Monday, January 4, 2010

The Foreign Exchange Market Situated Everywhere

The FX can also be called as Foreign Exchange, Forex or currency.

The FX market started in Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the year 1972 and hit all markets simultaneously.

The Foreign Exchange market situated everywhere, where one country’s cash is traded for another country’s cash. This is the largest market technique, when it comes to cash, central banks, conglomerate corporations, trading between large banks, financial institutions and markets, governments and currency speculators.

Retail traders are one of the small divisions of this type of market. Generally, they used to contact directly to banks, brokers and FOREX scams. The FOREX markets are completely different from other types of markets, because of:
  • Volume of trading.
  • Market liquidity.
  • Verity of Traders.
  • Geographical scattering.
  • Twenty-four hours marketing.
  • Different Exchange Rates.
According to survey of BIS Triennial Central depository fund, the daily income of international FOREX is $1.9 trillion in March 2004.

Spot - $600 billion.

Derivatives - $1,300 billion. (FOREX- $100 billion, $1,000- FOREX swap, FOREX outright- $200 billion).

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