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By Andrew Daigle
Before getting into the forex trading business, you need to arm yourself with some terminology that will be used in any course or software on trading forex. The following terms were put together to provide the novice forex trader with the fundamental concepts of the forex (currency exchange) trading business. While they may sound technical, most are simple to understand and apply.

Let us begin with the instruments that are traded in the forex markets. Currencies are traded in pairs so the instrument will always be in this double denomination. The reason for this is simple – the basis of forex trading is to exchange one for the other. So if the pair is the Euro and the US Dollar, and the forex trader is taking a long position or buying the Euro in hopes that it will appreciate, effectively the trader is also selling US Dollars to buy the Euros. The most widely traded pairs are the Great Britain Pound and the US Dollar (indicated as GBP/USD), the Euro and the US Dollar (the EUR/USD pair), the Aussie Dollar and the US Dollar (AUD/USD pair), the USD and the Japanese Yen (USD/JPY pair), and the Canadian Dollar and the USD (USD/CAD pair). These pairs account for over 80% of the total volume of the trading in the forex market. The advantage to trading in these pairs is that they are highly liquid and allow the investor to convert their portfolio to cash very quickly to realize a profit.

In every pair, the first is called the base currency, over which the second one is countered to imply the price of the pair, or commonly referred to as the "cross currency". The second is therefore called the quote and the pair price is recorded in terms of the units of the quote required to buy one unit of the base currency. Thus, assuming the price of the GBP/USD pair is 1.5, this implies that 1.5 USD will buy 1 GBP.

Every pair is quoted in terms of a bid ask spread. The bid price means that this is the rate at which your forex broker bids to buy the at, while the ask price is the rate which the

Canadian dollar exchange rates (CAD) are a big winner following strong Non <b>...</b>
<div style="padding:0px; margin-bottom:1.5em;"> <a href="http://www.euro-exchangerate.com/canadian-dollar-exchange-rate-non-farm-03021348.html" style="font-size:1.2em">Canadian dollar exchange rates (CAD) are a big winner following strong Non <b>...</b></a> <br> <span style="color:#888888;">Euro Exchange Rate News</span> - <span style="white-space:nowrap">Feb 3, 2012 </span> <div style="width:80%;">Canadian dollar exchange rate: Global markets have been caught by surprise following the release of strong US Non-Farm Payroll data.</div> </div>
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Canadian Dollar (CAD) Technical Major Currencies (2012-02-02)
<div style="padding:0px; margin-bottom:1.5em;"> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/291619/20120202/canadian-dollar-cad-technical-major-currencies-2012-02-02.htm" style="font-size:1.2em">Canadian Dollar (CAD) Technical Major Currencies (2012-02-02)</a> <br> <span style="color:#888888;">International Business Times</span> - <span style="white-space:nowrap">Feb 2, 2012 </span> <div style="width:80%;">The pivotal support around 0.9965 is still providing the pair with a good support as seen on the provided four-hour chart. The struggle around the middle line of the descending channel that dominated the movements from 1.0285 zones continues fixing RSI ...</div> </div>
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Canadian Dollar (CAD) Technical Major Currencies (2012-02-01)
<div style="padding:0px; margin-bottom:1.5em;"> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/290835/20120201/canadian-dollar-cad-technical-major-currencies-2012-02-01.htm" style="font-size:1.2em">Canadian Dollar (CAD) Technical Major Currencies (2012-02-01)</a> <br> <span style="color:#888888;">International Business Times</span> - <span style="white-space:nowrap">Feb 1, 2012 </span> <div style="width:80%;">The pair failed to hold below parity yesterday, where it found support near the 200-days SMA to rebound again attempting to retest the resistance area among 1.0050-1.0075, a bullish divergence is seen on Stochastic.</div> </div>
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<div style="padding:0px; margin-bottom:1.5em;"> <a href="http://www.torfx.com/blog/the-gbp-cad-rate-has-recovered-from-the-4-month-low-of-1-5545/11482/" style="font-size:1.2em">Pound to Canadian Dollar Forecast ? The GBP CAD rate has recovered from the 4 <b>...</b></a> <br> <span style="color:#888888;">TorFX Foreign Currency Exchange (blog)</span> - <span style="white-space:nowrap">Jan 31, 2012 </span> <div style="width:80%;">The Canadian Dollar is looking resilient. Even last Friday&#39;s weaker than anticipated growth data for Canada&#39;s major trading partner, the US, failed to cause the CAD to weaken.</div> <a href="http://www.euro-exchangerate.com/canadian-dollar-us-dollar-par-30011323.html">Canadian dollar exchange rate: CAD USD finds solid support at &#39;par&#39; - risk-off <b>...</b></a> - <span style="color:#888888">Euro Exchange Rate News</span><br> <a href="http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2012-01/forex-cad-appears-vulnerable-to-a-near-term-set-back-against-usd-bbh.aspx?storyid=117411">Forex: CAD appears vulnerable to a near term set back against USD - BBH</a> - <span style="color:#888888">NASDAQ</span><br> </div>
Canadian Dollar (CAD) Technical Major Currencies (2012-01-27)
<div style="padding:0px; margin-bottom:1.5em;"> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/288482/20120127/canadian-dollar-cad-technical-major-currencies-2012-01-27.htm" style="font-size:1.2em">Canadian Dollar (CAD) Technical Major Currencies (2012-01-27)</a> <br> <span style="color:#888888;">International Business Times</span> - <span style="white-space:nowrap">Jan 27, 2012 </span> <div style="width:80%;">Despite the fact that the CD leg of the butterfly pattern is not ideal, still the harmonic formation generally fulfils the required Fibonacci corrections and that is why we believe that the formation is valid and it is a bullish formation suggesting ...</div> </div>

forex broker is asking to sell the to the forex trader. The bid price will always be lower than the ask price and the forex trader will buy at the ask price and sell at the bid price. The bid ask price will be quoted as: GBP/USD 1.532/5, meaning the bid price is 1.532 and the ask price is 1.535.

A pip price interest point), as it is commonly called, is the smallest incremental change a pair will experience, for instance, a change in the GBP/USD price from 1.532 to 1.542 is a change of 10 pips. A trading margin is a deposit which is a minimum amount or a small percentage of your traded amount that you have to put up. The remaining amount is supplied by your broker. This amount can vary from 1% to 0.25%, also referred to as 100:1 and 400:1. Commonly, forex brokers will offer 100:1 or 200:1 to most clients. This is risky but enables the trader to leverage a large amount that he or she would not otherwise have access to.

Finally, a margin call can happen when the forex trader allows the balance in the trading account to go below the margin deposit percentage agreed upon with the forex broker. The broker will automatically sell your long positions or buy your short positions and clear the entire trading account, returning the margin amount to the trader to protect the trader from losing more money than they have.

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