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Saturday, November 24, 2007

CURRENCY PAIRS

our trading vehicles
Instruments traded on most popular forex spot market are currency pairs. EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/CHF these are our trading vehicles. Currency pair price equals the ratio of one currency valued against another. The first currency in pair is called base currency, the second one is referred as the quote currency. When you want to buy, an currency pair price specifies how much quote currency you have to pay to obtain one lot of the base currency. When you want to sell, the currency pair price specifies how much quote currency you get when selling one lot of the base currency