The International Foreign Exchange Market

In financial markets, the foreign exchange market is of a particular type. Also called “forex” or “Spot FX” the financial market is the world’s largest, with more than 3 trillion dollars changing hands each day. Compare this with 30 billion dollars a day qu’opère the NYSE gives us an idea of the enormity of the market changes! In fact it is three times larger than all stock exchanges and the Public Treasury of the United States combined!

What are we negotiating on International Currency Market?
The answer is money. Forex transactions are exchanged or the currency of a nation for one another.

The purpose of the operator in this market is to generate profits as a result of the purchase and sale of foreign currencies according to a well-known maxim: “buy less expensive to sell more expensive”. That is why transactions involve always Forex currency pairs.

The currency pairs most commonly traded are against the U.S. dollar. They are called “hard currency” or “majors” and are as follows: Euro Dollar (USD), Pound Sterling (GBP / USD), Japanese Yen (USD / JPY) and Swiss Franc ( USD / CHF). Due to the lack of a physical exchange for the Forex market, such Pairs and their possible combinations, taking place over the phone or via the Internet, through a global network of banks, multinational corporations, importers and exporters, brokers and operators of foreign exchange.

Compared to other sectors of the global financial system Forex is different, thanks to its great sensitivity to many factors extremely variable, its ability to access all the negotiators, individual and corporate, its very important trading volume that produces and guarantees the liquidity of currency made, and a work schedule “round the clock” which enables operators conduct transactions outside traditional working hours, or find during holidays open markets abroad.

As in any other market, working in Forex with a potential profitability is mainly as high risk. It is possible to succeed in this market after some training that includes familiarization with the structure and types of Forex, the principles of price formation currencies, the factors affecting the deterioration of prices and levels of risk operations, sources of information needed to explain all these factors, technical analysis and prediction of market movements, as well as the rules and tools needed to operate.

The “demo” (operate using an account with capital virtual) have a very important role in learning Forex trading as they highlight the theoretical knowledge acquired and used to obtain a minimum of experience negotiating mandatory, and all this without being subject to material losses.