Senin, 20 Agustus 2007

Apa itu Marketiva?

Marketiva adalah sebuah website yang menyediakan sarana untuk bermain Forex
secara Real, yang dimaksud real adalah segala apa yang anda lakukan mengikuti
tata cara yang sama dengan yang ada di Bursa Forex sesungguhnya dan
mengunakan data-data pergerakan mata uang secara real-time yang berubah terus
setiap detiknya. Marketiva adalah suatu perusahaan financial services
internasional yang berfungsi menyediakan layanan untuk bisa bertransaksi di
dalam bursa mata uang dunia secara online dan realtime. Marketiva mempunyai
reputasi dan pengalaman selama lebih dari 30 tahun, status dan alamat yang jelas,
account bank yang jelas, terdapat lebih dari ribuan trader dari seluruh dunia yang
telah tergabung , serta legalitas dan ijin trading secara international juga jelas
(IBC CAP. 291 Reg. No. 646819). Marketiva adalah yang pertama dan satu-
satunya perusahaan trading yang memberikan secara cuma-cuma extra modal
sebesar US$5 (real money).

Marketiva Corporation
Rue du Simplon 37
CH-1006 Lausanne
Switzerland


Apa keuntungan menggunakan Marketiva?

Dengan Marketiva maka anda bisa bermain Forex dimana saja anda berada,
selama ada komputer dan sambungan internet, baik itu di rumah, di kantor, di
perjalanan, maupun di warnet. Selain itu anda tidak perlu berhubungan dengan
para Broker maupun siapapun dalam melakukan transaksi, anda bebas
menggunakan uang anda sendiri dan melakukan transaksi sendiri tanpa campur
tangan pihak manapun dan tanpa harus membayar fee atau biaya jasa kepada
siapapun. Anda bebas menentukan keuntungan yang anda inginkan dan bebas
menghentikan transaksi yang sedang berjalan kapan pun anda inginkan. Sehingga
resiko kerugian dapat dikurangi seminimal mungkin.

Keunggulan Marketiva

Keunggulan Marketiva
1. Membuka Account Gratis.
2. Mendapat $5 Gratis. (real money).
3. Hanya dengan $1 sudah bisa bertrading.
4. Keamanan yang cukup bagus.
5. Memperoleh Software untuk bertrading secara real time.
6. Tersedia support berbahasa melayu.
7. Mendapatkan US $ 100000 Uang Virtual, Untuk Latihan Trading.
8. Transver dana (kirim/tarik) gampang & cepat hitungan jam, Via Ebullion.

Berapa banyak modal yang saya butuhkan untuk memulai trading forex online ini?

Tidak seperti pada perusahaan finansial pada umumnya yang mensyaratkan
minimal 2500 US$ untuk pembukaan account reguler dan 250 US$ untuk account
mini, di Marketiva, anda hanya membutuhkan uang sebesar 1US$ untuk dapat
mulai trading forex online, bebas biaya komisi, bebas biaya penukaran, tidak ada.

bunga overnight (0% overnight interest), spread yang rendah (3 pips),
pemberitahuan berita terbaru, alert dan signal trading secara gratis, dukungan live
chat 24 jam nonstop dan bahkan anda mendapatkan modal 5US$ secara cuma-
cuma saat anda mendaftar pertama kali. Dengan kata lain, untuk memulai trading
forex online di Marketiva adalah GRATIS!
Bagaimana cara transaksinya?
Ada 3 metode transaksi yang dapat digunakan di Marketiva, yaitu menggunakan
e-gold, e-bullion atau international wire transfer. e-gold atau e-bullion adalah
world wide money (e-currency) atau account transaksi anda di internet. e-gold
menggunakan kurs emas atau logam mulia lainnya yang nilainya dikonversikan ke
nilai mata uang US$ atau mata uang lainya. Setelah mempunyai account di e-gold,
maka anda harus memiliki account di website exchanger Indonesia (money
changer) yang berguna untuk melakukan penukaran e-gold ke rupiah dan
sebaliknya dari atau ke account bank anda di Indonesia. Untuk exchanger ini anda
dapat menggunakan jasa dari Indochanger ataupun Sentraegold.

Bagaimana dengan keamanannya?
Marketiva menerapkan aturan 1 account per orang, jika sistem di Marketiva
mendeteksi adanya 2 account yang berbeda namun dimiliki oleh orang yang sama,
maka Marketiva berhak untuk membatalkan salah satu atau kedua account
tersebut. Apabila ada anggota keluarga, saudara atau teman anda yang ingin
bergabung dengan menggunakan komputer yang sama, mereka dapat membuat
account baru, men-upload ID foto & alamat serta menkonfirmasikan kepada
personal staff support kami (pada menu bagian live chat support software
Streamster™). Marketiva berkomitmen untuk membantu pemerintah dalam
memerangi segala bentuk praktek pencucian uang (money laundring) serta segala
usaha tindak kejahatan melalui internet (cyber crime) lainnya. Semua account baru
harus mendaftarkan ID foto & alamat dan mendapatkan konfirmasi bahwa
dokumen yang dikirimkan sah sebelum dapat mulai melakukan online trading.
Jika masih ingin mencoba, bolehkah membuka account demo terlebih dahulu?
Platform Marketiva menawarkan 2 macam pilihan desk pada 1 account, yaitu
Virtual Trading dan Live Trading. Pada saat sign-up, anda mendapatkan US$
10.000 uang virtual dan US$ 5 uang real. Jadi dengan hanya membuat 1 account,
anda dapat belajar (mencoba-coba) trading terlebih dahulu menggunakan uang
virtual pada desk Virtual Trading.

Kapan dan dimana saja dapat melakukan trading?

Karena online, maka anda dapat log-in ke account Marketiva anda kapanpun dan
melakukan trading dari tempat manapun diseluruh penjuru dunia yang mempunyai
akses ke internet. Waktu trading dimulai pada hari Senin 04.00AM hingga Sabtu
04.00AM (GMT+7) - Anda dapat melakukan trading pada masa itu selama 24 jam
nonstop.

Mata uang apa saja yang diperdagangkan?
Saat ini ada 12 macam pasangan mata uang yang diperdagangkan, yaitu:
EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CHF, USD/CAD, AUD/USD, NZD/USD,
EUR/JPY, EUR/GBP, EUR/CHF, GBP/JPY, EUR/CAD. Dimasa datang ada
kemungkinan jumlah ini dapat bertambah.

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Rabu, 15 Agustus 2007

FOREX: What Is It And How Does It Work?

The Foreign Exchange market, also referred to as the “Forex” is the biggest and largest financial market in the world. It has a daily average turnover of US$1.9 trillion- just imagine that amount of money! Don’t you want to join this trillion-dollar industry?

Forex is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. Currencies are traded in pairs, for example Euro/US Dollar (EUR/USD) or US Dollar/Japanese Yen (USD/JPY). So basically, Forex is trading.

There are two reasons to buy and sell currencies. About 5% of daily turnover is from companies and governments that buy or sell products and services in a foreign country or must convert profits made in foreign currencies into their domestic currency.

The other 95% is trading for profit, or what you call speculation. Investors frequently trade on information they believe to be superior and relevant, when in fact it is not and is fully discounted by the market.

On one side of each speculative stock trade is a participant who believes he has superior information and on the other side is another participant who believes his information is superior.

For speculators, the best trading opportunities are with the most commonly traded (and therefore most liquid- meaning its in cash or convertible to cash) currencies, called “the Majors.” Today, more than 85% of all daily transactions involve trading of the Majors.

A true 24-hour market, Forex trading begins each day in Sydney, and moves around the globe as the business day begins in each financial center, first to Tokyo, London, and New York. Unlike any other financial market, investors can respond to currency fluctuations caused by economic, social and political events at the time they occur - real time- day or night.

The Forex market is considered an Over The Counter (OTC) or ‘interbank’ market. This is because the transactions are conducted between two counterparts over the telephone or via an electronic network. Trading is not centralized on an exchange compared to stocks and futures markets.

Understanding Forex quotes

Reading a Forex quote may seem a bit confusing at first. However, it’s really quite simple if you remember two things: 1) The first currency listed first is the base currency and 2) the value of the base currency is always 1.

The US dollar is the centerpiece of the Forex market and is normally considered the ‘base’ currency for quotes. In the “Majors”, this includes USD/JPY, USD/CHF and USD/CAD. For these currencies and many others, quotes are expressed as a unit of $1 USD per the second currency quoted in the pair. For example, a quote of USD/JPY 110.01 means that one U.S. dollar is equal to 110.01 Japanese yen.

When the U.S. dollar is the base unit and a currency quote goes up, it means the dollar has appreciated in value and the other currency has weakened. If the USD/JPY quote we previously mentioned increases to 113.01, the dollar is stronger because it will now buy more yen than before.

The three exceptions to this rule are the British pound (GBP), the Australian dollar (AUD) and the Euro (EUR). In these cases, you might see a quote such as GBP/USD 1.7366, meaning that one British pound equals 1.7366 U.S. dollars.

In these three currency pairs, where the U.S. dollar is not the base rate, a rising quote means a weakening dollar, as it now takes more U.S. dollars to equal one pound, euro or Australian dollar.

In other words, if a currency quote goes higher, that increases the value of the base currency. A lower quote means the base currency is weakening.

Currency pairs that do not involve the U.S. dollar are called cross currencies, but the premise is the same. For example, a quote of EUR/JPY 127.95 signifies that one Euro is equal to 127.95 Japanese yen.

When trading Forex you will often see a two-sided quote, consisting of a ‘bid’ and ‘offer’. The ‘bid’ is the price at which you can sell the base currency (at the same time buying the counter currency). The ‘ask’ is the price at which you can buy the base currency (at the same time selling the counter currency).

by Frederic Madore

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Senin, 06 Agustus 2007

What are You Resources ?

Here are some resources you have to
consider as you ponder what and how to trade :

Money
There’s that word again, but the fact of the matter is that you can’t trade without sufficient capital – your trading stake that you need to guard carefully. You may be able to begin trading without having enough time or knowledge, but you won’t be able to begin trading without money. You have to have money to make money.

Your trading account will have to meet minimum requirements set forth by the trading industry. How much money you need depends on what you intend to trade. If you are buying stocks, you have to have at least half of the purchase amount in your account. If you are trading futures, you usually have to have a minimum of about 3 percent to 7 percent of the value of the contract in your account.

Those are the regulatory requirements, and there is no negotiating the amount. If you plan to trade the full-size S&P 500 Index futures contract, for example, you have to have about $20,000 in your account for each contract. If you are trading the e-mini version of the S&P 500, the requirement is about $4,000. The key point is that the amount of money required to trade limits what you can trade and the number of contracts you can hold.

In addition to the minimum regulatory requirements, you should also have a cushion above that to withstand the fluctuations of the marketplace. That suggests you should always have enough extra cash in your account to cover possible worst-case scenarios. At any one time, you may not want to have more than 50 percent of your account tied up in active positions.

If you are not adequately capitalized and the market makes even a slight adverse price move, you may either be forced to put up more money to hold your position or you may be forced out of the market. Having extra money in the account also relieves the pressure of having to be right about your position from the start, pressure that is not conducive to making wise trading decisions.

You also do not want to have the pressure of having the funds for trading come from money you need to pay the rent or buy groceries or from funding the account with your credit card. Your trading money should come from discretionary funds that you can afford to lose without affecting your lifestyle.

Time
Everyone has 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours a day, but how much of your time can you devote to market analysis and trading? If you have a full-time job, it will be difficult to be a day-trader, no matter how well you think you might do with that style of trading.

The priority you place on the use of your time will play a big role in selecting the type of trading resources you need and the style of trading you can do. Time may be an important trading constraint for you.

Trading Help
To perform the market analysis you need to make a trading decision, you will need information and educational resources. Typically, that includes expenditures for the following:

Electronic connection. Today’s active trader almost needs to have a connection to the internet, both to have access to information resources quickly and easily and to enter orders.

Data/price quotes. Today’s active traders also need real-time quotes as well as access to historical market data for their analysis. Brokers may provide sufficient data, but many traders want to subscribe to a source that will provide the most accurate, reliable data possible.

Analytical software. Another requirement for many active traders is software that can turn data into charts and technical indicators deemed necessary to analyze markets. All you need to do is specify the type of software you want, and some vendor is likely to have it.

Advisory services. In general, it’s probably advisable to do your own research, but your lack of time or knowledge may limit what you can do, causing you to turn to other more expert sources for information, analysis and perhaps trading recommendations.

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