A-Book and B-Book are terms unique to brokers. In foreign exchange transactions, brokers can choose to be counterparties and not sell orders to the market and liquidity providers, which are called B-Book ;
You can also choose to pass the order out and throw it to the market, called A-Book. (STP/ECN/DMA are all types of A-Book). However, from the nature of understanding, every list will eventually have an opponent.
If you want to buy 1 lot of EURUSD, the broker will sell 1 lot of EURUSD. If it makes a profit, the broker will make a loss. On the contrary, if it makes a loss, the broker will make a profit. This is the B-Book.
If the broker sells the order to the liquidity provider at the corresponding price, no matter whether you make a profit or a loss, the broker only gets the commission for your trading volume.
UITT, a long-established European brokerage, is a pure A-position trading platform. For investors, everyone has always had a great affection and trust in A-Book, and they all hope to choose pure A-Book, because A-Book -Book is valuable in execution.
Extended information:
1. Current situation of foreign exchange economy
Forex brokers themselves do not buy and sell foreign exchange, but connect foreign exchange buyers and sellers to encourage them to conclude transactions. Large-scale foreign exchange transactions between banks in the world are mostly completed through foreign exchange brokers.
Because my country’s foreign exchange market started late, has a short development time, and has implemented foreign exchange controls for a long time, there is no room for foreign exchange brokers and foreign exchange investors. At present, the China Foreign Exchange Trading Center is actively introducing the foreign exchange broker system to cultivate and develop foreign exchange trading entities and promote the rapid development of China's foreign exchange market.
2. Classification of trading platforms
That is, the classification of traders in foreign exchange margin:
1. Straight Through Processing, STP for short; < /p>
2. Electronic Communications Network, electronic communication network mode, referred to as ECN;
3. No Dealing Desk, no trading platform mode, referred to as NDD;
4 . Price inquiry (Dealer) and single market maker (Market maker) mode, referred to as DD or MM;
5. MetaTrader 4 market information receiving software, suitable for foreign exchange, CFD and futures markets.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia—Foreign Exchange Broker