As I pointed out in last Friday’s post (Volatility, Carry, Risk, and the Forex Markets), volatility has been declining in forex markets since peaking after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In fact, volatility among emerging market currencies has been falling particularly fast, and recently, something amazing happened: “Three-month implied volatility for the seven biggest developing [...]

Forget about Greece: What about the US, Japan, and the UK? Almost 75% of trading in the forex markets involves some combination of the US Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, and British Pound. This figure rises to more than 95% when you include trading in which at least one of the currencies (as opposed to both) [...]

Analysts and Fed-watchers have been speculating for almost half a year about the possibility of a Federal Funds Rate (FFR) hike. With each prognostication of a rate hike comes a flurry of market activity, followed by an invariable ebb, as investors accept that the Fed will hold the FFR at 0% until at least its [...]

In October, I wrote about a “separation” that had taken place in currency markets between the “sick” currencies and the “healthy” currencies. At the time, I argued that the former category was comprised mainly of the Dollar and the Pound, with most other currencies healthy by comparison. While I still stand by this paradigm, I [...]

Global money trading involves the buying and selling of world’s currencies, par excellence the most formidable ones on the fx markets. Initially only the privileged few like the enormous banks and big shot financiers had access to this remarkably lucrative market. But with the ubiquitous presence of internet, the suitable time for trading in global …

Econ indicators are reports released by the government or a private organization that detail a country’s economic performance. These economic indicators can be released on a weekly basis, but the more common report is monthly.
Indicators are based around a number of economical situations, of which the two primary factors are that of International trade and …

If you are interested in trading currencies online, you will find that the Forex market offers several advantages over equities trading.
24-Hour Trading
Forex is a true 24-hour market, which offers a major advantage over equities trading. Whether it’s 6pm or 6am, somewhere in the world there are always buyers and sellers actively trading foreign currencies. Traders …

Internet currency trading is not easy, but here are some things that should be known by any trader. Each forex exchange on the market involves simultaneously buying a currency and selling another currency. These two currencies are called currency pair. Besides, there are major currencies and minor currencies. The most traded currencies are called major. …

Many people often get confused by the financial terms such as currency, foreign exchange, trading etc. It’s a big complex financial world and one of the new trading concepts is day trading.
Day trading in its simplest term means buying and selling securities, stock and other financial investment within a single trading day. It covers a …

In today’s information technology driven economy you can just about trade anything you want. Whether it is currencies, metals, shares, wheat, pork bellies you name it.
Not only can you trade the main security but also in most cases you can trade the derivative of it e.g. Forwards, Futures and Options.
The Forex market is also vital …