FAQ
General questions
NPBFX Company specializes in providing trading services on FOREX for individual traders and institutional clients. The company’s clients are able to earn from changes in exchange rates.
Trading is available 24 hours a day from 10:00pm GMT Sunday through 9:00pm GMT on Friday, including most U.S. holidays.
NPBFX Company do not act as tax agent for clients. Thus, the clients themselves calculate and pay personal income tax based on the laws of the nations of which they are citizens.
NPBFX Company uses STP technologies that work without a dealing desk to route trade orders directly to liquidity providers, giving clients access to a real market with better and faster fills.
NPBFX Company aggregates liquidity from the major banks (Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, HSBC, JPMorgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, RBS, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs) and ECNs (Currenex, Integral, Hotspot FX) to provide the best quotes from the interbank market for Clients to trade on.
NPBFX do not charge any fees or commissions. We generate our revenue from a small markup on the spread we receive from the interbank market. For example, company recieve from liquidity providers quotes EURUSD: Bid 1.14103 / Ask 1.14108 (spread 0.5 pips). NPBFX offers to its clients quotes EURUSD: Bid 1.14100 / Ask 1.14111 (spread 1.1 pips). Thus in this example markup of the Company is 0.3 pips to quote Bid or Ask.
NPBFX Company assumes no gain or loss on client’s open positions and earns only from client’s turnover: the number and volume of deals, that is, the greater the volume of deals and / or the greater the number of deals, the more profitable to the company. If the client successfully trades and earns, it usually grows client’s turnover, which means growing revenue of company. If the client trades with a loss, client’s turnover reduces, and therefore falls company’s revenue from that client. Thus, NPBFX Company directly interested in trading success of its clients.
Trade conditions and types of accounts
NPBFX Company offers several account types with different minimum deposit, maximum leverage, minimum trade volume and spreads. Detailed information about trade conditions on different types of accounts, see: Trade conditions.
The minimum initial deposit is 10 USD, 10 EUR or 500 RUB, depending on the chosen account currency.
Different types of accounts have the different minimum trade volume (0.01 or 0.1 lots), maximum leverage (1: 200 or 1: 100) and size of spreads. Brief description of the trade conditions on various types of accounts:
- «Master»: minimum trade volume — 0,01 lots, minimum spread — 0,8 pips, minimum initial deposit — 10 USD / 10 EUR / 500 RUB, maximum leverage — 1:200;
- «Expert»: minimum trade volume — 1,0 lots, minimum spread — 0,6 pips, minimum initial deposit — 5 000 USD / 5 000 EUR / 300 000 RUB, maximum leverage — 1:100;
- «VIP»: minimum trade volume — 1,0 lots, minimum spread — 0,4 pips, minimum initial deposit — 50 000 USD / 50 000 EUR / 3 000 000 RUB, maximum leverage — 1:100;
Detailed information about trade conditions on different types of accounts, see: Trade conditions.
The most common currency pairs are available for trading. The full list of quoted currency pairs is available in the section: Specifications.
The use of automated trading with Expert Advisors are allowed and encouraged. The client can use advisers with any trading strategy. Scalping and HFT-trading are also allowed. NPBFX Company is interested in all trading strategies of Clients that generate a large turnover.
Trade is allowed, but please be aware that during the release of economic news a significant reduction of liquidity is possible and, as a consequence, increasing of spreads and execution of deals with slippage.
MetaTrader 4 trading platform supports hedging (locking) positions.
NPBFX Company does not impose any non-market restrictions on Client’s trading. There are no restrictions on minimum / maximum retention time of open position, no restrictions on automated trading, scalping and trading on news, there are no freezing levels (restrictions on installation of orders close to current price).
Opening a trading account
NPBFX Company offers Clients a convenient way to open a trading account online using Personal office. To open a trading account, you first need to register your Personal office. After registration you will be able to enter your Personal office and start the process of opening a trading account online.
The company offers its Clients the opportunity to open unlimited number of accounts of different types and with different deposit currencies.
NPBFX does not charge any fees or commissions for opening and maintaining the account. Quoted prices are derived from Interbank quotes and include a commission (markup). NPBFX Company does not charge additional fees.
Deposit and withdrawal
Clients can open trading accounts in three currencies: the US dollar, Euro, Russian ruble.
Clients have the opportunity to deposit funds to trading account using plastic cards (Visa, MasterCard, Maestro), using payment systems (WebMoney, QIWI, Yandex.Money, Skrill, Neteller), as well as using wire transfer from a convenient bank. Full information on how to deposit money to account is available in the section: Deposit.
Clients have the opportunity to withdraw money from trading account using plastic cards (Visa, MasterCard, Maestro), using payment systems (WebMoney, QIWI, Yandex.Money, Skrill, Neteller), as well as using wire transfer to client’s account opened in any bank. Full information on how to withdraw money from account is available in the section: Withdrawal.
Clients have the opportunity to deposit funds using payment systems WebMoney, QIWI, Yandex.Money, Skrill and Neteller.
MetaTrader 4 trading platform
Charts in MetaTrader 4 are based on the Bid quotes of the chosen type of account.
Investments and trust management
Social trading (copy-trading) enables traders to copy positions opened and managed by a successful investor or group of investors (copying transactions). Such traders can act as individuals, as well as managing companies or specialized signaling services. Copying transactions is carried out by connecting the account to specialized sites for social trading.
To copy the transactions of successful traders, you need to connect trading account to a special service for social trading. Most of these services allow you to partially or completely automate the process of copying transactions, as well as establish levels of acceptable risk and desired profitability. The company NPBFX offers a platform of social trading ZuluTrade.
ZuluTrade is the world’s leading platform for organizing social trading, providing access to an extensive database of traders and the ability to copy transactions of the most successful traders on their own trading account.