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          Forex, the Largest Market in the World

    1.  Overview 

 5.  Buy/Sell

    2.  Foreign Exchange Trading Times

 6.  Margin 

    3.  How Does a Currency Trade Work?

 7.  Rollover 

    4.  Price Quotations

 8.  First Steps

How Does a Currency Trade Work?

Currency pairs can be bought and sold on the forex markets to speculate on both rising and falling prices. The goal is to make a profit with every transaction. 

It is very easy to execute a trade on the currency market: In practical terms, trading is done the same way as in any other trading market, and that makes getting started in forex trading simple for most traders. 

Example of a Trade - How It Works:

Trading Activity:

Euro

U.S. Dollar

In December 2009 a trader sells the currency pair EUR/USD at a price of 1.46245 with the volume of one mini-lot (1 mini lot = 10,000 of the base currency = 10,000 euros).

-10.000

+14.624,50

In July he closed his position with a profit of 2,154.2 pips at a price of 1.24703.

+10.000

-12.470,30

Profit: The trader earned a profit of 2,154.20 U.S. dollars with this trade.

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+2.154,20


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