Browsing all posts in September, 2009.

Swapping

Aside from the buying and selling currencies on Forex markets, there is a surprising amount of swapping taking place. This isn’t of course, the kind of swapping that you may have taken part in with football cards as a youngster; this is all about swapping currencies and commodities.
There are three common forms of swapping that [...]

Price Shading

Price shading is a strategy used by forex brokers to try and gain an advantage over traders when they feel that a particular currency is showing an increasing trend. In such examples, a broker may opt to add a ‘pip’ to the real market price in an attempt to increase their profit margin.

What is Arbitrage?

Forex arbitrage is a trading strategy in which traders look to exploit the inefficiency in the pricing of currency pairs to maximise their profits. It’s a strategy that requires huge attention to detail, quick reactions and, more often than not, specialised software.