The Internet and Growing Competition | ForexGen

The purpose of this post is to introduce the forex market to you. As with many markets there are many derivative of the central market such as futures, options and forwards. In this book we will only be discussing the main market sometime referred to as the Spot or Cash market. The word FOREX is derived from the words Foreign Exchange and is the largest financial market in the world. Unlike many markets the FX market is open 24 hours per day and has an estimated $1.2 Trillion in turnover every day. This tremendous turnover is more than the combined turnover of the main worlds' stock markets on any given day. This tends to lead to a very liquid market and thus a desirable market to trade.

Unlike many other securities (any financial instrument that can be traded) the FX market does not have a fixed exchange. It is primarily traded through banks, brokers, dealers, financial institutions and private individuals. Trades are executed through phone and increasingly through the Internet. It is only in the last few years that the smaller investor has been able to gain access to this market. Previously the large amounts of deposits required precluded the smaller investors. With the advent of the Internet and growing competition it is now easily within the reach of most investors.

ForexGen Trading Support

ForexGen dealing desk representatives are available during trading hours - 24/5 from Sunday 6:00pm EST to Friday at 2:00pm EST.

You are encouraged to contact the dealing room by phone in these situations:

* If you are not able to access the internet. * Failing to receive a confirmation on an online order. * Failing to connect to ForexGen server.

Whenever the trader asks for trading support, our team checks if the trader has performed the trading factually in order to facilitate the trading process and make it faster. Please pay attention to the following instructions before calling the trader support in the trading call center.

1. Your account number (visible in your Summary Report under ACID). While the User ID number is unverified.
2. Determine whether the order is a Market Order or a Limit Order and the number of units and the desired currency pair. ForexGen provides the trader with a factual changing quote stream. The prices can be changed more than three times at every second. Consequently the Market Orders will be maintained according to the current price the order was placed.
3. Specify your trade as "I would like to buy 5 lots of USD/JPY during the Market with a stop loss of 102.45 and a take profit of 102.62. . .".