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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Currency 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 really amazing to see how Forex trading has come to attain its present status and is being considered as the backbone of the entire capital transactions of the world combined. Furthermore, Forex trading with an estimated transaction worth of $1.5 trillion USD taking place each day is the worlds largest markets considering the volume of trade it generates.

Present data shows that stock market trading has been surpassed by Forex trading not only in terms of volume but also in terms of popularity. With huge profits being generated in a short time the Forex trading business is by far the most potential business. The main fact is that even minor currency movements leads to accumulating reasonable profit on the trade which seems to be more profitable when comparisons are drawn among all the trading markets.

The Forex trading does not take place simultaneously worldwide. It is completely dependent on the time and location of the markets. On every Sunday Forex trading begins at 7pm in the evening New York time, when markets are wide open to get set for the week in the easternmost part of the world which is Tokyo. Following Tokyo its the Hong Kong and Singapore markets next and then followed closely by the European markets. London by way of its location is the last market to open its shutters for the week. So literally it is the sun that the Forex trading markets follow.

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. - 23199

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