Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Forex Market: Foreign Currency Exchange can Make You Rich!

By Randall Tavinosh Berke Amateau Randall Amateau

The Forex is an exchange market for the world's money. This is where traders speculate on the exchange rates of currency, hoping to buy currency that is increasing in value and selling currency that is decreasing in value.

The Forex market is used to trade currencies of various countries. The currencies of the world are put up against each other with the gamble that one will in fact do better than the other.

The gold standard through which most international currencies were pegged has been eliminated, thus values fluctuate continuously throughout the market. Profit or loss happens in trading even on a very small variation in value of a currency against another currency.

More than $1.5 trillion are traded every day in the Forex market. That's more than 100 million times that of the NYSE, one of the largest in our world. Forex is really the giant among all the speculation markets. Only 5% of trades are done to change any currency for business or travel.

There is no building where buyers and sellers meet for the Forex market. There are no brokers hanging around. The Forex market is a virtual market and all of the trading takes place over the phone or online.

A Forex trading day spans six continuous days. Starting in Sydney, it moves to Tokyo then to Frankfurt, London and then New York before going back to Sydney. The Forex trading week closes in New York on Friday night. At any time of the day or night, someone is trading on the Forex market during this week.

Long trading hours give investors plenty of time in which to speculate on what is going on in different currencies in other nations. When a country announces any economic growth or decline, this reflects in the trading in the market.

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