FOREX trading, also known as the currency exchange, involves buying and selling of different world currencies. As a currency trader, deals are made when the national currency of one country goes up or down – the idea being buy low, sell high. Best of all, because you are trading in money, you will never be left with a product that nobody wants anymore or a company that has gone bankrupt.
If a currency is free-floating, its exchange rate is allowed to vary against that of other currencies and is determined by the market forces of supply and demand. Exchange rates for such currencies are likely to change almost constantly as quoted on financial markets, mainly by banks, around the world. A movable or adjustable peg system is a system of fixed exchange rates,but with a provision for the devaluation of a currency. For example, between 1994 and 2005, the Chinese yuan (CNY, ) was pegged to the United States dollar at 8.2768 to $1. The Chinese were not the only country to do this; from the end of World War II until 1970, Western European countries all maintained fixed exchange rates with the US dollar based on the Bretton Woods system.
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