Archive for the 'Forex risks' Category

The Limitations of the Technical Indicators In Forex Trading

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Do you know what the technical indicators in the foreign exchange trading industry are? Did you have any idea that these indicators also have their own set of limitations? Do you actually want to know what those limitations are? Well, if you are currently in the field of foreign exchange trading industry, you must and [...]

Opportunity and risk in forex leverage

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Accompanying leverage are the two words: opportunity and risk. Leveraging furnishes a broker more opportunity and at the same time it increases the risk involved. It is indeed correct that high control amplifies revenues yet it also magnifies losses uniformly. For any depositor, leveraging is a prevailing contrivance to expand great amounts of profit and [...]

A typical wrong move of forex traders

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Another wrong move of traders is that most back-out from deals just because the initial trade was not that successful without waiting for more changes. This is not a good habit for traders because what if other trades were like this? It would only lead to a confusing and repetitive loss for the trader himself [...]

How to Deal With a Series of Forex Investment Losses

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

In any business, especially forex trading, you have an equal probability to lose as to win. Losses are unavoidable as nobody can predict the future. There are only three possibilities in trading, a win, a loss or a break-even. Once a trader has the misfortune to run into a series of losses it triggers a [...]

Tips on Interest risk in forex trading

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Interest rate risk: The forex risk that a trader faces in his business, caused by price fluctuations in the forward spreads, coupled with mismatches in the forwarded amount as well as gaps in maturity levels during transactions, is called interest rate risk and is similar to forex credit risk. This type of risk is directly [...]

Forex Trading without indicators is like driving with your eyes blindfolded

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Since professional Forex trading is always done with indicators, when someone does trading without them, it seems he is driving around with his eyes blindfolded! Similarly, people who trade without indicators or forex software are surprised at seeing people doing trading with 10 indicators on their charts just to place a trade. They treat these [...]

Credit risk in forex trading

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Forex trading Credit risk: This risk involves the uncertainty pertaining to an outstanding currency position not being repaid as per previous understanding. This could be the fallout of an involuntary or purposeful action by the opposite party. Such matters call for trading being done on regulated exchanges like the clearing house of Chicago. Here are [...]

Mayor risks involved in Forex trading

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

The Forex trading business is not without its fair share of risks. The various types of risks that you might have to encounter include: exchange rate risk, interest rate risk, and credit risk and country risk. Forex exchange rate risk This risk involves the constant fluctuation of demand and supply and how it impacts the [...]