Ultimate Beginners Introduction to “Forex” part 1
What is forex? In plain english!
Forex is actually the beginning of the words Foreign Exchange joined together. In effect when someone says forex, they are refering to the Foreign Exchange Market.
So what is the Foreign Exchange Market then?
The Foreign Exchange Market is the largest market in the world, it is where all international currencies are traded over the entire planet, so as you can imagine it is huge. How big? Well try over $3 trillion every day, that’s $3000000000000 every single day. The reason this is so ridiculously large is that a lot of money can go into the market then come back out again several times a day as large companies make many trades to try to maximise their profits.
Foreign Exchange? Like a bureau de change?
Kinda, when you go on holidays, you have to get local currency from a change office. When you trade forex you dont actually get any cash in whichever currency you have bought, instead when you trade currency you open what is called a position which remains open for as long as you wish to ‘hold on’ to whichever currency you have bought. When you want to sell that foreign currency you must ‘close’ your position and any profit you have made shows up as your home currency in your account. If you’ve used these change offices before you may have noticed that they have two prices for each currency, these are a buy price and a sell price, which will be examined more closely in the next section of this guide.
Check out part 2 of the Ultimate Beginners Introduction to “forex” soon.
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