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No title 2008-04-19 15:42:00 Why Forex Trading If you want to know why the Forex trading market is superiors to other investor options such as Equities or the futures market, then you can rest assure that you'll find the answer in this page. The best way to clarify the advantages of the Forex market is through a real example. In 1929, the stock market collapsed, causing many people and businesses from around the world to go broke. This also happened when the high tech bubble burst. The fear of a market crash is a concern that constantly dwells in the minds of investors, both professional and beginner ones. In the online Forex trading market, There is no way for the market to crash. If you have read about what is the Forex trading market, then you know that when you buy a certain currency, you are at the same time
Forex Beginners Friendly Introduction 2008-04-19 15:28:00 Online Forex
Trading Introduction
The online Forex market has existed since the early 70's. Only in the past few years though, it has become accessible to millions of people through the development of the internet. Because the Forex market is available 24 hours a day, it's the only market that allows you to trade at your convenient time. Today, because the economy is much more dynamic than it used to be, and the world has become a global village, economic conditions in various countries are also constantly changing, according to such factors as production rate, inflation and unemployment. As a result, the rate of a specific currency changes and moves up and down in comparison to other currencies. This is the main reason of the process of rate fluctuations in the online Forex market. In Read more:Friendly
Trading Forex Currency Pairs 2008-04-19 12:12:00 Understanding and TradingForexCurrencyPairs
Any Forex trading transaction is made of the buying of one currency and the simultaneous selling of another currency.The two Forex trading currencies being traded are called the currency pair.A currency quote is made of these two pairs of Forex trading currencies, situated together and divided by a line (for example, EUR/USD).There are various Forex currency pairs to choose from. These are divided into major and minor currencies. Major currencies are the seven most frequently traded currencies, which include the USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, CAD and AUD.All other currencies are called minor currencies, and include the NZD (the new Zealand dollar) and the ZAR (the south African rand).Cross currencies are types of Forex trading currency pairs that bot
Currencies And Countries 2008-04-19 07:42:00 World Currencies
A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and/or services. It is one form of money, where money is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a standard of value. A currency is the dominant medium of exchange.To facilitate trade between currency zones, there are exchange rates, which are the prices at which currencies (and the goods and services of individual currency zones) can be exchanged against each other. Currencies can be classified as either floating currencies or fixed currencies based on their exchange rate regime.In common usage, currency sometimes refers to only paper money, as in coins and currency, but this is misleading. Coins and paper money are both forms of currency.Currencies Abbreviations Co Read more:Countries
What Is Forex? 2008-04-18 12:25:00 Meaning Of Forex
The word Forex or FX stands for Foreign Exchange, and it is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. It is the largest financial market in the world. Currencies are traded in pairs, for example Euro/US Dollar (EUR/USD) or Great British Pound/Japanese Yen (GBP/JPY). The Forex Market handles a huge volume of transactions 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.Forex was established in 1971 and grew steadily throughout the 1970’s, but with the technological advances of the 80’s the Forex market expanded from trading levels of $70 billion a day to the current level of about $3.00 trillion. In comparison, the United States Treasury Bond market makes an average of $300 billion a day, and the combined American stock markets exchange makes about $28 billion a day,
Case studies by fundamental analysis 2008-04-25 08:08:00 How the Oil Price impacts on the currency marketWhen the price of oil increases the currencies are affected negatively, especially the currencies of countries who need to import oil such as Japan and America.The influence of geopolitical eventsGeopolitical events do not generally move the currency market as much as important economic events do. However, major occurances such as September the 11th do cause extreme moves. It is therefore necessary to always trade with a stop loss to protect your capital against such unexpected, large movements.Check currency rate now.
Forex Technical Analysis 2008-04-25 07:56:00 Forex TechnicalAnalysis
We can study relative direction of price with analysis of charts and quantitative techniques to attempt to forecast rate trends regardless of their financial prospects. The main instrument for technical analysis is different kind of charts, which represents currencies prices during certain time, as well as technical indicator.Basically, there are 4 types of charts: line chart, bar chart, point & figure chart and candlestick chart. Technical indicator is the result of mathematical processing of averaged and other characteristic of currencies movement. This involves analyzing past patterns and market trends. The use of charts allows you to know the history of currencies behavior and provides more information than simply looking at present rate. Indicator that add Read more:Forex
Forex Fundamental Strategies 2008-04-25 07:49:00 Forex FundamentalStrategies
There are two main analyses that you need to consider before trade. Technical and fundamental analysis does much to provide a more educated guess than a simple coin toss but it is important to realize that each of these techniques will have a large failure rate. Thus, learn both of the technique and strike the balance for your investment. Investors may base their investment decisions on fundamental strategies. Fundamental analysis investigate the intrinsic value of currency not by chart, but events, or news of pair currency. Some of the economic fundamentals that routinely affect foreign currency exchange rates are interest rates, inflation, trade balances, and government spending. There are also such non-economic factors, such as political events, world news, a Read more:Forex
Fundamental Analysis Versus Technical Analysis 2008-04-25 07:36:00 Fundamental Analysis
Versus Technical
Analysis in the Forex Trading Market The main difference between fundamental versus technical analysis of the Forex trading market is that, while fundamental analysis uses economic, political, social and other factors that affect supply and demand of the trading Forex market to foresee price movements, technical analysis uses mathematical and graphical charts of previous market action, in order to analyze the Forex trading market. The basic difference between Forex fundamental and technical analysis is therefore that: Forex Fundamental analysis uses various factors that influence supply and demand to predict the currency change.Technical analysis uses charts of previous currency change to predict the currency change. Cause and Effect of Market Read more:Fundamental
Forex Major Currencies 2008-04-20 07:02:00 Major Currencies
and Major Participants of the Forex
Trading Market In the Forex trading market, you have several currencies to choose from. Most Forex trading deals are done using the major currencies. These are the seven most frequently traded currencies. The major currencies include: USD – United States Dollar EUR – The European union Euro JPY – The Japanese Yen GBP – The UK Pound CHF – The Swiss Franc CAD – The Canadian Dollar AUD – The Australian Dollar All other currencies other than the major currencies are called minors Trading these major currencies are banks, companies, investment firms, hedge funds and Forex trading brokers. Banks do a lot of the trading themselves. These include trades that are done for the bank's clients and ones that are done for the Read more:Major
Forex Trading Bar Charts 2008-04-28 18:54:00 Forex Trading
Bar Charts
A Forex bar chart is one way you can display the Forex trading market prices, which you can use for technical analysis. A bar chart is made up of: The high - The highest price of the session, appears as the upper point of the bar. The low - The lowest price of the session, appears as the lowest point of the bar. The close - The closing price for the session, appears as a horizontal line to the right of the bar. The open - The open price for the session, appears as a horizontal line to the right of the bar.Forex trading Bar charts are the most popular type of Forex charts, and the popularity is because they are easily built and read. A Forex bar chart can detail currency activity of an intra day, daily, weekly or monthly time frame, and this is the reason why wit Read more:Forex
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Forex Employment Indicators 2008-04-28 18:42:00 Forex Employment Indicators
In this page we cover the most important employment indicators for the online Forex market, including the ECI, the household survey and the establishment survey. Employment indicators are important economic indicators, and are used often for fundamental analysis of the online Forex trading market. The Employment Cost Index (ECI) The ECI is an important Forex employment indicator, and is published in a quarterly report from the U.S. Department of Labor. It measures the growth of employees' compensation, and this includes the wages and benefits that employees get. The information in the survey is based on a report that is held at the end of the month every quarter. The information that is tracked by the ECI is the wages movements, the fringe benefits and Read more:Forex
Forex Trading Inflation indicators and Interest Rates 2008-04-28 18:34:00 Forex TradingInflation
indicators and InterestRates
Forex inflation indicators are used very commonly when traders analyze the Forex market. The inflation effects the interest rates, which in turn can effect the currency markets. In order to fight inflation, interest rates are raised, and thus the country's currency is strengthened in relation to other currencies. In this way, in the short term, If inflation rises, the currency also rises in value. On the other hand, if interest rates go higher, then investors withdraw from their investment in the country, and the currency weakens. Thus, in the long run. If inflation rises, the currency will eventually drop in value. As a counter measure of rising inflation indicators, interest rates rise usually after meeting of BOE (Bank of Eng Read more:Forex
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Forex Economic Indicators 2008-04-28 18:27:00 Forex EconomicIndicators
The execution of fundamental analysis in the Forex market is done through the use of economic indicators. These are indicators that point to the state of some economical factor in the country whose currency you wish to trade. Economic indicators are published by various sections of the government and private companies. These statistics are analyzed by market investors to predict the direction of the Forex trading market. Forex economic indicators are published at fixed time intervals, and are followed by any serious online Forex trader. Because so many people are tuned to use them, Forex economic indicators have a large impact on prices of currencies of the Forex trading market. Most traders do not use fundamental analysis because economic indicators seem dif Read more:Forex