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• Forex vs. Equities

If you are interested in trading currencies online, you will find that the Forex market offers several advantages over equities trading.

• 24-Hour Trading

Forex is a true 24-hour market, which offers a major advantage over equities trading. Whether it's 6pm or 6am, somewhere in the world there are always buyers and sellers actively trading foreign currencies. Traders can always respond to breaking news immediately, and P&L is not affected by after hours earning reports or analyst conference calls.

After hours trading for U.S. equities brings with it several limitations. ECN's (Electronic Communication Networks), also called matching systems, exist to bring together buyers and sellers - when possible. However, there is no guarantee that every trade will be executed, nor at a fair market price. Quite frequently, traders must wait until the market opens the following day in order to receive a tighter spread.

• Superior Liquidity

With a daily trading volume that is 50x larger than the New York Stock Exchange, there are always broker/dealers willing to buy or sell currencies in the FX markets. The liquidity of this market, especially that of the major currencies, helps ensure price stability. Traders can almost always open or close a position at a fair market price.

Because of the lower trade volume, investors in the stock market are more vulnerable to liquidity risk, which results in a wider dealing spread or larger price movements in response to any relatively large transaction.

100:1 Leverage
100:1 leverage is commonly available from online FX dealers, which substantially exceeds the common 2:1 margin offered by equity brokers. At 100:1, traders post $1000 margin for a $100,000 position, or 1%.

While certainly not for everyone, the substantial leverage available from online currency trading firms is a powerful, moneymaking tool. Rather than merely loading up on risk as many people incorrectly assume, leverage is essential in the Forex market. This is because the average daily percentage move of a major currency is less than 1%, whereas a stock can easily have a 10% price move on any given day.

The most effective way to manage the risk associated with margined trading is to diligently follow a disciplined trading style that consistently utilizes stop and limit orders. Devise and adhere to a system where your controls kick in when emotion might otherwise take over.

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.

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Force Index

It was developed by Alexander Elder to measure the bull’s power at each increase & at each decrease.
It connects the basic elements of market information; price trend, its drops, and volumes of transactions.
You can buy when the forces become minus (fall below zero) in the period of indicator increasing tendency.
You can sell when the index becomes positive during the decreasing tendency.
The force index signalizes the Bears Power and continuation of the decreasing tendency when the index falls to the new trough also it signalizes the continuation of the increasing tendency when it increases to the new peak.

Advantage Sigma Forex Platform:

Meta Trader 4 Server API makes it possible to customize the work of the platform to engage the services of your requirements.

• Safety and Security

To supply safety, all the information exchanged between parts of the complex is cripted by 128-bit keys. Such solution assures safekeeping of information transferred and leaves no chance for a third person to use it.
A built-in DDoS-attacks guard system raises the stability of operation of the server and the system as a whole.
With its help, you can hide the real IP-address of the server behind a number of access points (Data Centers). Data Centers also have a built-in DoS-attacks protection system; they can assure and block such attacks. During distributed attacks at the system, only Data Centers are attacked.
Meta Trader 4 Server continues its operation in regular mode. The accomplished mechanisms of rights sharing make it possible to form the security system with more effectiveness and to break down the probability of ill-intentioned actions of company staff.

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Awesome Oscillator

Awesome Oscillator determines market momentum (the second of five market dimensions) at a given time on the last 5 bars, comparing them to the momentum on the last 34 bars.
Awesome Oscillator is simply the difference between the 34 period and 5 period simple moving averages of the bar's midpoints (H+L)/2. Awesome Oscillator is displayed on the chart as:

Each bar which is higher than the preceding one is red, each histogram bar which is lower than the preceding one is green.
Signals to buy:
This is the only signal to buy that comes when the bar chart is higher than the naught line
The saucer signals generated when the bar chart reverse its direction from up to downward where the second column is lower than the first one and is colored red, the third column is higher than the second and is colored green & should have at least three columns.
Signals to sell:
Awesome Oscillator Saucer sell signal is the opposite of the Awesome Oscillator Saucer buy signal
The saucer signal is reversed and is below zero. Naught line crossing is on the decrease, the first column of it is over the naught & the second one is under it. The two pikes signal is higher than the naught line and is reversed too.

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