trading lot sizes

As a newbie, I was wondering what is the max lot size one can trade, in the following parameters, max 1:50 leverage.
1. Would trading a huge amount cause a delay in the order placement?
2. is there a happy medium between small lots and larger lots?
3. what size of a lot would it take to move the price 1 pip?

Almost all brokers have cap on 50 lots per order..so if you want to trade larger number of lots you must open multiple 50 lot orders. With a 1:50 leverage for one 50 lot order you need around 2000$ x 50 = 100000$ in margin (these are rough estimates) add +- 10% depending on the pair traded.

For 2) I don't know, and for 3) that question has been answered multiple times and the answer is no you can't move anything with even billions. Well technically you can but in low liquidity hours, but not for too much.

That depends very much on your broker.

If you're using a genuine broker (e.g. "Interactive Brokers"), who's executing trades on your behalf and isn't financially involved in the outcomes of your trades, and has no incentive for you to lose, and isn't trading against you, it shouldn't ever be a problem for you.

If you're using a counterparty market-maker as a "broker", then yes: it can certainly cause delays and potentially other problems, too, sometimes even in surprisingly small position-sizes.



This is subjective and interpretative. As long as you use a genuine broker, and don't "trade the news", it will never register on your radar as "an issue" for you at all.



Absolutely astronomical size, by retail trading standards. Not an issue for an individual trader, in forex.

be careful with trading to large lot sizes, if you are wrong you will be out of money after only a few trials,
it is better to use money management and only trade a small percentage of your account,
if you don't you will lose your account.

If you agree to earn 1$ from 200$ deposit you won't wipe out your account for a long time.
But I think nobody want to spend their precious time for 1-2 bucks daily, right.
So If I don't have 50K to start but still want to earn good with my 300-400 bucks, want should I do?
Yes, you're thinking right: Increase risk.

Not forex-trading.



A very poor approach, in my opinion. In a field of endeavour in which overall success-rates are minuscule to start with, starting off undercapitalized and with disproportionately high risk is a pretty much guaranteed way of heavily stacking the deck against yourself even further.

Please excuse my mentioning, with no rudeness or hostility intended at all, that it's dismaying that you've been a member for over 2 years and made 400 posts, apprently without yet appreciating this.

Hey thanks for the info guys, of course im not going to bet the farm, nor do I think Ill be throwing more than 1-3% at a time, was just wondering when im actually playing with a larger account aka, 60k and above.

will 1,000 lots move the market? That would be roughly $10,000 a pip.

Not even for a pip. Look there's an excellent thread about all these questions in the Trading discussion section of the forum and it's called "Is anyone here an institutional trader?" Look it up, all these questions have been answered there...

Trading large lot sizes with a small account is a recipe for disaster after youve calmed down after thinking that your going to be a millionaire in a year try and have a reasonable lot size. Im trading .3 lots with $1400 which is probably way to risky so Im thinking about reducing it try .1 for every $1000 sound reasonable I have leverage at 25:1 I learnt my lesson by years of blowing up my account that 400:1 leverage is a disaster

Im not stating anything about a small account. I am simply asking if someone purchases 1,000 full lots will it be okay to do so? will it move the market? etc? Or is this just a normal size perhaps for the big boys or banks, etc.

i think start a forex trading with small lot is good enough, just make ur profit again and again as constant as u can, u will got good profit i think, and when u think ur skill is good enough u can start raise ur lot.