I'm demo trading using the FXCM Trading Station which comes with $50K in virtual funds. How does trading more than that amount at the same time work? – I opened four positions; one with $30K and three with $10K. I was expecting a 'helll no' sign, but there was no sign of the sign language I speak.

I believe you're referring to leverage. For mini accounts, they normally give you 200:1 leverage at FXCM.

What this means is that in order to control $200 in the market, all you need is $1. Since mini-lots are $10,000, all you would need to control one mini-lot would be 10000/200 = $50.

In your case, you opened one position with 3 mini-lots ($30k), and 3 more positions with one mini-lot each. It looks like you had 6 mini-lots open at the same time. This requires $50/lot * 6 = $300 in margin requirement.

Conceivably, you could open positions totaling 50000*200 = $10 million in open positions with $50K in margin. This would obviously not be advisable because you could easily wipe your account over leveraging yourself.

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I am just considering Forex market so that i probably can earn my everyday money for my whole life if i read these 25 books about Forex , but before i study these , do i really need to get into this ? cons and pros, goods and bads ?

Playing Forex can appear alluring, but the majority of people who try it lose money. All you have to do is do a web search on the words "Forex" and "lose" to see this is the consensus.

Forex is what we call a "zero sum" game. You are making a bet with someone else about whether a currency will rise or fall. For every winner there has to be a loser. If you are smarter than the average player, you may make money. If you are dumber than the average player, you are likely to lose money. Most of the people making the "bets" in Forex are highly trained professionals at banks and other institutions. You are unlikely to beat them at this game.

Actually Forex is not quite a zero sum game. It's a slightly negative sum game as the Forex broker takes a small percentage each time in the spread. It's a small amount but over a hundred trades, it ends up being a considerable amount of money. So the average player is likely to lose money, and remember the average player is a highly trained professional and probably smarter than you.

There is a lot of luck in Forex, and if you play it, you will have some periods of time where you make money. This is usually because you are having a lucky streak, not because you have suddenly become an expert Forex player. However, most people are unwilling to admit their success is due to luck. They become convinced they have a system that works, and lose a lot of money trying to refine it.

Further complicating the problem is the large number of Forex scams on the internet. Most Forex websites are of questionable honesty.

I would recommend not trying to do Forex at all, unless you are a trained professional. It's like playing poker with people better than you, with the house constantly taking a small percentage from the pot.

P.S. I have never heard of a automated Forex program for home use that actually works, although a lot of people on the internet try to hawk programs they claim work. However, I am sure the professionals that constitute most of the Forex market have better programs that you are able to buy. Once again, you are playing at a disadvantage.

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