The Forex Market Tutorial

The Forex Market

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Table of Contents

1) Forex: Introduction
2) Forex: What Is It?
3) Forex: Reading a Quote and Understanding the Jargon
4) Forex: Benefits and Risks
5) Forex: History and Market Participants
6) Forex: Economic Theories and Data
7) Forex: Fundamental Trading Strategies
8) Forex: Technical Analysis
9) Forex: Ready To Trade?
10) Forex: The Conclusion

Introduction

Foreign exchange (forex or FX for short) is one of the most exciting, fast-paced
markets around. Until recently, trading in the forex market had been the domain
of large financial institutions, corporations, central banks, hedge funds and
extremely wealthy individuals. The emergence of the internet has changed all of
this, and now it is possible for average investors to buy and sell currencies easily
with the click of a mouse.


Daily currency fluctuations are usually
very small. Most currency pairs move
less than one cent per day, representing a less than 1% change in the value of
the currency. This makes foreign exchange one of the least volatile financial
markets around. Therefore, many speculators rely on the availability of enormous
leverage to increase the value of potential movements. In the forex market,
leverage ...