Review of Forex Killer: What about Foreign Exchange Systems?
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Image via WikipediaOur Review of Forex Killer last week was centered around the basic principles of this industry. This week see the extension of this discussion to more advanced concepts such as systems as well as the completion of our current review of forex killer.
In the world of Forex market, like in most things really, there are only two different types. The Flexible and the Fixed . A Flexible Forex Market applies when it is the Central Bank who decides how much each currency is worth. This valuation is based on supply and demand and doesn’t require the central bank to buy or sell currencies in order to maintain a stable market price.
The Fixed Forest Rate is my more rigid in that currencies are fixed to each other at a determined rate. The central bank then acts as buffer in order to maintain the market value of the currency.
In order words for each price increase of one currency, the Central Bank must sell in order to compensate for the increase. Likewise, when a currency market price decreases, then the Bank must now buy more of that currency so that the market valuation for that currency is re-established.
It is very much like a pendulum swinging from one side to another. Ideally, there should be no movement with the market value held in the middle. The Central Bank’s responsibility is then to ensure that the swinging movement is reduced and brought back to the middle by either buying or selling some of its own currency stock.
How much is it all worth it then?
Or lots of them.. In fact way more than lots of them since the Forex market in the biggest market in the financial world and that’s just not here but throughout the world. If you ever wondered why exchange and forex traders seemed to be rolling in it, it’s because they really are!
In fact there is much money involved in this market that you need a number with 13 digits to represent to value of a single day’s trade. That would be a 2 with 12 tidy zeros aligned right next to it.
So if I align the numbers, 2,000.000.000.000 USD are traded worldwide every single day! Or two thousand million USD or if you’re a Forex Killer Trader, two trillion Dollars!
The Forex market is an over the counter market with no physical location, central exchange and or clearing houses. Indeed, all it is, is an electronic network of banks, corporations and individuals purchasing, “trading“, currencies from one another. Open 24 hours a day, it is uniquely suited to both end of the business spectrum, namely corporate institutions and independent or at home traders.
FX Traders (Forex traders) buy and sell to and from each other and this process is then fed into these networked computers to then be displaced on official quote screens.
