Monday, 21 March 2011

What Is Forex Trading?

By Dr. Tom Rhudy


Forex is the foreign exchange market and is commonly referred to as a global phenomenon nowadays. It is simply a decentralized system that offers the financial markets a means of exchanging foreign currencies. These markets are Forex trading and play an important role in the world in a wide range of transactions for both buyers and sellers. These transactions occur almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, on weekends and holidays, the previous day's rates apply. The currency markets are responsible for determining the value and the exchange rate of different currencies.

Functions Of Forex Trade And Market

The fundamental objective of the Forex trading is to help traders convert the currency easily while assisting in trading globally. For example, if UK has to import something from any country within Europe, then it must convert its currency to Euro. The Euro is the conversion of sterling into Euro. One of the biggest advantages of Forex trading is that it helps people to buy foreign currency at a cheaper price. It also allows a purchaser to sell at the priced purchased if he has bought the currency of higher price.

Capitalizing on profits and losses occurring in such transaction has been the major aim of Forex trading. What happens in a transaction is that any person from any governmental or private organization agrees to buy some products and exchanges their currency for that of the country from which the product is purchased. The purchaser must pay for the product in a local currency (i.e., currency of the other country). The rate of exchange is customarily determined by the supply and demand conditions of money currency. There are also other factors in the market that must be taken into consideration in Forex trading, as well.

History And New Set Of Forex Trading

The modern and current state of the art forex market with which most of us are familiar, took their shape in the early 1970s when the Bretton Woods System emerged. It was replaced by a number of countries around the world by the newly designed system of the "floating" exchange rate. In the new setup, a country is allowed to. At least to some extent, intervene in the affairs of the forex market and can vary their currency up to 10 percent (either up or down) - with the consent of the International Monetary Fund or IMF.

Trading is also unique, because the volume of transactions occurs in minutes or even seconds. On the other hand, an entire country may be affected by the forces of foreign exchange from the enormous amount of cash flow. Entrance into the Forex market is not as tolerant as it seems. One of the most important things is the type of trading platform is used.




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