What significant is between asian, european, and US session in the forex market?
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Some people said that the Asian session always go up and the EURO session will counter by the opposite (down)... is this theory true
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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.
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?
Gordon
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!
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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.
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.
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aaron_3719
I've been reading on this stuff and I wanna know more, I know there's a lot more to know than bid and ask, I've set up a demo account and been doing pretty bad haha, I just wanna know what advice can you give me for me to get a better understanding of how all this works? what's your method of doing things? you don't have to give me your secrets haha just tips on how to better my chances
how do you become a pro without first being a amature?
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My advice is to read books on trading, forex is just another market. It trades like a commodity. You'll be surprised at the number of books at your local library, or through the interlibrary loan system.
"Which Is Better, Buy-and-Hold or Market Timing?"
"Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Market Timer
The Beginner's Bible in Technical Analysis is:
Edwards & McGee"Tech. Anal. Of Stock Trends"
Droke, ClifTechnical Analysis Simplified
Kahn, Michael N.Tech. Anal. Plain & Simple
Kamich, Bruce M.How Technical Analysis Works
Lefevre, EdwinReminiscences of a Stock Operator
Lofton, ToddGetting Started in Futures
Lowenstein, RogerBuffet (Warren)-The Making of a Capitalist
Rotella, Robert P.Elements of Successful Trading, The
Wasendorf, RussellAll About Futures
Slutsky, Scot and Darrell JobmanComplete Guide to Electronic Futures Trading, The
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay
The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
http://money.howstuffworks.com/...
http://www.investopedia.com/
There is no one indicator, there is no get rich quick scheme, there is no pot at the end of the rainbow.
Like any vocation, it takes hard work, lots of study, and the testing of your theories, learning what makes you tick, learning your own particular time and stress levels, and fighting the emotions of fear, greed, and loss of hope.
Most traders spend their entire time looking for the Holy Grail of indicators, and that's why 85% of all traders fail.
Your success or failure lies within you, not some indicator.
Get a mentor or trading coach.
Develop a Trading Plan.
Entry Price, Price Target, the max Iâm willing to lose, the time frame, the size of the position, and the date of any reports on the news.
Create a written plan. A plan is composed of two primary parts:
1.The blueprint is a preliminary action plan developed before trading begins. Review the plan every few weeks. It is a living document that evolves over time. I always revise my plan for the summer trading season since summertime market conditions call for different strategies.
2.The Journal is a day-to-day microadjustment of the blueprint. This is the document that requires you to adhere to your plan. Emotional aspects of trading on a daily basis are written in here. Questions such as: Did I follow my blueprint today?
Have 3 things absolutely clear in your head before doing a trade:
1.Why are you making the trade.
2.Where are you going to get out on the profit side?
3.Where are you going to get out on the loss side?
Develop conviction.
The market has little room for arrogance or ego.
Avoid holding positions over weekends.
Scared money never wins.
Size the trade.
Avoid chaotic stocks, like penny stocks
Do the research.
Forget about chat rooms.
No clarity, no trade.
Day trade the ranges and swing trade the trends.
Donât make it rocket science, âcause it ainât.
Know thyself.
Inspect what you expect.
Update and review weekly.
Donât lie to your spouse or significant other.
Be humble and admit mistakes.
Never let emotions control you.
Avoid stock tips.
Never take home a loser.
Learn to lose.
Make trading a habit.
Never let your attitude suffer.
The market is always right.
Average winners, not losers
Never let a winner turn into a loser.
Take profits often.
Never mix disciplines. If you open a day trade, close a day trade.
Never try to trade back a loser. Donât fight the tape.
My advice is to read books on trading, forex is just another market. It trades like a commodity. You'll be surprised at the number of books at your local library, or through the interlibrary loan system.
"Which Is Better, Buy-and-Hold or Market Timing?"
"Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Market Timer
The Beginner's Bible in Technical Analysis is:
Edwards & McGee"Tech. Anal. Of Stock Trends"
Droke, ClifTechnical Analysis Simplified
Kahn, Michael N.Tech. Anal. Plain & Simple
Kamich, Bruce M.How Technical Analysis Works
Lefevre, EdwinReminiscences of a Stock Operator
Lofton, ToddGetting Started in Futures
Lowenstein, RogerBuffet (Warren)-The Making of a Capitalist
Rotella, Robert P.Elements of Successful Trading, The
Wasendorf, RussellAll About Futures
Slutsky, Scot and Darrell JobmanComplete Guide to Electronic Futures Trading, The
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay
The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
http://money.howstuffworks.com/...
http://www.investopedia.com/
There is no one indicator, there is no get rich quick scheme, there is no pot at the end of the rainbow.
Like any vocation, it takes hard work, lots of study, and the testing of your theories, learning what makes you tick, learning your own particular time and stress levels, and fighting the emotions of fear, greed, and loss of hope.
Most traders spend their entire time looking for the Holy Grail of indicators, and that's why 85% of all traders fail.
Your success or failure lies within you, not some indicator.
Get a mentor or trading coach.
Develop a Trading Plan.
Entry Price, Price Target, the max Iâm willing to lose, the time frame, the size of the position, and the date of any reports on the news.
Create a written plan. A plan is composed of two primary parts:
1.The blueprint is a preliminary action plan developed before trading begins. Review the plan every few weeks. It is a living document that evolves over time. I always revise my plan for the summer trading season since summertime market conditions call for different strategies.
2.The Journal is a day-to-day microadjustment of the blueprint. This is the document that requires you to adhere to your plan. Emotional aspects of trading on a daily basis are written in here. Questions such as: Did I follow my blueprint today?
Have 3 things absolutely clear in your head before doing a trade:
1.Why are you making the trade.
2.Where are you going to get out on the profit side?
3.Where are you going to get out on the loss side?
Develop conviction.
The market has little room for arrogance or ego.
Avoid holding positions over weekends.
Scared money never wins.
Size the trade.
Avoid chaotic stocks, like penny stocks
Do the research.
Forget about chat rooms.
No clarity, no trade.
Day trade the ranges and swing trade the trends.
Donât make it rocket science, âcause it ainât.
Know thyself.
Inspect what you expect.
Update and review weekly.
Donât lie to your spouse or significant other.
Be humble and admit mistakes.
Never let emotions control you.
Avoid stock tips.
Never take home a loser.
Learn to lose.
Make trading a habit.
Never let your attitude suffer.
The market is always right.
Average winners, not losers
Never let a winner turn into a loser.
Take profits often.
Never mix disciplines. If you open a day trade, close a day trade.
Never try to trade back a loser. Donât fight the tape.
Quick Questions about forex for a beginner?
Hunter
How much volume = $1 US?
.01,.10,10, etc?
What happens if my profit shows negative?
ex: What if I have $25 in the account and the profit goes negative to let's say -$50. Will the broker automatically sell it or am allowed to keep it until it goes back up? Will I have to pay the broker the difference of $25?
Thank you
thank you aaron brown
Answer
$1 US per pip of market movement is 10,000 units, which is 0.1 standard lots, which is 1 mini lot, which is 10 micro lots.
If you are rather asking how much Forex you can buy for $1, well, that depends on your leverage. If your leverage is 1:20 then I think the margin requirement is $25 dollars per micro lot, that's how much your broker will put on hold in your account just to open the trade.
Your profit in your account cannot go negative, your broker will not allow it, they will close your open trades before that happens, which is called a "margin call".
Sounds too complicated? Exactly. That's why I said in my last reply, you should consider some of the strategies at http://comefollowme.zulutrade.com/Performance.aspx as they can help you get started with the Forex.
$1 US per pip of market movement is 10,000 units, which is 0.1 standard lots, which is 1 mini lot, which is 10 micro lots.
If you are rather asking how much Forex you can buy for $1, well, that depends on your leverage. If your leverage is 1:20 then I think the margin requirement is $25 dollars per micro lot, that's how much your broker will put on hold in your account just to open the trade.
Your profit in your account cannot go negative, your broker will not allow it, they will close your open trades before that happens, which is called a "margin call".
Sounds too complicated? Exactly. That's why I said in my last reply, you should consider some of the strategies at http://comefollowme.zulutrade.com/Performance.aspx as they can help you get started with the Forex.
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Stephen Ri
$1.45 for 1 GBP. It used to be $2.00. If it went back to $2.00, it would be an increase of 38%. Does my investment really just increase in value to 38%? What sort of hidden fees are there, etc. And how likely is it that GBP would even return to that value.
Answer
The leverage for Forex is 100:1. This means that you only need a $1000 to control an amount $100000.
1 pip is 0.0001 and is worth USD $10 for GBP/USD currency pair. If GBP/USD goes up from 1.45 to 2, it will be a profit of 5500 pips * 10 = USD $55000. This makes the return to be 5500% for the initial margin of USD $1000.
There is no commission for Forex but you need to take care of the bid/ask spread in the trade. When you roll over to the next day, you will either receive interest or pay interest depending on which currency have the higher interest rate. If you buy the currency with the higher interest, you will receive interest when you roll over.
IMHO, it is unlikely will GBP/USD return to $2 level in the short term as the economy outlook is uncertain.
The leverage for Forex is 100:1. This means that you only need a $1000 to control an amount $100000.
1 pip is 0.0001 and is worth USD $10 for GBP/USD currency pair. If GBP/USD goes up from 1.45 to 2, it will be a profit of 5500 pips * 10 = USD $55000. This makes the return to be 5500% for the initial margin of USD $1000.
There is no commission for Forex but you need to take care of the bid/ask spread in the trade. When you roll over to the next day, you will either receive interest or pay interest depending on which currency have the higher interest rate. If you buy the currency with the higher interest, you will receive interest when you roll over.
IMHO, it is unlikely will GBP/USD return to $2 level in the short term as the economy outlook is uncertain.
how does forex market work?
suleiman h
Answer
The forex market works as a financial instrument to act as medium with which international trade is actioned.
The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is by far the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. The average daily trade in the global forex and related markets currently is over US$ 3 trillion. As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal perfect competition.
Unlike a stock market, where all participants have access to the same prices, the forex market is divided into levels of access. At the top is the inter-bank market, which is made up of the largest investment banking firms. Within the inter-bank market, spreads, which are the difference between the bid and ask prices, are razor sharp and usually unavailable, and not known to players outside the inner circle. As you descend the levels of access, the difference between the bid and ask prices widens (from 0-1 pip to 1-2 pips for some currencies such as the EUR). This is due to volume. If a trader can guarantee large numbers of transactions for large amounts, they can demand a smaller difference between the bid and ask price, which is referred to as a better spread. The levels of access that make up the forex market are determined by the size of the âlineâ (the amount of money with which they are trading). The top-tier inter-bank market accounts for 53% of all transactions. After that there are usually smaller investment banks, followed by large multi-national corporations (which need to hedge risk and pay employees in different countries), large hedge funds, and even some of the retail forex market makers. According to Galati and Melvin, âPension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, and other institutional investors have played an increasingly important role in financial markets in general, and in FX markets in particular, since the early 2000s.â (2004) In addition, he notes, âHedge funds have grown markedly over the 2001â2004 period in terms of both number and overall sizeâ Central banks also participate in the forex market to align currencies to their economic needs.
There is no unified or centrally cleared market for the majority of FX trades, and there is very little cross-border regulation. Due to the over-the-counter (OTC) nature of currency markets, there are rather a number of interconnected marketplaces, where different currency instruments are traded. This implies that there is not a single dollar rate but rather a number of different rates (prices), depending on what bank or market maker is trading. In practice the rates are often very close, otherwise they could be exploited by arbitrageurs instantaneously. A joint venture of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Reuters, called FxMarketSpace opened in 2007 and aspires to the role of a central market clearing mechanism.
Although exchange rates are affected by many factors, in the end, currency prices are a result of supply and demand forces. The world's currency markets can be viewed as a huge melting pot: in a large and ever-changing mix of current events, supply and demand factors are constantly shifting, and the price of one currency in relation to another shifts accordingly. No other market encompasses (and distills) as much of what is going on in the world at any given time as foreign exchange.
Supply and demand for any given currency, and thus its value, are not influenced by any single element, but rather by several. These elements generally fall into three categories: economic factors, political conditions and market psychology.
The forex market works as a financial instrument to act as medium with which international trade is actioned.
The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is by far the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. The average daily trade in the global forex and related markets currently is over US$ 3 trillion. As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal perfect competition.
Unlike a stock market, where all participants have access to the same prices, the forex market is divided into levels of access. At the top is the inter-bank market, which is made up of the largest investment banking firms. Within the inter-bank market, spreads, which are the difference between the bid and ask prices, are razor sharp and usually unavailable, and not known to players outside the inner circle. As you descend the levels of access, the difference between the bid and ask prices widens (from 0-1 pip to 1-2 pips for some currencies such as the EUR). This is due to volume. If a trader can guarantee large numbers of transactions for large amounts, they can demand a smaller difference between the bid and ask price, which is referred to as a better spread. The levels of access that make up the forex market are determined by the size of the âlineâ (the amount of money with which they are trading). The top-tier inter-bank market accounts for 53% of all transactions. After that there are usually smaller investment banks, followed by large multi-national corporations (which need to hedge risk and pay employees in different countries), large hedge funds, and even some of the retail forex market makers. According to Galati and Melvin, âPension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, and other institutional investors have played an increasingly important role in financial markets in general, and in FX markets in particular, since the early 2000s.â (2004) In addition, he notes, âHedge funds have grown markedly over the 2001â2004 period in terms of both number and overall sizeâ Central banks also participate in the forex market to align currencies to their economic needs.
There is no unified or centrally cleared market for the majority of FX trades, and there is very little cross-border regulation. Due to the over-the-counter (OTC) nature of currency markets, there are rather a number of interconnected marketplaces, where different currency instruments are traded. This implies that there is not a single dollar rate but rather a number of different rates (prices), depending on what bank or market maker is trading. In practice the rates are often very close, otherwise they could be exploited by arbitrageurs instantaneously. A joint venture of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Reuters, called FxMarketSpace opened in 2007 and aspires to the role of a central market clearing mechanism.
Although exchange rates are affected by many factors, in the end, currency prices are a result of supply and demand forces. The world's currency markets can be viewed as a huge melting pot: in a large and ever-changing mix of current events, supply and demand factors are constantly shifting, and the price of one currency in relation to another shifts accordingly. No other market encompasses (and distills) as much of what is going on in the world at any given time as foreign exchange.
Supply and demand for any given currency, and thus its value, are not influenced by any single element, but rather by several. These elements generally fall into three categories: economic factors, political conditions and market psychology.
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is there any people hwo understand in foerex il give him 200 euro and than he give me 50 -50
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he give you 50-50 what?
your question does not make sense; try again
here are the current conversions
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency
he give you 50-50 what?
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here are the current conversions
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency
How do I set up forex currency pairs to watch in my Yahoo Finance page?
Joelmont75
I just started trading Forex pairs and I need to be able to collect price data for the last 10 time periods (hours, days or weeks) so that I can input this information into my trading platform to give me an idea on where the price of the currency pair will move next.
Can anyone tell me how to get this info into my yahoo finance page so that it updates with the movement of the currency pairs?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!
Patrick
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Hi Patrick,
I haven't seen a solution to capturing and recording actual prices for the past X time periods. You can dowload the data from piptrader.com.
A better solution might be to have a programmer crank out an EA for you that would do that for you. (I am surprised that the solution that you are using didn't think of that as part of their application rather than request you to enter 10 sets of data into a calculator).
I pretty much accomplish the same thing by simply monitoring a couple of moving averages and watching for them to to cross and both maintain a steep angle. This indicates the possible beginning of a reversal.
I would be happy to send you a summary of the moving averages that I use and how I use them. It might be interesting to compare this to the signal that you are getting from your K-F calculator......and it is free.
Paul
Hi Patrick,
I haven't seen a solution to capturing and recording actual prices for the past X time periods. You can dowload the data from piptrader.com.
A better solution might be to have a programmer crank out an EA for you that would do that for you. (I am surprised that the solution that you are using didn't think of that as part of their application rather than request you to enter 10 sets of data into a calculator).
I pretty much accomplish the same thing by simply monitoring a couple of moving averages and watching for them to to cross and both maintain a steep angle. This indicates the possible beginning of a reversal.
I would be happy to send you a summary of the moving averages that I use and how I use them. It might be interesting to compare this to the signal that you are getting from your K-F calculator......and it is free.
Paul
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Is there a group of people who can trade the forex markets without a spread, or at least MUCH less than I pay?
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Sandor S
If trillions of dollars gets traded back and forth on a daily basis, it doesn't make any sense that everyone has to pay a spread of 0.03%, because that is a lot of money that is disappearing from everyone's pockets, a billion dollars a day, and even if they did all have to pay it, it has to be going to someone. Someone who is able to trade for free because he is the one who keeps the profits of the difference between bid and ask. Who is that someone?
I ask because I have created an adaptive trading method that only works with horribly low spread. Too low for me to use, but it must be horrifically valuable to SOMEone out there. And when I say it is adaptive, I mean that there is no a priori strategy, it looks at the last 63 days every 2 weeks and decides on the trading rules it will apply over the next two weeks from that alone, so it isn't adapted to any future data; it's not cheating. Operating on the USD/JPY from July 1, 2007 to Feb 13, 2009, these are its results from one run (since it contains random variables, if you ran it again on the exact same data you'd get different numbers, but the same SORTS of results):
Commission=0.02:
Total gain=1.9586666009107498e-001
Total commissions=4.3467080397738096e+000
Commission=0.01:
Total gain=1.4452129891615770e+000
Total commissions=2.5255991687861270e+000
Commission=0.0079:
Total gain=6.0134531854447415e+000
Total commissions=1.3535088531109761e+001
Commission=0.005:
Total gain=8.3681903017587498e+007
Total commissions=2.2229280168087495e+008
Commission=0.0029:
Total gain=5.3964686183550566e+012
Total commissions=6.6395560659541475e+012
Commission=0.0019:
Total gain=3.7134772078865466e+017
Total commissions=2.0657410633892125e+017
Commission=0:
Total gain=4.7437229016568531e+049
Total commissions=0
Note that 5.5e+026 is the computer's way of expressing scientific notation, and that example would be 5.5 times 10 to the 26th power.
As you can see, it works astronomically well with as low a spread as possible, but nothing that is given realistically by any brokers to small fish like me.
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The answer I will not accept:
"there would be no one willing to facilitate trades if they didn't get to take a cut"
Obviously. I'm asking if there's anyone who takes a smaller cut. Or maybe a cut that doesn't go up with trade size - after all, buy stocks with a stock broker, and it's usually 5 or 10 dollars per TRADE. But it doesn't matter what the trade size is. But with a spread on the forex market, with double the trade size, it's double the commission. And like I said, whoever IS pocketing the difference, surely HE must be able to trade without a spread since he's the one who pockets the difference! Certainly this would be worth something to THAT person. It is fundamentally impossible for everyone to lose that money when they trade because it GOES somewhere, and it certainly doesn't COST that much to keep the markets running. It doesn't cost anyone anything for me to enter in an electronic order to trade 300 thousand dollars for 30 million yen and for it all to be carried out by computers but I lose about 100 dollars each round trip in the act of doing so. Maybe at the very least there's some group of people who pay, say, a million dollars a year for however much trading they want, in lieu of spreads. This trading method would make a lot more than that million dollars.
Bill Q - of course if as you say, it's not being collected by one single group but by multitudes of middlemen, that could be a problem. But the thing is, it doesn't really need to be ZERO - it would need to be about a sixth of what the best brokers I can find charge to work reasonably well - and as you can see from the list above, the less percentage they charge, the more actual commissions are actually collected as well so it would be in their best interests to consider it.
The thing is, that if they're offering .03% per trade, that means they're happy with a profit of a mere 3 dollars for one USD/JPY lot (10000 USD against however many JPY that is equivalent to). Or even smaller scale, they're willing to settle for a dollar or so with one MXN/JPY lot (mexican peso). Yet they insist on 3000 dollars of profit for me to trade 1000 lots. No middleground at all! If they'd only settle for a mere 300, we could all make SO much money! But WHO would I talk to about possibly doing this?
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The people who are "pocketing the spread" are not pocketing the whole spread. They have to pay for the computers, their offices, their staffs, etc. They only pocket what's left over after that. Certainly if you are making big trades, they should charge you a lower spread, but they still have to charge you some spread.
The people who are "pocketing the spread" are not pocketing the whole spread. They have to pay for the computers, their offices, their staffs, etc. They only pocket what's left over after that. Certainly if you are making big trades, they should charge you a lower spread, but they still have to charge you some spread.
ISEQ shares trading ireland?
waheed
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Decide first. These are the questions. 1. How much risk. In day trading a good broker requires around 10,000 minimum loss cushion. You have to have the ability to lose 20,000.00 if you are wrong. 2. How much do you need to make? Reality in trading is setting in presently. The base stations for United Nations average families make 9200.00 per year. They shop exclusively at bargain, warehousing, and local friends. 3. What is your cap to make without interrupting your friends, family or neighbors. This one is easy, Swimming pool requires caps. Guess 100,000.00
4. Beautification tax options. Do you spend well, do you have ideas within local business, and do you interact with the community to learn your bank requirements. Good educations start with a permission from good bankers of 70,000.00 per year, to spend on the community.5. What stocks do you intend to support if necessary? You might want to be interested in their products or service.
Start with training sites, games, activations are available at minimum coaching risks, around 3% risk is typical if you make mistakes. This is ordinarily around 200.00 loss per mistake on a reputable site. Make sure your site is open in insured client actions. E-mail should respond with courtesy if you want questions answered. Get those details and stay within your bankers recommendations up to 30,000.00. If you go higher make sure you are informed what to do. Books
Ben Stein advertising, Goldstein Economics, Kreuger properties, Gore federal rules, and Ministry of Finance european nation of your relatives or affiliates. Sites wws, forex, zachs, tdamerican, lots more on these sites, ask the bank is a good idea here. Buy lowest you can find, sell soon enough to be interesting around 2 weeks to get a look at reactions. Study charts and learn some time factors of the days trade that are interesting to you. Chat with the site members for top ideas.
Decide first. These are the questions. 1. How much risk. In day trading a good broker requires around 10,000 minimum loss cushion. You have to have the ability to lose 20,000.00 if you are wrong. 2. How much do you need to make? Reality in trading is setting in presently. The base stations for United Nations average families make 9200.00 per year. They shop exclusively at bargain, warehousing, and local friends. 3. What is your cap to make without interrupting your friends, family or neighbors. This one is easy, Swimming pool requires caps. Guess 100,000.00
4. Beautification tax options. Do you spend well, do you have ideas within local business, and do you interact with the community to learn your bank requirements. Good educations start with a permission from good bankers of 70,000.00 per year, to spend on the community.5. What stocks do you intend to support if necessary? You might want to be interested in their products or service.
Start with training sites, games, activations are available at minimum coaching risks, around 3% risk is typical if you make mistakes. This is ordinarily around 200.00 loss per mistake on a reputable site. Make sure your site is open in insured client actions. E-mail should respond with courtesy if you want questions answered. Get those details and stay within your bankers recommendations up to 30,000.00. If you go higher make sure you are informed what to do. Books
Ben Stein advertising, Goldstein Economics, Kreuger properties, Gore federal rules, and Ministry of Finance european nation of your relatives or affiliates. Sites wws, forex, zachs, tdamerican, lots more on these sites, ask the bank is a good idea here. Buy lowest you can find, sell soon enough to be interesting around 2 weeks to get a look at reactions. Study charts and learn some time factors of the days trade that are interesting to you. Chat with the site members for top ideas.
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I am looking for a profitable forex strategy, day trading?
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Babnon
I need a good strategy that can build my capital to a full time income.
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I've read a lot about Forex, but I've never seen a proven profitable forex strategy, despite the claims of some scam web sites. Playing Forex can appear alluring, but the majority of people who try it lose money. All you have to do is do a web search on the words "Forex" and "lose" to see this is the consensus.
Forex is what we call a "zero sum" game. You are making a bet with someone else about whether a currency will rise or fall. For every winner there has to be a loser. If you are smarter than the average player, you may make money. If you are dumber than the average player, you are likely to lose money. Most of the people making the "bets" in Forex are highly trained professionals at banks and other institutions. You are unlikely to beat them at this game.
Actually Forex is not quite a zero sum game. It's a slightly negative sum game as the Forex broker takes a small percentage each time in the spread. It's a small amount but over a hundred trades, it ends up being a considerable amount of money. So the average player is likely to lose money, and remember the average player is a highly trained professional and probably smarter than you.
There is a lot of luck in Forex, and if you play it, you will have some periods of time where you make money. This is usually because you are having a lucky streak, not because you have suddenly become an expert Forex player. However, most people are unwilling to admit their success is due to luck. They become convinced they have a system that works, and lose a lot of money trying to refine it.
Further complicating the problem is the large number of Forex scams on the internet. Most Forex websites are of questionable honesty. You will find many people on the Internet that claim they made a lot of money using Forex. They are usually liars trying to make money. They will say: "Go to Forexcrap . com/q2347." The "q2347" is a signal to the Forexcrap site that you are being referred to them by "q2347." If they sell something to you, "q2347" gets a kickback. These coded signals can be hidden by different methods in the link. Other people will refer you to their own private website or blog for the purpose of trying to get money off you.
I would recommend not trying to do Forex at all, unless you are a trained professional. It's like playing poker with people better than you, with the house constantly taking a small percentage from the pot.
I've read a lot about Forex, but I've never seen a proven profitable forex strategy, despite the claims of some scam web sites. Playing Forex can appear alluring, but the majority of people who try it lose money. All you have to do is do a web search on the words "Forex" and "lose" to see this is the consensus.
Forex is what we call a "zero sum" game. You are making a bet with someone else about whether a currency will rise or fall. For every winner there has to be a loser. If you are smarter than the average player, you may make money. If you are dumber than the average player, you are likely to lose money. Most of the people making the "bets" in Forex are highly trained professionals at banks and other institutions. You are unlikely to beat them at this game.
Actually Forex is not quite a zero sum game. It's a slightly negative sum game as the Forex broker takes a small percentage each time in the spread. It's a small amount but over a hundred trades, it ends up being a considerable amount of money. So the average player is likely to lose money, and remember the average player is a highly trained professional and probably smarter than you.
There is a lot of luck in Forex, and if you play it, you will have some periods of time where you make money. This is usually because you are having a lucky streak, not because you have suddenly become an expert Forex player. However, most people are unwilling to admit their success is due to luck. They become convinced they have a system that works, and lose a lot of money trying to refine it.
Further complicating the problem is the large number of Forex scams on the internet. Most Forex websites are of questionable honesty. You will find many people on the Internet that claim they made a lot of money using Forex. They are usually liars trying to make money. They will say: "Go to Forexcrap . com/q2347." The "q2347" is a signal to the Forexcrap site that you are being referred to them by "q2347." If they sell something to you, "q2347" gets a kickback. These coded signals can be hidden by different methods in the link. Other people will refer you to their own private website or blog for the purpose of trying to get money off you.
I would recommend not trying to do Forex at all, unless you are a trained professional. It's like playing poker with people better than you, with the house constantly taking a small percentage from the pot.
Is forex day trading legit? And if so how profitable is it?
anberain
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The currency trading (FOREX) market is the biggest and the fastest growing market on earth. Its daily turnover is more than 2.5 trillion dollars, which is 100 times greater than the NASDAQ daily turnover.Markets are places to trade goods. The same goes with FOREX. The Forex goods (or merchandise) are the currencies of various countries. You buy Euro, paying with USdollars, or you sell Japanese Yens for Canadian dollars. That's all.
How does one profit in Forex?
Very simple and obvious: buy cheap and sell for more! The profit is generated from the fluctuations (changes) in the currency exchange market.
The nice thing about the FOREX market, is that regular daily fluctuations, say - around 1%, are multiplied by 100! (in general, Easy-Forex⢠offers trading ratios from 1:50 to 1:200). If, for example, the exchange rate of "your" pair of currencies increased by 0.6% in the last 4 hours, your profit will be 60% on your investment! Such can happen in one business day, or in a few hours, even minutes.
This paragraph of the article just shows how profitable it is. VERY profitable. But this ain't the way to 'get rich overnight.' It requires A LOT of hard work in figuring out your own strategies and how to deal with possible losses. Forex trading is legit. But a warning that there are a lot of forex scammers out there. Check out the links below, especially the articles in the forex resources section. Its very helpful.
The currency trading (FOREX) market is the biggest and the fastest growing market on earth. Its daily turnover is more than 2.5 trillion dollars, which is 100 times greater than the NASDAQ daily turnover.Markets are places to trade goods. The same goes with FOREX. The Forex goods (or merchandise) are the currencies of various countries. You buy Euro, paying with USdollars, or you sell Japanese Yens for Canadian dollars. That's all.
How does one profit in Forex?
Very simple and obvious: buy cheap and sell for more! The profit is generated from the fluctuations (changes) in the currency exchange market.
The nice thing about the FOREX market, is that regular daily fluctuations, say - around 1%, are multiplied by 100! (in general, Easy-Forex⢠offers trading ratios from 1:50 to 1:200). If, for example, the exchange rate of "your" pair of currencies increased by 0.6% in the last 4 hours, your profit will be 60% on your investment! Such can happen in one business day, or in a few hours, even minutes.
This paragraph of the article just shows how profitable it is. VERY profitable. But this ain't the way to 'get rich overnight.' It requires A LOT of hard work in figuring out your own strategies and how to deal with possible losses. Forex trading is legit. But a warning that there are a lot of forex scammers out there. Check out the links below, especially the articles in the forex resources section. Its very helpful.
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Question about forex pips?
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Nick
When you trade with $1000, 1 pip is = to 10 cents right?
In this video this guy some how says with $1000, 1 pip = 1 dollar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhASYFeea54
Im confused lol
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Think of pip as a point. One pip in the spot market is equal to one point in the forex futures market. Whether pip or point, the multiplier for the Yen and Euro make them $12.50 per pip or per point for standard contracts, and $6.25 for the GBP standard contracts. There are also mini and micro sizes that confuse things. One pip is simply the last digit from the decimal point.
Think of pip as a point. One pip in the spot market is equal to one point in the forex futures market. Whether pip or point, the multiplier for the Yen and Euro make them $12.50 per pip or per point for standard contracts, and $6.25 for the GBP standard contracts. There are also mini and micro sizes that confuse things. One pip is simply the last digit from the decimal point.
Question about making profits in Forex?
Bouchon89
What would you prefer :
make 20 pips almost every trade, or make 50 - 70 pips NOT every trade (maybe once every 3 - 5 trades) and make nothing in between ?
(Set up: Stop loss moved to: $0 when market moves + 10 pips)
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I am an active forex trader.
I do not recommend making 20 pips a day. I highly discourage leverage based on my personal experiences. (because I have a small account and I cannot let my profits run since I would get stopped out more often. However, without leverage I can widen my stops, and let my profits run)
I recommend making as many pips as you can based on management of your position using trailing stops, trailing them right under invisible/visible support levels.
I have lots of educational material and courses in forex - Contact me.
I am an active forex trader.
I do not recommend making 20 pips a day. I highly discourage leverage based on my personal experiences. (because I have a small account and I cannot let my profits run since I would get stopped out more often. However, without leverage I can widen my stops, and let my profits run)
I recommend making as many pips as you can based on management of your position using trailing stops, trailing them right under invisible/visible support levels.
I have lots of educational material and courses in forex - Contact me.
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