EUR/USD - Euro Dollar

Short term (Intraday)
1,4405. EUR USD is in an downtrend directed by 1H exponential moving averages. EUR USD is in a consolidation after the last bearish movement. The volatility is low. Bollinger bands are flat. ForexTrend 4H (Mataf Trend Indicator) is in a bearish configuration. The downtrend should continue to gather momentum. The price should find a resistance below 1,4420.
=> We could take a short position at 1,4405. We will put the stop loss above 1,4450 (-45 pips). The targets are 1,4340 (+65 pips) 1,4300 (+105 pips) 1,4275 (+130 pips). Each trade is dangerous, take care and put your stop loss. Trade configuration (1 Speculative -> 4 Trend following): 2.
Resistances
1,4410 - 1,4450
Supports
1,4340 - 1,4300
Long term chart
EUR/USD - Euro Dollar

updated 18 déc 2007 06:00 GMT
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Introduction to Forex Trading

The 1971 abandonment of the Bretton Woods Accord and the subsequent unwinding of the system of fixed exchange rates gave rise to the foreign exchange market as we know it today.
Forex refers to the foreign exchange market, where brokerage firms and banks are connected over an electronic network that allows them to convert the currencies of countries around the globe.
The forex market is the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. The daily dollar volume of currencies traded in the currency market exceeds $1.9 trillion, many times larger than the combined volume of all U.S. equities and futures markets.
While forex trading used to be executed exclusively between government central banks and commercial and investment banks, trading forex has become increasingly accessible to private investors thanks to the PC and internet.
The most commonly traded currencies are the US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Euro, British Pound, Swiss Franc, Canadian Dollar and Australian Dollar. The FX market runs 24-hour hours a day, 5 days a week with continuous access to global dealers. Trading is not centralized on a physical location or an exchange, as with the stock and futures markets.
Foreign Exchange is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. Currencies are traded in pairs, for example Euro/US Dollar (EUR/USD) or US Dollar/Japanese Yen (USD/JPY).
For example, you would execute a trade when you expect the currency you are buying to increase relative to the one you are selling. If the currency you are buying increases in value, you must sell the other currency to close the position and take a profit. The first currency in the pair is called the base currency and the second is called the counter or quote currency. Usually the US currency is the base currency and quotes are given in $1 USD per counter currency, e.g. USD/JPY. The exceptions are the British Pound, the Euro and the Australian Dollar.
Understanding forex quotes: 1 unit of the base curreny = the exchange rate in the quote currency. Eg if EUR/USD is trading at 1.2762, 1 Euro will buy you 1.2762 Dollars.
Understanding contract size in forex trading: The contract size is normally a lot of 100,000. This means per standard contract you are controling 100,000 units of each pair, so if you are buying eur/usd you would be buying 100,000 euro's and selling 100,000 dollars simultaneously. For this contract size, each pip (the smallest price increment) is worth $10. Many firms offer mini accounts now where you can trade units of 10,000, where the pip value is $1.
Trading the Forex market allows very low margin requirements relative to other markets.

About fx trading

About fx trading

Foreign exchange, Forex or just FX are all terms used to describe the trading of the world’s many currencies. The FX market is the largest market in the world, with trades amounting to more than 3.2 trillion USD every day. This is more than one hundred times the daily trading on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange). Most FX trading is speculative, with only a small percentage of market activity representing governments’ and companies’ fundamental currency conversion needs.

Unlike trading on the stock market, the FX market is not conducted by a central exchange, but on the “Interbank” market, which is thought of as an OTC (over-the- counter) market. Trading takes place directly between the two counterparts necessary to make a trade, whether over the telephone or on electronic networks all over the world.

There are many reasons for the popularity of FX trading, but among the most important are the leverage available, the high liquidity 24 hours a day and the very low dealing costs associated with trading.

Saxo Bank offers low margin rates on FX, enabling traders to gear their investments up to 100x (on 1% margin rates). Our spreads are among the most competitive in the business, from 2 pips on major currency pairs.