price action forms a cone that slopes down as the reaction highs and reaction lows converge.

Rising Wedges
A rising wedge is generally considered bearish and is usually found in downtrends. They can be found in up trends too, but would still generally be regarded as bearish.

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4) Flags & Pennants:
Flags:
A flag is a small rectangle pattern that slopes against the previous trend.
The prices between the two parallel lines form a channel to form a square.
Bullish flags are characterized by lower tops and lower bottoms, with the pattern slanting against the trend.
Bearish flags are characterized by higher tops and higher bottoms with the pattern slanting against the trend.
Pennants:
A pennant is a small symmetrical triangle that begins wide and converges.
Bullish pennants are characterized by lower tops and lower bottoms, with the pattern slanting against the trend.
Bearish pennants are characterized by higher tops and higher bottoms with the pattern slanting against the trend

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5) Cup with Handle:

The cup formed after an advance and looks like a half circle or rounding bottom.
As the cup is completed, a trading range develops on the right hand side and the handle is formed.
A subsequent breakout from the handle's trading range signals a continuation of the prior advance.
The cup pattern should take weeks to form without any upper limit.
The handle may form over one or two weeks but may also take several months.

A "V" shaped bottom would be considered too sharp of a reversal to qualify. The softer "U" shape ensures that the cup is a consolidation pattern with valid support at the bottom of the "U". The perfect pattern would have equal highs on both sides of the cup, but this is not always the case.
The handle represents the final consolidation/pullback before the big breakout and can retrace up to 1/3 of the cup's advance, but usually not more. The smaller the retracement is, the more bullish the formation and significant the breakout. Sometimes it is prudent to wait for a break above the resistance line established by the highs of the cup.

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6) Higher Lows and Lower Highs

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7) Rectangles

RSI with Momentum

It measures the amount of change in commodity’s price during a period of time.
Using both RSI & Momentum for average 14 days will enable a solid strategy in determining signals.

Signal to buy:
RSI rises above 50 but stays below 70, and momentum rises above zero.
Signal to sell:
RSI falls below 50 but stays above 30, and momentum falls below zero

Sigma Forex Funding Methods

Funding Methods

Safety of funds plays an important role in any type of business; we make our best efforts to ensure protection of customers’ money.

• Minimum deposit required for funding new accounts:

Our accounting department is ready to help you fund your new account or add funds to an existing account. For Standard Dealing Desk Accounts the minimum deposit is $ 500, and for the No Dealing Desk Accounts the minimum deposit is $ 2000.

• Deposit instructions:

You must open a web account and associate it with your live account to insure security of transactions in your account

How to do so?

1. Open web account

2. Login and associate your Live Trading Account with your Web Account

3. Login to your Web Account and click 'Make a Deposit"

• Deposit methods

1- Bank wire transfer

A wire transfer is a transfer of money from one bank account to another. The actual transfer is done by the bank, and neither the sender nor the recipient of the money sees or touches the actual funds.

Deposit Time
1-5 business days SigmaForex does not guarantee deposit times in the event of a margin call

Fees
None

SigmaForex will not be held responsible for charges or fees assessed by going through an intermediary bank.

Withdrawal Eligibility
Immediate availability

Restrictions
The account holder name of the funds must always match the name listed as the customer on the trading account.

2- E-gold payments

Open www.e-gold.com- Create new e-gold account - Issue transfer request from your e-gold account to SigmaForex e-gold account.

Deposit Time
Immediate deposit SigmaForex does not guarantee deposit times in the event of a margin call

Fees
None

SigmaForex will not be held responsible for charges or fees assessed by going through an intermediary bank.

Withdrawal Eligibility

Immediate availability

Restrictions
The account holder name of the funds must always match the name listed as the customer on the trading account.

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• SigmaForex offer the lowest requirements for both dealing desk and non dealing desk accounts to open the channel for traders with small deposit. SigmaForex Standard Dealing Desk Accounts have $ 500 as minimum deposit and the No Dealing Desk Accounts have $ 2000 as minimum deposit.

• You will choose your leverage between 1:1 and 1:500

• Ability to trade Standard, Mini and Micro lots from the same account

• You will choose whether if you want to trade with dealing desk or be free to be directly connected to the market with the No Dealing Desk

• No swap, commission, interests or any kind of fees

Sigma offers the ability to set-up accounts denominated in the following currencies:
- United States Dollar (USD)
- Euro (EUR)
- Great Britain Pound (GBP)
- Australian Dollar (AUD)
- Swiss Frank (CHF)

Fibonacci Retracement | SigmaForex

The Basic Theories

• Dow Theory

The oldest theory in technical analysis states that prices fully reflect all existing information. Knowledge available to participants (traders, analysts, portfolio managers, market strategists and investors) is already discounted in the price action. Movements caused by unpredictable events such as acts of god will be contained within the overall trend. Technical analysis aims at studying price action to draw conclusions on future moves.

Developed primarily around stock market averages, the Dow Theory holds that prices progressed into wave patterns, which consisted of three types of magnitude—primary, secondary and minor. The time involved ranged from less than three weeks to over a year. The theory also identified retracement patterns, which are common levels by which trends pare their moves. Such retracements are 33%, 50% and 66%.

• Fibonacci Retracement

This is a popular retracement series based on mathematical ratios arising from natural and man-made phenomena. It is used to determine how far a price has rebounded or backtracked from its underlying trend. The most important retracement levels are: 38.2%, 50% and 61.8%.

Sigma Forex is leading European professional online trading Brokers registered in the Uk and most of the EU countries. It was founded by professional private investors including (banks, traders, brokers, and software developers), which enabled Sigma to identify the essential needs of the Forex participants from the start.

Since 2003, Sigma’s aim has been to provide the best, powerful and most suitable currency trading technology along with superiority in execution, competitive services, and dependable customer service. Over the past years, Sigma has quickly become one of the world’s leading online retail currency trading institutions, providing integrated global trading systems, analysis techniques and the most reliable and sophisticated online trading software. We offer internet trading through Meta Trader. This trading platform is very stable and reliable. It is highly regarded and very popular among traders.

Sigma Forex Lines & Channels

• Lines & Channels

Trend lines are simple, yet helpful tools in confirming the direction of market trends. An upward straight line is drawn by connecting at least two successive lows. Naturally, the second point must be higher than the first. The continuation of the line helps determine the path along which the market will move. An upward trend is a concrete method to identify support lines/levels. Conversely, downward lines are charted by connecting two points or more. The validity of a trading line is partly related to the number of connection points. Yet it's worth mentioning that points must not be too close together. A channel is defined as the price path drawn by two parallel trend lines. The lines serve as an upward, downward or straight corridor for the price. A familiar property of a channel for a connecting point of a trend line is to lie between the two connecting point of its opposite line.

• Averages

If you believe in the "trend-is-your-friend" tenet of technical analysis, moving averages are very helpful. Moving averages tell the average price in a given point of time over a defined period of time. They are called moving because they reflect the latest average, while adhering to the same time measure.
A weakness of moving averages is that they lag the market, so they do not necessarily signal a change in trends. To address this issue, using a shorter period, such as 5 or 10 day moving average, would be more reflective of the recent price action than the 40 or 200-day moving averages.
Alternatively, moving averages may be used by combining two averages of distinct time-frames. Whether using 5 and 20-day MA, or 40 and 200-day MA, buy signals are usually detected when the shorter-term average crosses above the longer-term average. Conversely, sell signals are suggested when the shorter average falls below the longer one.

There are three kinds of mathematically distinct moving averages: Simple MA; Linearly Weighted MA; and Exponentially Smoothed. The latter choice is the preferred one because it assigns greater weight for the most recent data, and considers data in the entire life of the instrument.
Fundamentals Affecting the US Dollar

Types Of Charts

A chart or graph is a type of information graphic or graphic organizer that represents tabular numeric data and/or functions.
Charts are often used to make it easier to understand large quantities of data and the relationship between different parts of the data.
Certain types of charts are more useful for presenting a given data set than others.
The charts are one of the main interests at Sigma.
Charts are a statistically noticeably technical analysis tool for a trader that wants to carry out successful trading.
Currency charts bring clearly a single period of time and that period could range from one minute to one month to several years.

To open a new Forex chart:

• Through the menu options File > New Chart.
• Right-click the Market Watch window, then select the Chart Window options
• Clicking on "New Chart button" on the toolbar
• Or press the Ctrl + W key combination