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 [...]
You probably take for granted that you can buy or sell a share or stock at a moment’s notice. Place an order with the broker and within seconds it is executed. Have you ever stopped to wonder how this is possible. Whenever an instrument is bought or sold there must be someone on the other [...]
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 [...]
After a volatile 5 days, world stock markets just managed to close last 5 days in the black. It was a week of two halves with the good work from the start of the week being undone in the second half as traders slipped into reverse gear on Thursday and Friday. At least markets managed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In today’s chaotic stock market, the ability to make a profit trading long Option positions (Puts and Calls) depends on being able to capitalize on short-term moves in the price of a stock or index. Stocks are up one day, and down the next – and it’s anybody’s guess as to what the long-term outlook [...]
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 [...]