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Recently at a convention on FOREX Hedging there were people in the audience who had spent as much as 80,000 or more on trading courses. None of them had any success with trying to predict trends as directional traders. Most lost a lot of money in the process.

Apparently there are about 250,000 FOREX traders. I would guess that 98% of them are directional traders. Yes, 250,000 traders in a 3.2 Trillion/day market while there are 144 Million stock traders in a much smaller market place. The New York stock exchange is about 30 million a day and comes nowhere near the liquidity of the decentralized FOREX market.

So, why so few are hedging the FOREX market? I believe this is mostly because of a lack of a system that consistently works.

Most directional traders with any experience have thought of hedging the market but most come to the conclusion the hedge just cancels itself out over time. So, most just give up on it not knowing how to make it work. But, what if, instead of zeroing out all profits you could actually double your profits with the hedge?

Let’s take the EURUSD and the CHFUSD pairs.

These pairs are historically negatively 93-98% of the time. That is when one pair goes up the other goes down, and vice versa, up to 98% of the time. Now, over time these would pretty much just cancel each other out and you would not be left with much of a profit and maybe would even see a slight loss if the hedge was not in your favor.

Now what if you could ALWAYS buy low when one pair went down and sell high when the other correlated pair went up? And when the market corrected do the same in the opposite direction over and over and over again?

This is how I ‘trade’ the market. Really it is more like ‘investing’ since I do not look at charts, do no analysis of markets, care very little about fundamentals as long as the hedge is sticking. I also only spend about 5-15 minutes a week resetting my buy and sell limits. The rest is done automatically.

Now, that is the ONE of the ways that I build my equity. The other is daily interest paid at special negotiated rates from some of the biggest brokers in the US and Switzerland. Not all brokers are alike in the rates that they pay even though they are based on the rates set by the respective central banks.

Because the system I use is so consistent and works so well the brokers are not only willing to bend over backwards to give us the best interest rates available they are also willing to give us 400:1 leveraging. Some brokers extend this 400:1 leveraging up to one million dollars. Note that no other system to my knowledge gets this kind of leverage on that kind of money. It is a first in FOREX retail history and there is a good reason why.

Now, at first blush you may think that 400:1 leveraging is increasing our risk. In directional trading it certainly would be putting you in grave danger of losing your capital all that much quicker.

But, in fact, when you hedge the market as we do 400:1 leverage actually DECREASES your risk. Hence, the brokers are quite happy to provide this kind of leverage for this style of trading because it actually reduces the risk of a margin call and it makes the brokers that much more money.

Now, why is 400:1 so important to hedging the market in the way we do it? Well, because of the daily interest!

Let’s take an example and say you have $5000 in your trading account and a 10% margin set.

That means you have $500 allocated to the market. If the net interest we receive is 1.11% annually then this would not be a lot of money. We could do better at the bank! …well maybe…

But, what happens when this $500 is leveraged at 400:1? All of a sudden this 1.11% interest becomes 44% per annum! Now, I am sure you would agree that this is a return worth looking at and that most money managers would sell their mothers for this kind of return!

But, this return does not include the buy low/sell high profits. Add these all together and you have a system that on fairly conservative margin can produce very handsome and consistent profits without risking your shirt and without needing to sit in front of a computer all day and night watching charts until you go cross-eyed.

There is one more way that equity can increase or decrease. That is via the market fluctuations in the hedge. Sometimes the hedge will work in your favor and sometimes it will go against you. When it is in your favor you can see windfall profits beyond the daily interest and buy and selling process. If it goes against you it will cause a pullback in your equity for a period of time.

Compounding is also possible. When your balance and equity increase significantly over time your margin is going down. That means it is getting more conservative and safer if you just let it grow. But, if you want to keep your margin at say 10% then you can reallocate your portfolio and buy more lots which bring more interest and more buy low/sell profits.

Now, if you think that daily interest at 400:1 and 100% winning transactions makes sense what would you think if we could smooth out the fluctuations that give us the big profits and big pullbacks, i.e. volatility?

Well, we could up our margin could we not? We could increase our margin without incurring much more risk and in fact may even be able to reduce it when we hedge the hedge. The net result means more interest, more profit, and less risk while freeing up our time to spend the money we are making instead of ignoring our family stuck to a chart on a screen.

Presently such an enhancement is in testing and may soon to be released to the public if tests are successful. If you want to keep updated on this new development be sure to subscribe to my update list.

By learning how to HEDGE the FOREX you not only increase your profit and reduce your risk. You can also get a life! That to me is the most attractive part of this whole system.

The great thing is it is not difficult to learn either. I personally coach people in the system I use and it usually takes a couple of hours and about 10 minutes a week to monitor before my students are on their own.

Wayne Nash is a semi-retired investment professional, FOREX trader, and online entrepreneur with over 15 Years of online marketing, coaching, and investing experience and serves a large international investors network from almost every country in the world. Wayne speaks fluent Japanese and has lived in Japan since 1985 and spends part of the year in his native BC in Canada.

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The main purpose of the foreign currency exchange market is to make money but it is different from other equity markets. There are various technical terminologies and strategies a trader must know to deal with currency exchange. This article will give an insight into the normal operations in the foreign currency exchange market.

In the Currency Exchange market the commodity that is traded is the foreign currency. These foreign currencies are always priced in pairs. The value of one unit of a foreign currency is always expressed in terms of another foreign currency. Thus all trades incorporate the purchase and sale of two foreign currencies at the same time. You have to buy a currency only when you expect the value of that currency to increase in the future. When it increases in value, you have to purchase the currencies you have bought to make your profit. When you buy or sell a currency then the trade is called open trade or in open position and can be closed only when you sell or buy an equivalent amount of currency.

You must also understand how the currencies are quoted in the currency exchange market. They are always quoted in pairs as USD/JPY. The first currency is the base currency and the second one is the quote currency. The quote value depends on the currency conversion rates between the two currencies under consideration. Mostly the USD will be used as based currency but sometimes euro, pound sterling is also used.

The profit of the broker depends on the bid and the ask price. The bid is the price the broker is ready to pay to buy base currency for exchanging the quote currency. The ask is the price the broker is ready to sell the base currency for exchanging the quote currency. The difference between these two prices is called the spread which determines the profit or loss of the trade.

The bid and ask prices are quoted in five figures. The spread is measured in pip which is defined as the smallest change in price based on the current conversion rates of the currencies under consideration. For USD/JPY if the bid price is 136.50 and ask price is 136.55 then spread is 5 pips and you have to recover the five pips from your profit.

Margin used in the foreign currency exchange terminology refers to the deposit that a trader makes to his account to cover any losses expected in the future. A high degree of leverage is supplied by the brokers to traders for currency exchange. The ratio is 100:1 normally. The brokerage system will calculate the funds required for the current trade and will check for the availability of margin before executing any trade.

You have to understand the characteristics of foreign currency exchange market before investing your money. This market has extreme liquidity and always alive giving you wide spread opportunities to make profits. As there is so much potential for gain, there is potential for great loss too. You have to spend your time and effort and watch the market and trade at the right time to reap the profit.

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For those unfamiliar with the term, FOREX (FOReign EXchange market), refers to an international exchange market where currencies are bought and sold. The Foreign Exchange Market that we see today began in the 1970’s, when free exchange rates and floating currencies were introduced. In such an environment only participants in the market determine the price of one currency against another, based upon supply and demand for that currency.

FOREX is a somewhat unique market for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is one of the few markets in which it can be said with very few qualifications that it is free of external controls and that it cannot be manipulated. It is also the largest liquid financial market, with trade reaching between 1 and 1.5 trillion US dollars a day. With this much money moving this fast, it is clear why a single investor would find it near impossible to significantly affect the price of a major currency. Furthermore, the liquidity of the market means that unlike some rarely traded stock, traders are able to open and close positions within a few seconds as there are always willing buyers and sellers.

Another somewhat unique characteristic of the FOREX money market is the variance of its participants. Investors find a number of reasons for entering the market, some as longer term hedge investors, while others utilize massive credit lines to seek large short term gains. Interestingly, unlike blue-chip stocks, which are usually most attractive only to the long term investor, the combination of rather constant but small daily fluctuations in currency prices, create an environment which attracts investors with a broad range of strategies.

How FOREX Works

Transactions in foreign currencies are not centralized on an exchange, unlike say the NYSE, and thus take place all over the world via telecommunications. Trade is open 24 hours a day from Sunday afternoon until Friday afternoon (00:00 GMT on Monday to 10:00 pm GMT on Friday). In almost every time zone around the world, there are dealers who will quote all major currencies. After deciding what currency the investor would like to purchase, he or she does so via one of these dealers (some of which can be found online). It is quite common practice for investors to speculate on currency prices by getting a credit line (which are available to those with capital as small as $500), and vastly increase their potential gains and losses. This is called marginal trading.

Marginal Trading

Marginal trading is simply the term used for trading with borrowed capital. It is appealing because of the fact that in FOREX investments can be made without a real money supply. This allows investors to invest much more money with fewer money transfer costs, and open bigger positions with a much smaller amount of actual capital. Thus, one can conduct relatively large transactions, very quickly and cheaply, with a small amount of initial capital. Marginal trading in an exchange market is quantified in lots. The term “lot” refers to approximately $100,000, an amount which can be obtained by putting up as little as 0.5% or $500.

EXAMPLE: You believe that signals in the market are indicating that the British Pound will go up against the US Dollar. You open 1 lot for buying the Pound with a 1% margin at the price of 1.49889 and wait for the exchange rate to climb. At some point in the future, your predictions come true and you decide to sell. You close the position at 1.5050 and earn 61 pips or about $405. Thus, on an initial capital investment of $1,000, you have made over 40% in profits. (Just as an example of how exchange rates change in the course of a day, an average daily change of the Euro (in Dollars) is about 70 to 100 pips.)

When you decide to close a position, the deposit sum that you originally made is returned to you and a calculation of your profits or losses is done. This profit or loss is then credited to your account.

Investment Strategies: Technical Analysis and Fundamental Analysis

The two fundamental strategies in investing in FOREX are Technical Analysis or Fundamental Analysis. Most small and medium sized investors in financial markets use Technical Analysis. This technique stems from the assumption that all information about the market and a particular currency’s future fluctuations is found in the price chain. That is to say, that all factors which have an effect on the price have already been considered by the market and are thus reflected in the price. Essentially then, what this type of investor does is base his/her investments upon three fundamental suppositions. These are: that the movement of the market considers all factors, that the movement of prices is purposeful and directly tied to these events, and that history repeats itself. Someone utilizing technical analysis looks at the highest and lowest prices of a currency, the prices of opening and closing, and the volume of transactions. This investor does not try to outsmart the market, or even predict major long term trends, but simply looks at what has happened to that currency in the recent past, and predicts that the small fluctuations will generally continue just as they have before.

A Fundamental Analysis is one which analyzes the current situations in the country of the currency, including such things as its economy, its political situation, and other related rumors. By the numbers, a country’s economy depends on a number of quantifiable measurements such as its Central Bank’s interest rate, the national unemployment level, tax policy and the rate of inflation. An investor can also anticipate that less quantifiable occurrences, such as political unrest or transition will also have an effect on the market. Before basing all predictions on the factors alone, however, it is important to remember that investors must also keep in mind the expectations and anticipations of market participants. For just as in any stock market, the value of a currency is also based in large part on perceptions of and anticipations about that currency, not solely on its reality.

Make Money with Currency Trading on FOREX

FOREX investing is one of the most potentially rewarding types of investments available. While certainly the risk is great, the ability to conduct marginal trading on FOREX means that potential profits are enormous relative to initial capital investments. Another benefit of FOREX is that its size prevents almost all attempts by others to influence the market for their own gain. So that when investing in foreign currency markets one can feel quite confident that the investment he or she is making has the same opportunity for profit as other investors throughout the world. While investing in FOREX short term requires a certain degree of diligence, investors who utilize a technical analysis can feel relatively confident that their own ability to read the daily fluctuations of the currency market are sufficiently adequate to give them the knowledge necessary to make informed investments.

Rich McIver is a contributing writer for The Forex Blog: Currency Trading News ( http://www.forexblog.org ).

You can call it by any of these names—Foreign exchange, forex or just FX. They all describe the mode of trading of the world’s major currencies. Today, the forex market is considered the largest market in the world with the volume of trading that amounts to around USD 1.5 trillion every day. Add the volume of activities of all the domestic trading exchanges and even then the forex transaction on an average day is more than this combined value. The forex trading value is also one hundred times greater than the daily trading on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange). The activities in this market are mostly speculative, with a small portion representing governments’ and banks’ fundamental currency conversion needs.

The forex market is fundamentally different in nature having an operation on the “interbank” market, instead of operating through a central exchange like those of the domestic stock markets. In nature forex market resembles an OTC or over the counter market, where trading takes place directly between the two parties whether over the telephone or on electronic networks all over the world. The main centers for trading are Sydney, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt and New York. Because of this worldwide network of trading centres, the forex market remains operative 24-hour all through the week.

In the earlier days, the forex trading was the monopoly of financial giants and a few selective big time traders. But the globalization and internet has thrown open the market to common traders with a sharp intuition for speculative trading. In addition to a sharp intuition and predicting abilities, a first time trader needs some basi training in the major terms of forex trading.

The basic forex terms:

Spot:
The forex market is described as the spot market as the trades are settled instantly, “on the spot”. In real life it amounts to two banking days.

Spread
You sell currencies in this market through a ‘bid’, and you buy them through ‘ask’. The spread is the difference between the price at which you sold the currency and the price you have bought them. Under normal market condition you will find a spread on majors amounting to 3 pips.

Pips
As said earlier you will often come across such scenario as a 3-pip spread on trading the majors. It is the basic unit for measuring a cross price quote changes. Consider this instance, where EURUSD is quoted at a bid price of 0.9875 and an ask price of 0.9878. The difference is USD 0.0003, which is equal to 3 “pips”.

Margin Trading
Foreign exchange is normally traded on margin which is considerably higher than any other stock exchanges. In forex market you will enjoy a margin up to 100 times.

Base Currency and Variable Currency
In forex market you are always trading on a combination of two currencies. For example, you will buy US dollars and sell Euro. It means you have to speculate on the assumption of comparative strength and weaknesses of the any two currencies.

Forex market is a perfect for those who do not dare to take risks. But you will be in a position of taking risks when you adequately educated in this field and your basic minimum education in this field should start with a clear perception about the above described forex trading terms.

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Currency exchange rates in the international currency market are constantly changing. As a result, the real value of buy or sell a currency for the goods or services can significantly change and profitable contract may not be profitable or unprofitable. Currency trading, Forex trading signal, Forex trading strategy, and Forex alerts have made this industry the largest one if one is to consider its trading volume. To understand it better, let us take an example of an inter-bank trading.

Planned risk levels may be increased dramatically under extreme market conditions. Use the ideas and/or modify them to suit your trading style, but only at your own risk. Planning a trade in advance allows a trader to gather intelligence and formulate a strategy before they execute the tactics of getting in/out of a trade according to the plan. The benefits to learning how to plan your forex trading are immediate.

Margins can be as low as 0.05%, going up to 4%, depending on the broker Forex. For the ambitious individual, using leverage can generate massive profits. Margin accounts allow Forex traders to control large amounts of currency with a relatively small deposit. Establishing a margin account with a Forex broker enables you to borrow money from the broker to control currency lots which are usually worth $100,000.

Successfully engaging in currency trading is about managing risk. To decrease the odds of losing, the intelligent currencies trader does all the necessary research and training to become proficient in the FX market. Success with forex-strategies also depends on you putting in the effort to learn and follow your systems of choice. Complicating forex trading strategies by overanalyzing and trying to tweak them means breaking them, and this will jeopardize your success with forex trading.

Trade as me, walk along as me in my journey, you will know that forex trading is not a dream. Of course, it’s not a 100% sniper shot, forex trading is like running a business, take care of the down side, the upside will take care of itself. Trader can acquire and improve trading skills. Use a Forex Training Software as is an excellent tool for studying trading in a fast and convenient way, to gain and improve trading skills without risking real . Trader’s or broker’s purpose is to get the revenue by the foreign exchanges buy and sale. From the latest estimation, FOREX trading average daily constitution is about 4 trillion US dollar.

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There are many stories about people making it big on the Internet. The mere fact that a lot of companies, including multinationals and very big local corporations, are now investing a lot of money to have a slice of the untapped Internet market is enough proof that internet can offer you a chance to earn a million dollars if you only knew how.

To put it another way the money is there. The market is there. You *can* create one million dollars online.

If you are truly interested in getting rich and making money via the internet, you need to have a lot of patience in studying the ins and outs of the cyber world. Below are some ways on how you can make millions of dollars online:

Online auctions

A lot of people have really made it big with the help of online auctions. Even before online stores were put up, online auctions have already established themselves as venues where you can buy and sell almost anything under the sun.

(Hint: Start small and focus on what works. Then, focus on consistent growth, not hitting it big instantly.)

If you want to make it big on online auctions you need to provide items that are rare, inexpensive, or unique and creative. Collectibles, hard-to-find toys, first edition books, antique furniture command very big money. Therefore, if you are willing to part with your own collections or have an eye for finding good bargains, you will surely make millions of dollars on the Internet in no time.

(Hint: Find a “secret supplier” and you’ll make a million dollars online faster than you can imagine.)

Another way of getting rich via online auctions is by looking for suppliers that will give you huge discounts on popular items. For example, you can make big bucks by buying popular items, such as toys or books, at wholesale prices and selling them at regular prices.

Again, the key here is finding suppliers that will provide you with bottom prices and a big profit margin.

Creative and unique items are also hot on the Internet. Most items that popular celebrities have used, such as toothbrush, a half-eaten sandwich, a table napkin with a lip imprint, are bona fide cash cows. Moreover, personal items of political figures, literary icons or well-loved artists are also in demand on the Internet. If you have access to these things, you can really make it big.

Secret: Leverage your connections and your assets. Leverage your knowledge. Write an ebook and sell it on eBay again and again. Remember, focus on what works, then focus on growing that.

Beware selling celebrity items…

The only problem with such items is how you can prove to the public that what you have is the real thing. If you defraud people into believing that what you are selling is authentic, even if it is not, there is a big chance that your customers will give you bad reviews and will be sending out emails about your actions. Thus, you must remember to be honest and fair when dealing with online customers.

How else can you make a million online? Sell your goods over the internet.

Aside from online auctions, you can also sell your goods or services via the internet through your personal or company website. If you are a producer or a manufacturer, your target customer base will expand, including potential customers overseas. Thus, you can instantly make your small local company into a global entity with the help of the World Wide Web.

Remember, your million dollar online business can start with just one ebook on a topic you are an expert on. Think about it!

Since you are dealing with different people from different countries, you need to ensure that you already have a good grasp of freight or delivery rates before you even start selling online. People shop online because they do not want to go to shops anymore and would just like to receive the things that they bought in the comforts of their own homes or offices. Thus, you must look for delivery services that are not only fast, but also affordable.

Aside from goods and products, you can also sell your services over the internet. You *can* be a consultant, and you *can* make a lot of money from it.

There are many freelance writers, fashion designers, architects, translators and even secretaries that make big money just by providing their services to companies or people via the Internet.

Here’s another way…

Online Forex trading

In just a couple of months, you will be able to earn millions if you know how to trade currency online. However, forex trading is very risky, so you need to study the market, the currency fluctuations and news all over the world before you start dipping your hand to such an undertaking.

Ensure that before you even invest a dollar on online forex trading, you should have at least attended free forex trading tutorials or have read books about currency trading.

There are many factors that affect the rise and fall of currencies so you need to have a good grasp of what these factors are and how these would affect the basic currencies you want to trade.

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History of online day trading

The birth of day trading was made possible when the computerized, over-the-counter NASD became available in 1971. Day trading was pretty much the domain of stockbrokers and remained that way until the late 1990s, when the increasing popularity of the internet, motivated the international stock markets to move online. The consequence of this move was that day trading brokers became optional because anybody with Web access could execute their own trades, provided that they had an account with a registered online brokerage. The uptake was enormous, because by 1999, at least 25% of all trades made were done as online trading by individual investors. Day trading online grew in popularity as these investors started gaining online trading maturity. This growth found further impetus with the Dot Com Bubble as many traders could buy and sell the same share on the same day with three digit returns.

What is day trading?

The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations defines day trading as “Placing multiple buy and sell orders for securities and holding positions for a very short period of time, usually minutes or a few hours, but rarely longer than a day. Day traders seek profits in small increments from momentary fluctuations in stock prices after paying commissions.” With day trading it is common to focus on short-term trading, where a trade could last for anything between a couple of seconds to a couple of hours. In day trading online, the number of trades made may vary from between just a few to a couple of hundred per day. It is also common to finish the day with a closed overnight position. This means that everything you bought gets sold, before market close. There are many different techniques or strategies that you can use in day trading. Some of the more common online trading systems include:

• Trend following
• Range trading
• Scalping
• Rebate Trading
• News Playing

One of the techniques that started surfacing in day trading is algorithmic trading. Algo, as it is commonly called, is favoured by hedge -, pension and mutual funds. It is estimated that 33% of all US and 40% of all UK trades during 2006 were made by algo traders. Algo trading is automated, meaning that the trader leaves it up to the computer to decide when to buy and sell. Day trading can either be done by institutions or by individuals. Individual day traders normally make use of direct trading firms that offer them direct, real-time electronic access to stock markets. For a day trader real-time access is important because it enables them to have a ‘live’ view of movements on the Securities Exchange of those stocks, stock options, currencies, futures contracts, interest rate futures and commodity futures that they are trading online.

What are the pros of day trading?

Self employment - Day trading online offers you the potential to earn really good money and it goes without saying that you will enjoy flexibility in where and when you work.

Stimulation - Trading online is both exhilarating and interesting. It requires analytical thinking and continually challenges your abilities. Every day is a new start - stagnation is not possible at all!

What are the cons of day trading?

Financing - In day trading you need money to make money - and lots of it. Day trading penny stocks could be high risk, so you will probably need to play in the bigger leagues, or at least find a happy (and profitable) balance between the two. There are also regulatory requirements around the amount of money you need in your account. In the US for example, it is $25,000.

Latent loss potential - You are pretty much at the mercy of economy figures, analyst comments, interest rates, and so forth. A single press release or a single comment could turn a profitable stock into a dead loss. This makes your income unpredictable. Day trading online can be highly profitable and produce rapid returns, in spite of being high risk. The risk is mainly due to margin use, and other day trading practices. Naturally, most risks can be managed if you remain prepared, alert and focussed. In example, when you start trading online, you will probably find that you have to exit a losing position very quickly, to prevent a loss. At the same time, you will need to move just as quickly to capitalise on any winning positions you may have. Day trading online can be a fun and even profitable adventure, provided that you have good discipline, -risk and -money management.

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The Forex exchange is the largest and the most liquid market in the world. The global forex market is estimated to have an average daily turnover of 3.98 trillion. The forex market is divided into levels of access, with the largest investment banking firms at the top.

Foreign Exchange (FOREX) is normally only accessible through a Forex broker. Just like a broker on the stock market, they provide their clients with strategies and information on forex trading. This includes technical analysis and research.

The goal of the Forex trader should be to give good performance to their clients forex trading. With today’s secure connections over the internet, many forex traders work from home. This allows them to have up to the date information and news on what positions to take.

When choosing your forex broker, it is good to find out as much as possible about them. Find out if they are registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to protect you from fraud or scams. If you are looking of an online broker, you can find information on forex forums. If you read through the posts, you will generally find unbiased opinions on different brokers people have used.

Before setting up your account with an online broker, find out everything you can about them i.e. how quickly they execute your buy/sell order, what fees they charge per transaction, what the margin requirements are, and how they calculate them. Find out if the margin changes with different currencies, and what the interest rate is on account balances.

Most online brokers will have a demo account that lets you trade without risking your money. Make sure the software is reliable, and find out what features it has.

Once you are satisfied and learned enough through the demo, start off with small amounts to trade. Give yourself time to get used to the way your forex trader works. Make sure you are happy with him or her, and that he or she is making you money.

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The Forex market is the world’s largest financial market, attracting thousands of investors around the world. Traditionally, the Forex market involved trading between banks, governments, multinational corporations, and other financial markets. Recently, the Foreign Exchange market has been an area of interest for individual investors as well, thanks to the burgeoning popularity of online Forex trading. The extensive liquidity of the market and its long trading hours allows the transactions to be of a varied nature, potentially very profitable for investors.

The potential gains from the Forex market come from the state of constant flux the currency rates experience. Traders should look at volatile activity as something to take advantage of, instead of being alarmed by the same and cutting off trades. There is always the element of risk in Forex trading, and perhaps more so than other financial investment options, as there is no controlling body or one centralized trading system to guarantee returns. The traders agree on a credit system that they use for trading with themselves, and you will come across Forex brokers that practice arbitrage, using different spreads, and different margins. It is always a good idea to select brokerage firms that offer low spreads, and high leverage levels and have an appropriate margin figure.

Keep an open mind when trading, because the pip values are always in a state of flux. Instead of being ambitious, try to opt for reasonable trades, and look for the most opportune moments to sell off a pair, when the most profitable quote is reached for that pair. As a first time Forex trader, it is best to stay away from margin trading however, because trading larger amounts than your deposits might induce the greed factor, and hamper your investment. Know how to calculate pip values, which are basically representative of the smallest movement that is possible in the price of one currency against another currency. This will help you make a profitable investment.

Try trading in off peak hours, when the Forex trades posses a substantial advantage to small retail traders, somewhere between 2200 CET and 1000 CET, as the positions of the markets is flexible during the time when there is small transaction volume passing through. When the latest quotes, exchange rates are released, the market volume is high, and this is the time serious investors throw in large money. It is crucial that you are aware of the latest exchange rates, pip values so that you can calculate how much you stand to gain for a particular transaction.

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In a July 19 Wall Street Journal article titled “Why No Outrage?”, James Grant quoted Mary Lease, a 19th century Populist who urged farmers to “raise less corn and more hell.” Grant notes that financial behavior that would have been met with outrage in the 19th century is now met with near-silence from a too-tolerant populace. For decades after the Civil War, monetary reform was a chief political issue, one around which whole political parties formed. Why is it hardly mentioned today? Grant suggests that the lack of outrage may be because the old 19th century Populists actually won:

“This is their financial system. They had demanded paper money, federally insured bank deposits and a heavy governmental hand in the distribution of credit, and now they have them. The Populist Party might have lost the elections in the hard times of the 1890s. But it won the future. . . . They got their government-controlled money (the Federal Reserve opened for business in 1914), and their government-directed credit [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac]. In 1971, they got their pure paper dollar. So today, the Fed can print all the dollars it deems expedient and the unwell federal mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, combine [to] dominate the business of mortgage origination . . . .”

Mr. Grant may have answered his own question, in another way than he intended. Most people, evidently including Mr. Grant, actually think that the Federal Reserve is a federal agency; and that paper dollars are issued by the government; and that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are federal mortgage giants. The American people are silent because they have been duped into believing they have gotten what they wanted. In fact, what the people got was not at all what the Populists fought for, or what their leader William Jennings Bryan thought he was approving when he voted for the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. In the stirring speech that won him the Democratic nomination for President in 1896, Bryan expressed the Populist position like this:

“We say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin money and issue money is a function of government. . . . Those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. I stand with Jefferson . . . and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government and that the banks should go out of the governing business. . . . [W]hen we have restored the money of the Constitution, all other necessary reforms will be possible, and . . . until that is done there is no reform that can be accomplished.”

Bryan lost in 1896 and again in 1900, but he went on to lead the opposition in Congress. A major bank panic in 1907 led to a bill called the Aldrich Plan, which would have delivered control of the banking system to the Wall Street bankers. However, the alert opposition, led by Bryan, saw through it and soundly defeated it. Bryan said he would not support any bill that resulted in private money being issued by private banks. Federal Reserve Notes must be Treasury currency, issued and guaranteed by the government; and the governing body must be appointed by the President and approved by the Senate.

To get their bill past the opposition in Congress, the Wall Street faction changed its name to the Federal Reserve Act and brought it three days before Christmas, when Congress was preoccupied with departure for the holidays. The bill was so obscurely worded that no one really understood its provisions. Its backers knew it would not pass without Bryan’s support, so in a spirit of apparent compromise, they made a show of acquiescing to his demands. Bryan said happily, “The right of the government to issue money is not surrendered to the banks; the control over the money so issued is not relinquished by the government . . . .”

That was what he thought; but while the national money supply would be printed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, it would be issued as an obligation or debt of the government to a private central bank. The Federal Reserve is wholly owned by a consortium of private banks; it is controlled by bankers; and it protects their interests. It issues Federal Reserve Notes (dollar bills) for the cost of printing them (or, more often, for the cost of entering numbers on a computer screen). This privately-issued money is then lent to the government, and it is owed back to the private Federal Reserve with interest. The interest is eventually refunded to the government, but only after the Fed deducts its operating expenses and a 6 percent guaranteed return for its bank shareholders.

Congress and the President have some input in appointing the Federal Reserve Board, but the Board works behind closed doors with the regional bankers, without Congressional oversight or control. Bank CEOs actually sit on the boards of the Fed’s twelve branches. As just one recent example of the private control of public monies, in March of this year the New York Federal Reserve agreed in private weekend negotiations to advance $55 billion of the people’s money so that JPMorgan Chase could buy Bear Stearns at the bargain basement price of $2 a share, down from a high of $156 a share. It was a hostile takeover, not approved by the Bear Stearns shareholders or the American voters. JPMorgan Chase is the bank founded by John Pierpont Morgan, who sponsored the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. Jamie Dimon, the current CEO of JPMorgan Chase, sits on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which dominates the twelve Federal Reserve Banks; and he has huge stock holdings in JPMorgan Chase. His participation in the decision to give his bank $55 billion in Federal Reserve loans is the sort of conflict of interest that federal statute makes a criminal offense; but there is no one to prosecute the statute, because the banking lobby is too powerful to be denied. The banking lobby is powerful because private bankers, not the government, create our money and control who gets it. (See Ellen Brown, “The Secret Bailout of JPMorgan,” May 13, 2008, www.webofdebt.com/articles; and “What’s the Difference Between Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns?”, June 14, 2008, ibid.)

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was a major coup for the international bankers. They had battled for more than a century to establish a private central bank in the United States with the exclusive right to “monetize” the government’s debt; that is, to print their own money and exchange it for government securities or I.O.U.s. The Federal Reserve Act authorized a private central bank to create money out of nothing, lend it to the government at interest, and control the national money supply, expanding or contracting it at will. Representative Charles Lindbergh Sr. called the Act “the worst legislative crime of the ages.” He warned prophetically:

“[The Federal Reserve Board] can cause the pendulum of a rising and falling market to swing gently back and forth by slight changes in the discount rate, or cause violent fluctuations by greater rate variation, and in either case it will possess inside information as to financial conditions and advance knowledge of the coming change, either up or down.

“This is the strangest, most dangerous advantage ever placed in the hands of a special privilege class by any Government that ever existed. . . . The financial system has been turned over to . . . a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people’s money.”

In 1934, in the throes of the Great Depression, Representative Louis McFadden would go further, stating on the Congressional record:

“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man’s throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy votes to control our legislatures; there are those who maintain International propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime.

“These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions .”

As for Fannie Mae - the Federal National Mortgage Association - it actually began under Roosevelt’s New Deal as a government agency. But like the Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae is now “federal” only in name. In 1968, it was re-chartered by Congress as a shareholder-owned company, funded solely with private capital. If it were a bank, today it would be the third largest bank in the world; and it makes enormous amounts of money in the real estate market for its private owners. In 1970, Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Mortgage Corporation) was created to provide competition and end Fannie Mae’s monopoly in the secondary mortgage market. But Freddie Mac too is a wholly shareholder-owned, publicly-traded corporation.

Under a 1992 law, if either of these two mortgage giants is seen to be severely undercapitalized, it may be placed into government conservatorship. But the plan now being pursued is to bail out these private corporations by increasing their capital base with taxpayer money and their profit margins with greater access to Federal Reserve loans. The result will be to privatize profits to their management and shareholders while socializing risk to the taxpayers. We the people will foot the bill. If the people are going to bear the risk, we should reap the benefits. Either these two mega-corporations should take their licks in the market like any other private corporation, or they should be nationalized, delivering not just their debts but their assets to the taxpayers. Not just Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but the Federal Reserve itself should be made truly federal entities, as the voters have been led to believe and their names imply. Remove the myth that these Wall Street-controlled entities act by and for the people rather than being run for private gain, and we will soon see the outrage Mr. Grant says is curiously missing.

Ellen Brown, J.D., developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In “Web of Debt,” her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust.” She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her eleven books include the bestselling “Nature’s Pharmacy,” co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, and “Forbidden Medicine.” Her websites are http://www.webofdebt.com/ and http://www.ellenbrown.com/