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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

ABC'S OF Forex - Interpreting Foreign Exchange News

By Brad Morgan

Knowing the ABC's of forex is a prerequisite to making money in the foreign exchange market. Knowledge of the basics of technical analysis is insufficient because the foreign exchange markets are operating on more than the mathematical components. Failure to do so could mean making a wrong call at a critical point.

Local and foreign news reports have a strong reflex on the foreign exchange market. It happens not only for business news but also for significant news in other sectors. This news may have been out of the blue or anticipated .

A volcanic eruption or a major pandemic are illustrative of such unforeseen events that impact the currency market. Stop-losses are just about the only remedy in these cases.

A good example of projected events would be choosing the host country for the Miss Universe Pageant. The chosen countries economy would feel an increase in investor trust which can lead to an appreciation in its currency value.

In the same breath, the losing competitors could possibly bear an inverse effect on their currency. Thus knowing the timeline for such events and the entities concerned is imperative .

Daily finance reports that are circulated in quite a number of countries are related circumstances. Data on the nation's economy while few and far between , are pretty much anticipated.

It must be kept in mind that forex trading involves two countries. While checking reports in your home country is easy, it sometimes leads one to forget to verify events in other countries.

The US is an example due to the avalanche of data on the dollar coming through the foreign exchange wire. Trading the greenback to a relatively smaller currency further boost this effect. Committing to memory that fact will ensure that your market data is always two sided.

Taking to heart these key aspects of basic study on the currency market is essential to a promising trader. For such upstarts, anticipating key events and departing the market before they materialize is the prudent thing to do.

In time, when the budding trader becomes a veteran, he may formulate a trading model based on these kinds of fundamentals. But a prerequisite to this would be familiarizaton with forex essentials. - 23305

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