Forex Mini Accounts

A Forex Mini Account

But be careful, you’ll hear wherever you go that leverage is a double edged sword; your profits are magnified as well as your losses. Well, with a mini account, you can quickly see your margin disappear if you aren’t careful and put enough funds in it before you start trading. I’ve seen many people say that $10,000 for a mini account and $100,000 for a standard account are the absolute minimum amounts one should use respectively when he/she starts trading. Ask any pro and they’ll say investing with $250 in Forex at 200:1 leverage is a joke and many people do it because it sounds like a quick entrance into the Forex market; most of these traders lose their $250 very quickly and some even deposit $100’s, $1000’s more trying to dig their way out of bad trades at 200:1 leverage. These are amounts that might discourage many of you, but unfortunately there’s no other safe way to start trading in Forex. Take it from me, when I first started trading at Forex.com I deposited a mere $1000 and slowly began to build it up. Well, I made some bad trades and watched my margin dwindle. This was before I did research, downloaded some great indicators, and joined a really great broker that doesn’t give you a spread.