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The FOREX is the world’s biggest financial market.
The FOREX or “FOReign EXchange” is the planets biggest most liquid financial marketplace hands down.
Here is the Federal Reserve's easy to understand explanation of what the Foriegn Exchange is:
“Foreign exchange” refers to money denominated in the currency of another nation or group of nations. Any person who exchanges money denominated in his own nation’s currency for money denominated in another nation’s currency acquires foreign exchange.
That holds true whether the amount of the transaction is equal to a few dollars or to billions of dollars; whether the person involved is a tourist cashing a traveler’s check in a restaurant abroad or an investor exchanging hundreds of millions of dollars for the acquisition of a foreign company; and whether the form of money being acquired is foreign currency notes, foreign currency denominated bank deposits, or other short term claims denominated in foreign currency…Foreign exchange can be cash, funds available on credit cards and debit cards, traveler’s checks, bank deposits, or other short-term claims. It is still “foreign exchange” if it is a short-term negotiable financial claim denominated in a currency other than the U.S. dollar.” – Sam Cross – The Federal Reserve Bank
So now you can see why the the exchange of foreign currency is the planets biggest business.
In fact no other market even comes near the gargantuan size of this market. More money changes hands in the FOREX every day than all other markets on earth combined.
What is FOREX? Part II
It will take wall street ( the united states stock market) nearly 150 days to trade the same volume the Foreign Exchange market trades in just a single day.
As we have just learned, the Foreign Exchange is made up of anyone who exchanges the currency of one country for that of another.
However, for the purpose of this course, we shall focus on people and businesses who open trading accounts and attempt to realize profits from trading currency.
Throughout this tutorial, when we refer to the Foreign Exchange or "trading," it always pertains to traders and not tourists in a foreign country cashing travelers checks.
The FORiegn EXchange does not have a centralized exchange like the stock market in New York or the commodities markets with centralized exchanges in cities like New York and Chicago.
The FOREX rather is a world wide network of national governments, hundreds of banks, thousands of commercial institutions and hundreds of thousands of traders like you and I all linked together by computers, faxes, phones and other instantaneous forms of communication available in today’s high-tech society.
FOREX follows the sun around the world and is active 24 hours a day, six days a week.
At about 5pm EST Sunday afternoon the Asian session opens and trading starts non-stop going into the European trading session at about 2am EST and then the American session at 8am EST time until it makes full circle back to the Asian trading session never stopping, trading over a TRILLION dollars every single trading day.
So what exactly is being traded on FOREX?
The answer is money.
When you open a brokerage account and "trade" on the FOREX, you are speculating that the value of one countries currency is going to appreciate or depreciate in relation to that of another.
The currencies are always "paired up" just like two fighters in a boxing ring.
The most popular currency “pairs” traded on the FOREX are:
• The European Union “EURO” and the U.S Dollar which is expressed as EUR/USD
• The Great Britain Pound and the U.S. Dollar which is expressed as GBP/USD
• The Swiss Frank and the U.S. Dollar which is expressed as USD/CHF
• The Japanese Yen and the U.S. Dollar which is expressed as USD/JPY.
• Notice that the most traded currency pairs are traded against the USD.
Just about every currency in the world is traded on the FOREX but for the sake of simplicity we will only stick with the top four pairs or “majors.”
Why does one countries currency rise or fall in value against another?
There are many reason but some of the most influential are:
General condition of a country’s economy and economic influences like interest rates and inflation.
Political Factors
Trade Balance
Purchase Power Parity
Social Factors
Government and central bank policies and policy changes
A great analogy would be to compare a country with a company...
Yes, there's hope!
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
What is FOREX?
Most people have no idea what the FOREX is and how it affects their life or the fact that they probably already have participated in it.
There is a good reason for this. It wasn’t until about ten years ago that the general population even had access to this dynamic market in terms of being able to open an account and trade it.
Before that, only major banks, multinational corporations and the mega wealthy had access to the speculative opportunities FOREX had to offer and funding a trading account often required one million USD or more.
Even though the general population did not have the opportunity to trade this market, as you will soon discover, we all participate in it whether we realize it or not.
Just recently, the internet has made it possible for the “little guys” like you and I to participate in the world’s biggest financial game.
Twelve years ago it would cost you a million or more dollars to participate with the big boys in this lucrative trading game, today you can open a trading account for just a few hundred dollars.
Few opportunities today offer so much reward for so little risk and for this reason people are flocking in droves to get their share.
Remember this!! - Most people lose money trading on the FOREX because they don't educate themselves on how the market works.
If you play this game like a lottery, expecting to win with luck and good fortune, you will loose all of your money. You may get lucky for awhile but just like Las Vegas, in the end the “house” wins and you end up broke.
After all, you are up against players like the Federal Reserve Banks, Bank of America, mega multinational corporations, governments of countries around the world and super savvy investors like George Soros, do you really think these high stakes players trade by merely guessing? Of course not!!
The ONLY way to become a successful trader is to educate yourself on how this game is played.
You will still be speculating because no one truly knows which way the market will go next, but the difference will be that your "betting" or "trading" will be "educated" and this can tilt the odds ever so slightly into your favor.
I SEE HOPE!
There is a good reason for this. It wasn’t until about ten years ago that the general population even had access to this dynamic market in terms of being able to open an account and trade it.
Before that, only major banks, multinational corporations and the mega wealthy had access to the speculative opportunities FOREX had to offer and funding a trading account often required one million USD or more.
Even though the general population did not have the opportunity to trade this market, as you will soon discover, we all participate in it whether we realize it or not.
Just recently, the internet has made it possible for the “little guys” like you and I to participate in the world’s biggest financial game.
Twelve years ago it would cost you a million or more dollars to participate with the big boys in this lucrative trading game, today you can open a trading account for just a few hundred dollars.
Few opportunities today offer so much reward for so little risk and for this reason people are flocking in droves to get their share.
Remember this!! - Most people lose money trading on the FOREX because they don't educate themselves on how the market works.
If you play this game like a lottery, expecting to win with luck and good fortune, you will loose all of your money. You may get lucky for awhile but just like Las Vegas, in the end the “house” wins and you end up broke.
After all, you are up against players like the Federal Reserve Banks, Bank of America, mega multinational corporations, governments of countries around the world and super savvy investors like George Soros, do you really think these high stakes players trade by merely guessing? Of course not!!
The ONLY way to become a successful trader is to educate yourself on how this game is played.
You will still be speculating because no one truly knows which way the market will go next, but the difference will be that your "betting" or "trading" will be "educated" and this can tilt the odds ever so slightly into your favor.
I SEE HOPE!
Thursday, 5 November 2009
How To Withdraw Money From My Forex Trading Account
The process here is also straight forward and very simple. You should not have any doubts about your broker as they are regulated by all the required rules and regulations. If you have a positive balance in your account, you can withdraw it without any problems.
If you deposit funds via a credit card, you can withdraw back to the same card. If you deposit by paypal or Liberty reserve, you can withdraw via the same method. The same scenario applies with other funding methods.
Most people do not know that their credit cards can be used as a method of receiving payments. If you have a visa credit card , eToro and liteforex as I know, will send your winnings back to your card. You can withdraw it from your nearest ATM machine. Since the funds will be sent as a credit to your account there will not be any interest or fees from the credit card issuing bank.
FOREX
A lot of people have been faced with the question, what is forex. I answer them saying that forex is simply foreign exchange. Here, you're exchanging currencies. Now, i want to tell you that since it involves different currencies, it cuts accross different countries. Central banks, commercial banks, companies, individuals are the partakers in this great market. You too can start making this great deal of money in seconds.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
SOLAR AS A SOURCE OF POWER AND CASH
It's not untill i draw a cash flow diagram representing the kind of money that comes from solar electrification before you can believe me that there is money in solar technology. I want to tell you that solar technology is a very very lucrative biz. Is doesn't matter whether you already have a stream of cash, a man that have one source of income they say, do not last. For you to die hard, you have to need to choose to follow the right route. I can tell you that i'm getting paid, that's all i can for say now!
There're so many ways of getting paid from solar technology which i'm going to least some later!
THANK-YOU!
There're so many ways of getting paid from solar technology which i'm going to least some later!
THANK-YOU!
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
SOLAR PANELS
From the word “ solar ”, me and you have already known that this has to do with the sun. From your sense of Biology, you’ll agree with me the sun is the ultimate source of power or energy, call it anyone you like. Your ability to really utilize what the sun is giving out to in terms of electricity lies in your ability to have access to what will convert the solar power to electricity. When I say electricity, I don’t mean the one that people say that when something is hot, electricity. I’m introducing what can change the solar power to a power that is capable of supplying the whole world with all the electricity needs. Solar panels are what we use to trap the rays of the sun to what we call photo-voltaic cells. These cells convert the rays into electricity. The good thing about solar panels is that it does not require petrol like generators, no noise, less maintenance, etc. Having this can give a high business and financial breakthrough since you won’t be paying direct and indirect bills. Solar panels have come to stay. Think about this, you’ll never regret making the right decision today.
To success
To success
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Another opportunity to make real cash!
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visit web sites and much more.
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