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Explanations of rebates, trading costs and how to choose a broker. Short and to the point.

Trading costs

How to read a broker cost table without being misled

Six questions that turn a published cost table into something you can actually compare, plus the two traps that flatter the wrong broker.

Trading costs

What overnight financing costs on a position you hold

Spread and commission are charged once. Swap is charged every night. For a position held a week, the entry cost is often the smaller half of the bill.

Trading costs

Advertised spread and the spread you actually get

Broker pages quote one number, your platform shows another. Neither is lying. Here is what sits behind the gap and how to measure past it.

Trading costs

The real cost of one lot: spread, commission and swap

Three separate charges hit the same trade, at different moments and on different bases. Here is what each one is and what it scales with.

Choosing an account

Which account type returns the most per lot, and why the answer moves

The highest rebate is not the cheapest account. A rebate is a share of what you paid, so a big number can belong to an expensive place to trade.

Choosing an account

Choosing an account type by how much you actually trade

A half dollar per lot is a rounding error at two lots a month and real money at two hundred. Volume decides how much the difference matters.

Choosing an account

How to compare two account types without fooling yourself

The same two accounts swap places depending on the pair, the hour, and whether you counted all three parts of the cost.

Choosing an account

Two ways a rebate is calculated, and why it changes which account is best

Some accounts pay a share of the spread, others a fixed amount per lot. The two behave so differently that one headline number cannot compare them.

How IB works

Does taking a rebate change your trading conditions?

A fair suspicion with a structural answer: pricing is applied at execution, the partner share is calculated afterwards. Here is the test you can run yourself.

How IB works

Is a rebate a bonus, or your own money coming back?

Bonuses come with volume conditions and can be revoked. A rebate is a slice of what you already paid. The difference decides what anyone may demand of you.

How IB works

How to tell whether your account has an IB attached

Your broker will not show you who introduced you. Here are three ways to find out, and what a checker can honestly tell you.

How IB works

Who is the IB in forex, and where does their money come from?

Every forex broker pays somebody to bring clients in. Here is who that is, where the commission comes from, and what happens to it when nobody introduced you.