Showing posts with label currency market s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label currency market s. Show all posts

Monday, 18 August 2008

ForexGen USD/CHF

This last trade is the USD/CHF.
The first chart is a 30 – minute chart.
There are some interesting things about this trade.
I have also included the channel lines as these can really help put thing in perspective.
If you look at the chart you will see that %R at 22h00 was reading
2.19, RSI at 22h30 was 77.01 and MACD was 0.00242.
This all happened in the vicinity of point A on the chart.
As you can see MACD and RSI started to turn down as expected but then the market continued up to make a slightly higher high at point B. This is called bearish divergence.
This happens when an indicator turns down but the market makes a new high.
The opposite is true for bullish divergence.

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Foreign Exchange with ForexGen


Although the foreign currencies you’re currently dealing in may be fairly stable, there’s always a risk of volatility in the market.

One of the reasons that so many individuals and businesses use the expertise of a foreign currency broker is because they know that this is a market that is subject to change – and quick change too. When you have a business to run or a busy personal life to lead, you can't spend your time looking at the foreign exchange markets, wondering what's going to happen next and how you can deal with it. The word "volatility" often suggests trouble; in the context of the foreign currency market, it simply means sudden, if small, changes.

Dealing with foreign exchange volatility

A currency can be subject to change for many reasons. Both internal and external factors can make a difference to the currency's value against foreign currencies, and these factors can change all the time. An economic report on high levels of unemployment released on one day can affect the currency, as can interest rate cuts in another country on another. It's keeping track of all these variables that's the key skill when it comes to dealing with foreign currencies – and it is these variables that can make the currency market seem to be so volatile. Remember that, when you're dealing with large sums of money such as a property purchase, or buying supplies for your business, even a small change in the value of currency can cost you money – so you don't just need to protect yourself from the big swings in currency value, but the small movements too.