我們先來探究一下那些提供贈金的平台與直通市場平台的區別。看看哪個更適合交易者及其2015年的前景。
外匯行業在過去的20年中一直處於上升態勢，經紀商的技術取得了長足的進步、大幅擴張地理領域並獲取了難以置信的利潤。過去的2014年的波動性是50年以來最小的，2015年1月份的零售外匯完全擺脫了這種趨勢。現在，大部分經紀商都試圖通過提供贈金或者提供ECN賬戶來争奪每一位客戶。讓我們詳細看看這兩組賬戶：
什麼是贈金經紀商？
網絡上充滿了各種存$1,000送$500的促銷活動。外匯行業也有這種活動。有許多經紀商會贈送入金的一定百分比作為賬戶中資金。這些經紀商中有些會形容自己是STP（直通市場），而另外一些則是有交易員。然而，這類經紀商是MM（做市商），意思是它們希望你實際地虧損。這是好事還是壞事？視情況而定，只要經紀商不幹涉你的交易，那麼你就沒有必要害怕。在這種匯商下面交易通常是非常有利的，因為點差不是匯商的唯一經濟來源，同時匯商也不必投入大量的資本獲得點差報價。不僅如此，一些經紀商可以提供你交易贈金，這樣你就能夠得到較高的交易本金，在進行一些實質性的交易之後，你就有可能獲得更高的出金比例。
什麼是ECN經紀商？
ECN經紀商是那些僅僅通過佣金或者點差來賺取利潤的平台。通常，你所做的每一筆交易（不論是否盈利），經紀商都可以獲得利潤。這種情況下，經紀商就希望你的交易量越大越好，外匯交易時間越長越好。換句話說，這類經紀商希望你盈利，這樣你就會進行更多交易。需要註意的是，假的ECN匯商遠比真實的多，很多做市商宣稱自己是ECN匯商。80%宣稱自己是ECN匯商的實際上都是做市商。外匯保證金實驗室已經收集了一些真實的ECN經紀商列表。在ECN平台商交易，即使你開始盈利交易情況也不會改變。這類經紀商需要投入大量資金連接銀行報價。
如何選擇?
黑色星期四已經給真正的ECN平台帶來很多傷害，同時，一些做市商的境況也很悲慘。在2015年我們不期望經紀商會給自己的客戶提供額外的利益，同時，一些經紀商有可能提高佣金以及點差。許多做市商在這個事件中確實獲得了一些盈利，它們將這部分資金進行再投資，進而給客戶提供更優惠的政策。這就是為什麼2015將是贈金經紀商的活躍的年份。同時，開戶之前應該對經紀商提供的優惠條件嚴加審核，因為非常好的政策有可能是最後將會產生恐慌的原因。永遠不要在沒有監管或者名聲不好的經紀商處開戶交易。
Bonus Brokers vs ECN Brokers
Let’s examine the main differences between Brokers that offer bonus offers and brokers that provide direct access to the market. See what is better for the traders and what is the outlook for 2015.
Foreign exchange industry has been on the raise for the last 2 decades, brokers were generating incredible profits and this allowed quite a significant advancement in technology and geographical expansion. The year of 2014 has shown the lowest volatility in the last 50 years, while January 2015 has totally shaked them retail forex industry. Now, the brokers are fighting for every single clients and most of the brokers are trying to get more either by offering bonuses or by supplying ECN accounts. Let’s find out about these 2 groups below.
What are Bonus Brokers?
The Internet is full of offers like deposit $1,000 and get $500 FREE. Well, Foreign exchange industry has it too. There are many brokers that offer you a certain % of your deposit as a bonus on your trading account. Some of such brokers may describe their services as STP, others are employing a Dealing Desk. Nevertheless, such brokers a Market Makers, meaning that they expect you to actually lose your trading capital. Is that a good or bad thing? It depends, as long as the broker is not interfering with your trading - there is nothing to be afraid of. Trading with such a broker is usually great, as the spreads are not the main source of the broker’s income and as the broker doesn’t have to heavily invest into a trading infrastructure. On top of it, such brokers provide you with the forex deposit bonus offers, so you do get to enjoy higher account balance and a possibility to cash out some additional funds upon trading some substantial volume.
What are ECN Brokers?
ECN Brokers are the ones that purely earn on commissions and/or spread markups. Generally, for every trade you make (winning or losing) a broker is making profit. This way a broker is interested in you generating the highest possible volume within the longest possible time. In other words, such brokers do want you to earn profit, as you would be trading more. What is important to note is that there are much more fake ECN brokers than there are true ECN brokers. 80% of the brokers that claim to be ECN are in fact market makers. Forex Bonus Lab has collected a list of ECN Brokers that are real. With ECN brokers you get trading conditions that will not change once you started to make profit. These brokers invest heavily into trading infrastructure development.
What to choose?
The Black Thursday event has provided lots of damage to true ECN brokers. While some of the Market Makers ended up in a bad position too, the true ECN brokers were hit the most. We don’t expect such brokers to add a significant amount of extra value for their clients in 2015. We also expect some increase in the commission's and the spreads.
Many Market Makers have actually earned some money on the aforementioned event and this tells us that they will reinvest the funds to make their offer more attractive. This is why the year of 2015 will be the year of the Bonus Brokers. Still, pay close attention to what a broker has to offer, as too good offer may be a sign of a panic. Never settle for an unregulated broker or a broker with a shady regulation.
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文章來源：http://www.fxstreet.com/education/forex-basics/4-steps-of-getting/2015/04/09/