The world of investing is becoming more important every day as a way to increase your capital and achieve your financial goals. Providing fast infrastructure, innovative and professional service is clearly a reason for preference in this field. Brokerage firms that can integrate themselves with technological developments and follow trends are also preferred by customers, as investors can quickly carry out the transactions they want to make.
The Importance of Investing
Investing is an important step for individuals and institutions to ensure their financial security for the future and to evaluate their financial assets. Investing is an important tool for utilizing today’s savings for the future.
It provides the opportunity to use your investments to seize future opportunities, that is, to generate income and achieve financial goals. However, it should be taken into consideration that in capital markets there is always the risk of loss as well as the possibility of gain. The importance of investing in preserving the value of money, fighting inflation, generating passive income and ensuring financial freedom cannot be denied.
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Investments made correctly have the potential to grow over time. In this way, it offers individuals and institutions the opportunity to build a financially stronger future. At the same time, building a diversified investment portfolio can also help in achieving a more stable financial situation by reducing risks. However, there are a few important factors that investors should pay attention to when choosing a brokerage firm to make their investments. The first of these is reliability and security.
Brokerage Selection
The first criterion in choosing a brokerage firm is that the place where you will invest is legal. Choosing a licensed brokerage firm is critical for investors to protect their capital. The organization’s history, reputation, and customer reviews can also provide information about reliability. In addition, when investors choose a brokerage firm in the financial markets where they will trade, the infrastructure systems used by the institution are also of great importance. Infrastructure systems refer to the technological infrastructure that enables investors to trade on the platform and is directly related to the transaction experience.
Foreign Exchange, Borsa Istanbul (BIST) and VIOP (Futures and Options Market) are instruments traded in financial markets and offering different options to investors. In the past, physical trading centers were generally used to trade in these markets. Especially in the foreign exchange market, transactions were carried out via telephone or by directly connecting to certain financial centers. In BIST and VIOP, investors generally went to the exchange halls and placed their orders directly or carried out their transactions with the orders they transmitted to the brokers through brokerage firms.
However, today, with the development of technology, transaction methods in financial markets have changed greatly. With the spread of the internet and mobile technologies, access to markets such as foreign exchange, commodity, BIST and VIOP has become much easier. Investors can now carry out transactions in these markets via online platforms. They can access instant market data with a few clicks on computers, tablets or smartphones and easily submit their orders.
How to Learn Legal and Illegal Brokerage Firms?
To choose the right investment instrument, you should first focus on your investment preferences. You should choose brokerage firms that have experience in the markets you want to trade and whose technological infrastructure you can trust. In addition, especially in foreign exchange and commodity transactions, it is necessary to turn to institutions determined by the Capital Markets Authority as authorized intermediary institutions in leveraged transactions.
It is prohibited for non-authorized intermediary institutions to conduct or have transactions carried out in Turkey according to the rules of the CMB. These sites are regularly announced in a list published by the CMB, and access is blocked by court order. The CMB constantly publishes monthly bulletins on websites that are banned from trading. “It has been decided to take the necessary legal action in accordance with the fourth paragraph of Article 99 of the Capital Markets Law in order to block access to the websites whose addresses are given below, where it has been determined that leveraged transactions are made abroad via the internet for persons resident in Turkey.” With the statement titled “Other Sanctions, Measures and Transaction Prohibitions”, it bans and announces objectionable sites to protect investors.
Accordingly, the first thing to consider in order to avoid making foreign exchange and commodity transactions is whether these sites are included in Turkey’s regulations. In other words, it must be one of the companies allowed to conduct transactions by the CMB. At the same time, its technological infrastructure allows you to make transactions quickly, and you can both place transaction orders by phone and ask your investment advisor any questions and problems you have in mind.
Important Criteria in Choosing a Brokerage Institution
You have many options to choose which brokerage firm you want to work with. Among these options, we can list the option of being located in Turkey and being subject to regulations as the first option. Apart from this, you can also consider some of the criteria below.
Being Experienced
Experience is one of the criteria sought to provide good service to customers in many respects. You can consider working with companies experienced in their fields, not only in capital markets but also in many sectors.
Easy Account Opening and Closing Options
You can quickly open your investment account completely free of charge online (via video) without the need for any documents, or you should be provided with appropriate opportunities to open it by signing the necessary documents in the presence of a courier or representative. This will allow you to see how helpful brokers are in helping you open an account in the method that is most convenient for you. You can check the brokerage firms where you can open and close accounts quickly to see if they allow the above transactions. You can also benefit from the feedback written on social media on this subject.
Technological Integrated
Technology is developing every day. This development necessitates intermediary institutions to review their infrastructures and constantly renew them. Of course, there is a competitive situation here. One of your reasons for choosing websites and customer panels that constantly renew themselves by following the latest developments in technology.
This is an indication that system vulnerabilities are constantly protected against newly developed hacking methods. Access security is extremely important in financial markets. For this reason, regularly renewed brokerage firms may be a reason for preference.
Free Demo Account
You should use free demo accounts. This will help you both gauge your risk perception and understand your potential in the markets. Providing opportunities where you can open a free demo account and test yourself thoroughly, trying to understand the markets, will be effective in making your final decision. For this reason, brokerage firms that encourage free demo accounts may be among your reasons for choosing.
Emphasizing Financial Literacy
It is very important for brokerage firms to provide financial literacy courses for their investors and prospective investors. In this way, investors can not only acquire theoretical knowledge, but also put these theories into practice through the transactions they will make at the brokerage firm. You can especially choose brokerage firms that give importance to both online and face-to-face training.
There are advertisements related to financial literacy on the websites of the brokerage firms you are considering and in the news about them. Free online trainings and face-to-face conferences can guide you in this regard.
Product variety
In some periods, some markets are very suitable for trading, while others may suffer losses. This can happen with different instruments within the same transaction type, or you may need to turn to different markets from time to time.
For example, when trading in foreign exchange markets, you may need to switch to Viop or Borsa. Sometimes you may want to keep your money in cash. In the case of foreign exchange and commodities, you may want to switch from oil investment to agricultural commodities, or you may need to exit there and trade in cross currencies. The brokerage firm you will work with must make these possible. These are made possible by the presence of various services in the brokerage firm’s portfolio.
Self Service Transactions
While you can submit your orders and requests at any time by phone, e-mail or other communication channels, you should also be able to carry out these transactions yourself. The world is evolving into banking systems where people can make their own transactions. This evolution makes us more integrated with technology every day. Systems that allow this can play an effective role in your preferences.
Of course, working with a brokerage firm that has these features does not guarantee that you will always win. Because there is no such guarantee in the world. However, these allow you to protect yourself, carry out the transaction you want quickly, meet your demands and therefore make transactions more comfortable. This will also guide you as to whether a brokerage firm can meet your needs technologically.
Integral Investment
Integral Investment renewed its website last month. Founded in 2010 and serving its customers with a wide range of financial solutions, Integral Investment, one of Turkey’s well-established brokerage firms with a certificate of authorization in the status of “Widely Authorized Brokerage Institution”, has provided a faster and safer infrastructure by introducing the Panel system instead of the previously used Portal system. Thanks to this infrastructure, you can carry out most of your transactions yourself.
Integral Investment also shows the importance it attaches to the financial literacy of not only its customers but also the society in general by opening its analyzes to everyone, whether they are customers or not, through its Research department. It reinforces this with the online trainings it conducts every month. Even if you are not an Integral Investment customer, you can attend financial literacy courses given by expert economists.
Integral Investment, which has the infrastructure where you can carry out Foreign Exchange, Stock Exchange and Viop transactions, also regularly increases the number of products that can be traded in the field of foreign exchange. Investors will now be able to make their collateral level change requests online via the Panel without entering the shipping process. Although there is no change in the approval processes, instant information will be provided to investors in any case.
With this new development, investors will be able to manage their transactions faster and more effectively. This practical and convenient update in investment processes aims to enable users to track and manage their transactions efficiently.
Prospective investors have the opportunity to check the demo accounts they have opened free of charge, follow the transactions, review their balances and initiate the account opening process with online contracts. Integral Investment, where you can also receive investment consultancy services, offers a user-friendly interface and offers investors a comfortable trading experience.
In Forex transactions at Integral Investment, as of the 3rd Quarter of 2023, the rate of customers making profits is 28% and the rate of customers making losses is 72%.
Warning Note: The investment information, comments and recommendations contained herein are not within the scope of investment consultancy. Investment consultancy services are offered individually by authorized institutions, taking into account people’s risk and return preferences.
The comments and recommendations here are general in nature. These recommendations may not suit your financial situation and risk and return preferences. Therefore, making an investment decision based solely on the information contained herein may not produce results that meet your expectations.