March 26th, 2010
Posted in Anybody curious about making forex investments wishes to know a little about the forex market and how it works.
Forex is short for foreign exchange, and the commonest way of making money from this market is to take part in currency exchange or currency trading. This is sort of like stock trading, but with some important differences.
First, rather than dealing in stocks through the nation’s stock exchange, foreign exchange traders deal internationally by exchanging one currency for another. They wait for the price to modify, which with luck and/or good research will be a change in their favor, and then they exchange the currency back to close out the trade with a profit.
Second, forex investments are unlikely to be held for the long term, by which we mean more than a couple of months at the most. Currency prices are relative to each other, so they do not boom and bust in really the same way as stocks.
It is possible that a speculator might identify a country in the developing world that was likely to do nicely in the long run and invest in that state’s currency for one or two years. However, most players in the currency market are not doing this. They are identifying short to medium term trends in the prices of currency pairs (say, the US greenback against the euro) and purchasing (going long) or selling (going short) the pair in the expectation of making money fast. Day trading is common, and a trade that’s held over a couple of weeks would be considered a long-term trade in the foreign exchange market.
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