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Trader's guide

This section answers the questions that usually come up before your first deposit: how forex trading works, what to expect, how your money is handled, and what protection you have.

Sections

01How brokers make money and how trading works6 questions 02What to expect in practice4 questions 03If something goes wrong: protection and broker verification4 questions 04Money: taxes, currency, deposits and withdrawals6 questions

How brokers make money and how trading works

Spread, commission, swap · A-book/B-book · execution · leverage

How does a forex broker make money?
A-book and B-book: does the broker route or internalise your trade?
Where quotes come from, and how to tell a real market from a bucket shop with fake spikes?
Execution: market vs instant, requotes, slippage, gaps
Leverage, margin, margin call, stop out: how it works
The overnight swap: why holding a position long term can be costly

What to expect in practice

Loss statistics · demo vs live · starting capital

How many retail traders really lose money?
Demo vs live: why demo results don't carry over
Minimum deposit vs real starting capital
Deposit bonus: what the fine print changes

If something goes wrong: protection and broker verification

Legality · protection in a dispute · Tier 1/2/3 · how to check

What Tier 1/2/3 regulators mean and what a licence gives you
How to make sure a broker's site is real and not a clone?
What protection do you have in a dispute with a broker?
Negative balance protection and the compensation scheme: what's the difference?

Money: taxes, currency, deposits and withdrawals

KZ taxes · currency control · local currency · Kaspi

Taxes in Kazakhstan: how much, when, Form 270.00
Currency control and declaring a foreign account
Deposits and withdrawals: methods, timelines, whether it comes back the same way
How a trader fills in Form 270.00
Funding with cryptocurrency: what about legality
A tax-authority notice about foreign income has arrived