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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Making Money With Forex Hedging

By James A Jackson

When you get involved in forex trading, a term you will likely hear a lot is forex hedging. While the concept may seem simple, it can be somewhat intricate in the methods. Basically Forex hedging his buying and selling a currency pair to protect yourself from a change in the exchange prices.

By practicing a strategy of forex hedging, a trader can protect the position of a currency pair from the risk of a fluctuating price. There are several varied methods and strategies that traders use to help secure their trading position. These include intricate hedging, multiple currency pairs, and forex options.

More often than not a Forex trader uses a hedging strategy in one of two ways. When a trader is facing a negative value on a currency pair, they can predict that a loss may be on its way. Let's say the negative price is on a dollar to euros currency pair. To offset the potential loss on that pair the trader sells a dollar to yen currency pair.

The invention is to offset the attentional loss, obviously this will be based on the position of the dollar within the two pairs. By using the positions of the dollar, long and short, this is a hedging method.

Investors can also use a hedging strategy to differ the interest rate between two Forex brokers. The scenario look like this: one adviser charges interest at the end of the day, the other broker does not. The trader will open a position on the exact same currency pair with both of them.

When the end of the day comes around, if the currency has not performed very well, the trader will pay interest to one broker and earn the rollover interest from the other to offset. But if the currency pair does well, then the trader will profit from both brokers.

In this way, the trader is protecting himself from losing a lot of money in interest when his currency pairs aren't doing well. Forex hedging should only be used experienced traders since it involves a detailed understanding of the fluctuations and changes in the market. - 23305

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