What should you consider before setting up a brokerage firm?

May 27, 2016

By Taylor Wilman

With the boom of Dot-com, things have become easier. Getting accessible data, feasible opportunities to voice your opinion and a channel for creating promising online business with the global audience is no more an issue. The same is applicable to the forex brokerage too! A forex brokerage firm connects a retail forex trader with the foreign exchange market. The widespread of forex brokerages attributes to the fact that today more than ever, people want to make money from the comfort of home instead of going for work and letting someone else to make profit. And forex traders comprise a good portion of this population.

There is no dearth of forex brokers; their presence across the globe is really staggering. Any Internet-savvy individual can find a forex broker with just a little search. And by making use of this, many predatory brokers slide into the market. Such brokers hardly keep their promises of offering low spreads, letting traders make profit and offering user-friendly trading platform, thus new traders often get sucked in and eventually lose their money and leave the broker. The clients need a reliable and dependable forex brokerage service so they don’t have to lose their hard earned dollar.

If you want to start your firm with true passion and thus belong to the latter group of brokers, you must consider three major things following which would help you remain stable and competitive.

Avoid over-making your market – Forex brokers generally get their spread cost between two currencies from Interbank market. It is actually a collection of hedge funds, major banks and other financial institutions which are legally obliged to serve the commercial turnover of currency investment and a huge amount of short-term, speculative currency trading. It’s fine if you mark up the Interbank market price; but it is recommended that you don’t over-do it. There is no shortage of brokers in the market who is ready to take your customers by just quoting a less-pricey rate. Customers may sometimes even go for a metatrader5.

The matter of spread cost mostly applies to 6 major currencies – US dollar, Great Britain pound, Euro, Japanese yen, Swiss franc and Australian dollar while the US dollar contributes almost 85% to day-to-day trading and thus it should be considered as the primary currency when making your market.


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Offer little or no commission – Commission is a fee that the traders are charged at the time of placing a trade. The amount may vary based on the currency pair traded. Since your motto is to become a good and successful forex broker by making trading inexpensive for the customers, you’re recommended to opt for low spreads and little or no commission as the customers like this type of trading. To accompany low spreads, low or no commission would work just wonder for you.

Provide best customer support – You can never succeed if your customers are having trouble while undertaking normal trading activities like withdrawing fund or just being avoided while asking support question about the trading platform. To stay tuned with your customers, you’re always recommended to provide world-class and responsive support.

Remain transparent and liberal – this is the key to be successful as a forex broker.

 

Article by Taylor Wilman