AC Markets

AC Markets, or Advanced Currency Markets is a Forex trading platform. it is necessary to open a Forex account in order to deal in foreign currencies. AC Markets is one of the best Forex trading platforms. AC Markets offers free online live trading accounts and free practice trading accounts. Besides free accounts AC Markets offers free fundamental and technical analysis.

AC Markets

AC Markets is a Swiss company founded in 2002. AC Markets' headquarters are located in Geneva, Switzerland, although it has other offices in Zurich, New York, Dubai and Montevideo. There is no doubt that AC Markets is one of the leading Forex brokers in the world. It is certainly one of the most popular web-based Forex trading sites and in 2010, AC Markets ranks on Alexa as one of the top 30,000 most visited web sites in the world. Their literature says that they are most popular Forex trading web site in the world bar none and I believe them.

AC Markets provides a reliable and simple trading platform for 55 currency pairs and for gold and silver. Spreads are on average three pips for the major pairs in a standard account, and four pips in a mini account. The leverage is 100:1 for both types of accounts and the minimum deposit for a mini account is $2,000 and for standard accounts $5,000. Demo accounts, offering real time prices and trading conditions are available free of charge for a period of 30 days.

The registration process is quite long and although not difficult does require more than the usual amount of personal details, such as occupation and passport number. This, they point out, is because Switzerland has strict privacy laws when it comes to banking and they want to rule out money laundering.

So basically, once you are in, you are in and your details will be private, unless the government orders an inquiry, which is hardly likely, is it? The currencies that AC Markets accepts for deposit into your account are: GBP, USD, CHF, AUD, CAD, SEK and JPY.

AC Markets offers access to your account in six different ways, so that, say, you can use the full professional software suite on your home, office or laptop computer; a web-based platform from any other computer around the world; a WAP, mobile phone system and a 'Flash Trader'. These trading platforms can be accessed in any of fourteen languages: all the major European languages, plus Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, Japanese, Greek and Turkish.

All the trading platforms are both user-friendly and customizable. They include charting tools, news, analysis reports and financial calendars. One excellent feature is AC Markets' 'click and capture', which means that anytime you click on a price to accept it, that is your execution price - there is no slippage.

AC Markets provides a wealth of intelligent, useful information so that both the novice and expert will have all the details they need to make informed decisions, There are also tutorials, a glossary of terms and a free practice account. The help desk is second to none, providing help in all the languages above twenty-four hours a day. There is no doubt about it, AC Markets is a very professional, world-class, Forex trading platform.