Post by fertoiks on Dec 15, 2020 21:56:53 GMT
Quite simply, forex trading is the act of buying and selling currencies. This is the world’s largest financial market with a daily turnover of $5 trillion and it involves many people – and many currencies. Because you are always buying one currency using another currency, you trade ‘currency pairs’.
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How can you take advantage of exchange rate changes?
Exchange rates change all the time, and forex traders attempt to take advantage of these changes. Here’s a quick example:
Let’s say you travel abroad and you go to an exchange and use $500 to buy euros. After a week, you come back (without spending a single euro) and exchange your euros back to dollars – but you receive $505, because during the week, the exchange rate changed. This is a profit of 5 dollars, which you made by trading currencies.
Of course, nowadays you don’t need to leave the house to invest in the price of currencies – and you don’t even need to actually buy the currencies. Thanks to online forex trading anyone can invest in the price of different currencies from home - or even from their smartphone - and take advantage of changes in price.
Want a visual explanation?
Take a look at this short video:
How can you take advantage of exchange rate changes?
Exchange rates change all the time, and forex traders attempt to take advantage of these changes. Here’s a quick example:
Let’s say you travel abroad and you go to an exchange and use $500 to buy euros. After a week, you come back (without spending a single euro) and exchange your euros back to dollars – but you receive $505, because during the week, the exchange rate changed. This is a profit of 5 dollars, which you made by trading currencies.
Of course, nowadays you don’t need to leave the house to invest in the price of currencies – and you don’t even need to actually buy the currencies. Thanks to online forex trading anyone can invest in the price of different currencies from home - or even from their smartphone - and take advantage of changes in price.