Currency market. Forex

Chapter 1: Introduction to Forex Until the early 1970s, the price of a country's currency in the world was determined by that country's gold reserve - the world had a gold standard. Each currency had its equivalent in ounces of gold. Soon everything...

Chapter 10. Margin trading In the previous chapter, working in the Forex market was compared to the possibility of earning money from buying/selling operations in an exchange office. It was shown that Forex has a number of advantages that allow you...

Chapter 11. Margin call Every time a trader opens a position on Forex using the services of an Internet broker (dealing company), a part of the funds in his account is frozen. This part is called a security deposit and is used to ensure that the trader...

Chapter 12. Bank interest At this point we have already found out that margin trading involves the use of borrowed capital - a trader borrows money to perform operations on Forex from his Internet broker. To understand the material of this chapter,...

Chapter 13. Income of Forex Participants As we have already said many times, a private Internet trader enters the Forex market through an Internet broker or dealing company. An Internet trader earns money through currency speculation, closing positions...

Chapter 14. Calculation of profits and losses So far, we have already thoroughly studied the basic terms and concepts used in Forex, as well as the principle of margin trading. Now it is time to learn how to calculate profits and losses on completed...

Chapter 15. Comparison of Forex and Casinos There are many articles on the Internet, where working in Forex is identified with playing Casino, in particular roulette. The authors of the articles express various arguments, cite mathematical calculations...

Chapter 16. Comparison of Forex and Stock Market In trading on financial markets, as in any business, there are supporters and opponents of separately taken directions. Financial markets include gold market, stock market (securities market), Forex (currency...

Chapter 17. Stock Exchanges and Stock Indices Despite the fact that the subject of Forex Arena information portal is Forex training, in this chapter we will consider stock exchanges and stock indices. At first glance, it may seem that the material in...

Chapter 18. Commodity currencies at Forex (Commodity currencies) As we have already seen in the previous chapters, the price of a currency is determined by many factors, including economic, political, psychological and a number of others. All of these...

Chapter 19. George Soros - the story of one trader As in any other business, forex trading has its outstanding personalities whose names have gone down in history. In the foreign exchange market, one of the most successful traders in history is considered...

Chapter 2: Forex Participants Before starting to work on Forex, it is necessary to understand what place a private investor occupies in the system of world currency exchange. Studying the type of participants in Forex and their influence on this market...

Chapter 3: Forex Currency Designation In the usual commodity market, goods are sold for money. What is the situation on the world currency market, where money itself is a commodity? Everything is very simple - on Forex one currency is traded relative...

Chapter 4. Types of conversion operations The concept of the type of conversion operation at Forex is closely intertwined with the terminology of financial instruments. In financial markets, which in addition to Forex also include the gold market, credit...

Chapter 5. Forex Currency Quotes When we buy goods in a store, the price tag on the goods reflects the cost of the goods in units of national currency. And we have no questions if we are going to buy a book with a price of 100 rubles - we take the book,...

Chapter 6. Buy/sell rates and spreads So far, when considering quotes, to simplify the understanding of the site material, we intentionally used only current (spot) exchange rates on Forex. In fact, any quote on Forex has two rates (two prices) - bid...

Chapter 7. Cross-courses Forex transactions are not only against the U.S. dollar, although so far we have intentionally not considered such transactions in order to simplify the presentation of the site. The rates of currencies that do not include the...

Chapter 8: Forex Mode of Operation Despite the fact that the Forex currency market operates around the clock, there are certain time periods in which it is more or less active with regard to operations with certain currencies. This is explained by the...

Chapter 9. Forex and Exchange The purpose of working in Forex is to make money from speculating with currencies. So far we have talked a lot about the currency market. But such questions as what initial capital is needed to work on Forex and what profit...

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