MONEY IN FOREX

HOW TO REALLY MAKE MONEY IN FOREX



What is Forex?

Foreign Exchange popularly renowed as Forex otherwise FX is a market used for the buying and selling of diverse currencies and it is one of the fastest growing avenues to making money online. Transactions on the market are complete through electronic process (Internet and telephone) through an intermediary called the Forex broker. However, major trading 'centers' exists in London, New York, and Tokyo. Other trading 'centers' are: Singapore, Frankfurt, Geneva & Zurich, Paris and Hong Kong. Forex market is made up of various players: individual trader, institutional traders, banks, other financial institutions (investment firms, pension funds and enclosed funds etc), and governments through their Central Banks. An estimated $3.5trillion worth of transactions are being traded daily on the market and it is opened 24/6. Forex market is an unfettered market, making it reachable to everyone and easily exited by its players. This makes it impossible to know the whole number of players in the market at a particular time.

A Forex Trading System That Works

Before using a Forex trading method, whatever it is, it is essential to test it on a virtual Forex account, but more especially, to check its effectiveness, look at the past charts and check how many winning orloosing trades the method generates.

No method is effective at 100% and all those who try to sell you this type of method get rich by the sales of their expensive ebooks, rather than by Forex. If I would hold a method as effective as affirmed by certain salesmen, I would not waste my time in intensive marketing to sell it, I would apply it with a real account at the forex!

what is forex trading ?

What is Forex Trading ?
The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is by far the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions.

The average daily trade in the global forex markets currently exceeds US$ 2 trillion. Retail traders (individuals) are a small fraction of this market and may only participate indirectly through brokers or banks

What is traded in Forex Trading ?
The answer is Currency. Currencies are always traded in pairs, such as EUR/USD, GBP/USD, etc. Why ? Because when you trade forex, you are exchanging 1 currency to another currency simultaneously (buying 1 currency and selling the other at the same instance). You will gain from differences of traded currency price rates.

When is the time to trade forex ?
Forex can be traded 24 hours a day and 5 days a week. The main trading centers are in London, New York, Tokyo, and Singapore, but banks throughout the world participate. The biggest foreign exchange trading centre is London, followed by New York and Tokyo. Currency trading happens continuously throughout the day; as the Asian trading session ends, the European session begins, followed by the US session and then back to the Asian session, excluding weekends

The following approximate market schedule is based on New York local time: japan forex markets open at 19:00 followed by singapore and hong kong that open at 21:00. European markets open in frankfurt at 2:00, while london opens at 3:00. New york forex markets open at 8:00. European markets close at 12:00 and australian markets start again at 18:00.