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HF Markets Trading Tools Novice Guide

Using the right trading tools can save you time and make analysis easier。Below are the available trading tools offered by HF Markets。

Using the right trading tools can save you time and make analysis easier。Below are the available trading tools offered by HF Markets。

HF Markets (HFM), formerly HotForex, is a multi-asset broker founded in 2010 and headquartered in Cyprus.。The broker offers its services in more than 100 countries and is licensed by several top regulators, including ASIC, CySEC and FCA.。Users can choose from more than 1,000 CFD and 47 Forex pairs, and their fees are quite low compared to other brokers in the industry。

HF Markets 交易工具

HF Markets offers a wide range of trading tools, providing a range of trading tools with different functions。Since not many brokers offer these services for free, the services of HF Markets can be a great opportunity to improve your trading。

Without further ado, let's explore the excellent trading tools offered by HF Markets。

Transaction Announcement

Trade bulletins are internally developed trading tools that display important information about currency price movements, such as:

  • Currency Charts: Allows you to compare between different major currency pairs, view other customers' positions for each currency pair
    Live Charts: You can view live charts of EUR / USD, GBP / USD, USD / CHF, AUD / USD, USD / JPY and EUR / GBP
    Volume per symbol: Displays the volume of each traded instrument by HF Makes clients
    Forecast: Highlight trading forecasts and possible future trends calculated by experts, displayed in three different time frames (1 week, 1 month and 1 quarter)

Trading Calculator

Trading Calculator allows you to calculate a variety of different things。At HF Markets, you can use eight types of calculators for free, namely:

  • Risk Probability Calculator: Calculate lots by specifying risk-taking funds, opening and stopping prices, account currencies and currency pairs
    Multi-objective calculator: determine which partial positions should be closed at a specific price level to obtain the best risk-reward ratio
    Pivot Point Calculator: Identify support and resistance levels by specifying the highest price, lowest price, closing price and current opening price in a specific time frame
    Point Value Calculator: Find the value of each point by entering the account currency, the currency pair used for trading, and the position size
    Position Size Calculator: Controlling Risk by Calculating the Size of Your Position
    Swap Calculator: Interest determined to be paid or earned on open overnight CFD positions, credited / debited directly to the transaction and reflected in the account balance
    Risk and Return Calculator: Find the best target and corresponding risk-return ratio based on Fibonacci retracement
    Fibonacci Calculator: Calculate four basic Fibonacci support and resistance retracement values: 23.8%, 38.2%, 50% and 61.8%

Economic calendar lets you track important market events and announcements。You can view the exact date, time and currency involved, as well as the degree of market volatility after the event, indicated by yellow, orange and red bars, indicating low, average and high, just click on one of the news to jump to the official report and get details。

HF Markets 经济日历

automatic charting tool

HF Markets has formed a special partnership with Autochartist to help traders read charts more easily。Autochartist tool can be installed in MT4 or MT5 trading platform。It can identify three types of tradable patterns on the chart, namely chart patterns, Fibonacci patterns and resistance levels, allowing you to quickly scan the chart and find trading opportunities in the market。

In addition, the tool is highly customizable, so you can use various filters to find the perfect custom watch list for transactions。You can also choose to monitor only certain tools and get real-time alerts as soon as new opportunities, analytics or volatility reports are identified。The tool runs 24 hours, so you won't miss any more opportunities。

Advanced Trading Tools

The service gives you access to a wide range of important downloadable tools, including advanced trading tools, user-configurable news and trading analytics.

  • Trade Terminal: A comprehensive trade execution and analysis tool designed to provide numerous trading functions not normally found in standard trading platforms
    Mini Terminal: an extension of the trading terminal, designed for traders who want to focus on a specific market
    Connections: Displays customizable news feeds and economic calendars that can provide useful insights into your transactions with greater flexibility。Other HFM features are also accessible: such as market calendar, deposit function, educational materials, webinar registration and rewards
    Trader Sentiment: Displays trader sentiment based on real open positions in the market, you can choose to view historical sentiment or current sentiment for multiple trading instruments
    Conference map: displays a quick market overview of the world's major markets with a view to current global time, future events, and an overview of price movements for each market session
    Notification Management: Private Trading Assistant will notify you of any important events in this way。You can also perform certain automated actions, such as opening a position or sending an email
    Excel RTD: Collects real-time account, bill, and price data and puts it into Excel, and if you have basic programming skills, you can also use this tool to send commands from Excel or other COM environments
    Marketing Manager: displays customizable code, account and order activity in a small window
    Correlation matrix: Provides information on different time frames in the form of a matrix to help you make better decisions。The matrix shows the correlation between different currencies and highlights areas of low or high correlation
    Related Trader: Gather information from the correlation matrix and expand it so that you can trade the real-time difference in correlation between two markets at the same time
    Scale Charts: Displays different types of scale charts, including traditional tick-by-tick charts, timed scale charts, and scale bars
    MT4 and MT5 indicators: Contains several useful chart indicators available on MT4 and MT5, such as brick charts, pivot points, order history, etc.

One-click trading

HF Markets' one-click trading tool allows traders to execute trading positions with one click, simplifies the order placing procedure and helps traders execute orders at the best price possible. It is very suitable for scalpers or traders who like to make multiple trades in a short time. The tool only requires you to activate the service once on the platform。

HF Markets一键交易

Exclusive analysis

The service gives traders access to exclusive market analysis provided by a large number of reliable experts, which can take many forms, including articles, podcasts and videos, and also covers a wide range of topics such as technical analysis, fundamentals, commodities, etc.。

VPS Hosting

The broker, in partnership with Beeks Financial Cloud, offers a VPS hosting service that allows traders to run automated algorithmic strategies, such as EA trading, on virtual machines 24 hours, 7 days a week.。It provides high stability and flexibility because it can minimize the risks usually caused by power failure, Internet interruption, computer shutdown, etc.。

After meeting certain conditions, you can get VPS hosting service for free, or you can subscribe to the paid version, starting at $30 per month。Simply log into your HF Markets account and click on one of the VPS hosting packages to activate the service。

SMS Notification Service

You can send instant notifications directly to your phone via SMS notification service。Stay on top of the latest market news and events wherever you are。Notifications fall into two categories, namely:

  • Speed Update: Will keep you informed of strong-impact events in Europe and the US。
    Chart auto-update: will give you alerts on a variety of scenarios including market highs / lows, huge price swings, moving average crossover events, overbought / oversold scenarios, and breakout support / resistance levels。

HFM APP

In addition to fast trade execution, HF Markets offers convenient mobile trading via the HFM app。You can use the app for any trading purpose, including opening / closing transactions, depositing / withdrawing money using a premium account, just install the app on your phone。

MyHF Space

MyHF Area is an all-in-one account management tool for accessing all services offered by HFM。MyHF Area can be used on desktop and mobile devices, free of charge to all customers, because it is built with advanced SSL encryption technology, so the software is completely secure。

Conclusion

HF Markets provides a series of trading tools, mainly to make traders' lives easier, so this is definitely a good opportunity to improve trading efficiency and minimize risk。


HF Markets is an award-winning Forex and commodities broker founded in 2010, offering trading services and facilities to retail and institutional clients.。More than nine years since opening, HF Markets has opened around 1,500,000 live accounts worldwide with 200 employees.。

From the point of view of its services, HF Markets can be regarded as middle class, customers do not need to prepare a large deposit to join the broker to trade。In addition, there are a variety of account types, trading software and tools for both individual and institutional clients to trade Forex and CFD online。

HF Markets is the registered brand name of HF Markets (Europe), which is regulated by various financial regulators according to its location。Details are as follows:

  • HF Markets (SV) Ltd, registered as an international business company in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines with registration number 22747 IBC 2015。
    HF Markets (Europe), licensed and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), license number 183 / 12。
    HF Markets SA (PTY) is a financial service provider (FSP) licensed and regulated by the South African Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) under license number 46632.。
    HF Markets (Seychelles) is incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Seychelles, registration number 8419176-1, regulated by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA), securities dealer license number SD015。
    HF Markets (DIFC) Ltd, licensed and regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), license number F004885。
    HF Markets (UK) Ltd, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), company reference number 801701。

Traders can become professional clients, manage and assess risk if they are more experienced, knowledgeable and have a more mature trading environment。As a result, professional clients can get better rates but less regulatory protection。

Trading through HF Markets gives traders access to a variety of trading tools, such as Forex CFD, cryptocurrencies, rare metals (gold, silver, etc.), energy (oil and gas), commodities (such as coffee, copper and sugar), indices, bonds and popular stocks (such as Google, Apple and Facebook)。

HF Markets offers the lowest spreads on the market, with spreads in zero accounts starting at 0。The broker's quotes for major forex currency pairs are accurate to five decimal places。As a result, traders have the opportunity to obtain more accurate pricing and optimal spreads。

HF Markets has received a number of prestigious titles, including the great honour of being among the world's top 100 companies in world finance.。Other awards include the "World's Best Customer Money Security" award from Global Brands magazine, the Best Global Forex Documentary Trading Platform award from the 2019 Global Forex Awards, and the 2019 Fastest Growing Forex Broker Mena Award from International Business Magazine.。

After opening an account in HF Markets, traders will be able to meet all their trading needs through various forex trading platforms。Whether traders prefer to trade on desktop or mobile, MetaTrader 4 can be used on desktop (terminals, multiterminals and web terminals) and mobile phones (iPhone, iPad and Android)。

Clients' funds are held in separate accounts and only the major banks are used by the market, as successful traders must focus their full attention on trading rather than worrying about the safety of their funds。

HF Markets does not charge any transaction fees when making deposits and withdrawals, and has a variety of payment methods, with a choice of wire transfers, bank cards and online payments (Neteller, iDeal, Soport Banking and Skrill), ensuring that traders can trade quickly 24 / 7 on weekdays.。

Traders can earn extra income by joining affiliate programs offered by Markets。Clients who join the program will get some advantages, such as a 60% net spread based on sub-client trading volume, and net income of up to $15 per lot.。More information about HF Markets can be found on its official website, which supports 27 languages。

In summary, HF Markets is one of the award-winning Forex and Commodities Brokers。Traders can choose from a variety of account types in HF Markets, and the broker itself is a trader's favorite due to its low spreads, ideal for traders with limited funds and a desire to have more opportunities to maximize profits。

The key is to find a trading tool that really suits you. For example, scalpers should use tools such as VPS hosting or one-click trading to execute quickly. We recommend that you combine different tools to get the most benefits。


HF Markets is a global forex and commodities broker serving retail and institutional clients。As the HotForex in the brokerage industry, HFM positions itself as a Forex broker for traders worldwide through its various account types and trading tools.。In addition, HF Markets allows scalping traders and traders unlimited access to expert advisors。

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