Forex Market

Most of the markets are trying to provide as much transparency as possible, so that investors feel calm at the time of leaving their money. In today’s financial world, old theories that not so long ago remained buried in memory have come to gain currency again . For example, the Fibonacci theory is widely used in the forex market and so far has worked very well for those who have been encouraged to use it. The ponzi scheme is also one of the strategies used in the forex market. Who is Ponzi? What is this scheme about?
Charles Ponzi, was born in Parma, Italy in 1877, he migrated to Boston at the age of 21 in 1903 and died in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil in 1949 in total poverty. During the 20’s Charles Ponzi received from his native Italy a letter that included some IRC stamps (with prepaid postage). When he changed them to dollar he noticed that there was a difference in his favour that reported him a few cents for each.
Ponzi note that the coupon that he had received from Italy had been bought in Spain and found that the reason of this was that the price in Spain was exceptionally low due to the weakness of the currency. At that time this had cost in pesetas an equivalent of 1 dollar cent, was this way that Ponzi note this equation served him to perceive Americans stamps for a 6 cents value.
The ponzi scheme layed the foundations of what nowadays is the fundamental scheme of the forex market where the gain is obtained by the difference between the quotation of a currency and another. The possibility of buying currency pairs in the forex market offers security the investor and allows him to speculate about the future quotation of two currencies and not one enabling get rid of one if this one falls and buy another if it re valuates.

The foreign exchange transactions can be carried out in four different ways. The first is called spot market,

the second Forward Outright and swaps, thirdly through options and finally betting on the spread.
Making foreign exchange transactions has certain advantages that other types of investment hasn’t. The

foreign exchange market operates 24 hours a day due to the overlap between the major markets of

Europe, Asia and the United States.
Over the last thirty years, and particularly after the oil crisis in 1973, foreign exchange transactions have

become very popular. The liquidity occurred in the financial markets because of the excessive petrodollars meant that many people saw in the speculation a way to increase their profits. Of course not all of them went well, however as years went by foreign exchange transactions have generated new jobs and have become, for many people, a way of living.
With the advent of technological innovations the time to carry out operations in foreign currency could be extend, currently the time range to conduct transactions in foreign currencies goes from Sunday at 23:00 pm up to Friday at 23:00 hours .
Another advantage of operating in foreign currency, is that these offer a spread (the difference between

the purchase price and selling price), much lower than the stock market. Historically high monetary spreads

were only for those persons or institutions that conduct operations of 1 million dollars or more, but now it

has been extended to investors who trade smaller quantity of money.

Over the last few months the media predicted the collapse of the dollar as something irremediable and there was no turning back, but as we know financial markets times tend to be shorter than in most other activities carried out by the man, and above all more volatile .
Evolving of currencies is a constant in forex market, the quotation of currencies vary from one moment to another and cycles in the price increase are very short, for this reason we must be alert to what is happening in the market for being able to take full advantage.
One of the main news that was met in recent weeks was the evolution of the dollar currency, the north american currency scaled 0.3% per euro. The evolution of the north american currency closed rising against 12 of its 16 most operated counterparts.
Evolving of the currency occurred after having known the details of the trade deficit of the United States which was the lowest in two years. It will be recalled that one of the factors who had influenced the dollar fall was high trade deficit proceeds of business dealings that the country maintains with northern china.
As can be seen market encourage can change from one moment to another, and the evolution of currency, in this case the dollar may shoot up, when a few months ago the economic gurus predicted that this situation was not going to happened.

Commerce is the primary responsible on the inflow of foreign exchange, as his main objective is to generate foreign exchange earnings. The export promotion is the main weapon that nations have to generate foreign exchange entries, this way the country gets fresh funds in exchange for manufactured goods or raw materials that they generate.
The Latin American countries are nations that have comparative advantages and they use them to export their raw materials abroad. Based on this mechanism and exploiting the advantages that nature has provide them, provoke the inflow of foreign currencies, more precisely dollars.
In Argentina the exchange rate that was established after the departure of convertibility caused that exports increased and so the foreign exchange entry. The Banco Central, responsible for maintaining the exchange rate, intervene daily the foreign exchange market and purchase the excess of dollars for the price not to come down.
In Switzerland the inflow of currencies was regulated through two measures that were prevailing since 1978. The first prohibited to foreigners, the acquisition of Swiss titles and the second one, limited imports of notes from foreign banks to a value of 20,000 Swiss francs per quarter per person. The reality proved, with the relentless rise of the Swiss franc over the year 1978, that these measures were practically null, and only other resolutions, combined with the program announced on November 1 by President Carter, have allowed some stability of the Swiss franc over the dollar.

The man as part of nature and society have needs that are essential to be covered. The fall of the feudal and mercantilism systems allowed that from their mistakes, what is now known as capitalism was born. This is the system that governs us today and with it, a system of exchange of goods was established since currency have been established as a tool for access to consumer goods.
The refinement of the capitalist system produced that currency not only works as the mean to access to goods for the satisfaction of needs, but now it’s used to invest in foreign currencies. Investing in currencies is a very profitable activity, but develop it implicates running some risks.
The money market is very volatile, and invest in currencies is considered a high-risk sport is not suitable for people with a tendency to have heart problems, because fluctuations in the exchange markets can be fatal.
As everyone knows the world will dance the rhythm imposed by the United States, and a week ago the northern country lowered the money costs and anchored the rate of interest at 4.25%. Thus investing in dollar currencies will not leave as much profit as in previous years. This decision responds to a deceleration of economic activity in the United States marked by indicators of it. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the economy enjoys a very good health leaving a very conducive scenario to investing in currencies, the euro at the moment pays 4% interest to those who choose to make an investment in that currency, but the peculiarity is that by now there wasn’t even one day in which it has slowed his increase in value.