Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis
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Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis - Forex Strategies ( PDFDrive )
Pairs, PiPs and PoinTs
Forex trading involves the simultaneous buying of one currency and the selling of another. Unlike markets such as soybeans or Treasury notes where traders are either long or short the market when they enter an outright position, forex traders are always trading pairs of curren- cies—that is, they are always long one currency and short another. Forex trades are expressed in terms of the first currency of the pair. For example, a U.S. dollar/Japanese yen position—USD/JPY to the forex trader—means you are long the dollar and short the yen, believ- ing the value of dollar will gain relative to the value of the yen. 9 ForeX trading using interMarket anaLysis The U.S. dollar is the key currency in many of these pairs. Together with the U.S. dollar, six other major currencies account for more than 90 percent of all forex transactions. These are the Japanese yen, euro, British pound, Swiss franc, Canadian dollar, and Australian dollar. The Mexican peso, Thailand baht, and dozens of other currencies are also traded in the forex market, and some have periods of active trading caused by extraordinary circumstances. For the most part, however, the forex trader can concentrate on just six major currency pairs that have the most liquidity: • Euro/U.S. dollar (EUR/USD) • U.S. dollar/Japanese yen (USD/JPY) • British pound/U.S. dollar (GBP/USD) • U.S. dollar/Swiss franc (USD/CHF) • U.S. dollar/Canadian dollar (USD/CAD) • U.S. dollar/Australian dollar (USD/AUD) When currencies other than the U.S. dollar are traded against each other—for example, the Japanese yen against the euro (JPY/EUR)— these positions are known as cross-rates. The first currency of a pair is the base currency; this is the main unit that traders buy or sell. The second currency is the secondary or counter currency against which they trade the base currency. The base currency has a value of 1.0, and the second currency is quoted as the number of units against the base currency. In the EUR/USD pair, you are looking at the number of dollars per one euro, the base currency—for example, 1.2000 dollars for each euro. In the USD/ JPY pair, you are looking at the number of yen per dollar, the base currency—for example, 110 yen for each dollar—except in futures, which are covered in Chapter 2. t r a d e s e c r e t s 10 Changes in currency values are quoted in terms of “price interest points” or “pips.” Pips are also called points and are similar to ticks in stocks or futures markets, the smallest increment of price movement. In most cases, a pip is a one-point change in the fourth digit to the right of the decimal—for example, a change from 1.1918 to 1.1919 for the euro. The value of a pip depends on the size of the contract or lot being traded, and that depends on where forex is traded (see Chapter 2). |
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