Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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

By Berke Tavinosh

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.

The Forex market is a virtual market. There is no meeting place for the buyers and the sellers, or a specific building, where the brokers hang out. Instead all of the trading is, literally, done online or by phone.

There are no brick and mortar buildings housing the Forex market. Nor are there any pesky brokers stalking you to make a deal. The Forex market is a virtual one where you can happily conduct your business online from the comfort and privacy of your own home if you so desire.

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.

Due to the longer trading hours available to investors, they are able to accurately estimate on what is happening across the world in other markets. When another market reports any increase or drop, this represents the current state of the market. - 16928

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