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When trading you will actually find two prices per currency pair – the bid and the ask. Of course they will be displayed in 4 or 5 digits depending on your broker. Lets explain what they mean which can be a bit confusing for some people, and then I tell you how I remember them.
The Bid price – Sell
The Bid is the price a seller pays for in any currency pair.
The Ask Price – Buy
The ask is the price a buyer pays for in any currency pair.
A price quotation in Forex means the display of Bid / Ask prices. For example EUR/USD can be 1.2874 / 1.2876. The bid price is 1.2874 while the Ask price is 1.2876. Of course the prices change nearly every second!
How we can remember these confusing words?
Assuming that you want to sell the currency, you take the Bid price. So the price at which you enter the trade will be the Bid price.
If you want to buy the currency, you take the Ask price. So the price at which you enter the trade will be the Ask price.
Why the prices are difference? Why the discrepancy between the Bid / Ask price? That is called the spread – the broker profit! We will explain that spread in the next lesson!
If you are a beginner and you want to learn the basics of Forex Trading or you want to learn the core of Technical Analysis with detailed examples please visit the Forex Trading Courses page. You will find huge amount of valuable information and video tutorials worth thousands of dollars if you had to purchase expensive courses, and now you can have them all for FREE. See you there.
Want to learn more? Of course you want! Find the complete set of lessons for the Forex for Beginners course below.
Lesson 1. Trading Currency Pairs
Lesson 2. What is scalping?
Lesson 3. Intra Day Trading
Lesson 4. End of Day Trading
Lesson 5. Traders Psychology
Lesson 6. Best Trading Hours
Lesson 7. How to interpret Prices of Currency Pairs
Lesson 8. Forex Pip
Lesson 9. Bid Ask Forex Prices
Lesson 10. Brokers Spread
Lesson 11. Currency Leverage and Margin
Lesson 12. Forex Lots
Lesson 13. Forex PIP Value
Lesson 14. How to Calculate Profit and Loss
Lesson 15. Currency Trading Platform
Lesson 16. Forex Bar Charts
Lesson 17. Candlesticks Charts
Lesson 18. Bars or Candlesticks Charts?
Lesson 19. What’s Next? Technical Course
