Friday, May 18, 2007

10 Things You Should Beware of During Currency Trading:

  • Watch out of those who guarantee large profits.
  • Stay away from those who promise no financial free
  • Beware of those everything sounds very easy.
  • Don’t trade on Margin unless you have been trained
  • Please take cautious to online/phony transferring cash in online trading
  • Make sure its really interbank market
  • Job offer as Account Executive might lead you to use your money for currency trading
  • Need to ensure the company background
  • Avoid those company who won’t let you know their background
  • Don’t fully trust any agency or broker, put some effort to understand currency trading by yourself.

Basically, supply and demand determine the value of currencies. To forecast the currency trend, totally there are two methodologies, which are fundamental and technical analysis. Different traders may interested in different method.
Fundamental Analysis
    • Based on key economic indicators that can influence various currencies
    • Studies cause of market movement
    • Use present events to predict future
    • Analysts will gain knowledge of charts analysis and indicators
    • Find explanation of the current price
    • Outcome is based on limited aspects at one time

Technical Analysis

    • Basic on past performance of a currency, equity, position or future and exercise with mathematical calculations to predict future results.
    • Studies the economical effect.
    • Predict future with history.
    • Analyst will gain knowledge of awareness of the fundamentals.
    • Find accurate forecast of future
    • Outcome is based on more than 150 different type of technical analysis

What is forex?

FOREX or Foreign Exchange market is the world largest financial market, where currency of one country is exchanged with another country through currency exchange rate system. Trader’s purpose is to get the profit as the result of foreign currencies purchase and sale. From latest assessment, Forex trading daily constitution is approximately average from 1.5 trillion to 2.5 trillion. . The free-floating of currencies being in the market turnover are determined by the supply and demand. The currency rate is actually run through telecommunication all over the network of banks 24 hours a day from 00:00 GMT on Monday to 10:00 pm GMT on Friday. Importance of human society event in the sphere of economy strongly influences the currency market. Traders gain the profit from the fluctuations in accordance with an agreed principle “buy cheaper- sell higher” or “sell higher-buy cheaper”. Forex is a continuously changing number financial system which exclusively create high trade turnover to all individual and corporative traders with an ensured liquidity of traded currencies. Due to the high potential profitability, therefore the higher risk should be essentially considered. Traders can only be the successful forex investors by going through proper training including an understanding of forex structure and types, the common techniques of analysis, the factors influencing currencies and potential risks, high confident prediction of the market movements with the trading tools and data. There are lots of simulation trading software on web, you can simply choose anyone of them for self training. This will help you to be in a better scenario. Most of the trading providers have the toll free phone number, so just call them up! Ask them question! Learn from them! Some of them may take initiative to consult you, so do write down the question from time to time.
There are many countries in world; so results different currency pairs. Among all of them, these are the popular in currency trading:
EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CHF, EUR/CHF, AUD/USD, USD/CAD, NZD/USD, EUR/GBP, EUR/JPY, GBP/JPY, CHF/JPY, GBP/CHF, EUR/AUD, EUR/CAD, AUD/CAD, AUD/JPY, CAD/JPY, NZD/JPY, GBP/AUD, AUD/NZD
Five Major Currencies are:
U.S dollar - The United States dollar is the world's main currency – an universal measure to evaluate any other currency traded on Forex.
Euro- Euro was designed to become the premier currency in trading by simply being quoted in American terms. Like the U.S. dollar, the euro has a strong international presence stemming from members of the European Monetary Union.
Japanese Yen- The Japanese yen is the third most traded currency in the world; it has a much smaller international presence than the U.S. dollar or the euro. The yen is very liquid around the world, practically around the clock.
British Pound - Until the end of World War II, the pound was the currency of reference. The currency is heavily traded against the euro and the U.S. dollar, but has a spotty presence against other currencies.After the introduction of the euro, Bank of England is attempting to bring the high U.K. rates closer to the lower rates in the euro zone.
Swiss Franc - Swiss franc is the only currency of a major European country that belongs neither to the European Monetary Union nor to the G-7 countries. Although the Swiss economy is relatively small, the Swiss franc is one of the four major currencies, closely resembling the strength and quality of the Swiss economy and finance.
To have a well focusing, you have to concentrate on less than 5 currency pairs( preferred the U.S. cross-currency pairs.)
Some traders see forex as a business, and some see it as a fortune. And even some traders think forex is an art. But anyway, its highly recommended to use pivot system in your trading plan or else you are trading blind.

how to trade forex

How Forex Trading Works..
Currency trading is mainly about buy and sell activities. Currencies are traded on a price interest point (normally called pip) system. Every currency pair has their own pip value. The objective of a trader is to hold as many profitable pips as possible. Some pip values are fixed, but some can fluctuate depends on the currency gain or loses strength. Normally I trade by using margin trading, where small deposit is required to control much larger amount in the market. Here I will use 1 percent margin deposit so that $1000 control $100,000 of trade currency. $100,000 is the notional amount. Let me shows some major currency pair with the currency exchange rate and the pip values.
Currency
Currency exchange rate
Pip Value
(GBP/USD)
1.7204
$10.00 per pip (fixed)
(EUR/USD)
1.1789
$10.00 per pip (fixed)
(USD/CAD)
1.1642
$8.59 per pip (fluctuating)
(USD/JPY)
117.82
$8.49 per pip (fluctuating)
For GBP/USD, 1 pip movement can be from 1.7203 to 1.7204. That means from 1.7102 to 1.7202, it should be 100 pip movement. Lets look for another example, USD/JPY, 1 pip movement is from 117.82 to 117.83 and 100 pips movement is from 117.83 to 118.83.