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Why Hedge Foreign Currency Risk?

International commerce has rapidly increased as the internet has provided a new and more transparent marketplace for individuals and entities alike to conduct international business and trading activities. Significant changes in the international economic and political landscape have led to uncertainty regarding the direction of foreign exchange rates. This uncertainty leads to volatility and the need for an effective vehicle to hedge foreign exchange rate risk and/or interest rate changes while, at the same time, effectively ensuring a future financial position.

Types of Foreign Currency Hedging Vehicles

While retail forex traders typically use foreign currency options as a hedging vehicle. Banks and commercials are more likely to use options, swaps, swaptions and other more complex derivatives to meet their specific hedging needs.

Forex Options Market Overview

Forex option trading has emerged as an alternative investment vehicle for many traders and investors. As an investment tool, forex option trading provides both large and small investors with greater flexibility when determining the appropriate forex trading and hedging strategies to implement. With the plethora of real-time financial data and forex option trading software available to most investors through the internet, today’s forex option market now includes an increasingly large number of individuals and corporations who are speculating and/or hedging foreign currency exposure via telephone or online forex trading platforms.

An Evaluation of the Devaluation

A Minister of Finance is morally right to lie about a forthcoming devaluation and a woman has the right to lie about her age. This is the common wisdom. Rumours about a devaluation of the Macedonia…

Hedging Foreign Exchange Risks

The exchange rate of the Macedonian Denar against the major hard currencies of the world has remained stable in the last few years. Because of the IMF restrictions, the local Narodna (Central) Bank d…

How Do Other Countries Devalue Their Currencies?

Countries devalue their currencies only when they have no other way to correct past economic mistakes – whether their own or mistakes committed by their predecessors. The ills of a devaluation are …

Be a Smarter FOREX Currency Trader: Three Basic Principles

This article describes three basic principles that may come in handy for currency traders. They are very easy to implement and potentially take advantage of.

Trading Profitably on the Foreign Exchange Market

How does one begin to trade profitably as a currency trader? This article may show you how.

Why Demo Account Performance Is Often Better Than Real Account Performance

Examines the psychological factors encountered by traders when they make the switch to trading foreign exchange with real money as opposed to demo accounts.

Factors Influencing a Currency Pair Exchange Rate

A country’s exchange rate is typically affected by the supply and demand for that country’s currency in international exchange markets. The exchange rate refers to the value of the US dollar against the values of currencies of other countries. Other factors may also heavily influence the valuation of a given currency pair.

Is The U.S. Dollar About To Reverse Course?

For the first time in several years the U.S. dollar has managed to gain value against the world’s other major currencies. During the first three months of 2005, the U.S. dollar is up approximately five percent against both the yen and the euro. The gains for the dollar should be considered significant when considering the United States still faces a growing trade imbalance.

Financial Crises, Global Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture

The recent upheavals in the world financial markets were quelled by the immediate intervention of both international financial institutions such as the IMF and of domestic ones in the developed count…

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