Major currencies of FOREX market
Friday, October 30th, 2009Purchasing and selling of currency in the market of FOREX trading is always done in the form of pairs of currencies. Under this section, there are only two different types of currencies that are used to get quoted. In the above mentioned pair of currency one currency is known as the base and the second one constitutes the quote or is known as the counter currency.
For an example, EUR/USD is one of the very popular pair of currency. Under this pair, European dollar is seen as the base currency and USD or the dollar of US is known as the counter currency. In these types of situations, actually it has to be seen that how many units of the counter currency will be required in order to buy a single unit of the base currency. Just make an assumption that the quotation of European dollar verses US Dollar is around 1.2500. And all this will mean that you will be requiring about 1.25 of US dollar in order to buy one single unit of Euro.
The above mentioned rate is not the fixed one. It may go up or it may go down. This all depends on the US dollar that whether it strengthens or weakens. FOREX trading always is the one of its kind which takes place only in the combination of two different currencies or two different currency pairs.
As you all would be knowing that there is always a long, that is the point when it is bought and short, it is the point when it is sold to any sort of FOREX transaction. One of the traders buys European dollar (long) in exchange of Japanese yen (short) whereas the other one may sell sterling pound (short) in exchange of European dollar (long). The amounts of Profits or losses are always reflected by the second currency.
There are seven main currencies which are used for trading in the trading market. These are as follows:
US dollar,
Japanese Yen,
European dollar,
Great Britain pound,
Canadian dollar,
AUD,
CHF (Swiss Franc), currency of Swiss.
Amongst these seven currencies, the most important pairs of currency are called the majors and they are EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/AUD, USD/CHF and USD/CAD. These are currency through which most of the trading occurs. These currencies are also responsible for movements in the trading market.
Currencies which are tagged as majors are the ones which are most liquid and they are very much widely traded pairs of currency in the world. All the major FOREX trades actually account for more than 90% of the total transactions that are happening on daily basis.
While starting your work with FOREX trading, you need to understand symbols and trading terminology.




















































