Market Particiants

During many of the previous years, the foreign exchange market has expanded from one where banks would execute transactions between themselves to one in which many other kinds of financial institutions such as brokers and market-makers participate. These would include non-financial corporations, investment firms, pension funds and hedge funds.

The foreign exchange market’s focus has broadened from servicing just the importers and exporters to handling the huge amounts of overseas investment and other capital flows. Lately foreign exchange day trading has become increasingly more popular and a variety of firms offer assorted trading facilities to the small investor.

The OTC market (over the counter) foreign exchange, simply means that there is no centralized exchange and/or clearing house where orders are matched. Trading 'centres’ exist around the world however and are: (in order of importance) London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Frankfurt, Geneva & Zurich, Paris and Hong Kong. Essentially foreign exchange deals are made between participants on the basis of trust and reputation to deliver on an agreement. In the case of banks trading between one another, they do so only on that basis. In the retail market, customers demand a written, legally acceptable, contract between themselves and their broker in exchange for a deposit of funds which then allows the customer to commence trading.

Managing international transactions for the purchase or sale of merchandise, otherwise known as the "goods" market may involve certain participants. Others may be engaged in 'direct investment' in plant and equipment, or may be in the "money market", trading short-term debt instruments internationally. Many of the various investors, hedgers, and speculators may be focused on a specific time period. This could be anything from a few minutes to several years. Whether official or private, and whatever their motive be, investing, hedging, speculating, arbitraging, paying for imports, or seeking to influence the rate, they are all part of the accumulated demand for and supply of the currencies involved, and they all play a role in the determining of the exchange rate at that particular moment.

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