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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

What is Currency Market ?

The Currency Market also known as( the foreign exchange market) or FOREX (Foreign Exchange Market)is the market which takes place on the currency conversion.Each country has its own currency (eg U.S. dollar) and the value of the currency is quoted against another currency of another country or area of currency (eg the euro). For example, at one time, the euro is worth 1.4251 U.S. dollar.

Individuals are accustomed to the notion of currency through the exchange they are engaged in an exchange for such a holiday. International purchases via the Internet for example, occur mostly in the currency of the country that produces wind, and thus generate a foreign exchange transaction in the currency markets.

In practice, banks that make the change for individuals do not each individual transaction they enter into contracts on larger volumes and speculate about courses and then apply a margin on the exchange rates offered to individuals. Through this process, they pay the foreign exchange on currency.

The currency market is also popular with speculators. Indeed, the quotations of some currencies against another currency (known these quotations the "pairs" eg: EUR / USD) vary continuously. So you can buy at a time T of the U.S. dollar with the euro and resell at T + n. If the currency has appreciated U.S. dollar deal with the Euro currency, you make a profit.

If you go through your local exchange to carry out such transactions, you can almost never win. In addition, you should have the amount of euros converted into U.S. dollar. But one of the interests of the foreign exchange market, is that you can perform these operations via a trading platform and it is not necessary to have the full amount due to the leverage effect.




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