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Forex Trading Sample Assignments and Resources

Forex Overview

Provide your students with an overview on forex trading.


Assignment
Forex Markets

View our Traders' Academy course, which is designed to help investors understand how to trade shares of overseas-listed companies in foreign currencies, become aware of settlement concerns and know how exchange rate fluctuations can affect profits and losses when using a cash account or borrowing on margin.

Resources
Traders' Academy

FXTrader

The FXTrader provides an optimized trading interface with IB-designed tools to trade the forex markets.


Assignment
Trade all available currencies.

Students might want to hedge positions with the currencies' derivatives (futures or options). For instance, CME forex futures trading.

Resources
Traders' Academy
Documentation

Forex Order Types

Instruct your students how to place a Forex order.


Assignment

Place a Forex order. For example, practice placing stop limit orders. Students may use IB's default trigger methodology or configure their own customized trigger methodology.

Resources
Traders' Academy
Website

Trading Forex on Margin

Instruct your students to familiarize themselves with our margin requirements for forex and how to monitor the margin requirements for their own accounts.


Assignment
Learning About Margin

Learn the basic principles of trading forex on margin.


Monitor Margin Requirements

Learn how to monitor margin requirements.

TWS Users' Guide

Forex Commissions

Instruct your students to familiarize themselves with our commissions.


Assignment

Review IB's Forex commissions and other pertinent pricing information.

Resources
IB Website

Additional Reference Material


Assignment

Read the latest Forex-related articles from IBKR's Traders' Insight, a Global market commentary from Interactive Brokers Group traders and market participants, and review the Forex Holiday Calendar.

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