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Welcome to ForexTradersChat.com
We trade the Forex markets
and would like to share as much information as we can to all FX currency
traders. The Forex market is
international
corporations, and individuals from all over the world are active
participants. The sheer scope of market participation and volume of activity
insures around-the-clock activity making this an ideal market for trading at
all times. Currency prices reflect the balance of supply and demand for
currencies. Two primary factors affecting the supply and demand are interest
rates and the overall strength of the economy. Economic indicators such as
GDP, foreign investment and the trade balance reflect the general health of
an economy and are therefore responsible for the underlying shifts in supply
and demand for that currency. There is a tremendous amount of data released
at regular intervals and some of the data is more important than others. The
ones that are looked at more closely are those related to interest rates and
international trade.
Each currency is assigned
a three-letter code. For example, US dollar is coded - USD (United States
Dollar), euro is coded EUR (EURo), Swiss frank is coded CHF (Confederation
Helvetica Franc), Japanese yen is coded JPY (JaPanese Yen), British pound is
coded GBP (Great British Pound). Currency rates are equal to ratios of currency
units of different countries relative to each other. The rates are represented
by 6-letter words composed of two three-letter currency codes. The first
position is occupied, as a rule, by the code of a more expensive currency. The
rates are expressed in units of the second currency per unit of the first one.
For example, rates USDCHF (USD-CHF) show the number of Swiss franks in one US
dollar, but rates GBPUSD (GBP-USD) show the number of US dollars having to be
paid for one British pound.
A
trade in the forex market involves selling or buying one currency against
another. Thus, a bull market or a bear market for a currency is defined in
terms of the outlook for its relative value against other currencies. If the
outlook is positive, we have a bull market in which a trader profits by
buying the currency against other currencies. Conversely, if the outlook is
pessimistic, we have a bull market for other currencies and a trader profits
by selling the currency against other currencies. In either case, there is
always a bull market trading opportunity for a trader.
A major catalyst to the
acceleration of Forex trading was the rapid development of the euro dollar
market; where US dollars are deposited in banks outside the US. Similarly,
Euromarkets are those where assets are deposited outside the currency of origin.
The Eurodollar market first came into being in the 1950s when Russia’s oil
revenue - all in dollars - was deposited outside the US in fear of being frozen
by US regulators. That gave rise to a vast offshore pool of dollars outside the
control of US authorities. The US government imposed laws to restrict dollar
lending to foreigners. Euromarkets were particularly attractive because they had
far less regulations and offered higher yields. From the late 1980s onwards, US
companies began to borrow offshore, finding Euromarkets a beneficial center for
holding excess liquidity, providing short-term loans and financing imports and
exports. Forex
training classes and course.
Forextraderschat.com contains information and charting
setups to make your trading more profitable. We use these set ups daily in
our
FX traders chat room. We also invite you to visit our
Forex forum and
post your comments on how the markets are trading.
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