Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis
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Forex FUTUres Trading
Although futures contracts generally came along somewhat later than well-entrenched cash markets, the opposite is true with forex futures. Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) introduced futures on currencies in May 1972, not long after President Nixon closed the gold window and before many currencies had achieved free-floating status. Forex futures have traded in a floor setting with trading limited to regular trading hours during the day for more than twenty-five years. When CME launched its Globex electronic trading platform in 1992, electronic trading was limited to after-hours or overnight trading outside of the floor-trading hours. Then CME moved to side-by-side trading several years ago, allowing electronic trading almost around- the-clock, including during those hours when trading was taking place on the floor. Volume has been booming since then to make CME’s currency market the world’s largest regulated marketplace for forex trading (Figure 2.1). In 2004 CME traded more than 50 million forex contracts, a 50 per- cent increase from the previous year, with two-thirds of those contracts t r a d e s e c r e t s 18 traded electronically. With CME making a major push to encourage trading in options on forex futures, forex volume is likely to get much larger at CME in the future. In addition to the major forex pairs and a dozen other currencies offered at CME, Eurex has moved into forex futures trading and the New York Board of Trade trades U.S. Dollar Index (USDX) futures. The USDX is not a currency, per se, but it does provide a good gauge of the value of the dollar against a basket of major currencies although trading in the USDX contract is not as active as trading in the major currency pairs. Forex futures do have a few different quoting conventions than what traders will find in the interbank and cash forex markets. For example, the familiar quote for Japanese yen in the cash market is in the number of yen per dollar so traders will hear a USD/JPY quote of, say, 110 yen. F igure 2.1. source: chicago Mercantile exchange Download 1.29 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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