If you are about to invest at forex, you must bear in mind that in this market 80% of the transactions are carried out with the so-called major currencies. These currencies are backed by the strongest economies in the world providing the security that the investor needs.
Until a few months ago nobody would have imagined that the situation of the euro could reverse, especially when the fall of the dollar was already a fact despite the interest rate intervention by the Federal Reserve of the United States.
Hundreds of investors are turning to the european currency trusting that the upward trend will continue unabated, but the projections were again clashed with reality, and the pairs in dollars and euros fell spiral.
On both sides of the Atlantic Ocean the economic problems are mixed but with opposite edges, because the United States is going through a period of stanflation (recession + inflation), and the old continent increases in the cost of living is worrying the authorities of the 15 countries that form the euro area.
The substancial difference between both relevant economies is that one of them has already lowered the interest rate, and the results were not as they have expected, and Europe economic authorities are reluctant to lower the money´s cost to avoid a euro fall, despite last days has gone slight downward.
Another bank that has followed the policy of the Fed is the Bank of England who reduced its interest rate by 25 basic points to 5.25% to protect the British economy against the global crisis. Although the measure is recent, we´ll have to wait to see if the sterling pound falls or continues to be a good option of investment at Forex markets.
In those cases where more profitable currencies are not a synonym with security, people are advised to invest at the forex market, but betting on currencies which may not have a performance as profitable as the dollar, the euro or the pound sterling, but provide confidence to investors.
Anyone who invests in currencies should analyze which are the economies most affected by the global crisis, and after that, deduce which are the currencies that will devaluate and which will benefit from this situation. By this time the Swiss franc and the Japanese Yen are two of the currencies that maintain stability despite what happened.
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When a crisis occurs, we know when it starts, but we don´t know when is it going to end because the future is uncertain, the events take unexpected ways. The US financial crisis began because of the default in the mortgage payments which resulted in a chain reaction that caused the collapse of the main bursatile centres of the world.
The currencies has been harmed by this situation, however there are large sections that have been favored with the crisis impact. Much has been said in forex and in every site related to the currency market, about the advantages of the euro, particularly when the dollar is falling spiral. The truth is that many investors have benefited from the exceptional moment experienced by the european currency, however in the last half of 2007 and the beginning of 2008 Yen and Swiss Franc became more relevant.
The currency cycles in forex tend to be risky especialy in high volatility periods, because the exchange rate variations can affect the currency prices and cause big losses for those who bet in forex.
Yen and Swiss Franc have rebounded in the forex market, we will have to wait to see what happens in the future, since the euro zone perspectives are positive regarding economic growth, but the current year´s inflation raise is a worry. The monetary authorities keep resisting the idea of lowering the interest rate, currently at 4%, one percentage point above the american interest rate. This erodes the value of the european currency and appreciates the rest of the currencies, like Swiss Franc or Yen. Forex investors started betting in inconventional pairs, unpriced and before the crisis and which made the investors skeptical, however, the circumstances made the operators to modify their points of view about forex.
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The theories of economic thinkers have endured over time and nobody can deny that they still stand today. This situation happened because the market operation is still based on the mechanism of supply and demand, varying according to the agents action participating in the borders of it.
The fluctuations in the exchange rates are the result of the variation produced in the currencies supply and demand, dollars, sterling pounds, etc.
The supply and demand changes depend on two key factors: Demand, for example, depends on the imports variation and the products and services exports. Let´s supose that an american factory needs to purchase english products to continue producing. The payment will have to be made in sterling pounds, hence the american factory will have to demand the English Currency to perform the payment. At the same time, british import agents should procede the same way and purchase dollars to pay for the american products.
Trade balance is a very important economic indicator that shows the levels of currencies supply and demand, because imports produce a currency leak, while exports produce currency to enter in the country. If the trade balance is in England´s favour, this would imply that the English imports to US are greater than the US imports to England, thus the sterling pound demand is higher than the dollar demand, situation that would push the English currency up, due to the American commercial deficit.
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Currencies are the most common financial asset traded at the foreign currency market. Operations realised by investors at forex are varied and they are named by their particular characteristics.
Spot transactions (Spot) are one of the options offered at forex. This type of operation the currency delivery has to be done within a period of no more than 2 labour days. For example, if a London bank sells german marks against american dollars to a New York bank, after two labour days, the London bank has to make a deposit in Germany at the New York bank, and it will transfer dollars in favour of the London bank. Spot transactions reduce risks, that´s why it´s a very popular option among forex investors.
Forward transactions (Forward) are another option at forex, where the currency delivery is superior than two days, in contrast to spot transactions.Normally establishing deadlines of 30 days.
Swat transactions (Swap) are the ones composed by two simultaneous transactions, one exchange and one forward, and are used by banks that operate at the foreign currency market to lend each money at different deadlines.
Outright transactions (outright) are a widely used mechanism at forex, because the purchase and sell of foreign currencies takes place without the existance of previous spot operations, as in the swap transaction.
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