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Thursday, 17 January 2013
What is Leverage?
Leverage is a financial tool that allows
an individual to increase their market exposure to a point that exceeds their
actual investment. For example, a trader goes long 10000 units of the USD/JPY,
with $1,000 dollars of equity in their account.
The USD/JPY trade is equivalent...
The Long and Short of it
Aspiring traders will often be familiar
with the concept of buying to initiate a trade. After all, since many of us are
children we are taught the basic premise of ‘buying low, and selling high.’
In financial markets, jargon often plays a key role. Jargon
helps show familiarity...
Currency Names and Symbols
As you
may have noticed, the symbols (abbreviations) for all currencies have three
letters. The first two letters denote the name of the country and third letter
stands for the name of that country’s currency.
As an example, let’s look at the USD. The US stands
for United States...
How money is made Trading Forex
The Basics of How Money is Made Trading Forex
Trading currency in the Forex market
centers around the basic concepts of buying and selling.
Let's take the idea of buying first. What if you
bought something (it could literally be almost anything...a house, a piece of
jewelry...
What is Forex?
What is forex? Why trade forex?
The foreign exchange market – or forex for short – is
the buying and selling of currencies, and it’s one of the fastest growing
markets in the world. From 2007 to 2010, forex market activity increased by
20%, with average daily turnover reaching...
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