Posts Tagged ‘forex’

Forex Trading Versus Stock Trading

The forex (foreign currency exchange) market is the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. The forex market unlike stock markets is an over-the-counter market with no central exchange and clearing house where orders are matched.
Traditionally forex trading has not been popular with retail traders/investors (traders takes shorter term positions than investors) [...]

A Forex Trading Strategy at Work

Using the British Pound’s July 24th chart taken at 9:30pm CET, the forex trading strategy taken from its short side is illustrated in a step-by-step manner showing exactly how the trade was executed using signals from the forex market as well as a number of indicators in trade that is focused on the bearish side [...]

Forex Options Trading – What is Forex? (part 1 of 2)

Forex or foreign Exchange or FX involves the buying and selling of one currency against another currency. They are always traded in pairs e.g. EUR/USD, USD/JPY. So when you are buying Euro dollars (EUR) you are also selling the US dollars (USD) in exchange for the Euro dollars. If you want to buy US dollars [...]

Forex Options Trading – How to Read Forex Price Quotes (part 1 of 3)

When you start trading in the Foreign Exchange market, you will notice that the prices for either buying or selling a currency pair always come in a pair of price quotes. One is called the ‘Bid’ (or Sell) and the other is called the ‘Ask’ (or Buy). You will notice the same in any other [...]

Forex Options Trading – 9 Reasons on Why You Must Trade Forex (part 1 of 2)

In the late 90’s, many financial company dominated the Forex Exchange Market. In the past several years the Forex Exchange Market has show a dramatic development. Nowadays private company are offering access to the Forex Market via internet data feed trading platform.
Private investors are going into Forex Market, with access to the same market [...]

5 Reasons for Entering the Exciting World of Currency Trading

Currency trading offers a host of benefits for the small investor today and here we look at just five reasons for taking advantage of the lucrative world of Forex trading.1. The 24 Hour Nature Of Trading.The majority of the world’s trading markets operate out of fixed trading centers and to strictly limited hours, normally between [...]

Forex Options Trading – 9 Reasons on Why You Must Trade Forex (part 2 of 2)

In the last article on “9 Reasons on Why You Must Trade Forex (Part 1 of 2)” You have understand the:
1. Round the clock trading 2. No need to choose from too many counters 3. Liquidity 4. Good Leverage
Next you will understand more on why you must trade forex.
5. No Brokerage fee or [...]

Forex Options Trading – 7 Important Rules to be Successful in Forex Trading!

In this realistic world, to be successful in any trade or even in Forex Trading, you have to know the rules and learn to do it well. Learning Forex Trading is not like babies learning baby-crawl. It is more like babies learning of how to walk by the parent helping them by hold on their [...]

Forex Options Trading – Trade Forex Options in 7 Easy Steps!

FACT: 95% of forex trader do not know what is forex options, 4% of forex trader know what is forex options but they think that forex options was too complicated for them and only 1% use forex options for trading.
Why Forex Options? Options allow you to have the right but no obligation to either [...]

Forex Options Trading – How to Read Forex Price Quotes (part 2 of 3)

To read a forex price quote consisting of two different currencies you have to note that the first currency is known as the base currency while the second currency is called the quote currency. Another point of note is that the first currency value is always 1 (one).
To further illustrate, the price quote or [...]