A type of forex account in which a money manager trades the account on a client’s behalf for a fee. Managed forex accounts are similar to hiring an investment advisor to manage a traditional investment account of equities and bonds. Returns and fees between managed accounts can vary greatly; therefore, it is important to research your options thoroughly before assigning your account to a professional manager.

Some forex managed accounts are manually traded by the manager while others use automated software to place trades for them. Some use a combination of both of these.

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The “black box” portion of the system contains formulas and calculations that the user does not see nor need to know to use the system. Black box systems are often used to determine optimal trading practices. These systems generate many different types of data including buy and sell signals.

Some forex robots simply alert you when there is an entry signal, while others are more complete trading systems that automatically place the trades, modify them, and close trades without any human intervention.

Trading robots remove the psychological aspect of trading and human error. They also allow you to be away from your trading desk as they automatically place trades for you.

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What does this mean in the forex market?
GMT provides a standard of time for the world when trading the forex market. GMT time does not change for daylight savings time. However, it is important to note that when clocks are pushed forward an hour in the spring, the market opening times change in terms of GMT.

For instance, the New York market opens at 8am Eastern Time (EST) year round. However, throughout the winter months, the New York market opens at 13:00 GMT time. When daylight savings time occurs in the spring, the New York market open changes to 12:00 GMT. (Note: GMT always stays the same. It is the market opening hours that are changing due to daylight savings.)

The following chart shows the forex market hours in eastern time (EST) and GMT.

Trading when market sessions overlap provides higher volume and volatility.

For example, trading EUR/USD, GBP/USD currency pairs would give good results between 8:00 am and 12:00 noon EST when two markets for those currencies are active.

Unique Features Of Forex
The forex market is the largest, most liquid market in the world with an average traded volume that exceeds $3.9 trillion per day and is open 24 hours a day except on weekends.  Unlike other markets, the forex market allows for the use of high leverage.  Because of these factors, the forex market is considered to be the market that is closest to being perfectly competitive.

Who Trades The Forex Market?
Until recently, forex trading in the currency market had been the domain of large financial institutions, corporations, central banks, hedge funds and extremely wealthy individuals. The emergence of the internet has changed all of this, and now it is possible for average investors to buy and sell currencies easily with the click of a mouse through online brokerage accounts.