Showing posts with label EUR/USD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EUR/USD. Show all posts

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Forex Online Currency Trading


Forex online currency trading is becoming increasingly popular as more and more traders want to take their shot at the largest trading market in the world.

The lure of nearly $2 trillion in trading going on each and every day is too much for most traders to resist.
So what is the Forex market, and how does currency trading work? Forex is an abbreviated term for foreign exchange market. The Forex is the largest financial market in the entire world, with an average trade volume of nearly two trillion dollars per day. The modern Forex market is what evolved from initial currency trading.

The idea is to use fluctuating currency rates to make money out of money. For example, let's say you buy one mini lot (1 mini lot = 10,000 currency) of the EUR/USD at a rate of 1.1500. Two days later the markets shift and the EUR/USD is now 1.1525, and so you decide to sell. Using the formula to figure out profits/losses, 1.1525-1.1500 is .0025 * 10,000 (the size of the mini-lot) = $25. In this case, a $100 investment for one mini lot yielded a $25 profit, or 25% in only two days. Not a bad percentage by any count. That's quite a profit for two days.
The reason for this is that to trade forex trading you are basically simultaneously buying one of the currencies, while selling the other. If you are selling the EUR/USD pair, then you are selling Euros in order to buy dollars. There always has to be a pair. To buy one currency, you have to do it with another. To sell a currency, you need to get your profits back in another. There must always be two currencies in any Forex currency trading.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

What Is Forex and Forex trading?


Forex is an acronym for "foreign exchange," and involves trading pairs of currencies, i.e.,


buying one currency and selling the other in a single transaction. For example, USD/JPY is buy US dollar/sell Japanese yen. In this case, you expect the dollar to appreciate versus the yen, the yen to depreciate against the dollar, or both. The latter situation, of course, is ideal.

What Currencies Are Traded?
The foreign exchange market is gigantic: over $1.5 trillion in daily Forex trades, with national banks such as the Bank of Japan, money center banks such as Citicorp and large pension plans and hedge funds being the major players. It's mainly the larger currencies that are involved, together with the US dollar.
While there are several currency pairs that offer good opportunities, these four are the most widely traded: Euro/US dollar (EUR/USD), US dollar/Swiss franc (USD/CHF), US Dollar/Japanese yen (USD/JPY), British pound/US dollar (GBP/USD).

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* Leverages up to 1:200 for accounts up to $1 million US.
* Liquidity and 24/5 availability are the characteristic factors of the Forex market compared with other financial markets.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Staying alert for news and data developments

If your trade rationale is reliant on certain data or event expectations,

you need to be especially alert for upcoming reports on those themes. Part of your calculus to go short EUR/USD, for instance, may
be based on the view that Eurozone inflation pressures are receding, suggesting lower Eurozone interest rates ahead. If the next day’s Eurozone consumer price index (CPI) report confirms your view, the fundamental basis for maintaining the strategy is reinforced.

You may then consider whether to increase your take-profit objective depending on the market’s reaction. By the same token, if the CPI report comes out unexpectedly high, the fundamental basis for your trade is seriously undermined and serves as a clue to exit the trade earlier than you originally planned. Every trade strategy needs to take into account upcoming news and data events before the position is opened. Ideally, you should be aware of all data reports and news events scheduled to occur during the anticipated time horizon of your trade strategy. You should also have a good understanding of what the market is expecting in terms of event outcomes to anticipate how the market is likely to react.

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Trading Forex Using A Swing Trading Strategy

The Forex, or Foreign Exchange market is now the absolutely hottest thing on the trading and speculating scene. Just in sheer volume, the international trading market is about 5,000 times bigger than the total stocks, options, futures and bonds markets in the USA. It functions 24 hours a day, is very volatile, and is as thrilling as options trading

Forex trading involves the trading of currency pairs (e.g. GBP/USD) for almost all major currencies in the world. The most liquid and heavily traded pairs are:
EUR/USD : Euro and United States dollar
USD/JPY: United States dollar and Japanese yen
USD/CHF: United States dollar and Swiss franc
GBP/USD: Great British pound and United States dollar
AUD/USD: Australian dollar and United States dollar
USD/CAD: United States dollar and Canadian dollar
The first currency in the pair is the BASE currency; the second is called the QUOTE currency. So you may see a quote as follows:
GBP/USD = 1.9603
This means that you can buy 1 GBP (Base) for 1.9603 USD.


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