Wednesday, March 22, 2017

What is Forex: What Is Traded In Forex?


The simple answer is MONEY.
Because you’re not buying anything physical, forex trading can be confusing.
Think of buying a currency as buying a share in a particular country, kinda like buying stocks of a company. The price of the currency is usually a direct reflection of the market’s opinion on the current and future health of its respective economy.
In forex trading, when you buy, say, the Japanese yen, you are basically buying a “share” in the Japanese economy. You are betting that the Japanese economy is doing well, and will even get better as time goes. Once you sell those “shares” back to the market, hopefully, you will end up with a profit.
In general, the exchange rate of a currency versus other currencies is a reflection of the condition of that country’s economy, compared to other countries’ economies.
By the time you graduate from this School of Pipsology, you’ll be eager to start working with currencies.

Major Currencies

Symbol
Country
Currency
Nickname
USD
United States
Dollar
Buck
EUR
Euro zone members
Euro
Fiber
JPY
Japan
Yen
Yen
GBP
Great Britain
Pound
Cable
CHF
Switzerland
Franc
Swissy
CAD
Canada
Dollar
Loonie
AUD
Australia
Dollar
Aussie
NZD
New Zealand
Dollar
Kiwi
Currency symbols always have three letters, where the first two letters identify the name of the country and the third letter identifies the name of that country’s currency.
Take NZD for instance. NZ stands for New Zealand, while D stands for dollar. Easy enough, right?
The currencies included in the chart above are called the “majors” because they are the most widely traded ones.
We’d also like to let you know that “buck” isn’t the only nickname for USD.
There’s also: greenbacks, bones, benjis, benjamins, cheddar, paper, loot, scrilla, cheese, bread, moolah, dead presidents, and cash money.

So, if you wanted to say, “I have to go to work now.”
Instead, you could say, “Yo, I gotta bounce! Gotta make them benjis son!”
Or if you wanted to say, “I have lots of money. Let’s go to the shopping mall in the evening.”
Instead, why not say, “Yo, I gots mad scrilla! Let’s go rock that mall later.”

Did you also know that in Peru, a nickname for the U.S. dollar is Coco, which is a pet name for Jorge (George in Spanish), a reference to the portrait of George Washington on the $1 note?

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