Saturday, February 16, 2008

FOREX TIPS

You’ve decided to become a trader on the Forex market but since you’ve never played on the currency market you aren’t sure where to start. Not to worry – we’ve got some great tips for global Forex trading,

Forex is the foreign exchange market where currencies are bought and sold. It began back in the 1970’s with the introduction of free exchange rates and floating currencies. Thanks to the internet more and more people are able to reap the profits of the currency market with global Forex trading.

This is a market that trades as over US$1 trillion a day. It trades more than any other market. There are some distinct differences in the currency market compared to the stock market. Money moves much faster so no single investor has the ability to actually affect market price and trades are able to open and close within seconds which is not possible on the stock market.
To start your global Forex trading you need to open a Forex account. Just fill in the application and the sign the margin agreement which let’s the broker intervene at any time. That makes sense since it’s the broker’s money that just makes sense.

You need to choose a trading strategy that works for you. Different strategies work for different traders to don’t try to makes something work, instead find the right trading strategy for you.
It’s important to understand that trends move prices so a smart investor will make trends their friend and even go so far as to examine historical trends.The top five currency pairs are USD/Yen, Euro/Yen, Swiss franc/USD, Pound USD/ and the Euro/USD. Make sure you know and understand them.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Forex market has several advantages and benefits:
And Forex being a 24-hour market gives Currency trading the biggest advantage ever. With no external control and a market open to all, Forex is the perfect currency trading platform to invest in. with the power in the hands of the currency traders, to choose any time of day to trade, whenever they want to, Forex trading basically puts the traders or investors in charge of how they want to trade and how much as well.
This is also because of the fact that Forex currency trading requires a very less amount of starting investment, which can easily enable a trader to open an account and start trading, unlike the cases in Stock Exchange and Futures market, where in, a fair amount of capital is required to start trading.
This facilitates trading for individuals or small traders, who can easily start trading small in the Forex market. Being a round the clock market, Forex day trading enables the investor to select any time to trade, whatever is more suitable to him/her. The Forex market is known as the “Day Trading market” because of the reason that basically, it trails the sun going around the world, and shifting from one main economic or banking center to another, starting from the United States to Australia, to New Zealand to the Far East, and towards Europe and then, again back to the United States.
The currency price at Forex day trading market, changes every second. One second a currency is up, the other second the other beats it to go high. Currency trading volume at Forex market remains high throughout, but it hits the highest point when the U.S, London and European markets are open, all at the same time, which only happens between the time periods of 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. by the GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). As compared to the high volume of the U.S market, the level of the Pacific border markets, Japan and Hong Kong for instance, is quite low, but this still provides a Forex investor the opportunity to study and explore the vastly traded markets and currencies of the Pacific Region.
With more than $2 trillions of money being traded every day, Forex market is indisputably the biggest fiscal or financial market in the whole world. Here, the investors need to focus only on a few major currencies, rather than hundreds of equity or stocks. Forex market also is known for its fair costs and thin spreads.
Furthermore, Forex market has high levels of liquidity as compared to any other financial market and this is what makes Currency trading market the biggest economic market in the whole world. This liquidity largely comes from the banks which provide liberal cash flow to individual investors, companies and trade houses. And since the Forex market is a 24 hour market, the currency exchange trading experiences superior liquidity around the clock, as compared to the stock market, which contains a limited time period for high liquidity. The instant trading through various means of communication such as phone and internet makes Forex day trading an instant trading business alongside making it a global trading platform. Another basic benefit offered by the Forex market is that it is a no-commission market. With this free of commission trading, an investor gets to keep whole of the profit that he has earned through a day’s trading at the market.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

FOREX CURRENCY TRADING

Forex currency trading has become popular because it is backed by the world’s leading financial institution and you are playing the stock market based on cash and not just supply and demand, your placing your money in the market hoping the exchange rate you are buying into will come out in the end with the most profit. For example If you are placing your money being USD into the forex currency trading market and your currency of choice for the trade gains backing and increases in exchange rate, you make profit.
Forex currency trading is effected by many different variables which change day to day. Some of these variables include economic and political conditions in each respective country offering their currency on the Forex market. If the economy takes a hit on any given day, you can be sure you will see a drop in the currency exchange rate and you will experience a greater loss. During war, if a specific country is at war with another country you can also guarantee there may be a greater loss due to the fluctuation of the exchange rate of the currency being traded

Monday, January 28, 2008

FIVE MAJOR CURRENCIES DOMINATE TRADING IN TH FOREX

Five major currencies dominate trading in the foreign exchange markets:
They are
1. U.S. Dollar.
2. Eurocurrency.
3. Japanese Yen
4. Swiss Franc and
5. British pound.
The foreign currencies are traded in pairs, also known as crosses, in the forex spot market. For example, purchasing the EUR/USD in the forex spot market simply means the purchaser is buying the Eurocurrency and selling the U.S. Dollar in anticipation of the Eurocurrency gaining value in relation to the U.S. Dollar. Similarly, the seller of a EUR/USD contract would be selling the Eurocurrency against the U.S. Dollar. Official figures show the U.S. Dollar is on one side of 83% of all spot foreign exchange transactions. The "spot" market simply refers to a currency contract with a prompt valuation date requiring settlement within two business days.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

1. The right to immediate, uncensored access to the marketplace
2. The right to trade real spot
3. The right to know
4. The right to trade whenever you want
5. The right to equal treatment
6. The right to choose and manage risk
7. The right to understand cost
8. The right to learn – on your own, or through free exchange with other traders
9. The right to full disclosure
10. The right to pay and receive interest