



An electronic communication network (ECN) is a digital system that matches buyers and sellers looking to trade securities in the financial markets.
ECNs allow brokerages and investors in different geographic areas to trade without a third party involved, offering privacy for investors.
• ECN brokers execute trades over the ECN for investors. Because of the way an ECN operates, dealing with such types of brokers also results in lower costs and more trading time.
• ECN brokers do not move the influx of orders to market makers. Rather, they electronically match the participants in trade and transfer the orders to intermediaries in the securities markets.
• An ECN broker is prohibited from trading against its client or clients because it matches transactions among market participants.
When buying or selling financial assets, there is always a spread differential between the best available buy and sell prices. Because an ECN instantly matches orders from traders with the best available buy and sell prices from all participants in the forex market, this typically results in tighter bid-ask spreads.
ECNs allow clients or investors to be able to participate in and facilitate trades on market exchanges, outside normal trading hours.
Trades are carried out immediately and at significantly thinner spreads. It motivates them to deliver the lowest possible rates in a bid to beat the competition and attract traders.
Instead of making money off the bid-ask spread, ECN brokers usually charge a flat commission rate on each trade.
Flat commission rate
A cautionary for traders
There are hundreds of forex brokerage firms operating worldwide.
Many are not regulated by any financial authority. Any regulated brokerage firm will provide information regarding its regulated status on its website.
A trader may enter an order to buy or sell at the current market price. Instead of having the order automatically filled, they are presented with a requite at a new market price.
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