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·what is The FX Market?
The Foreign Exchange market which is often referred to as the Forex or FX markets is the largest, most liquid, most transparent financial market in the world. Daily average turnover has now exceeded 2 trillion USD.
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·Who Trades in the FX Market
Foreign exchange traders can be separated into two groups, hedgers and speculators.
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·What is the location of the FX Market?
The FX market is considered to be an Over the Counter (OTC) or inter-bank market, since transactions are conducted directly between two counterparts either over the telephone or via an electronic network.
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·The world's most liquid financial market
The liquidity in the market also gives confidence to the investor so that he knows that unlike other financial markets that either close their doors for trading or widen up the spreads due to the illiquid time of day.
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·The world's most transparent market
In other financial markets, large players have been known to move a particular share or commodity in order to profit. Because of the vast volumes in the FX markets it becomes almost impossible for even the largest groups to interfere with the general
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·24-hour 5-day a week market
The FX Market is always open. On Monday morning trading starts in Sydney, Australia and as the day goes on more financial markets join in; through Asia – Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo then through to the Middle East, Europe and finally the Americas.
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·Basic Concepts
The term Foreign Exchange means the transferring of one currency into another simultaneously. Since currencies are traded in pairs, to profit from an exchange rate move you need to buy the currency that you expect will strengthen and sell the other.
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·Currency Pairs
Currency PairsCurrency Pairs: Each currency is recognized by a three letter code. For example EUR (is the EURO and refers to the European currency), USD (is the United States Dollar). The worlds leading currencies (often referred to as the majors) ar
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·Bid and Ask or Buy and Sell
Bid and Ask or Buy and SellThere are always two numbers given after the currency pair, the first always has a smaller numerical value then the second. This can once again be shown using the same example (EUR/USD 1.2660 1.2663). The first number is kn
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·Calculating your P&L
Calculating your PLAs discussed above the foreign exchange rate represents the value of one unit in the major currency in the terms of a secondary currency. Since when opening a trade you exercise the trade in a set amount of the major currency and w
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·A Pip
A PipWe can see that in this case the trader made 60 points or pips. This is calculated as follows 1.2820-1.2760=0.0060; therefore 1 pip=0.0001 and on a 100,000 EUR/USD position 1 pip is worth $10. In a USD/JPY position where the market rate is 118.3
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·Orders - Stops and Limits
Orders - Stops and LimitsAs in other financial markets, one can enter the foreign exchange markets at the market or deal rate (this is often known as a Market Order) or at a future rate this is known as a Stop (often known as a Stop Loss) or Limit Or
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·Orders – O.C.O's, I/D's and Trailing Stops
Orders O.C.O's, I/D's and Trailing StopsAs mentioned above there are many combinations of orders that are possible to you in the FX market and in the AvaTrader platform. Stop and Limit orders as described above are the basic orders available, all t
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·Hedging Trades
Hedging TradesOn the AvaTrader platform, traders have the opportunity to hedge their positions. A hedge is a trade that is in the opposite direction of an existing trade or open position. This can be a partial or a full hedge and does not close the p
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·Rollovers
RolloversOn the AvaTrader platform all open positions are automatically rolled or swapped to the next business day. Traditionally all spot trades in the FX market are performed for a period of two working days when the delivery of the transaction is
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·Streaming Rates
Through the AvaTrader, traders are able to view and execute online at real time constantly updated FX rates that are generated by Ava's liquidity providers. Ava's liquidity providers make up a host of the World's leading international banks and leade
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·Leverage
There are zero costs for trading in foreign exchange with Ava FX. No costs for trading, no commissions no hidden fees, or brokerage charges in fact nothing at all.We are compensated through thedifference between the buy amd sell priceWhen comparing t
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·Spreads
Another cost to trading is the spread between the buy and sell price. With Ava FX the tightest spreads are offered 3-4 pips on major currency crosses this represents a cost of 0.025% or one-quarter of one promile, one-twenty-fifth of one-percent.In t
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·Shorting – Profit with both Rising and Falling Markets
In various financial markets throughout the world, there exists many limitations against the possibility of shorting certain instruments. In the FX market whenever you enter a trade you are immediately long (bought) one currency and short (sold) anot
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·Timetable of Global Trading Sessions
Trading hours The Forex market opens at 21:00 GMT on Sunday and closes at 21:00 GMT on Friday. Region City Winter time (GMT) Summer time (GMT) Opening Closing Opening Closing Asia Tokyo 0:00 8:00 0:00 8:00 Hong Ko
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