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How Do Banks and Brokers Make Their Money on FX Options

Globals Forex — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:20:56 +0000

The FX Options Market is far less transparent and far less competitive than the Deliverable FX Market. Thus, without any competition banks have been taking sometimes very large profit margins out of Option structures. Sometimes as much as 2-3%, which on a $10 million dollar Option accounts to $200,000 to $300,000 in profit. Just like deliverable FX, brokers will buy Options at a specific rate and sell to you at another rate, their profit being the difference. The reason brokers can offer you better pricing is a result of the volumes they transact over the course of the year, economies of scale allow them to improve your price compared to the bank and make their profit in the difference. For Zero Premium Options, brokers will sell their structures to banks, the sale amount being their profit.

On Zero Premium FX Options, better pricing accounts to you achieving a more competitive protection rate (or worse case rate) in addition to greater upside. In order to achieve the best pricing it’s important to create competition in the trade. Make sure you’re bank & broker is aware there is competition on the trade. It’s good practice to have a broker price up the same option structure too as a gauge on the pricing competitiveness. It is easy for your supplier to smudge the transparency if you are comparing different structures, make a choice from the variety of structures open to you and ask a number of provider to price this up to directly compare.

Finance Minister promises to strengthen regional rural banks

Globals Forex — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:09:10 +0000

Finance Minister promises to strengthen regional rural banks
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said the regional rural banks will be strengthened to enable them to maintain a Capital to Risk Weighted Asset Ratio (CRAR) of at least nine per cent as on March 31.
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HOW TO REALLY MAKE MONEY IN FOREX

Globals Forex — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:51:38 +0000

What is Forex? Foreign Exchange popularly renowed as Forex otherwise FX is a market used for the buying and selling of diverse currencies and it is one of the fastest growing avenues to making money online. Transactions on the market are complete through electronic process (Internet and telephone) through an intermediary called the Forex broker. However, major trading ‘centers’ exists in London, New York, and Tokyo. Other trading ‘centers’ are: Singapore, Frankfurt, Geneva & Zurich, Paris and Hong Kong. Forex market is made up of various players: individual trader, institutional traders, banks, other financial institutions (investment firms, pension funds and enclosed funds etc), and governments through their Central Banks. An estimated $3.5trillion worth of transactions are being traded daily on the market and it is opened 24/6. Forex market is an unfettered market, making it reachable to everyone and easily exited by its players. This makes it impossible to know the whole number of players in the market at a particular time.

The history of Forex trading may well be traced to the abandonment of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971, and the US Dollar would no longer be convertible into gold. This led to currencies of foremost industrialised nation becoming more freely, controlled primarily by the forces of supply and demand, which acted in the Foreign Exchange Market. Prices were floated day after day, with volumes, speed and price volatility all increasing during the 1970′s, giving increase to new financial instruments, market deregulation and trade liberalisation. In the 1980s, cross-borders capital movements accelerated with the beginning of computers and technology, extending market continuum through Asian, European and American time zones. Turnover on foreign exchange rocketed from about $70 billion a day in the 1980s, to more than $3.5 trillion a day in 2008.

The opportunity to make money on Forex market was shaped since the Bretton Woods Agreement was abandoned in 1971, allowing for changes in prices of currencies as dictated by the forces of demand and supply. Making money in Forex is as plain as buying a currency and holding it for few minutes, hours, days, weeks or months depending on your kind of trading and selling it when it has appreciated in value or vice-versa. This unpretentious act can fetch you more than 100% of your capital in few minutes! But as simple as it sounds, it requires adherence to a golden rule which is our trading principle at forexseed.

The Golden rule of trading Forex successfully is taking place in the right direction, at the right price, with the right stop loss and the right target. Following this golden rule should, however, be with precision. The precision can only be achieved by formulating a profitable equation in which risk is minimised to the barest lowest. Whether or not money will be made in Forex is not the issue because the market is massive and highly liquid; the real issue is how to reduce the risk on your trade since the market is very volatile. You will succeed trading Forex only if you be grateful for this fact and inculcate it in your trading style.