to your comprehensive top Scalping System Trading resources

Foreign Currency:The foreign currency a nation has in its reserves to purchase goods from other nations, (ie, imports).

on
Scalping System Trading TV

Below, you'll find extensive information on leading Scalping System Trading articles and products
to help you on your way to success.

Currency Trading And The Market Functions

William R Alheim, Jr.

Scalping System Trading Information

Currency Trading And The Market Functions

The currency markets or other names it is known by, such as Forex, FX or the Foreign Exchange Markets have existed since one country or region stated trading goods or services with each other. After the goods where exchanged for the currency of the local economy, the merchant needed a way to convert it back into there local currency. Thus the beginning of the Forex markets.

The present markets operate world wide in every country on the globe where currency of each and every country are bought and sold daily. The value of a particular currency can and will go up and down throughout a day based on many factors. The currency markets operate approximately 5 1/2 days a week and are open somewhere in the world at all times on those days.

Reasons to Invest in the Foreign Exchange Markets:

1. The ability to leverage relatively low amounts of investments and control large sums of currencies.
2. Most Forex brokerage firms don't charge commissions to execute a trade
3. The ability to buy and sell at will due to extremely large market.
4. Unstable markets provide conditions where knowledgeable investors can make vast sums of profits.
5. The ability to limit risk though the use of available tools.
6. I t does not matter if a currency is raising or falling, you still are able to make money.

Trading In the Forex Markets:

The name of the game in any investment is to make money. In other words, you want to buy low and sell high. Investing in the FX is no different. The vast majority of the investments are made by people or institutions which have no intention of every actually taking possession of the currency. They are simply attempting to use educated guess to determine which direction a currency is going to move and make a profit from it.

Currencies are always traded in pairs. One might sell US dollars and buy Euro's or vice versa. Remember, to truly make a profit in the currency markets you must have a plan to get the profits you have made back into your own countries currency. Let's say you live in the United States and make an investment in Euro's and own them at a later date. Your next trade could be in Japanese Yen, where you also made a big profit trading the Euro's for the Yen. What do you do now; you live in the US and can't spend Yen. So, a very important long term consideration for any currency investor is how are they repatriate there profits into there home countries currency.

A very common measure of an investment is called, the Return on Investment (ROI,) Regardless of whether you're investing in currencies, real estate or a business venture this is a very important consideration that must be considered in all investment transactions. There are very safe forms of investments that are considered risk free, such as US Treasury Bonds. For an investment in a currency to be considered a good investment you should be able to receive a profit that more than marginally exceeds an investment in US bonds.

The Major Currencies and how Exchange Rates are Determined:

There are five major currencies that are traded most often. They are the US Dollar (USD,) the Euro (EUR,) the Japanese Yen (JPY,) the British Pound (GBP,) and the Swiss Frank (CHF.) There are certain foundations that also consider the Australian Dollar (AUD) a major currency. At some point in the near future, at least we hope the Chinese government will remove the restrictions presently placed on the trading of there national currency and allow it also to be freely traded.

As we mentioned earlier currencies are always traded in pairs. The initial currency in the pair is called the base currency and the next currency is named quote or counter currency. The base currency is the denominator and the counter or quote currency is thus the numerator in the ratio. The value of the base currency is always one. Thus the exchange rate is how many of the counter currency must be paid to buy the base currency.

The bid price for a counter currency is always lower than the ask price. The reason for this is that the bid price, which represents how much will be received in the counter or quote currency when selling one unit of the base currency, is always lower than the ask price, which represents how much must be paid in the counter or quote currency when buying one unit of the base currency.

An example of a trade might be the following. A trade of EUR/USD bid/ask currency rates at your bank may be 1.1015/1.2015, representing a spread of 1000 pips (also called points, one pip = 0.0001.) The smaller the spread the better for the investor. The reason for this is that in order to profit the currency needs to make a smaller movement.

The