ometimes when you open a position you will encounter a very unpleasant thing such as FOREX Slippage. FOREX market is discrete, and the prices are driven by ticks. It indicates that the price you desire to get into the market might not occur at a particular time point (it just lies in the middle of the current and the previous price tick), and as a consequence your broker offers you to go in the market at a distinct price, that is normally even worse than the one you planned. This event is usually called FOREX slippage.
FOREX slippage often happens on bad economic news, or during the most active trading hours when FOREX sessions overlap. If you trade on news, well… just accept it, you will not avoid slippages. Though there is also a way for you to avoid FX slippages in most of the cases (not always), if you trade using delayed orders.
You should also know that a slippage may give you a better closing price, if you exit the market using a delayed take-profit order. Your position will be closed at the new price, which might be 10 – 20 pips (better than you have originally planned) if a gap appears on the chart at the take-profit target.
To avoid FOREX slippages, open your positions before market gets extremely active, or use delayed orders at your planned target points. Just in case that the slippage takes place, instead of accepting your broker’s worse price offer, you can delay for some time and if the market pulls back to your price point, try to position your market order again (you may not have this opportunity though).
The decision to accept or decline a slipped price depends on how bad the new price is, and how big your planned profit is. 10 pips slippage is not really bad if you expect to get 200 pip profit. However 10 pips slippage wil just mess up the trade if.....Read more........http://forexnews.get129dollar.com/?p=122
FOREX slippage often happens on bad economic news, or during the most active trading hours when FOREX sessions overlap. If you trade on news, well… just accept it, you will not avoid slippages. Though there is also a way for you to avoid FX slippages in most of the cases (not always), if you trade using delayed orders.
You should also know that a slippage may give you a better closing price, if you exit the market using a delayed take-profit order. Your position will be closed at the new price, which might be 10 – 20 pips (better than you have originally planned) if a gap appears on the chart at the take-profit target.
To avoid FOREX slippages, open your positions before market gets extremely active, or use delayed orders at your planned target points. Just in case that the slippage takes place, instead of accepting your broker’s worse price offer, you can delay for some time and if the market pulls back to your price point, try to position your market order again (you may not have this opportunity though).
The decision to accept or decline a slipped price depends on how bad the new price is, and how big your planned profit is. 10 pips slippage is not really bad if you expect to get 200 pip profit. However 10 pips slippage wil just mess up the trade if.....Read more........http://forexnews.get129dollar.com/?p=122