Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Forex trading, what the hype is all about

The Buzz about Forex Trading

Almost everyone in the civilized world has heard about making big income by trading currency in the Forex market where large sum of money exchange hands everyday. References about Forex are not difficult to find whether on the Internet or through hard copies of reference materials. Almost the same broker or financial institutions that handle stocks and bonds also handles currency trading.

When you engage in Forex trading, you’re basically sending your money to another country to become part of their investment also; their own stock your country’s currency. Your investment will usually be used by hedge fund managers and other market people overseas. But you could easily convert your money from one currency to another in just a matter few minutes everyday – making or losing profit during the process. It is your broker’s job to keep tract of your money day in day out. The currencies of other countries are presented in your Forex statements as a symbol with three letters; each currency is assigned letters to become its symbol.

Therefore, you’ll know that its United States dollar if you see USD, Japanese Yen if you see JPY, and British Pound Sterling if you see a GBP. Under the ‘transactions’ category in your statement, you’ll also see something like JPYzzz/GBPzzz, which means that you bought some amount of British Pound and you paid it with some amount of Japanese Yen. If you’ve already bought and sold several currencies, you’ll find many of these symbols in your statement.
There are dedicated companies that can take care of your Forex investment needs like the management firms. In order to secure your money, it pays if you hire a broker or a management group that have been in the business for quite some time already – get ones with almost over 30 years of experience at least. You should naturally be conscious about joining online Forex trading with companies that are only starting with no clear track record to show yet. Don’t skip the fine print when you’re reading about their guidelines and the background of their company because more often than not, the tricky information is concealed in these sentences printed almost obscurely small for your eyes to read.

As you will learn later on, different companies require different minimum amount of initial investment in the Forex market. Some companies require you only about $250 or $500 to start with while others require you to put $1,000 o r $10,000 in the very beginning. This minimum limit really depends upon the management company you want to use to take care of your investment. If you find online management companies that will only require you to put $1 or $5 as an initial investment, you need to double check these companies as this low initial investment is usually a red flag for scams. It’s better to invest some time on double checking these companies than to lose your hard earn money in the end.

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Forex trading, where do customes go

Where Do You Go If You Want To Trade Currency?

The Forex market taps into the currency and other financial markets such as the stocks from all over the world to make possible a tremendous amount of money to exchange hands everyday. Forex market closely resembles the stock market in that it involves buying and selling of a financial product (world currencies in this case) but it takes to a much grander level of transaction in a given day. Financial institutions such as the Deutsche Bank, UBS, Citigroup, HSBC, Barclays, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, ABN Amro, Morgan Stanley are the major players in this industry plus many more.

It will be in your great interest to contact any of these financial institutions or broker firms if you want to try trading currencies. The Forex market is indeed open for everybody but you should not forget to learn the basic things involved in trading currencies before joining. At least you should have an idea of which currency to convert your money into before starting to trade.
The most active players in this industry are International banks who have a lot of reserves from the businesses and depositors like you who put your money under their care. Trading currencies is one of the strategies these banks employ to earn interest from your deposits. You don’t have to look far to get the currency you are interested in – maybe for a travel. Your own local bank may just have the currency you’re looking for. However, if they are not involved in Forex, they most likely will not have foreign currency at their disposal. You can ask your bank’s manager or you can read their public information sheets that they publish on a quarterly basis to find out if you can trade currencies with your bank.

There is no single person or institution that controls all the transactions that occurs in the Forex market. Moreover, gazillion currencies are exchanging hands from all over the world and some of these currencies are more hotly traded than others. Among these hotly traded currencies are the United States Dollars, Eurozone’s Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound Sterling, Swiss Franc, and the Australian Dollar. These are among the top currencies but the list goes on and on to cover the rest of the currencies in the world. Major markets and financial centers in Tokyo, New York, and London are among the top financial centers where currency trading happens in huge volume everyday. But each country has their own trading centers as well.

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Who is participating in forex market trades

Who are the Players in the Forex Markets?


The trading that exists between currencies of two countries is termed as the foreign exchange market or the Forex market. These exchanges of currencies are facilitated by brokers or a financial institution in the timeliest manner. Today, Forex trading is no longer strange to the masses and many individuals are already engaged in this business, which really does not come very far from the stock market. The difference between the two, however, is that Forex is comparatively larger in scale than the Forex market. Practically all kinds of individuals and institutions are engaged in Forex such as the banks, governments, businesses, brokers, and even individual traders who are often called speculators. The state of the financial market and the economy is what determines the state of the currency of a particular country. A very large sum of money is changing hands in the Forex market; an amount reaching to trillions of dollars everyday.

According to the records, the largest sum of money that change hands over these past years happened between banks, something called an interbank transaction. In fact, 50 percent of the Forex transactions are facilitated by the banks. This goes to show that banks use Forex to earn money from the deposits made by the people and the businesses to them. Part of these earnings goes to the interest these banks pay to their depositors. In fact, Forex trading is one of the best income earners of many banks around the world. Some banks allow their deposits to be traded on Forex and ready them the next morning for withdrawals by their depositors.
Big companies also trade their cash reserves in Forex to gain income. Example of this blue chip companies and financial institutions that trade Forex are Deutsche Bank, UBS, Citigroup, HSBC, Barclays, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, ABN Amro, Morgan Stanley, and many others. Forex trading is part of their strategy to increase wealth of their stock holders. Smaller companies also participates in Forex although not as broadly as the big companies for obvious reasons.

A country’s Central Bank plays a very important role when it comes to taking care of the Forex market and the Forex rate for its nation. In fact, the Central Bank is what determines the amount of money to be put in circulation and to some extent; it could affect the interest rate if needed – although other countries would cry foul if intervention is done. A large volume of trading usually happens in premiere markets such as in Tokyo, New York, and London. Of course, smaller markets around the world are also doing trading but not as large scale as these markets being mentioned. What ever the result of trading by these large companies and corporations in Forex, a portion of it is passed on to their investors – that is to say loss or gain.


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Forex markets - Trading Internationally

International Trading: The Forex Market Style

Forex market is simply the trading of one currency for another base on the value of the two currencies involved. Almost all countries in the world trade currencies; it’s about buying or selling their currency for another country’s currency that involves determining how much their currency is worth in terms of the other. Therefore, currencies whose value is comparatively less than other currencies don’t get to be traded often, unlike those currencies that have high value.
The exchange of currencies happen 24/7 around the world, in fact, an estimated two-trillion dollars worth of money are exchange in a single day – a pretty gargantuan sum. Just imagine how many millions it needs to accumulate a trillion – let alone two-trillion – and this exchange happened everyday! This is one industry well loved by people who like to be involved in something where huge sum of money is handled everyday.

You can find in the Forex market just about every currency in the world that you need. For every currency in the world, there’s a corresponding three-letters symbol assigned to it for easy recognition during trading. For instance, the United States dollar is recognized as USD, Japanese Yen as JPY, British Pound as GBP, and the Euro as EUR. It’s not a crime to buy and sell different currencies in a day or trade one currency one day at a time. Forex trading is only facilitated by a broker or companies; they are going to charge for the transaction which is only normal. Therefore, consider you number of trades and the fee your broker requires before ending with a high transaction fee.
Trades happened everyday but the most actively traded currencies today are between the USD and the EUR. Next to this is the trade between JPY and the USD and between GBP and the USD. These currencies are among the top of the food chain when it comes to currency trading because of their robustness in the market. Currency trading is possible 24/7 because markets open and close 24/7 around the world. The different time zones around the world, in fact, are one of the major considerations when a trader engages in the Forex market.

Know that in Forex trading, you’ll only be presented with symbols and signs that could mean either a loss or a gain for your traded currency – this is true across all countries and currencies. For example, you’ll see symbols like EURzzz/USDzzz (where ‘zzz’ represents the percentage of trading and your margin for profit). Another example is AUSzzz/USDzzz if you’re trading between Australian dollar and US dollar. It pays to learn and study these symbols so that you would not be confused during trading; however, it’s easy to understand these signs once you’ve seen your Forex statements or your online receipts.

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Be aware of the following


Scams in FOREX will leave you broke and sometimes in debt;


they will take your money, run away with it and you have no way of contacting these people or companies again. To avoid this, you need to investigate about the company or the people you are investing your money into; check if they have a business license in your country. If they aren’t license in your country to do FOREX, they’ve most likely been involved in a scam before.
The knowledge about this money making scheme that only FOREX can provide spread like wildfire over this past five years –thanks to the Internet. Now, if a person wants to invest in FOREX, he can just go to his local bank and ask for their FOREX broker to make the transaction. In return, these banks take some commission from the deal, which is normal.

FOREX scams come also in the form of software that supposedly design to help you learn FOREX trading by letting you practice trading in real time; hoping that when you do the actual trading, you’re already good at it. Trust only proven and tested software or system; do background check on your find. However, the best way to avoid scams is to seek advice from people in the know about FOREX and the FOREX market; you can usually find them in your local banks.


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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Leverage

Most Forex brokers permit 100:1 leverage, some as much as 200:1,

but also require that you have a certain amount of money in your account to protect against a critical loss point. A $100,000 position held in GBP/USD on 100:1 leverage means the trader has to put up $1,000 to control his position. However, in the event of a decline in value, Forex brokers do not allow traders to go negative. In order to make sure the trader does not lose more money than is held in the account, forex brokers employ automatic systems to close out positions should a client run out of margin (the amount of money in their account not tied to a position). If, for example, you have $2,000 in your account, and buy a $100,000 lot of EUR/USD, $1,000 of your $2,000 is tied up in margin, with $1,000 left to allow your position to fluctuate downward without being closed out.

An online trading platform will show three important numbers associated with your account: balance, equity, and margin remaining. If you have a $10,000 account and open one $100,000 position using 100:1 leverage, this has committed only $1,000 of your money plus you must maintain $1,000 in margin. While this leaves $9,000 free in your account, it is possible to lose it all if the position moves the wrong direction.

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Currency Pairs
Currency prices can only fluctuate relative to another currency, so they are always traded in pairs. Two of the most common currency pairs are the price for euros in US dollars EUR/USD and the price for the British pound in US dollars GBP/USD

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