{"id":19104,"date":"2011-02-06T06:14:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T11:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=19104"},"modified":"2011-02-06T06:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T11:14:33","slug":"should-you-consider-joining-forex-brokers-through-rebate-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/06\/should-you-consider-joining-forex-brokers-through-rebate-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Consider Joining Forex Brokers Through Rebate Websites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By James Woolley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The idea of getting cash back every time you trade the forex markets  is a relatively new one, however it has proven to be a very popular idea  because there are now lots of companies that offer these rebates. So  why exactly should you consider joining one of these websites?<\/p>\n<p>Well  let me first of all explain how these forex rebate companies work. They  are basically introducing brokers, so it is in their best interests to  drive as many people as they can to the various brokers that they work  with.<\/p>\n<p>They attract new customers by offering rebates on every  trade they place (that is opened and closed) and they are subsequently  rewarded by also earning a small commission on each trade. Now you may  think that because the broker has to compensate two parties, the spread  may be higher if you join a broker through one of these sites.<\/p>\n<p>Well  that can indeed be true. You may find that instead of trading a  currency pair with a spread of 3 pips, which would be the case if you  had signed up with the forex broker directly, you are suddenly paying a  spread of 4 pips after joining them through the introducing broker, ie  the rebate company in this case.<\/p>\n<p>However the good news is that  some rebate companies do not charge any higher spreads, and they are in  fact exactly the same. So you really can earn some extra cash just by  opening and closing positions, as you would normally. You may think that  the rebates may not amount to much, but you would be surprised. If you  are a frequent trader or you like to trade relatively high stakes, you  can earn quite a lot every month.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about these  rebates is that it doesn&#8217;t matter if your trades are winning ones or  losing ones. You still get the same amount of commission per trade. So  you could potentially find yourself in a situation where you have  finished slightly down on the month, but the combined sum of all your  rebates pushes you into profitability.<\/p>\n<p>So the point is that if  you are looking to open a live trading account with a forex broker, you  may as well do so via a forex rebate company. As long as the spread is  still the same for all the various forex pairs, you should be able to  earn yourself a nice little income on the side for every trade that you  make.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>James Woolley runs a forex blog that provides information on all the major <a href=\"http:\/\/theforexarticles.com\/forex-brokers\/\" target=\"_new\">forex brokers<\/a> and reviews various different products and services including <a href=\"http:\/\/theforexarticles.com\/2011\/02\/03\/cashbackforex-review\/\" target=\"_new\">CashBackForex<\/a>, one of the leading companies that offers forex rebates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of getting cash back every time you trade the forex markets is a relatively new one, however it has proven to be a very popular idea because there are now lots of companies that offer these rebates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}