Opening an FXCM account - help!

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Opening an FXCM account - help! #409610 10/19/12 20:30 10/19/12 20:30
Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 75 H hughbriss OP Junior Member
hughbriss OP Junior Member H Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 75	JCL, I went to open a FXCM real account and they offer an account in GBP which is my home currency. Does it make a difference what currency the account funds are held in? Can I use a GBP account and still use zorro? Will this affect the backtesting seeing as the capital required figure is usually in USD? Thank

Re: Opening an FXCM account - help! [Re: hughbriss] #409625 10/20/12 06:55 10/20/12 06:55
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 28,024 Frankfurt jcl Chief Engineer
jcl Chief Engineer Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 28,024 Frankfurt	GBP should be fine. Zorro always uses the currency of your account as a base currency.

Re: Opening an FXCM account - help! [Re: jcl] #409675 10/20/12 17:52 10/20/12 17:52
Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 75 H hughbriss OP Junior Member
hughbriss OP Junior Member H Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 75	Ok, thanks

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