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What is Marketiva?

With more than 410,000 serviced users, 240,000 unique and live trading accounts, and more than 3.5 million live orders executed each month, Marketiva is one of the most popular over-the-counter market makers in the world!

May I open a test account and try the system first?
Because live and virtual trading desks co-exist within one Marketiva account, you may try our system with a regular account and later use the same account for live trading. In any case, you can open your Marketiva account for free!

How much money do I need to start trading right now?
With its flexible quantity specifications and $5 cash reward, Marketiva allows you to start trading with no money down. Due to strict lot specifications, many other over-the-counter market makers require at least $500 to start with.

Trading Terminology

Traders often chat with one another about a variety of topics related to financial markets, giving their perspectives and discussing trading ideas and current moves on the markets. While communicating with each other they often use slang to express their thoughts in a shorter form. Some of the most popular slang is listed below.

Asset Allocation: Dividing instrument funds among markets to achieve diversification or maximum return.

Bearish: A market view that anticipates lower prices.

Bullish: A market view that anticipates higher prices.

Chartist: An individual who studies graphs and charts of historic data to find trends and predict trend reversals.

Controlling Risk

Controlling risk is one of the most important ingredients of successful trading. While it is emotionally more appealing to focus on the upside of trading, every trader should know precisely how much he or she is willing to lose on each trade before cutting losses, and how much he or she is willing to lose in trading account before ceasing trading and re-evaluating.

Risk will essentially be controlled in two ways: by exiting losing trades before losses exceed your pre-determined maximum tolerance (or "cutting losses"), and by limiting the "leverage" or position size you trade for a given account size.

Fundamental Analysis

Fundamental analysis is the evaluation of non-visual information to evaluate trading activity and make trading decisions. Whereas technical analysts utilize charts and mathematical indicators to quantify price activity, fundamental analysts utilize market news and market forecasts to qualify price activity.

There are numerous market events that move financial markets every week. Some affect every market instrument while others affect specific instruments. If the outcome of a market event has been fully discounted by the market, traders will not notice any discernible impact on their charts. If the outcome of a market event has not been fully discounted by the market, the result is either price appreciation or price depreciation and traders will see this activity on their charts.

Technical Analysis

Technical analysis differs from fundamental analysis in that technical analysis is applied only to the price action of the market, ignoring fundamental factors. As fundamental data can often provide only a long-term or "delayed" forecast of market price movements, technical analysis has become the primary tool with which to successfully trade shorter-term price movements, and to set stop loss and profit targets.

Technical analysis consists primarily of a variety of technical studies, each of which can be interpreted to generate buy and sell decisions or to predict market direction.

Trading Techniques

General Trading Guidelines

Plan your trade and trade your plan: You must have a trading plan to succeed. A trading plan should consist of a position, why you enter, stop loss point, profit taking level, plus a sound money management strategy. A good plan will remove all the emotions from your trades.

The trend is your friend: Do not buck the trend. When the market is bullish, go long. On the reverse, if the market is bearish, you short. Never go against the trend.

Focus on capital preservation: This is the most important step that you must take when you deal with your trading capital. You main goal is to preserve the capital. Do not trade more than 10% of your deposit in a single trade. For example, if your total deposit is $10,000, every trade should limit to $1000. If you don't do this, you'll be out of the market very soon.

Introduction to Trading

Buying and Selling

Financial market is a mechanism that allows people to easily buy and sell (trade) market instruments at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect efficient markets. Financial markets have evolved significantly over several hundred years and are undergoing constant innovation to improve liquidity.

If you believe value of a market instrument is going to increase, then you would buy the instrument and at one point in the future you would sell it for a higher price. This is the basic motivation for trading on financial markets.

Orders and Positions

When you want to open a position you need to place an "entry" order. If and when the entry order executes, the position becomes "open" and starts its life on the market. At some point in the future, you will place an "exit" order to "close" the position. A position can be "long" (entry order is to buy and exit order is to sell an instrument) or "short" (entry order is to sell and exit order is to buy an instrument).

Streamster API

The pages referenced below describe how to use Streamster™ API, which can be used to create applications that interface with Novativa Streamster™. Applications using the Streamster API can retrieve various data from Novativa Streamster, execute and modify orders on the market and perform a variety of related actions.

Please visit the page below for more information about Streamster™ API:
http://www.marketiva.com/index.ncre?page=api

Streamster™ API Help Contents:

Streamster Download Help

Most problems when downloading files are caused by incomplete or corrupted downloads. There are a number of reasons why this might occur. These can include but are not limited to: problems with your Internet connection, problems with your computer, peak traffic on the server, or a damaged file on the server.

Problems with Your Internet Connection

If you have access to second computer with an Internet connection, try your download there. If you can download to second computer successfully, the first may have a problem with its Internet connection. While the download is in progress, try not to use the computer for any other purpose, as another application's demands on your computers processor might result in this sort of problems.

Streamster Help

The help pages referenced below contain answers to questions you might have while using Streamster™ - the client application you use to access Marketiva services. For any additional inquiries you might have during the client application download, installation or later use, please do not hesitate to contact our support team.

To get additional help with the client application please visit:
http://www.marketiva.com/index.ncre?page=streamster-help

Streamster help contents:

Download Streamster

To download the client application, please click on the link below, choose the "Save" option in your browser, and save the client to your local computer. If you prefer to start the installation process right away, please click on the link below and choose the "Open" option in your browser.

File Version: 1.xxxx (Latest Version)
File Size: 524 KB
Platform: Windows 98 / Me / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
Download File: Streamster™ Installation Package

http://www.marketiva.com/_getclient.ncre?name=streamster&version=latest

Download Time < 3 min @ 28.8 kbps, < 2 min @ 57.6 kbps, < 1 min @ ISDN, DSL, Cable, T1.
No Spyware, No Adware, No Malware.
Uninstaller Included.
Option to Minimize to System Tray.

Payment Options

Certain funds deposit methods listed below are not completely automated, requiring you to perform a part of the payment procedure manually. For your convenience we have provided short description and necessary payment information for such methods.

WARNING: Regardless of the deposit method you choose, the originator of the funds must always match the name listed as the customer on your account. Marketiva credits the exact amount we receive, after payment processor or bank deductions, to the client's account. Marketiva is not responsible for any fees or charges for use of payment processor and bank services. Please note that you will be required to provide identification documents before withdrawing any of your funds.

Anti-Money Laundering Policy

Money laundering is the act of converting money or other monetary instruments gained from illegal activity into money or investments that appear to be legitimate so that its illegal source cannot be traced. Domestic and international laws that apply to companies, whose customers can deposit and withdraw funds from their accounts, make it illegal for Marketiva, or its employees or agents, to knowingly engage, or attempt to engage in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property.

IMPLEMENTED PROCEDURES

The objective of anti-money laundering procedures that Marketiva implements is to ensure that customers engaging in certain activities are identified to a reasonable standard, while minimizing the compliance burden and impact on legitimate customers.

Marketiva is committed to assisting governments combat the threat from money laundering and terrorist financing activities around the world. For that purpose Marketiva has setup a highly sophisticated electronic system. This system documents and verifies client identification records, and tracks and maintains detailed records of all transactions.

Payment Policy

When you open a new account, Marketiva creates a corresponding billing table that will contain each and every transaction performed on the account. You can review the billing table by logging on the Account Center and selecting the Billing option. When you make your first deposit to the account it will be the first transaction recorded in the billing table.

Marketiva allows you to make a deposit to your account in any amount you choose. Both your subscription charges and trading charges will be applied against the funds deposited to your account. For certain payment methods, as credit card payment, Marketiva allows you to specify auto-recurrent payment procedure so the subscription-related payments will be automatically charged to you.

Once you start receiving Marketiva's services you have previously subscribed to or you start trading activity, the subscription and trading charges will be subtracted from your account balance and corresponding transactions will be recorded in the billing table. The services provided by Marketiva will be delivered to you through a client application you can download from Marketiva.com. The subscription and trading billing process will be performed by a subscription server at Marketiva.

Risk Disclosure Statement

Risk Disclosure Statement

This brief statement does not disclose all of the risks and other significant aspects of trading in financial markets. In light of the risks, you should undertake such transactions only if you ("Trader" or "Client") fully understand the nature of the contracts (and contractual relationships) into which you are entering and the extent of your exposure to risk. Trading is not suitable for many members of the public. You should carefully consider whether trading is appropriate for you in light of your experience, objectives, financial resources and other relevant circumstances.

1. COMMON RISKS

1.1. General Investment Risk: All investments come with the risk of losing money. Investing involves substantial risks, including complete possible loss of principal plus other losses and may not be suitable for many members of the public. Investments, unlike savings and checking accounts at a bank, are not insured by the government to protect against market losses. Different market instruments carry different types and degrees of risk and you should familiarize yourself with the risks involved in the particular market instruments you intend to invest in.