Selecting An Asset To Trade We start off at the home page on the eToro platform. Go to Trade Markets on the bar on left to trade with CFD, this is where you can see all the assets that can be traded. The choices are currencies, commodities, indices, stocks, and cryptocurrencies. Here we use currencies (FOREX) as an example. Therefore, select Currencies on the top right of the … [Read more...] about Your First Trade On eToro – Step by Step
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Why do many traders lose money on eToro?
With the amount of advertisement and self promotion on the internet trading is becoming more and more attractive for newcomers on eToro. Many of them jump in right in, hoping for a quick profit without actually learning the basics of trading beforehand, researching or practicing and end up rapidly losing their investments. There are many reasons to why that happens but here are … [Read more...] about Why do many traders lose money on eToro?
Calculate Your Profit – CFD Trading On eToro
There are two positions one can take while trading with Contract For Difference (CFD) - long and short. Anticipating the price of an asset to increase in the future would result in a “Long” order, also referred to as “buy” or “going long”. Expecting a downward market movement would result in a “Short” order, also referred to as a “sell” or "shorting" or “going … [Read more...] about Calculate Your Profit – CFD Trading On eToro
What is Shorting? A quick guide
eToro offers a great variety of tools and assets for easy trading, and being able to sell an asset short is one of them. Below you can find a quick overview of what short selling is and how to perform it on the platform. What is Shorting? Shorting, going short or short selling is a type of a trading strategy where the trader makes a profit on a decline in price of a … [Read more...] about What is Shorting? A quick guide
eToro Overview of the Platform
Introduction eToro is an online brokerage platform that operates since 2007. The platform offers multiple assets to be traded (including basic stocks, commodities, indices, more complex CFD's and progressive currencies), many assisting tools and several innovative features, such as social trading (with options to copy other traders or portfolios). The company was founded in … [Read more...] about eToro Overview of the Platform