01 Haziran 2009
The foreign exchange market is the world’s largest financial market, but it wasn’t always accessible to any typical trader. Remember, forex trading is not conducted on a regulated exchange and as a result, there are additional risks associated with forex trading. In the past, access to foreign exchange of currencies was limited to banks, hedge funds, major currency dealers and the occasional high net-worth individual. But smaller financial institutions wanted to take advantage of the many benefits forex offered over other markets, including its tremendous liquidity, 24-hour access 5.5 days of the week and the strong trending nature of currency exchange rates.
It was this entrepreneurial vision of the smaller financial institutions and the evolution of the Internet that made forex accessible at a retail level. These institutions, including GFT, combined the accessibility of the Internet and fast and efficient proprietary software with accurate pricing, charting abilities, technical indicators and news feeds, which allowed any interested speculator open access to trade currencies. From 2002 to 2005 the practice of trading forex has grown threefold and this growth curve continues still. So read more about the benefits of using GFT and our access the world’s largest, fastest, most exhilarating market.
Forex Trading – What are the Benefits?
You may already be aware of some of the benefits offered by the currency market (also known as forex, spot forex or currency trading). It is the fastest, largest and most liquid market in the world, but that is only the beginning of its advantages. As a very basic explanation, forex is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another in order to seek gaining a profit (or accruing a loss).
Today, almost anyone with the appropriate appetite for risk and an understanding of market trends and analysis can trade currencies online with GFT. There are many benefits of trading forex versus other types of financial markets, many benefits to choosing GFT as your forex dealer and much to learn if you’re new to currency trading. To start,
learn the benefits of trading with GFT and start improving your trading knowledge. You’ll be well on your way to reaching your full potential in the foreign exchange market.
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12 Nisan 2009
Traders can benefit from all of the features of the MetaTrader 4 trading platform, as well as the competitive pricing and services of FOREX.com. This highly intuitive platform with advanced trading capabilities offers you the ability to place advanced orders – including hedge support for strategies that require placing opposing trades.
Expert Advisors allows you to systematically program your strategy so that you can trade the market actively – without spending all of your time at the computer. Metaquotes Language 4 allows you to formulate and seamlessly execute your strategies on your FOREX.com account.
About Us
At FOREX.com, advanced trading tools, 24-hour customer support, and the MetaTrader 4 trading platform are all part of our commitment to offer more to the individual investor.
FOREX.com clients benefit from GAIN Capital’s strengths, including:
* Trading with an NFA registered and regulated firm: As a registered Futures Commission Merchant & Forex Dealer Member, we must uphold the highest standards and business practices and are subject to strict financial requirements and reporting.
* A successful firm with solid financials: With a very strong balance sheet with over $250 million in total assets, GAIN Capital’s operating and risk management procedures as well as financial statements are audited by Deloitte, a Big Four accounting firm.
* Quality Executions: Our mission is to provide a fair, efficient trading environment for our clients, which means quoting competitive spreads and ensuring quality executions. Our best execution goal is supported by liquidity relationships with over a dozen of the world’s leading FX banks, such as UBS, Barclays and Goldman Sachs. Plus, there are no restrictions on trading in volatile markets or before and after major economic announcements.
* An experienced management team: Founded in 1999 by a management team comprised of Wall Street veterans, GAIN Capital’s team has more depth of experience than any other firm in the industry. Each member of the Management Team is considered an industry leader within their realm of expertise and combined have experience of over 100 years.
FOREX.com operates as a division of GAIN Capital Group, which is regulated by the National Futures Association (NFA) in the United States.
FOREX.com is a division of GAIN Capital Group, LLC, one of the most respected online forex trading firms in the industry. The company’s flagship service, GAIN Capital, is used by institutional investors, professional money managers and experienced day traders from over 140 countries. GAIN Capital Group is pleased to offer individual investors access to its professional-level services via FOREX.com.
FOREX.com is a registered Futures Commission Merchant (NFA ID #0339826) and a member of the National Futures Association. As an FCM, FOREX.com is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), must uphold the highest standards and business practices and is subject to strict financial requirements and reporting.
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25 Kasım 2008
Foreign exchange history, origins of the forex
In order to gain a complete understanding of what forex is, it is useful to examine the reasons that lead to its existence in the first place. Exhaustively detailing the historical events that shaped the foreign exchange market into what it is today is of no great importance to the fx trader and therefore we happily will omit lengthy explanations of historical events such as the Bretton Woods accord in favor of a more specific insight into the reasoning behind foreign exchange as a medium of exchange of goods and services.
Originally our ancestors conducted trading of goods against other goods this system of bartering was of course quite inefficient and required lengthy negotiation and searching to be able to strike a deal. Eventually forms of metal like bronze, silver and gold came to be used in standardized sizes and later grades (purity) to facilitate the exchange of merchandise. The basis for these mediums of exchange was acceptance by the general public and practical variables like durability and storage. Eventually during the late middle ages, a variety of paper IOU started gaining popularity as an exchange medium.
The obvious advantage of carrying around ‘precious’ paper versus carrying around bags of precious metal was slowly recognized through the ages. Eventually stable governments adopted paper currency and backed the value of the paper with gold reserves. This came to be known as the gold standard. The Bretton Woods accord in July 1944 fixed the dollar to 35 USD per ounce and other currencies to the dollar. In 1971, president Nixon suspended the convertibility to gold and let the US dollar ‘float’ against other currencies.
Since then the foreign exchange market has developed into the largest market in the world with a total daily turnover of about 3.2 trillion USD. Traditionally an institutional (inter-bank) market, the popularity of online currency trading offered to the private individual is democratising forex and widening the retail market.
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