SHORT INTRODUCTION OF FOREX

Short Introduction:

Forex is the world's largest and most liquid trading market. Many consider FOREX as the best home business you can ever venture in. Even though regular people have had the opportunity to take part in trading foreign currencies for profit (in the same way banks and large corporations do) since 1998, it is just now becoming the cool, hip, new "thing" to talk about at parties, business events, and other social gatherings.

Even though it has been somewhat of a loosely guarded secret, every day more and more investors are turning to the all-electronic world of FOREX trading for income and profit because of its numerous benefits & advantages over traditional trading vehicles, like stocks, bonds and commodities.
But, still, whenever something seems new or is just becoming a part of social conversation, news articles, and water cooler gossip, misconceptions have to be overcome, the mind has to be open and the slate has to be clear for starting out fresh with the CORRECT information.
So, in this article, it is my attempt to give you some solid, but not over-detailed, information on just what the heck "FX" (FOREX) means, what it is, and why it exists.
As a successful trader said, Trading FOREX is like picking money up off the floor. Not trading FOREX is like leaving it there for someone else to pick up." Others in the industry have also said,
Trading FOREX is like having an ATM machine on your own computer.
Here's an explanation (one I feel you'll appreciate) of what FOREX is and how a bunch of traders, profit from it:
The Foreign Exchange Market, also referred to the "FOREX" or "FX" market, is the spot (cash) market for currency.
But, don't mistake FX as trading the futures market, where you buy a contract to purchase a particular currency at a future price in time.
What FX traders do is much less risky than trading currencies on the futures market, much more profitable, and a lot easier, than trading stocks.
So, you're probably wondering where it's at ... or ... how to access the FX market?
The answer is: FX Trading is not bound to any one trading floor and is not centralized on an exchange, as with the stock and futures markets. The FX market is considered an Over-the-Counter (OTC) or 'Interbank' market, due to the fact that the entire market is run electronically, within a network of banks, continuously over a 24-hour period.
Yes, if that's the first time you've heard about an all-electronic market, I know this may sound somewhat intriguing to you.
Here's what you are actually trading when you participate in the Foreign Exchange (FOREX) market:
Essentially, like the large banks who use the FX market to protect themselves from the fluctuating exchange rate of different currencies, as an investor, what a FX trader is doing is simultaneously exchanging one countries currency for another. So, in actuality, they're electronically trading a currency-pair and the price that is quoted to us is the exchange rate between the two currencies.
In other words, simply the quoted price is how many of the one currency is worth 1 of the other currency.
Example:
EUR/USD last trade 1.2850 - One Euro is worth $1.2850 US dollars.
The first currency (in this example, the EURO) is referred to as the base currency and the second (/USD) as the counter or quote currency.
The FOREX has a DAILY trading volume of around $1.5 trillion dollars - 30 times larger than the combined volume of all U.S. equity markets. This means that 1,498,574 skilled traders could each take 1 million dollars out of the FOREX market every day and the FOREX would still have more money left than the New York Stock exchange every day!
The FOREX plays a vital role in the world economy and there will always be a tremendous need for the FOREX. International trade increases as technology and communication increases. As long as there is international trade, there will be a FOREX market. The FX market has to exist so a country like Japan can sell products in the United States and be able to receive Japanese Yen in exchange for US Dollar.
There's plenty of money to be made using FOREX for plenty of traders that use the right trading techniques / tactics that will allow them to profit immensely. And, with only 5% of the daily turnover of volume coming from banks, government and large corporations who need to hedge, the other 95% is for speculation and profit.
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UN ECONOMIC SUMMIT TO DISCUSS CURRENCY RESERVES

A United Nations summit meeting in June will most likely discuss whether the world should abandon the U.S. dollar as the top reserve currency, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.

The president of the U.N. General Assembly, left-wing former Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, has invited the leaders of the 192 U.N. member states to attend a conference on the global financial crisis from June 1-3."There is the whole problem of the creation of special drawing rights (SDRs) and perhaps doing away with the dollar as the currency for international reserves," D'Escoto told reporters."

I am sure that that will be one of the things that heads of state will want to discuss (at the summit)," he said, adding that many countries had lost their trust in the dollar.
The IMF has said the dollar's status as the dominant reserve unit is not under threat. Russia has said that introducing an international reserve currency to dislodge the dollar could curb the volatility of foreign exchange markets.D'Escoto said he was sending out letters on Tuesday to the leaders of all 192 U.N. member states urging them to attend the summit.

He said he was sending a special personal letter to U.S. President Barack Obama asking him to come to the summit.
It was not immediately clear how many leaders would attend. The summit has strong backing from the so-called Group of 77 developing states, including China, D'Escoto said.

U.N. officials say the summit is also a response to the recent summit of the G20 club of big developed and developing economies in London

U.S. STOSKS OFF IN LIGHT TRADE, OIL SLIPS

U.S. stocks slipped on Monday, pulled lower as energy stocks retreated on a decline in crude oil prices to below $50 a barrel and on investors' jitters ahead of the release of U.S. corporate earnings this week.Light volume exacerbated price moves across asset classes, with many financial centers closed in Europe and parts of Asia for the Easter holiday.
Large U.S. banks, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Citigroup, which have been battered by the financial crisis, report their latest quarterly results this week. General Electric also is set to report this week
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note rose 17/32 in price to yield 2.86 percent. The 2-year U.S. Treasury note gained 4/32 in price to yield 0.89 percent.The dollar fell against a basket of major currencies, with the U.S. Dollar Index off 1.02 percent at 84.664. Against the Japanese yen, the dollar fell 0.12 percent at 100.10/ from a previous session close of 100.22.Gold climbed in thin holiday trade as the dollar dropped and stock markets weakened. Spot gold prices rose $12.50 to $893.15 an ounce.The MSCI index of Asia-Pacific stocks outside Japan rose 0.73 percent to 268.80.Japan's benchmark Nikkei underperformed the rest of Asia to close down 0.4 percent at 8924.43.