Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Ability To Trade On High Leverage

In most markets where a trader has an opportunity to trade on leverage the leverage offered is often quite low. In the case of equity markets, for example, professional equity day traders will normally operate on a leverage of about ten times their capital. In the Forex market by contrast it is quite common to find that traders are permitted to trade at one hundred to two hundred times their capital.

A downside of high leverage is that it can of course lead to high losses as well as high gains. However, within the foreign currency market, risk management is extremely tightly controlled.

Trading Markets With ForexGen

Many of the trading markets around the world are situated in fixed locations and operate within strict trading hours, often limited to just five or six hours a day between Monday and Friday. The Forex market however is open 24 hours a day.

This means that traders can not only take advantage of international events and react literally as they happen, but they also have the ability set their own trading hours. If you prefer to work in the mornings then that’s fine but, if this doesn’t suit you, then you can choose to trade during the afternoon, late evening or even in the middle of the night if you want to.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Ending of the Dollar Trade

One can usually assume that any talk of the carry trade is in reference to the Japanese Yen. In this case, however, it is the Dollar that is being driven by a shift away from the popular strategy of borrowing in one currency and investing the proceeds in assets dominated in another. In explaining the recent Dollar rally, analysts have tended to focus on the pall of risk aversion that has descended upon global capital markets, coupled with the spread of the credit crisis from the US to the rest of the world. While these are certainly contributing factors, perhaps they should also look at the repatriation of Dollars that were initially sent abroad over the last decade in search of loftier returns. Hedge funds and other institutions, including those based outside of the US, took advantage of record-low interest rates to borrow Trillions of Dollars and invest them abroad.

Monday, December 21, 2009

States With Foreign Car Plants After AutoAid Bill Dies


Festering animosity between the United Auto Workers and Southern senators who torpedoed the auto industry bailout bill erupted into full-fledged name calling Friday as union officials accused the lawmakers of trying to break the union on behalf of foreign automakers.

The vitriol had been near the surface for weeks as senators from states that house the transplant automakers' factories criticized the Detroit Three for management miscues and bloated UAW labor costs that lawmakers said make them uncompetitive.




Dollar Up as Investors


The dollar rose against the pound and yen Monday, but remained flat against the euro as investors weighed the possibility of further rate cuts from the Bank of England as well as market intervention by the Bank of Japan.
U.S. currency was virtually unmoved against the 15-nation euro, which rose 0.04 cents to $1.394. However, the dollar gained against the British pound, which fell 1.3 cents to $1.482, and rose ¥0.98 to ¥90.11 against the Japanese yen.

Over the past year, central banks around the world have been slashing interest rates and taking other measures to keep money flowing through the global economy.
"(These are) some of the most illiquid markets we have ever seen," said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon in New York.

In order to keep the cash flowing in the U.S., the Federal Reserve cut a key interbank lending rate to between 0% and 0.25% last week, the bank's 10th cut since September 2007.
The dollar fell sharply in response, driving up the euro by nearly four cents.
Europe: In an effort to combat the rapid rise in euro value, last week the European Central Bank cut its deposit rate, the rate which the bank pays to deposit money, to 1% less than its own key interest rate.

The idea was to discourage investment from the dollar to the euro because an overly strong euro hurts the domestic economy, according to Woolfolk.
Japan: The Bank of Japan may be poised to take measures to control its currency as well, as it deals with the rising dollar.
"The Bank of Japan is very uncomfortable with the dollar-yen under 100 (yen)," said Woolfolk.

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The European Central Bank


The European Central Bank is in a very different situation to the U.S. Federal Reserve, which has cut interest rates almost to zero, ECB executive board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi said in an interview published on Sunday.
Asked by the Rome daily Il Messaggero if the ECB is considering following the Fed's lead on rates, Bini Smaghi said the lending situation in the United States was worse than in Europe and warned about the risks of a too lax monetary policy.
"The United States' situation is very different from Europe's ... the (U.S) transmission mechanism works less well," Bini Smaghi was quoted as saying.
He pointed out that lending rates to businesses and consumers in the United States had remained as high as in the euro zone even though official Fed rates stand at just 0.00-0.25 percent compared with the ECB's key rate of 2.5 percent.

"We must not forget that the current crisis was caused by a period of interest rates taken to a very low level for too long," he added.
Bini Smaghi said financial markets showed signs of "slowly and gradually settling down" but said inter-bank lending rates needed to come down more quickly toward official ECB rates.
However, he expressed doubt that Euribor, the reference inter-bank lending rate, was a "transparent" and accurate reflection of inter-bank transactions.
He also urged banks to make loans more readily available to customers to limit the impact of the financial crisis on the real economy and called on banks to accept offers of public capital to improve confidence in the banking system.

"To reassure markets, the banks should increase their capital above prudential requirements, also by accepting public contributions," Bini Smaghi said.
He warned that survey data suggested banks plan to further tighten credit conditions and said this would be "self-harming" for the banks themselves as well as for the economy.

He called for the ECB to be given a greater role in financial supervision in Europe by increasing coordination between supervision over single institutions and vigilance over credit markets as a whole, which is in central bank hands.
The ECB should be given a role in the colleges charged with supervising big banking groups, he said.
Looking back over public policy in 2008, Bini Smaghi said that allowing the failure of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers had been a mistake and its consequences had been underestimated.
However, he defended the ECB's often criticized decision to raise interest rates in July, saying it was justified by inflation rates and expectations at the time and had also contributed to the subsequent sharp drop in inflation.

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The FX Market

The Forex market is running in numbers you would believe, peaking at almost 2 trillion dollars of trading DAILY. That is every day. As you are reading this article, billions of dollars are being traded in a 24-hour investment environment and people are making over hundreds of billions of dollars every day. Now Forex markets are a pretty niche investment corner of the capitalist market and there are only a few million people (in investment terms this is pretty little) actually actively involved in this, with a large piece of the pie dominated by big named companies and brokerage firms that pump in millions of dollars at a time to make a large profit. So it may seem a bit daunting but there are Forex trading systems that will ease you into a veritable bee hive of trading and investing, and allow you to be almost as effective in your understanding of the markets as those that have been in this for years and years.

Now Forex markets are very different from normal investment markets because it is a free floating market that can be accessed by internet from almost anywhere in the world. There is no physical place that limits this activity and you don’t need the access matrixes of some places like the NYSE or Wall Street to do your trading. While you can do this manually - do it only if you know what you are doing. I wouldn’t recommend anyone just allowing a brokers or a firm to do everything for you, having access to a system or a platform which you can access is great for a step by step and ‘all time’ scrutiny of the market and keeping track of your investments.

All order fills and communications are done through electronics and digital systems over fibre optics so the use of computers to do technical analysis or communicate with the broker are ideal for a system to come as the middle man that eases the process and makes things easier. A system is also more efficient and tracking and receipt analysis are almost always built into these Forex trading systems so you have the digital black and white and tracking options that you can customise to make sure you never miss a beat.

But I am sure that you understand that there is no risk free system and that risk is part and parcel of what you invest. Don’t allow a system to lead you to believe that everything will be taken care of, have the same level of diligence as this involves your money - sometimes a lot of money. A Forex trading system eases you in, holds your hand and stands by your side in communicating the difficult jargon and processes into an easy 17-inch layout and buttons. But it is up to you if you want to hire a financial advisor or a firm to further advise you on what to do. Literally, the ball is in your court.

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