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The Forex trades have no regulation by any unified body. As the currency markets deals without any intermediaries there exist several related markets dealing with several currency instruments. In other words, there is no unified US dollar rate but there are several USD rates that differ according to the bank or retail broker trading it. The differences in the rates are not big as the arbitrageurs can use them. There is a body that pretends to be a clearing mechanism of the forex – a joint venture – FxMarket Space (the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Reuters).

Retail Forex market (retail currency trading or retail FX) is a part of the global Foreign exchange market. According to the New York Times the retail Forex is a risky market overcrowded with cheaters trying to swindle the assets of credulous individuals. There is an opinion that almost 90 percent of retail Forex traders always lose their money.

The Euro is facing another growth period and will probably overcome the 1.60 point this time. Today we had no new European economic numbers however the inflation continues strengthening that may cause some new actions from European Central Bank aimed at the interest rate hike. Despite the slightly decreasing economic numbers the inflationary trend is the important trouble before the European Central Bank. However according to European Central Bank officials the possibility of interest rate hike is quite small despite the inflation problems.

The European currency comes closer to 1.60 point in relation to the USD. Now it has finally reached 1.5983 point after the issue of the quite positive trade balance data. The situation however was affected by the announcement of the Eurogroup President Junker when he said that the G7 Forex statement was not understood properly by the markets and the growth of the Euro is not something essential at the moment.

The United States currency continues its fall in relation to Euro. The major reason of the situation occurred I sin the growth of the oil prices as well as in decrease at the housing market.

Moreover the inflation is already a great problem for the whole world but due to the US consumer price report we can see that the US will only have to meet this problem. However this information seems a bit strange as several big companies have already announced the growth of their prices.

Currency pair is a quotation of two currencies. The currency that goes before the “/” is called as base or transaction currency. And the currency after the “/” is the quote (payment or counter) currency. The currency pair therefore shows the amount of the units of the quote currency required to purchase the one unit of the base currency.

What can impact the currency trading?

There are many factors that can contribute to the forming of the exchange rates however such of them as supply and demand are the major ones. The changes in supply and demand data also cause the corresponding changes in the price of one currency against another one. The Forex market provides the most comprehensive information about the current situation in the world.