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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Trading Signals

Trading Signals


Trading Signals system is a third party forecasting system which helps traders to generate accurate entry and exit signals by providing systematically and reliability service for forex profiting.

Forex SignalsTrading Description
Dashboard Fx Real-time Forex buy/sell alerts with entry/exit points.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

What is forex?

What is forex?

FOREX or Foreign Exchange market is the world largest financial market, where currency of one country is exchanged with another country through currency exchange rate system. Trader’s purpose is to get the profit as the result of foreign currencies purchase and sale. From latest assessment, Forex trading daily constitution is approximately average from 1.5 trillion to 2.5 trillion. . The free-floating of currencies being in the market turnover are determined by the supply and demand. The currency rate is actually run through telecommunication all over the network of banks 24 hours a day from 00:00 GMT on Monday to 10:00 pm GMT on Friday. Importance of human society event in the sphere of economy strongly influences the currency market. Traders gain the profit from the fluctuations in accordance with an agreed principle “buy cheaper- sell higher” or “sell higher-buy cheaper”. Forex is a continuously changing number financial system which exclusively create high trade turnover to all individual and corporative traders with an ensured liquidity of traded currencies. Due to the high potential profitability, therefore the higher risk should be essentially considered. Traders can only be the successful forex investors by going through proper training including an understanding of forex structure and types, the common techniques of analysis, the factors influencing currencies and potential risks, high confident prediction of the market movements with the trading tools and data. There are lots of simulation trading software on web, you can simply choose anyone of them for self training. This will help you to be in a better scenario. Most of the trading providers have the toll free phone number, so just call them up! Ask them question! Learn from them! Some of them may take initiative to consult you, so do write down the question from time to time.

There are many countries in world; so results different currency pairs. Among all of them, these are the popular in currency trading:

EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CHF, EUR/CHF, AUD/USD, USD/CAD, NZD/USD, EUR/GBP, EUR/JPY, GBP/JPY, CHF/JPY, GBP/CHF, EUR/AUD, EUR/CAD, AUD/CAD, AUD/JPY, CAD/JPY, NZD/JPY, GBP/AUD, AUD/NZD

Five Major Currencies are:

U.S dollar - The United States dollar is the world's main currency – an universal measure to evaluate any other currency traded on Forex.

Euro- Euro was designed to become the premier currency in trading by simply being quoted in American terms. Like the U.S. dollar, the euro has a strong international presence stemming from members of the European Monetary Union.

Japanese Yen- The Japanese yen is the third most traded currency in the world; it has a much smaller international presence than the U.S. dollar or the euro. The yen is very liquid around the world, practically around the clock.

British Pound - Until the end of World War II, the pound was the currency of reference. The currency is heavily traded against the euro and the U.S. dollar, but has a spotty presence against other currencies.After the introduction of the euro, Bank of England is attempting to bring the high U.K. rates closer to the lower rates in the euro zone.

Swiss Franc - Swiss franc is the only currency of a major European country that belongs neither to the European Monetary Union nor to the G-7 countries. Although the Swiss economy is relatively small, the Swiss franc is one of the four major currencies, closely resembling the strength and quality of the Swiss economy and finance.

To have a well focusing, you have to concentrate on less than 5 currency pairs( preferred the U.S. cross-currency pairs.)

Some traders see forex as a business, and some see it as a fortune. And even some traders think forex is an art. But anyway, its highly recommended to use pivot system in your trading plan or else you are trading blind

Saturday, November 1, 2008

How Forex Trading Works

Currency trading is mainly about buy and sell activities. Currencies are traded on a price interest point (normally called pip) system. Every currency pair has their own pip value. The objective of a trader is to hold as many profitable pips as possible. Some pip values are fixed, but some can fluctuate depends on the currency gain or loses strength. Normally I trade by using margin trading, where small deposit is required to control much larger amount in the market. Here I will use 1 percent margin deposit so that $1000 control $100,000 of trade currency. $100,000 is the notional amount. Let me shows some major currency pair with the currency exchange rate and the pip values.











For GBP/USD, 1 pip movement can be from 1.7203 to 1.7204. That means from 1.7102 to 1.7202, it should be 100 pip movement. Lets look for another example, USD/JPY, 1 pip movement is from 117.82 to 117.83 and 100 pips movement is from 117.83 to 118.83.



Foreign Exchange Calculation



Below will show you how to calculate pip values.
Formula is (1 pip value/currency exchange rate) x (Notional Amount)
For GBP/USD, 1 pip value is 0.0001. Assume currency exchange rate is 1.7204. Notional Amount is GBP 100,000.
Therefore, (0.0001/1.7204) x GBP 100,000 = GBP 0.58
If we want to convert back to USD, then GBP 0.58 x 1.7204 and we will get $1
For EUR/JPY, 1 pip value is 0.01 . Assume currency exchange rate is 138.96. Notional Amount is EUR100,000 . EUR/USD=1.1789
Therefore, (0.01/138.96)x EUR 100,000 = EUR 7.20
If we want to convert back to USD, then EUR 7.20 x 1.1789= USD8.49




Make Profit in Forex Trading



Foreign exchange trading is mainly about buy and sell activities. The theory is slightly similar with share market. To make the profit, there is the only way which is buy at lower price and sell at higher price, or we can also sell at higher price first and buy at lower price. Is it very easy? It is actually not that difficult. What we need to do is to analyze the forex in a correct way and do the good trade. Together with good money management and proper guideline, I can say that success will be eventually more on your side.
Sometimes, trader involves in foreign exchange not because of make profit but just do not want to lose money. Let me take an example, A US Construction Company want to build a subway in India and it is going to take about 7 years with $50 million construction cost. The first thing this company will do is to hedge the dollar value of the project. By buying or selling US dollar against the future market value, no matter how big the amplitude of the fluctuation, the company will not lose any money.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

BOC Offers Forex Loan Service for Chinese to Study Abroad

BOC Offers Forex Loan Service for Chinese to Study Abroad
Bank of China (BOC) recently launched a new service to grant loans of foreign exchanges to those who want to study abroad, according to a Beijing Daily report.

Loan applicants are required to repay the banks in foreign exchanges and provide reliable financial guarantee.

Other basic requirements for the loans are: the money can only be granted to those studying overseas for a master's degree or higher; the length of maturity is limited to between one and six years; the loan is limited within 80 percent of the tuition and living expenses to be needed abroad; and no single loan can exceed40,000 U.S. dollars.

BOC has loaned 200 million yuan to those studying abroad, and reported no bad loans so far, the paper said.


Sunday, October 26, 2008

Abuses in lending

Abuses in lending
Predatory lending is one form of abuse in the granting of loans. It usually involves granting a loan in order to put the borrower in a position that one can gain advantage over him or her. Where the moneylender is not authorised, it could be considered a loan shark.
Usury is a different form of abuse, where the lender charges excessive interest. In different time periods and cultures the acceptable interest rate has varied, from no interest at all to unlimited interest rates. Credit card companies in some countries have been accused by consumer organisations of lending at usurious interest rates and making money out of frivolous "extra charges". [1]
Abuses can also take place in the form of the customer abusing the lender by not repaying the loan or with an intent to defraud the lender.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Types of loans


Types of loans
Secured

A secured loan is a loan in which the borrower pledges some asset (e.g. a car or property) as collateral for the loan.
A mortgage loan is a very common type of debt instrument, used by many individuals to purchase housing. In this arrangement, the money is used to purchase the property. The financial institution, however, is given security — a lien on the title to the house — until the mortgage is paid off in full. If the borrower defaults on the loan, the bank would have the legal right to repossess the house and sell it, to recover sums owing to it.
In some instances, a loan taken out to purchase a new or used car may be secured by the car, in much the same way as a mortgage is secured by housing. The duration of the loan period is considerably shorter — often corresponding to the useful life of the car. There are two types of auto loans, direct and indirect. A direct auto loan is where a bank gives the loan directly to a consumer. An indirect auto loan is where a car dealership acts as an intermediary between the bank or financial institution and the consumer.
A type of loan especially used in limited partnership agreements is the recourse note.
A stock hedge loan is a special type of securities lending whereby the stock of a borrower is hedged by the lender against loss, using options or other hedging strategies to reduce lender risk.[citation needed]

Unsecured

Unsecured loans are monetary loans that are not secured against the borrowers assets. These may be available from financial institutions under many different guises or marketing packages:
credit card debt
personal loans
bank overdrafts
credit facilities or lines of credit
corporate bonds
The interest rates applicable to these different forms may vary depending on the lender and the borrower. These may or may not be regulated by law. In the United Kingdom, when applied to individuals, these may come under the Consumer Credit Act 1974.

loan

A loan is a type of debt. This article focuses exclusively on monetary loans, although, in practice, any material object might be lent. Like all debt instruments, a loan entails the redistribution of financial assets over time, between the lender and the borrower.
The borrower initially does receive an amount of
money from the lender, which they pay back, usually but not always in regular installments, to the lender. This service is generally provided at a cost, referred to as interest on the debt. A loan is of the annuity type if the amount paid periodically (for paying off and interest together) is fixed.
A borrower may be subject to certain restrictions known as
loan covenants under the terms of the loan.
Acting as a provider of loans is one of the principal tasks for
financial institutions. For other institutions, issuing of debt contracts such as bonds is a typical source of funding. Bank loans and credit are one way to increase the money supply.
Legally, a loan is a contractual promise of a debtor to repay a sum of money in exchange for the promise of a creditor to give another sum of m
oney.