Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Interpreting the Functions of the Currency Trading Market

By Zadoc Robinson

With a copious of individuals hearing about currency trading, you'll find a plethora of information on the internet. It's homogeneous to the nation stock markets where items are sold and bought and the prices will rise and fall.

The one extensive antithesis is that you're trading in money instead of stocks or companies. It's called the Foreign Currency Exchange Market which most investors call for short the Forex market.

There is more information on the net then you can imagine, but in order to understand most of it, you'll need a few of the basics first, especially if you're considering investing in the market.

One thing to be cognizant of, which is different from most trading market, is the Forex market is the absolute largest market in the world. It covers all nations and all nations currencies so you'll not only see those you are accustomed with such as the USD or the Canadian dollar and Japanese Yen, but you'll also see the Korean currency and small countries such as Zimbabwe.

You'll also need to understand that this is not a conventional market but one that is open all day long. Most of the stock markets will run on the nations business day, the Forex market runs through out the day for the whole week. You will find the market closed on the global weekend. This is a short weekend as the time clocks of the world differ, basically, you'll find a market open somewhere in the world and you can trade on any market at any time.

The other big difference is that you are not trading just one currency like you are a stock in the stock market. You're actually trading the currencies in pairs. This means that you are betting that one currency will rise or fall against another

Case in point, if you purchase the currency pair USD/JPY, and if the American Dollar rises against the Japanese Yen, then you have made money, but if you sold the pair, and the same thing happened you would lose money. Now if you sold the pair and the Yen climbed then you would make money.

By now you're probably pretty discombobulated, this is normal and with time and patience you'll understand what is going on. There are many people that spend years studying this global market and developing trading strategies and still have trouble making a profit, most people lose their complete investment at least once due to how unpredictable the currency trading market can be.

It's easier now, you can open a demonstration account and practice trading currencies with play money or an account that is loaded up with starter funds so you can learn in real time. In this way you're able to trade currencies in real time and learn strategies with play money before investing your own. - 23309

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