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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

FOREX FUNDAMENTALS: Handling news about foreign exchange

By Brad Morgan

Knowing the basics of the foreign exchange market is key to making a profit there. While an excellent grasp of technical trending or charting is needed, the comprehension of the currency exchange market groundwork is essential as well. Consequently , an ill-timed trade could be the end result.

There are major impacts wielded by news reports both global and local on the currency market. While finance related news unquestionably yields the greatest effect, other non-finance but major events have their own impact too. They are possibly anticipated or come as a complete surprise .

A tornado or an act of terrorism are cases in point as they are unforeseen but could severely influence the market prices. In such events, stop-losses are just about the only counter-step you would have.

A good example of projected events would be choosing the host country for the Miss Universe Pageant. The chosen countries economy would undergo an increase in investor trust which can lead to an appreciation in its currency value.

Conversely, the countries who were not considered may be affected negatively. Thus advance knowledge of such events are fundamental to forex traders.

analogous events are the daily finance data updates in scores of countries. While not released as often, the information on the economy will be released from time to time and this contains data on the rates of inflation, interest rates, GNP, GDP and other key economic indicators.

It must be recalled that forex trading involves two countries. While checking reports in your home country is easy, it sometimes leads one to forget to check events in other countries.

Americans in particular, are disposed to this due to the domination by the US currency as far as foreign exchange intelligence is concerned. This is further boosted when a secondary currency is traded against the dollar. Making sure that your data is always two sided is the proactive step you can make to avoid this.

Taking to heart these key aspects of basic study on the currency market is essential to a promising trader. For such upstarts, anticipating key events and departing the market before they occur is the prudent thing to do.

A method based on fundamentals may take form as you become knowledgeable in the market. But more than anything else familiarity with the forex fundamentals is essential . - 23221

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