Margin Requirements for FOREX.com

[arbifox]

I was just talking to support at FOREX.com, trying to find out about margin requirements to trade certain currency pairs. They told me that NT would have a table of the requirements for each of the pairs, as Gain Capital is only acting as the Clearinghouse for NT.

So as an example, if I have a $5K account, and I want to trade the EUR/USD or JPY/USD pair, how can I find how many lots I can trade on a 100:1 leverage account?

Regards,

Thomas.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Standard Lot = 100K, so on a 5K account you have 5000 x 100 margin which is 500,000 which means you can likely trade up to 5 lots.

[arbifox]

Is this true for any currency pair?

Ray,

Thanks for getting back to me, is that true regardless of the currency pair I trade?

Regards,

Thomas

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

Should be the case from my understanding but only GAIN can confirm that. Not sure why they referred you to us on this matter.

[kreighton]

http://ninjatrader.com/PDF/ninjatrader_forex_spreads_margins.pdf