Why Trade Forex?

•24 hour trading
One of the major advantages of trading Forex is the opportunity to trade 24 hours a day from Sunday evening (20:00 GMT) to Friday evening (22:00 GMT). This gives you a unique opportunity to react instantly to breaking news that is affecting the markets.
•Superior liquidity
The Forex market is so liquid that there are always buyers and sellers to trade with. The liquidity of this market, especially that of the major currencies, helps ensure price stability and narrow spreads. The liquidity comes mainly from banks that provide liquidity to investors, companies, institutions and other currency market players.
•No commissions
The fact that Forex is often traded without commissions makes it very attractive as an investment opportunity for investors who want to deal on a frequent basis.
Trading the “majors” is also cheaper than trading other cross because of the high level of liquidity. For more information on the trading conditions of Saxo Bank, go to the Account Summary on your SaxoTrader and open the section entitled “Trading Conditions” found in the top right-hand corner of the Account Summary.
•100:1 Leverage
Leverage (gearing) enables you to hold a position worth up to 100 times more than your margin deposit. For example, a USD 10,000 deposit can command positions of up to USD 1,000,000 through leverage. You can leverage the first USD 25,000 of your investment up to 100 times and additional collateral up to 50 times.
•Profit potential in falling markets
Since the market is constantly moving, there are always trading opportunities, whether a currency is strengthening or weakening in relation to another currency. When you trade currencies, they literally work against each other. If the EURUSD declines, for example, it is because the US dollar gets stronger against the euro and vice versa. So, if you think the EURUSD will decline (that is, that the euro will weaken versus the dollar), you would sell EUR now and then later you buy euro back at a lower price. In case that the EURUSD indeed declines, then you can take your profit. The opposite trading scenario would occur if the EURUSD appreciates.

Collection of personal information

We collect information required to open an account, to transact business effectively and to safeguard your privacy. To do this, we gather information to help us assess your needs and preferences.

The information we collect directly from you includes information required to communicate with you, including your name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address. In addition, we collect information required by law to identify who you are, including your Social Security number, Passport number or Tax Identification number. We also collect demographic information when you open an account, including gender, birth date, occupation and employment status. Our regulatory bodies also require us to assess your trading experience, your approximate annual income, approximate net worth, and available risk capital, all to assess your financial position.

You directly provide to us the majority of information we collect. You do this by completing the account application and related documentation, by placing a trade, by sending us an e-mail, or by submitting information in response to a promotion or special offer. Other ways we obtain information are by (1) observing your usage of the Web site, and (2) providing products and services to you. This information enables us to offer you products and services that should be of interest to you.

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More Forex trading examples :

The investor follows the cross rate between the EUR and the Japanese yen. He believes that this market is headed for a fall. As he is not quite confident of this trade, he uses less of the leverage available on his deposit. He chooses to ask the dealer for a quote in EUR 1,000,000. This requires a margin of EUR 1,000,000 x 5% = EUR 10,000 = approx. USD 52,500 (EUR /USD 1.05).

The dealer quotes 112.05-10. The investor sells EUR at 112.05.

Day 1: Sell EUR 1,000,000 vs. JPY 112.05 = Buy JPY 112,050,000.

He protects his position with a stop-loss order to buy back the EUR at 112.60. Two days later, this stop is triggered as the EUR o strengthens short term in spite of the investor's expectations.

Day 3: Buy EUR 1,000,000 vs. JPY 112.60 = Sell JPY 112,600,000.

The EUR side involves a credit and a debit of EUR 1,000,000. Therefore, the EUR account shows no change. The JPY account is credited JPY 112.05m and debited JPY 112.6m for a loss of JPY 0.55m. Due to the simplicity of the example and the short time horizon of the trade, we have disregarded the interest rate swap that would marginally alter the loss calculation.

This results in a loss of JPY 0.55m = approx. USD 5,300 (USD/JPY 105) = 5.3% loss on the original deposit of USD 100,000.

British Pound stronger than majors

The British pound was generally strong compared to the majors, though the action, most of the currency was at its fall versus the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen. Apparently, the pound sterling is to remain extremely volatile next week before the Bank of England (BOE) completion rate on Thursday at 7:00 ET. The BOE is expected to maintain the same rate of 0.50%, but this will not even market influential part of the statement. Instead, traders will be looking to the BOE policy announcement. This has always been the case with most important news of the latest findings fee. Last month, the BOE showed a neutral position, they've already announced that £ 175 billion would maintain its quantitative easing (QE) program which eventually led to the pound to the streets in opposition to the U.S. dollar and the euro immediately.

US Dollar and Japanese Yen stayed the strongest

The Japanese yen and U.S. dollar were the strongest in the majors on a day when the U.S. stock indices pushed more than 2.5 percent. This shows that market relations and risk aversion are active. In fact, the CBOE ViX index of instability, an alarm measures of the market, rose more than 30 for the first time since July. FX carry trade down again, as NZDJPY fell sharply by 3.74%, while CADJPY and AUDJPY lost just over 3%. Similarly, NZDUSD fell 2.2% while AUDUSD fell 1.8%, and the bitter feeling was contrary to U.S. news economic. Certainly, the personal benefits and analysis of staff costs corresponds to the forecast for the month of September as revenue remained the same while expenses decreased 0.5%, the most severe decline since December 2008.

What is forex?

The largest financial market in the world, Foreign Exchange market, Forex or FX market, all the terms are used to describe the business of trading of the world's various currencies, with more than $2 trillion changing hands every day. Being an international foreign exchange market, Forex is a market where money is sold and bought freely. FOREX was launched in the 1970s, to become the biggest liquid financial market today, dealing in more than hundred times the daily trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
FOREX is a perfect market to invest in, as it is free from any external control and free competition. Mostly, all Forex trading are tentative and unlike the stock market trading, the Forex market is not conducted by a central exchange, but on the “interbank” market, which is thought of as an OTC (over the counter) market. The trading takes place between the two dealers, either over the telephone or through Internet, all over the world. The major trading centers are the ones at Sydney, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and New York, making Forex a 24-hour market.
Forex Trading requires the employing fundamental as well as technical analyses. These analysis help a trader to foresee and determine the development in the price trends of currencies, based on which, he attempts to predict market changes and make profits. Fundamental analysis can be said to use techniques to analyze the value of a state’s currency with the help of its economic indicators, quality markets and political events and associations. Political stability also influences the exchange rate at Forex. Its not just that

Forex Trading – More Technical than Intuitive

The FX, Forex or foreign exchange, is all vis-à-vis money. Foreign currency from all around the world is available to be bought or sold here. Any individual Forex trader or big and powerful business firms can buy or sell currency freely, on this currency exchange platform.

When dealing in foreign currency exchange, there is an ongoing cycle of buying and selling in the market. A trader can buy one foreign currency and then sell it on a higher selling price, just to buy another foreign currency, while making profit in between.

The only way to make money in Forex trading market to avoid as much emotional involvement as you can. While making investment or trading related decisions, always plan out a cautiously thought out strategy that takes the recent market tends and history patterns into consideration while making a deal.

With Financial markets, being intuitive or going with your instincts does not help much. Forex being an extremely unpredictable trading market where, at times, emotions tend to cost more than a wrong strategy. Emotions can dominate your trading sensibilities and decisions, making you go ahead with a deal purely based on your gut instincts.

What needs to be understood is the fact that trading industry is hard core strategy driven business. Market trends, rises and falls, do not go by a trader’s instinct, but can be influenced by past patterns and trends. It happens a lot during the time when a deal is about to be finalized, that the investor goes through a moment of intuitive spurs and would want to change the trading decision at the last moment. This should be avoided at any cost.

Whatever you are seeing in the market at the moment your deal is being finalized, do not change your pre planned decision at the last minute. So by the strategy you had planned in advance. That’s the only way to deal successfully with Forex trading, to be systematic in your approach, analytical with your decisions and insistent with your stand.

Be firm in your decisions. If you correctly analyze the trends of the Forex market, you can easily come to know that although the trading patterns are by and large predictable, there is a lot of sinking and floating happening within those trends. Currency prices rise and fall immediately. There is seldom any trend which has a smooth rise or fall of currency prices.

These are the situations when intuitions can kill your deal, landing you into major loss at times too. For instance, when you find out that the currency you’re holding is taking sinking southwards suddenly, you might get tempted to sell it off in loss, pack your bags and leave. Similarly, if you see that the currency you are holding is going on a rise, you try to buy more of it, just to increase your profits. Now these are the situations where emotional actions can kill your deal and thus, your trading future.

These are the times when you should hold on for a moment and study what exactly is happening and bank on greatly on your trading system. Your pre planned strategies and tactics will tell you precisely when to trade, to reap highest profits.

Almost all the Forex professionals or pros will advise the new traders and investors to build up their own trading system. This planned trading system will tell you exactly what to buy, when to buy, when to deal and what to deal for. Developing a trading system based on technical and fundamental analysis can be of benefit to its trader. Studying the past as well as present market trends can be immensely effective in getting some knowledge about what’s the future trend going to be.

There may come times, when your trading system and your instincts may become opposites, and you might get caught in the dilemma not knowing which to follow. This is the time when you should follow your trading system, as it is not just a mere emotional spur of the moment, but a suitably studied, pre planned strategy for a market based on trends and patterns.

To make your trading system even more efficient, you should clearly recognize the entry and exit point of your trading. Also kept in mind should be the extenuating factors for these points, and systematic strategy to exit properly. You should always set up a stop-loss order and a take-profit order in your deal. Clearly defining these exit points will help you, either by increasing your profits, or by decreasing your losses.