A lot of traders have been asking me about ‘buying power’ lately. The thing is, we don’t have any reference to it anywhere on our website or associated with our T4TCapital Forex Trading Programme so I can only guess they are referring to what other companies are offering.
Put simply, ‘Buying Power’ refers to trade size.
For example, if you have $500K in buying power, that means you can trade 5 standard lots.
If you have $200K in buying power, that means you can trade 2 standard lots.
When you sign up you choose your account size, which can be anything from $100,000 to $500,000 with a rolling monthly subscription until you reach the profit targets.
It sounds enticing right. Who wouldn’t pay $300/month to get a chance to trade a $500,000 live account?
Well, this is where the illusion (clever wording and marketing) comes into play, as your $500,000 Demo account shrinks into a $5,000 Live account once you reach the profit target. Read the fine print…. “You can earn $500K in buying power.”
That’s right, you’re the proud manager of a $5,000 account with $500K of ‘Buying Power’. You can trade 5 lots!
The programmes do offer traders an opportunity to manage funds with very little upfront cash. But I just don’t see the need for the deception, tricking people into thinking they could earn a much bigger account than what is available.
They should just be upfront about it. But then again who’s going to sign up to a program where you get a $5,000 trading account? Not many.
For good measure if you compared our trading accounts then the following would apply:
$25,000 account = $250K buying power
$50,000 account = $500K buying power
$100,000 account = $1M buying power
But the difference with our T4TCapital Trading Programme is, your Live trading account will be the same size as the Demo practical assessment!
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About the Author: Brad Gilbert
Brad has over 25 years of FX trading experience. Prior to setting up T4T in 2009, Brad worked for Citibank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Toronto Dominion Bank. He was Chief FX Dealer of some of the biggest FX teams in Sydney, London & New York. He has also worked extensively through Asia in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam
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Written by Brad Gilbert, Founder & Head Trader at Traders4Traders — 36 years of institutional FX experience, mentoring 1,000+ traders since 2009.
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