“Liquidity” is one of the most talked about topics when it comes to currency trading.
What is liquidity?
When an asset can be easily converted into cash, the asset is liquid. From a financial perspective, “liquidity” refers to the ability of an asset being liquidated at a reasonable price or c[……]
What is a White Label?
A White Label forex platform enables a trading firm to put its logo and branding on a platform that was created by a technology firm. To the end customer, the white label product appears as though it has been manufactured by the trading firm itself. In other words, a tradin[……]
by Paulina Osorio
In the general elections in Mexico on 1 July 2018, voters elected a new President, along with hundreds of other national, state and local positions. It was one of the largest election days in Mexican history. A good portion of the 120 million inhabitants of Mexico eagerly antici[……]
In the early 1990s, many global fund managers invested in countries like Thailand, Mexico, and Russia to “catch the wave” in emerging market development. Toward the latter half of the decade, there were currency crises in emerging markets. As a result, fund managers had to pull out their funds becau[……]
The inaugural Benzinga FinTech Summit in San Francisco on September 28th was a whirlwind event for the international FinTech industry. Attendees had the chance to learn about and experience the newest A.I., machine learning, deep learning, and blockchain tools being used to automate and revoluti[……]
Which factors determine foreign exchange rates in the medium run (year to year) and what strategies do foreign exchange traders use to leverage that? Here are some terms to consider.
While the three main determinants of long-run exchange rates are purchasing power parity, productivity trends, and the savings/investment balance trends, short-term determinates (within a year) are:
by Christopher Chen
Previous posts talked about understanding the foreign exchange market using a traditional economic model. These traditional models make sense under two critical assumptions. The first is that market participants are rational and the second is that financial markets are efficie[……]
by Christopher Chen
The foreign exchange market has a trading volume of $5.3 trillion per day. The market functions like any other market – buyers and sellers of a commodity meet and trade. In the case of a foreign exchange market, as demand exceeds supply, the currency’s value will go up. The mo[……]
by Christopher Chen
The Law of One Price is the economic theory that identical goods sell for the same price after exchange rates are taken into consideration. However, this is not the case. Therefore, an arbitrageur (someone who finds discrepancies in the market) looks to purchase an asset in a[……]
