Forex Trading
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What is Foreign Exchange?
The Foreign Exchange market, more commonly known as Forex or FX, is a global market for the trading of currencies. This market determines foreign exchange rates for every currency.
The forex market is open 24 hours a day and 5 days a week.
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What moves
the forex market?
Several key factors, including changes in interest rates, inflation, economic stability, the actions of central banks, and other global events which may affect an economy.
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What are Currency Pairs?
A currency pair is a pairing of currencies where the value of one is priced relative to a fixed value of another.
For example, in the currency pair GBP/USD, it is the value of the US Dollar relative to the price of 1 British Pound. Here, GBP is the base currency and USD is the quote currency.
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What are Major
currency pairs?
Major currency pairs (“Majors”) are the most frequently traded and represent some of the world’s largest economies.
There are 7 major pairs: EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CAD, USD/CHF, AUD/USD, and NZD/USD.
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Forex Trading Basic Terms:
Each pair has two prices i.e.,
Ask - the price for buying the base currency
Bid - the price for selling the base currency
Spread: the difference between the Bid & Ask
Leverage: A feature offered by the majority of brokers; it allows traders to trade a larger position than their account size would normally allow. Leverage in forex is like a “loan” that the broker gives the trader so that the trader has more capital to trade with than what he or she initially deposited.
It’s represented in the form of a ratio. For example, when your account leverage is 1:100, you can trade $10,000 of a currency by only depositing $100.
Therefore, to trade $100,000 (one lot), you only need to deposit $1,000. (Please note, this is just an example for illustrative purposes, not necessarily the leverage you will receive.)
What is a Pip?
"Pip" - An acronym for percentage in point or price interest point. A pip is the smallest whole unit change in an asset’s price.
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