Trading penny stocks? currencies?
Is trading penny shares riskier than currency trading? This is a very tough question to answer. Personally I think they are too seperate to say which is the most risky. Forex is often traded on margin. Some Forex brokers actually allow leverage upto 500:1. This amount of leverage can very quickly blow up an account.
Penny stocks can move very rapidly and also eat into a trading account.
One big advantage of currencies is you can easily choose how much leverage you want to use. If you have an account with k. You can simply place trades that equal your ,000 or borrow money.
One plus point of forex is that there are usually no trading commissions for retail traders. With stocks you usually have a set fee per trade. Many penny stock brokerages also charge additional fees for trading penny stocks. This may mean you have to earn good returns just to pay the greedy stock broker their fees.
If you trade forex with many retail forex brokers, theres no commissions which is excellent. They make money with the buy and sell (bid/ask) rate spread.
Trading both penny shares and currencies is highly risky. Be sure to take your time when choosing a broker. For stocks a online discount stock broker is often best suited. For currencies a good solid retail broker with a good reputation and low spreads if often the best.
Be careful with forex brokers though, they are often not heavily regulated and they have been known to go bankrupt. You could have heard of the broker refco, they went bankrupt a few years ago. Many account holders lost all of their funds.
One thing you can do is try a demo stock trading account before trading a real account.
Think of how bad it would be if you lost your entire trading account because of your broker going bankrupt!
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