Some people said that the Asian session always go up and the EURO session will counter by the opposite (down)... is this theory true

Answer
In Forex, there isn't any up and down like you would have in the Dow or S&P. Currencies are traded in pairs such as the NZD/USD so if the Kiwi goes up, the dollar by definition, goes down. The dollar may go up against once currency and at the same time go down against the other. This in fact happened the other day when the Bank of Japan announced a rate hike - dollar up against the Yen but down against the Aussie.

The market is open 24 hours beginning Sunday afternoon EST until close Friday afternoon. There is a good amount of overlap of hours in each market (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Europe, New York, San Francisco). There are periods when there is typically more activity than others. Much of it depends on whether any economic announcements are being made that day by one country or another. Quite often, things are a bit slow from about 8:00pm EST until around midnight. At that time, people in the eastern parts of Europe are getting up and becoming active. One currency pair may be very active during European daylight hour and slow later on and vice versa.

If you are considering trading Forex, one of the things you should do is make a table that shows the number of pips each of the majors move during each hour of the day and find the average number of pips per hour for a month. Once you have a platform, it's easy enough to do using historical data although it's time consuming but you need to be aware of when movement typically occurs.

What do these things mean in Forex?

1. What is the exponential next to the price? You know the small number. For example CAD/JPY will say for price: 76.55^4.
2. What is the big number inside the little boxes? For example for AUD/CAD the price is 1.03, and for buy it says 82^7.
I'm guessing it may have something to do with the volatility or spread but it tells me the spread already in yet another box, so I just don't know. Thanks!

Answer
It would help to know which website or platform you are looking at, or which quote system or brokerage site. Not having that, I'll guess.

1. The "exponential" next to price is the spread between bid and ask price. The other number is the correct price for the CAD/JPY.

2. Except for a few cross rates, most currency quotes have four decimals, e.g.
GBP/USD 1.5692
EUR/USD 1.3485
AUD/CAD 1.0382

The "82" for the AUD/CAD is simply the last two digits of the quoted price. It is too difficult to read 1.0382 quickly (also more difficult to remember), and much easier to read the last two two digits "82" at a glance. Plus, from the old days of pit trading, that's how they would yell the order (or use hand signals) across the trading floor, "Buy at 82," would be their bid. Also, the 1.03 part doesn't change much during the day, maybe not at all, so it is redundant and understood. The pit traded S&P futures are still traded this way today.

FOREX related

1.EUR/USD - Euro/U.S. Dollar
2.GBP/USD - Great British Pound/U.S. Dollar
3.USD/CHF â- U.S. Dollar/Swiss Franc
4.USD/JPY â- U.S. Dollar/Japanese Yen
5.USD/CAD â- U.S. Dollar/Canadian Dollar
6.AUD/USD - Australian Dollar/U.S. Dollar
7.EUR/GBP - Euro/Great British Pound
8.EUR/JPY - Euro/Japanese Yen
9.EUR/CHF - Euro/Swiss Franc
10.GBP/CHF - Great British Pound/Swiss Franc
11.GBP/JPY - Great British Pound/Japanese Yen
12.CHF/JPY - Swiss Franc/Japanese Yen
13.NZD/USD - New Zealand Dollar/US Dollar
14.EUR/CAD - Euro/Canadian Dollar
15.AUD/CAD - Australian Dollar/Canadian Dollar
16.AUD/JPY - Australian Dollar/Japanese Yen
17.EUR/AUD - Euro/Australian Dollar

NOTE: Of the above 17 currency pairs, six of them are deemed the âmajor currency pairsâ in the FOREX market because they account for about 80 percent of FOREX transactions:

1.EUR/USD - Euro/U.S. Dollar
2.GBP/USD - Great British Pound/U.S. Dollar
3.USD/CHF â- U.S. Dollar/Swiss Franc
4.USD/JPY â- U.S. Dollar/Japanese Yen
5.USD/CAD â- U.S. Dollar/Canadian Dollar
6.AUD/USD - Australian Dollar/U.S. Dollar

As you can see, there is a currency on the left and one on the right. The one on the left is referred to as the base, and the one listed on the right is known as the cross. The format, once again, is as follows. BASE/CROSS, or EUR/USD. The EUR is the BASE and the USD is the CROSS.

TERMINOLOGY:
â¢PIPS- Price Interest Point. This is the smallest unit price for any Foreign Currency.
â¢LOT- A lot of currency is one denomination for a trade (100K or mini account). This is similar to purchasing one stock or one contract in the futures market.
â¢LONG to buy
â¢SHORT to sell
â¢BID-The price at which you sell
â¢ASK-The price at which you buy

Price Interest Point - (PIP)
Profits are made in the FOREX by gaining PIPS. A pip is the last digit from the decimal point. This value is 1/100th of a cent. You may now be asking yourself, how do I make money off of 1/100th of a cent? The answer is leverage. The FOREX market is highly leveraged and should be respected. That said, it can also provide for a tremendous return on your investment. The average leverage in the FOREX is 100 to 1. Basically this indicates that for every dollar you invest in a trade you are controlling $100 of value.

Calculated PIP
Calculated PIP â shows the Price Interest Point (PIP) value for the selected currency pair based upon your trading account margin. For example, a standard 1 percent margin trading account controlling $100,000 in currency would show the EUR/USD with a PIP value of 10.
PIP VALUE-Fixed or Floating
FIXED- When the USD is the cross currency (right side of the pair), the PIP value is fixed at $10 in a 100k account.
FOATING- When the USD is the base currency (left side of the pair), the PIP value is based upon the exchange rate of the cross currency (i.e., USD/CAD.). Also, the PIP value is floating when the pair consists of foreign currencies (i.e., EUR/ GBP).

LOT
A lot is the normal unit of trading in the FOREX market. Trades are made in lot increments, similar to share increments in the stock market.
Standard (or 100k) FOREX account- has a 100:1 leverage ratio
1 LOT= $1,000 investment= ratio leveraged 100 to 1, which = $100,000 in buying power.
Mini FOREX account- has a 200:1 leverage ratio
1 LOT= $50 investment= ratio leveraged 200 to 1, which = $10,000 in buying power.