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Making Your First Forex Trade
From
John Russell
, former About.com Guide
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Start the Trading Platform
Open the Platform
The very first step in making your first forex trade is opening the
trading platform
. For this tutorial, we are going to use FXTrade, the
Oanda
trading platform, as the example.
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Start the Trading Platform
Step 2 - Open the Chart
Step 3 - Add Indicators
Step 4 - Place the order
Step 5 - Set the Stop Loss and Take Profit Levels
Step 6 - Order Confirmation
Step 7 - The Waiting Period
Step 8 - Trade Completion
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