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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Forex Trading

By Paul Bryant

Forex currency trading or simply Forex trading is the trading of foreign currencies against each other. Every Forex trade which takes place results in buying of one currency and selling of another currency simultaneously.

Here one countrys currency is being purchased by that of another and the traders do so by particular price negotiations known as the exchange rate and the entire transaction is called Forex transaction.

It is being called the main pillar of all the international capital transactions worldwide put together. Forex trading has also acquired the status of being the largest markets in terms of trading volume with an estimated trading of $1.5 trillion USD worth of transactions occurring every single day.

Currency trading has exceeded the stock market too in terms of popularity and volume and under the present scenario has emerged as the most potential business in the world of trade. Huge profits are generated in Forex trading within a short span. Minor currency movements too results in great profits as compared to small profit margins in other businesses dealing with currency like commercial banking and the stock markets.

The trading throughout the world varies with respect to place and time and with respect to the daily working hours the market timings vary from place to place. Forex trading begins every Sunday at 7pm in the evening New York time, as the markets open for the week in Tokyo located in the easternmost part of the world. Next in line to open the markets is the Hong Kong and Singapore markets followed by the European markets. Last in line to follow is London and trading takes place throughout the world.

Currencies are generally traded for hedging and also for speculative purposes. Participants in the market, such as the individual traders, corporate agencies and financial institutions trade the foreign currencies for one or more reasons. It is a definitely a good platform to hedge the currency exposure, and the investors experiencing it during their normal course of trading.

Forex trading operates well in speculative markets. In just less than a decade Forex markets have grown tremendously and its present size is about 50 times that of all the other capital markets combined together. In Forex trading the most favored currencies till date are USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, CAD, and the AUD.

Even for the execution of a large buy and sell orders there is just no slippage of the market price in Forex trading. The traders are able to take the advantage of both upward as well as the downward trend, thereby increasing the market profit potential. This is probably the reason why the Forex trading is considered to be the most efficient markets in the world. - 23200

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