Investing: Forex

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  • Foreign Exchange Market on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market
  • Forex.Com - http://www.forex.com/

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Foreign Exchange Market

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market

• Market Participants
  • Commercial Companies
  • Central Banks
  • Foreign Exchange Fixing
  • Hedge Funds as Speculators
  • Investment Management Firms
  • Retail Foreign exchange traders
    • Dealers
    • Market Makers
  • Non-Bank Foreign Exchange Companies
  • Money transfer/ remittance companies and bureaux de change
• Trading Characteristics
• Determinants of Exchange Rates
  • Fixed Rates: Government
  • Floating exchange Rate
    • Theory:
      • International Parity Conditions
        • Relative Purchasing Power Parity
        • INterest Rate Parity
        • Domestic Fisher Effect
        • International Fisher Effect
      • Balance of Payments Model
      • Asset Market Model
    • Economic Factors
      • Economic Policy
        • Government Fiscal Policy
          • Budget
          • Spending Practices
        • Monetary Policy
          • Interest Rates
          • Supply and 'cost' of money
      • Government Budget deficits or surpluses
      • Balance of trade levels and trends
      • Inflation levels and Trends
      • Economic growth and health
        • GDP
        • Employment Levels
        • Retail sales
        • Capacity utilization
      • Productivity of an economy
    • Political Conditions
      • International, Regional and Internal conditions and events
    • Market Psychology
      • Fights to quality
      • Long-term Trends
      • 'But the rumor, sell the fact'
      • Economic Numbers
      • Technical trading considerations
• Financial Instruments
  • Spot: Foreign Exchange Spot
  • Forward: Forward Contract
  • Future: Currency Future
  • Option: Foreign Exhcange Option
• Speculation

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