Made Easy Forex

The value of a currency pair is not the same during the day but changes second by second all the week besides Saturday and Sunday when the banks are closed. You can buy or sell a currency pair. This means that you can buy or sell the first part of the pair and sell or buy the other simultaneously. For example let’s say that the price for EUR/USD is 1.2640. You can give a buy order for 100 Euros in EUR/USD currency pair. This means that you can buy 100 Euros and sell 126.40 US dollars. After some time the currency pair value is 1.2700. Then you can give a sell order. You sell the 100 euros that you have bought previously and now you can buy 127 dollars. This means that you earned 0.6 US dollars. Let’s say that after some time the pair value is 1.2600. What happens now? You can give a sell order for 100 euros but now you can buy 126 dollars. You lost 0.4 dollars when the deal was closed. A deal in Forex is comprised by a full buy and sell or sell and buy cycle in a currency pair.

Let’s play more: Say the price for EUR/USD is now 1.2650. Sell 10,000 Euros. Buy them back when the price of the currency pair is 1.27 or 1.26.

Have you found the answer? You sold 10,000 euros and bought 12,650 dollars. You bought 10,000 euros back when the price was 1.27 so you sold 12,700 dollars. That’s how you lost 50 dollars. On the other hand if you have bought 10,000 euros back with 12,600 dollars you would earn 50 dollars. Notice that the more money you trade the more profit or loss you realize. Make some examples of your own. Be sure to understand these transactions well before reading more.

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