Forex - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is the Foreign Exchange Market aka Forex (FX or FRX)? - ANSWER-The exchange or buying and selling of foreign currencies. How much volume is generated in the Forex Market daily? - ANSWER-$5 trillion a day When does the Forex market open? - ANSWER-6:00am Sydney Australian Time Sunday. 14 hours ahead What was the evolution in systems that eventually created the Foreign Exchange Market? - ANSWER-Bartering, Commodity, Coinage, Paper Money, Foreign Exchange Market What is the Forex ma...

How to Make Money Trading Forex - ANSWER-In the forex market, you buy or sell currencies. The object of forex trading is to exchange one currency for another in the expectation that the price will change. More specifically, that the currency you bought will increase in value compared to the one you sold. How to Make Money Trading Forex - ANSWER-*EUR 10,000 x 1.18 = US $11,800 ** EUR 10,000 x 1.25 = US $12,500 For example, the EUR/USD exchange rate indicates how many euros can purchase one U...

What is the FOREX market? - ANSWER-Online exchange or buying and selling for all foreign currency pairs around the world How can you make money in the Forex market? - ANSWER-You can choose to buy or sell currencies and if you forecast the move correctly, you can make a profit What is a major pair? - ANSWER-Currency pairs where one currency is the US dollar. (USDJPY, EURUSD) What is a minor pair? - ANSWER-Currency pairs that don't involve the US dollar What are examples of some Exoti...

What is Forex and how is it quoted - ANSWER-*simultaneous exchanging of one currency for another *Currencies are always priced in pairs - Most currencies are quoted in European terms, ie amount of fx per $1 » The USD is the base currency (always $1) (the denominator) and the second is the counter or quote currency or variable amount (the numerator) » The base is always quoted first as in dollar-yen or dollar swissie Where is Forex traded - ANSWER-No physical location or central exch...

Note 1 - ANSWER-The foreign exchange market — most often called the forex market, or simply the FX market — is the largest and most liquid of all international financial markets. Note 2 - ANSWER-Forex market is open around the clock from Sunday evening ET to Friday 5 p.m. ET Note 3 - ANSWER-Average daily currency trading volumes are now estimated to $5.3 trillion per day, according to the 2016 BIS survey of forex volumes. That's a mind-boggling number, isn't it? $5,300,000,000,000, t...

Currency Futures - ANSWER-contracts to buy or sell amounts of specified currency at some future date Currency Options - ANSWER-The option or the right, but not the obligation, to exchange a specific amount of currency on a specific future date and at a specific agreed-on rate Downside of Currency Options - ANSWER-limited hours and lower liquidity Currency ETFs(Exchange Traded Funds) - ANSWER-ETFs are created and managed by financial institutions who buy and hold currencies in a fund. Th...

Forex - ANSWER-Foreign Exchange (FOREX) refers to the foreign exchange market. It is the over-the-counter market in which the foreign currencies of the world are traded. It is considered the largest and most liquid market in the world. Pair - ANSWER-A currency pair is the quotation and pricing structure of the currencies traded in the forex market; the value of a currency is a rate and is determined by its comparison to another currency. The first listed currency of a currency pair is called ...

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Foreign Exchange Market - ANSWER-market in which individuals; firms and banks buy and sell foreign currencies or foreign exchange. reasons for participation in forex market - ANSWER-4: One of the principle reasons people desire foreign currencies is to purchase goods and services from another country or to send a gift abroad. A second important reason for acquiring foreign currencies is to purchase financial assets (foreign stocks or bonds or to acquire direct ownership of real capital) in ...