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Many people start trading forex without knowing the games their forex broker can play with them. Choosing a right forex broker is very important for you. Dont get stuck up with an unscrupulous forex broker. Know the tricks a forex broker has for you.

Retail forex market is new and different from forex interbank market. Forex interbank market is only open to big players like banks, corporations, hedge funds, pension funds and other institutional investors and deals with large currency transactions.

Retail forex market was developed after the advent of the internet. Retail forex brokers offer online margin accounts to retail forex traders like you and me who are small time players in a huge market. Retail forex market is loosely regulated that lets the forex brokers play games with small forex traders.

You need to know the games; a forex broker can play with you. If you dont know what games a forex broker can play with you, you will never succeed at forex trading. Understand how the broker can trick you:

Nontransparent pricing: Since, forex market is over the counter market with no clearing central exchange, the prices that your forex broker quotes to you is the price that you get. It is really difficult for you to know whether the quoted price is fair or not. You have to just accept it.

Encouraging Leverage: Your forex broker will encourage you to use a high leverage like 100-1 or 200-1. Leverage is good when you are winning but it will wipe you out in case of a loss. Most of the retail forex traders are amateurs and dont know how to handle leverage, they expose themselves and get wiped out in the market quickly. The more you lose the more your broker will make. Dont use too high leverage.

Brokers try to trade against you: Forex brokers act as an intermediary between the retail trader and the interbank forex market. Since most of the retail trades are too small in size and cannot be immediately offset in the interbank market, forex brokers get the opportunity to trade against you. If you go long, the broker will go short and if you go short, the broker will take the long position. As most of the retail traders are not good traders and lose most of the time, forex brokers make profit from this.

Non transparent Practices: Casinos and forex brokers have one mentality. They dont like you winning. If you have a winning streak, the house will get stacked against you. Your trades may not get executed due to slippage. The service may be denied to you. The forex broker may make it difficult for you to execute your trades.

Visit my Blog for finding a Forex Broker Scorecard that can help you in choosing a right broker. You also need to know what type of questions you should ask.