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Welcome to Virtual Currency Exchanges. Virtual Currency Exchanges is your source of information on the emerging world of virtual currencies. Already, an economy is blooming in virtual reality – where real hard currencies are being spent. As more and more people spend their time online in virtual worlds – economic transactions will also take place. Virtual currency exchanges will cover news items and other resources to track this growing phenomenon. The virtual world will never replace the physical world, that is until full imersive virtual reality develops…
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Posted by Admin on Jul 28, 2010 in Articles | 0 comments
For over a century now, Stocks have been heavily traded and known to the average US investor and non-investor alike. In essence, when you buy a stock you are purchasing a stake of ownership in the company. When buying a stock, you are doing so with the belief the value of that company’s stock will go up. There is a lot of information available to the public about company’s who’s stocks are available for purchase, so significant research can be done to determine the merits of these company’s stocks.
Since the Forex market became available to the public in the late 90’s, several advantages to trading currencies over stocks have been observed.
The first and most important advantage is the liquidity. Currently, approximately $3.2trillion flows through the currency market everyday. If you were to take the entire global stock market, along with all the commodities, derivatives, bond markets, etc. and put all the other global markets into one pool, it would still be smaller than the Forex market. Liquidity gives you several advantages when it comes to trading. One: you will likely get faster execution as there will be more of a market available at most prices quoted. Two: it is virtually impossible to corner or seriously manipulate the FX market or any particular currency you are trading. Three: when you are trading stocks, anyone who wants to buy a stock wants it to go up in value, whereas in FX, people may purchase a currency with no intention of profit. Some examples are multi-national corporations who have to exchange funds for business purposes, or central banks working to stabilize their economy. The bottom line is when it comes to participants, in the stock market, there has to be one winner and one loser, whereas this is not always the case in currencies.
The second critical advantage to trading currencies over stocks is that you can trade FX 24 hours a day 6 days a week from Sunday 5pm EST to Friday 4pm EST. This provides significantly more trading opportunities and also reduces the chance of overnight gaps which happen often while trading stocks due to information coming out which can affect that particular stock when you cannot trade it.
A third advantage is the leverage; prime stock accounts get maybe 2:1 leverage, with currencies you can get up to 400:1 which gives you more purchasing power.
A fourth advantage; with stocks your accounts can and often do go below their original value with you actually owing money to your broker. In contrast most FX trading companies have automatic algorithms built into their platforms to close out all positions if the equity value hits a zero balance, yielding more equity protection.
A fifth advantage; back to liquidity, which tends to make market prices smoother since there is more money to make the market, giving technical analysis much more potency.
A sixth advantage; it is much easier to manipulate a stock price since all orders flow through one central exchange whereby the ’specialists’ have many advantages that are unavailable to the average investor. Another challenge is that companies can easily manipulate their accounting or perform illegal activities which can falsely effect their perceived value. In contrast there are too many protocols in the FX market to do this.
A seventh advantage; companies can receive bad press and even fail and stock prices can drop extremely fast, much faster from a percentage perspective in comparison to currencies. If the company fails, your stock is worthless while with currencies, the chance of a G-8 country’s dollar or base currency becoming worthless is extremely unlikely. As we have seen in the recent market volatility and global credit crisis, companies that appeared to be stable (Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Wachovia, etc.) have all failed. Countries within the G-8 are much more stable unions than individual companies.
While most of the money trading stocks is made by buying the stocks, currencies are traded both up and down and there is never an entire bear or bull market. This is because as one currency goes up, another must go down but they cannot all do this together.
This informational comparison should give the potential investor a clearer picture about the unique differences between the stock market and the currency market and the clear advantages the currency market holds.
Steve Patzkowski
CEO
White Knight Investments
http://WhiteKnightFXI.com
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Posted by Admin on Jul 24, 2010 in Articles | 0 comments
Currency demo trading is an indispensable portion of every Forex trader’s education. Without a demo account, we would all lose thousands of dollars making all those mistakes when learning how to trade currencies.
Unfortunately, there are still retail traders in the world today who insist on trading ‘live’ immediately, without first having a chance to try out a demo account first. Often, these are the people who would lose all their capital before exiting from the Forex market.
Currency demo trading essentially involves the buying and selling of Forex (or Foreign Exchange) on a dedicated trading platform. It is almost identical to all aspects of ‘live’ trading, except for a few minor exceptions.
The biggest benefit of demo trading is that you are not required to trade with real money. As opposed to trading with a ‘live’ account, trading with a demo account enables you to learn how to trade using virtual (or ‘fake’) money. This way, you’ll be able to pretend to trade as though you were trading with real money, without having to actually pay real money for any of the losses that you might make. Of course, if you make a profit in demo trading, you won’t earn any real money either – it’s all done in the name of learning the proper way to trade.
It is a good idea for beginners to first get their feet wet in demo trading before progressing on to trading with real money. This way, a beginner trader can familiarize himself (or herself) with the various trading platform buttons and functions. For example, if you intend to enter into a ‘Buy’ trade but accidentally click on the ‘Sell’ button, you won’t have to pay for this mistake with real money. Of course, your demo account will debit an amount of virtual money for this mistake, but at least you won’t have to pay real money for it!
Thus, demo accounts are a great way for you to learn and get comfortable with whatever trading platform that you are using. It enables you to get familiar with entering the various trade transactions, and teaches you how to manage your own trading account.
Another great use of demo trading is to test out any trading strategies that you might come up with. Many experienced traders still use a demo account for this very purpose. After you start trading profitably with a ‘live’ trading account, you may want to test out various trading strategies that may make you even more money.
However, you wouldn’t want to test out these strategies immediately with your ‘live’ account… after all, if these strategies don’t work, you would be paying for it with real money! This is where demo trading can come in handy for you. You can have the benefit of putting your theories and strategies to the test, without having to pay for anything it they do not work as you might have imagined.
However, demo trading cannot completely replace ‘live’ trading as a form of education. Because you won’t lose any real money in demo trading, you won’t be able to feel the real pinch when you lose money. In this sense, you will not be learning how to deal with the emotional aspect of losing and winning money. This can only come from trading with real money.
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