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text-align: center;" align="right"&gt; &lt;caption&gt;&lt;b&gt;Most traded currencies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;sup id="cite_ref-BIS_0-2" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex#cite_note-BIS-0" title=""&gt;[&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;Currency distribution of reported FX market turnover&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/caption&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#ba000d"&gt; &lt;th&gt;Rank&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Currency&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217"&gt;ISO 4217&lt;/a&gt; code&lt;br /&gt;(Symbol)&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt; % daily share&lt;br /&gt;(April 2004)&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United States"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United States" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="12" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar"&gt;United States dollar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;USD ($)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;88.7%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Europe.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Europe"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Europe" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg/22px-Flag_of_Europe.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="15" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro" title="Euro"&gt;Euro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;EUR (€)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;37.2%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Japan.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Japan"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Japan" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="15" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_yen" title="Japanese yen"&gt;Japanese yen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;JPY (¥)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;20.3%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United Kingdom"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United Kingdom" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="11" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; British &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling"&gt;pound sterling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;GBP (£)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;16.9%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Switzerland.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Switzerland"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Switzerland" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Switzerland.svg/20px-Flag_of_Switzerland.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="20" width="20" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_franc" title="Swiss franc"&gt;Swiss franc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;CHF (Fr)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;6.1%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Australia.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Australia"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Australia" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Australia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="11" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_dollar" title="Australian dollar"&gt;Australian dollar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;AUD ($)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;5.5%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Canada.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Canada"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Canada" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Canada.svg/22px-Flag_of_Canada.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="11" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar" title="Canadian dollar"&gt;Canadian dollar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;CAD ($)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;4.2%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Sweden.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Sweden"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Sweden" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/22px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="14" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_krona" title="Swedish krona"&gt;Swedish krona&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;SEK (kr)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;2.3%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;9&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Hong Kong"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Hong Kong" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/22px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="15" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_dollar" title="Hong Kong dollar"&gt;Hong Kong dollar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;HKD ($)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;1.9%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Norway.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Norway"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Norway" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/22px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="16" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_krone" title="Norwegian krone"&gt;Norwegian krone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;NOK (kr)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;1.4%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="3" align="right"&gt;Other&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;15.5%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="3" align="right"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Total&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;&lt;b&gt;200%&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;There is no unified or centrally cleared market for the majority of FX trades, and there is very little cross-border regulation. Due to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_%28finance%29" title="Over-the-counter (finance)"&gt;over-the-counter&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTC" title="OTC"&gt;OTC&lt;/a&gt;) nature of currency markets, there are rather a number of interconnected marketplaces, where different currency &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_instrument" title="Financial instrument"&gt;instruments&lt;/a&gt; are traded. This implies that there is not a &lt;i&gt;single&lt;/i&gt; dollar rate but rather a number of different rates (prices), depending on what bank or market maker is trading. In practice the rates are often very close, otherwise they could be exploited by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage" title="Arbitrage"&gt;arbitrageurs&lt;/a&gt; instantaneously. A joint venture of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Mercantile_Exchange" title="Chicago Mercantile Exchange"&gt;Chicago Mercantile Exchange&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters"&gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;, called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FxMarketSpace&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="FxMarketSpace (page does not exist)"&gt;FxMarketSpace&lt;/a&gt; opened in 2007 and aspires to the role of a central market &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_%28finance%29" title="Clearing (finance)"&gt;clearing&lt;/a&gt; mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The main trading centers are in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" title="London"&gt;London&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York"&gt;New York&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo"&gt;Tokyo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong"&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore"&gt;Singapore&lt;/a&gt;, but banks throughout the world participate. Currency trading happens continuously throughout the day; as the Asian trading session ends, the European session begins, followed by the North American session and then back to the Asian session, excluding weekends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;There is little or no '&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading" title="Insider trading"&gt;inside information&lt;/a&gt;' in the foreign exchange markets. Exchange rate fluctuations are usually caused by actual monetary flows as well as by expectations of changes in monetary flows caused by changes in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDP" class="mw-redirect" title="GDP"&gt;GDP&lt;/a&gt; growth, inflation, interest rates, budget and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_deficits" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade deficits"&gt;trade deficits&lt;/a&gt; or surpluses, large cross-border &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26A" class="mw-redirect" title="M&amp;amp;A"&gt;M&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt; deals and other macroeconomic conditions. Major news is released publicly, often on scheduled dates, so many people have access to the same news at the same time. However, the large banks have an important advantage; they can see their customers' &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Order_flow&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Order flow (page does not exist)"&gt;order flow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Currencies are traded against one another. Each pair of currencies thus constitutes an individual product and is traditionally noted XXX/YYY, where YYY is the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217"&gt;ISO 4217 international three-letter code&lt;/a&gt; of the currency into which the price of one unit of XXX is expressed (called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_currency" title="Base currency"&gt;base currency&lt;/a&gt;). For instance, EUR/USD is the price of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro" title="Euro"&gt;euro&lt;/a&gt; expressed in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_dollar" class="mw-redirect" title="US dollar"&gt;US dollars&lt;/a&gt;, as in 1 euro = 1.3045 dollar. Out of convention, the first currency in the pair, the base currency, was the stronger currency at the creation of the pair. The second currency, counter currency, was the weaker currency at the creation of the pair.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The factors affecting XXX will affect both XXX/YYY and XXX/ZZZ. This causes positive currency &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation" title="Correlation"&gt;correlation&lt;/a&gt; between XXX/YYY and XXX/ZZZ.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_price" title="Spot price"&gt;spot&lt;/a&gt; market, according to the BIS study, the most heavily traded products were:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;dl style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;dd&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;EUR/USD: 28 %&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;USD/JPY: 18 %&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;GBP/USD (also called &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling"&gt;sterling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_%28foreign_exchange%29" title="Cable (foreign exchange)"&gt;cable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;): 14 %&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;and the US currency was involved in 88.7% of transactions, followed by the euro (37.2%), the yen (20.3%), and the sterling (16.9%) (see &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex#Trading_characteristics" title=""&gt;table&lt;/a&gt;). Note that volume percentages should add up to 200%: 100% for all the sellers and 100% for all the buyers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Although trading in the euro has grown considerably since the currency's creation in January &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999" title="1999"&gt;1999&lt;/a&gt;, the foreign exchange market is thus far still largely dollar-centered. For instance, trading the euro versus a non-European currency ZZZ will usually involve two trades: EUR/USD and USD/ZZZ. The exception to this is EUR/JPY, which is an established traded currency pair in the interbank spot market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name="Factors_affecting_currency_trading" id="Factors_affecting_currency_trading"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Factors affecting currency trading&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;dl style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;span class="boilerplate seealso"&gt;&lt;i&gt;See also: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_rates" class="mw-redirect" title="Exchange rates"&gt;Exchange rates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Although exchange rates are affected by many factors, in the end, currency prices are a result of supply and demand forces. The world's currency markets can be viewed as a huge melting pot: in a large and ever-changing mix of current events, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply" title="Supply"&gt;supply&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand" class="mw-redirect" title="Demand"&gt;demand&lt;/a&gt; factors are constantly shifting, and the price of one currency in relation to another shifts accordingly. No other market encompasses (and distills) as much of what is going on in the world at any given time as foreign exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Supply and demand for any given currency, and thus its value, are not influenced by any single element, but rather by several. These elements generally fall into three categories: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic"&gt;economic&lt;/a&gt; factors, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political" class="mw-redirect" title="Political"&gt;political&lt;/a&gt; conditions and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_psychology" class="mw-redirect" title="Market psychology"&gt;market psychology&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name="Economic_factors" id="Economic_factors"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Economic factors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;These include economic policy, disseminated by government agencies and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_banks" class="mw-redirect" title="Central banks"&gt;central banks&lt;/a&gt;, economic conditions, generally revealed through economic reports, and other &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_indicators" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic indicators"&gt;economic indicators&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Economic policy comprises government &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_policy" title="Fiscal policy"&gt;fiscal policy&lt;/a&gt; (budget/spending practices) and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy" title="Monetary policy"&gt;monetary policy&lt;/a&gt; (the means by which a government's central bank influences the supply and "cost" of money, which is reflected by the level of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rates" class="mw-redirect" title="Interest rates"&gt;interest rates&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Economic conditions include:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Government budget deficits or surpluses:&lt;/b&gt; The market usually reacts negatively to widening government &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_deficit" class="mw-redirect" title="Budget deficit"&gt;budget deficits&lt;/a&gt;, and positively to narrowing budget deficits. The impact is reflected in the value of a country's currency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Balance of trade levels and trends:&lt;/b&gt; The trade flow between countries illustrates the demand for goods and services, which in turn indicates demand for a country's currency to conduct trade. Surpluses and deficits in trade of goods and services reflect the competitiveness of a nation's economy. For example, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_deficits" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade deficits"&gt;trade deficits&lt;/a&gt; may have a negative impact on a nation's currency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Inflation levels and trends:&lt;/b&gt; Typically, a currency will lose value if there is a high level of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation"&gt;inflation&lt;/a&gt; in the country or if inflation levels are perceived to be rising. This is because inflation erodes &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power" title="Purchasing power"&gt;purchasing power&lt;/a&gt;, thus demand, for that particular currency. However, a currency may sometimes strengthen when inflation rises because of expectations that the central bank will raise short-term interest rates to combat rising inflation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Economic growth and health:&lt;/b&gt; Reports such as gross domestic product (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDP" class="mw-redirect" title="GDP"&gt;GDP&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment" title="Employment"&gt;employment&lt;/a&gt; levels, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_sales" class="mw-redirect" title="Retail sales"&gt;retail sales&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_utilization" title="Capacity utilization"&gt;capacity utilization&lt;/a&gt; and others, detail the levels of a country's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_growth" title="Economic growth"&gt;economic growth&lt;/a&gt; and health. Generally, the more healthy and robust a country's economy, the better its currency will perform, and the more demand for it there will be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name="Political_conditions" id="Political_conditions"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Political conditions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Internal, regional, and international &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political" class="mw-redirect" title="Political"&gt;political&lt;/a&gt; conditions and events can have a profound effect on currency markets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;For instance, political upheaval and instability can have a negative impact on a nation's economy. The rise of a political faction that is perceived to be fiscally responsible can have the opposite effect. Also, events in one country in a region may spur positive or negative interest in a neighboring country and, in the process, affect its currency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name="Market_psychology" id="Market_psychology"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Market psychology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_psychology" class="mw-redirect" title="Market psychology"&gt;Market psychology&lt;/a&gt; and trader perceptions influence the foreign exchange market in a variety of ways:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Flights to quality:&lt;/b&gt; Unsettling international events can lead to a "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_to_quality" class="mw-redirect" title="Flight to quality"&gt;flight to quality&lt;/a&gt;," with investors seeking a "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_haven" title="Safe haven"&gt;safe haven&lt;/a&gt;". There will be a greater demand, thus a higher price, for currencies perceived as stronger over their relatively weaker counterparts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Long-term trends:&lt;/b&gt; Currency markets often move in visible long-term &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_trends" title="Market trends"&gt;trends&lt;/a&gt;. Although currencies do not have an annual growing season like physical commodities, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle" title="Business cycle"&gt;business cycles&lt;/a&gt; do make themselves felt. Cycle analysis looks at longer-term price trends that may rise from economic or political trends. &lt;sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex#cite_note-6" title=""&gt;[7]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Buy the rumor, sell the fact:"&lt;/b&gt; This market truism can apply to many currency situations. It is the tendency for the price of a currency to reflect the impact of a particular action before it occurs and, when the anticipated event comes to pass, react in exactly the opposite direction. This may also be referred to as a market being "oversold" or "overbought".&lt;sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex#cite_note-7" title=""&gt;[8]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; To buy the rumor or sell the fact can also be an example of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias" title="Cognitive bias"&gt;cognitive bias&lt;/a&gt; known as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring" title="Anchoring"&gt;anchoring&lt;/a&gt;, when investors focus too much on the relevance of outside events to currency prices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Economic numbers:&lt;/b&gt; While &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_indicators" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic indicators"&gt;economic numbers&lt;/a&gt; can certainly reflect economic policy, some reports and numbers take on a talisman-like effect: the number itself becomes important to market psychology and may have an immediate impact on short-term market moves. "What to watch" can change over time. In recent years, for example, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply" title="Money supply"&gt;money supply&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment" title="Employment"&gt;employment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_balance" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade balance"&gt;trade balance&lt;/a&gt; figures and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation"&gt;inflation&lt;/a&gt; numbers have all taken turns in the spotlight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis" title="Technical analysis"&gt;Technical trading&lt;/a&gt; considerations:&lt;/b&gt; As in other markets, the accumulated price movements in a currency pair such as EUR/USD can form apparent patterns that traders may attempt to use. 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&lt;caption&gt;&lt;b&gt;Top 10 Currency Traders&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; % of overall volume, May 2007&lt;br /&gt;Source: Euromoney FX survey&lt;sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex#cite_note-2" title=""&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/caption&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Rank&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Volume&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;1&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Germany.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Germany"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Germany" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/22px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="13" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bank" title="Deutsche Bank"&gt;Deutsche Bank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;21.70%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;2&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Switzerland.svg" class="image" title="Flag of Switzerland"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of Switzerland" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Switzerland.svg/20px-Flag_of_Switzerland.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="20" width="20" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBS_AG" title="UBS AG"&gt;UBS AG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;14.85%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;3&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United States"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United States" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="12" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citi" class="mw-redirect" title="Citi"&gt;Citi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;9.00%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;4&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United Kingdom"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United Kingdom" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="11" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Bank_of_Scotland" title="Royal Bank of Scotland"&gt;Royal Bank of Scotland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;8.90%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;5&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United Kingdom"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United Kingdom" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="11" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclays_Capital" title="Barclays Capital"&gt;Barclays Capital&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;8.80%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;6&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United States"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United States" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="12" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America" title="Bank of America"&gt;Bank of America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;5.29%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;7&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United Kingdom"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United Kingdom" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="11" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC" title="HSBC"&gt;HSBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;4.36%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;8&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United States"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United States" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="12" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs" title="Goldman Sachs"&gt;Goldman Sachs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;4.14%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;9&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United States"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United States" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="12" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPMorgan" class="mw-redirect" title="JPMorgan"&gt;JPMorgan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;3.33%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;10&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="flagicon"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" class="image" title="Flag of the United States"&gt;&lt;img alt="Flag of the United States" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" class="thumbborder" border="0" height="12" width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Stanley" title="Morgan Stanley"&gt;Morgan Stanley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;2.86%&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Unlike a stock market, where all participants have access to the same prices, the forex market is divided into levels of access. At the top is the inter-bank market, which is made up of the largest investment banking firms. Within the inter-bank market, spreads, which are the difference between the bid and ask prices, are razor sharp and usually unavailable, and not known to players outside the inner circle. As you descend the levels of access, the difference between the bid and ask prices widens (from 0-1 pip to 1-2 pips for some currencies such as the EUR). This is due to volume. If a trader can guarantee large numbers of transactions for large amounts, they can demand a smaller difference between the bid and ask price, which is referred to as a better spread. The levels of access that make up the forex market are determined by the size of the “line” (the amount of money with which they are trading). The top-tier inter-bank market accounts for 53% of all transactions. After that there are usually smaller investment banks, followed by large multi-national corporations (which need to hedge risk and pay employees in different countries), large hedge funds, and even some of the retail forex market makers. According to Galati and Melvin, “Pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, and other institutional investors have played an increasingly important role in financial markets in general, and in FX markets in particular, since the early 2000s.” (2004) In addition, he notes, “Hedge funds have grown markedly over the 2001–2004 period in terms of both number and overall size” Central banks also participate in the forex market to align currencies to their economic needs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Banks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The interbank market caters for both the majority of commercial turnover and large amounts of speculative trading every day. A large bank may trade billions of dollars daily. Some of this trading is undertaken on behalf of customers, but much is conducted by proprietary desks, trading for the bank's own account.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Until recently, foreign exchange brokers did large amounts of business, facilitating interbank trading and matching anonymous counterparts for small fees. Today, however, much of this business has moved on to more efficient electronic systems. The broker squawk box lets traders listen in on ongoing interbank trading and is heard in most &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_room" title="Trading room"&gt;trading rooms&lt;/a&gt;, but turnover is noticeably smaller than just a few years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name="Commercial_companies" id="Commercial_companies"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Commercial companies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;An important part of this market comes from the financial activities of companies seeking foreign exchange to pay for goods or services. Commercial companies often trade fairly small amounts compared to those of banks or speculators, and their trades often have little short term impact on market rates. Nevertheless, trade flows are an important factor in the long-term direction of a currency's exchange rate. Some multinational companies can have an unpredictable impact when very large positions are covered due to exposures that are not widely known by other market participants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name="Central_banks" id="Central_banks"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Central banks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;National central banks play an important role in the foreign exchange markets. They try to control the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply" title="Money supply"&gt;money supply&lt;/a&gt;, inflation, and/or interest rates and often have official or unofficial target rates for their currencies. They can use their often substantial foreign exchange reserves to stabilize the market. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman" title="Milton Friedman"&gt;Milton Friedman&lt;/a&gt; argued that the best stabilization strategy would be for central banks to buy when the exchange rate is too low, and to sell when the rate is too high — that is, to trade for a profit based on their more precise information. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of central bank "stabilizing speculation" is doubtful because central banks do not go bankrupt if they make large losses, like other traders would, and there is no convincing evidence that they do make a profit trading.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The mere expectation or rumor of central bank &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervention" title="Intervention"&gt;intervention&lt;/a&gt; might be enough to stabilize a currency, but aggressive intervention might be used several times each year in countries with a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_float_regime" title="Managed float regime"&gt;dirty float&lt;/a&gt; currency regime. Central banks do not always achieve their objectives. The combined resources of the market can easily overwhelm any central bank.&lt;sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex#cite_note-3" title=""&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Several scenarios of this nature were seen in the 1992–93 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechanism" title="European Exchange Rate Mechanism"&gt;ERM&lt;/a&gt; collapse, and in more recent times in Southeast Asia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4849878289904333668-2726488964754936814?l=easymarketingreview.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/feeds/2726488964754936814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4849878289904333668&amp;postID=2726488964754936814' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/2726488964754936814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/2726488964754936814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-about-forex.html' title='More about Forex'/><author><name>Hens</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12829333940927758290</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849878289904333668.post-6466361332417282266</id><published>2008-06-09T02:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T02:30:17.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Foreign exchange market (FOREX)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"&gt;foreign exchange&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"&gt;currency&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt; or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"&gt;forex&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt; or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"&gt;FX&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"&gt;market&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt; exists wherever one &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency" title="Currency"&gt;currency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt; is traded for another. It is the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank" title="Central bank"&gt;central banks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;, currency &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculators" class="mw-redirect" title="Speculators"&gt;speculators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_corporation" title="Multinational corporation"&gt;multinational corporations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governments" class="mw-redirect" title="Governments"&gt;governments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;, and other &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_markets" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial markets"&gt;financial markets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt; and institutions. The average daily trade in the global forex and related markets currently is over &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US%24" class="mw-redirect" title="US$"&gt;US$&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt; 3 trillion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The foreign exchange market is unique because of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;dl  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;dd&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;its trading volumes,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;the extreme &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Liquidity"&gt;liquidity&lt;/a&gt; of the market,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;the large number of, and variety of, traders in the market,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;its geographical dispersion,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;its long trading hours: 24 hours a day except on weekends (from 5pm EST on Sunday until 4pm EST Friday),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;the variety of factors that affect &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_rate" title="Exchange rate"&gt;exchange rates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;the low margins of profit compared with other markets of fixed income (but profits can be high due to very large trading volumes)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;the use of 'leverage' (where a small amount of money can be used to buy a large investment. I.e £10 with a leverage of 1:50 gives you £500 to invest. This gives the potential for much larger profits and, more importantly, larger losses).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial;" class="thumb tright"&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="thumbinner" style="width: 302px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:G_foreign_exchange_market_turnover.gif" class="image" title="Foreign exchange market turnover, 1988 - 2007, measured in billions of USD."&gt;&lt;img alt="Foreign exchange market turnover, 1988 - 2007, measured in billions of USD." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/G_foreign_exchange_market_turnover.gif/300px-G_foreign_exchange_market_turnover.gif" class="thumbimage" border="0" height="207" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="thumbcaption"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; Foreign exchange market turnover, 1988 - 2007, measured in billions of USD.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition" title="Perfect competition"&gt;perfect competition&lt;/a&gt;, notwithstanding &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_manipulation" title="Market manipulation"&gt;market manipulation&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank" title="Central bank"&gt;central banks&lt;/a&gt;. According to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlements" title="Bank for International Settlements"&gt;BIS&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;sup id="cite_ref-BIS_0-1" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex#cite_note-BIS-0" title=""&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; average daily turnover in traditional foreign exchange markets is estimated at $3.21 trillion. Daily averages in April for different years, in billions of US dollars, are presented on the chart below:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This $3.21 trillion in global foreign exchange market "traditional" turnover was broken down as follows:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;dl  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;dd&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;$1,005 billion in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_spot_trading" title="Foreign exchange spot trading"&gt;spot&lt;/a&gt; transactions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;$362 billion in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_contract" title="Forward contract"&gt;outright forwards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;$1,714 billion in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex_swap" title="Forex swap"&gt;forex swaps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;$129 billion estimated gaps in reporting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;In addition to "traditional" turnover, $2.1 trillion was traded in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_security" class="mw-redirect" title="Derivative security"&gt;derivatives&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Exchange-traded forex &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_contract" title="Futures contract"&gt;futures contracts&lt;/a&gt; were introduced in 1972 at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Mercantile_Exchange" title="Chicago Mercantile Exchange"&gt;Chicago Mercantile Exchange&lt;/a&gt; and are actively traded relative to most other futures contracts. Forex futures volume has grown rapidly in recent years, and accounts for about 7% of the total foreign exchange market volume, according to The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal"&gt;Wall Street Journal Europe&lt;/a&gt; (5/5/06, p. 20).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Average daily global turnover in traditional foreign exchange market transactions totaled $2.7 trillion in April 2006 according to IFSL estimates based on semi-annual London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore Foreign Exchange Committee data. Overall turnover, including non-traditional foreign exchange derivatives and products traded on exchanges, averaged around $2.9 trillion a day. This was more than ten times the size of the combined daily turnover on all the world’s equity markets. Foreign exchange trading increased by 38% between April 2005 and April 2006 and has more than doubled since 2001. This is largely due to the growing importance of foreign exchange as an asset class and an increase in fund management assets, particularly of hedge funds and pension funds. The diverse selection of execution venues such as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_trading" title="Electronic trading"&gt;internet trading&lt;/a&gt; platforms offered by companies such as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Prudential_Markets" title="First Prudential Markets"&gt;First Prudential Markets&lt;/a&gt; and Saxo Bank have made it easier for retail traders to trade in the foreign exchange market. &lt;sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex#cite_note-1" title=""&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Because foreign exchange is an &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_%28finance%29" title="Over-the-counter (finance)"&gt;OTC&lt;/a&gt; market where brokers/dealers negotiate directly with one another, there is no central exchange or clearing house. The biggest geographic trading centre is the UK, primarily London, which according to IFSL estimates has increased its share of global turnover in traditional transactions from 31.3% in April 2004 to 32.4% in April 2006. RPP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The ten most active traders account for almost 73% of trading volume, according to The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal"&gt;Wall Street Journal Europe&lt;/a&gt;, (2/9/06 p. 20). These large international banks continually provide the market with both bid (buy) and ask (sell) prices. The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid/ask_spread" class="mw-redirect" title="Bid/ask spread"&gt;bid/ask spread&lt;/a&gt; is the difference between the price at which a bank or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_maker" title="Market maker"&gt;market maker&lt;/a&gt; will sell ("ask", or "offer") and the price at which a market-maker will buy ("bid") from a wholesale customer. This spread is minimal for actively traded pairs of currencies, usually 0–3 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_in_point" title="Percentage in point"&gt;pips&lt;/a&gt;. For example, the bid/ask quote of EUR/USD might be 1.2200/1.2203 on a retail broker. Minimum trading size for most deals is usually 100,000 units of currency, which is a standard "lot".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;These spreads might not apply to retail customers at banks, which will routinely mark up the difference to say 1.2100 / 1.2300 for transfers, or say 1.2000 / 1.2400 for banknotes or travelers' checks. Spot prices at market makers vary, but on EUR/USD are usually no more than 3 pips wide (i.e. 0.0003). Competition is greatly increased with larger transactions, and pip spreads shrink on the major pairs to as little as 1 to 2 pips.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: right;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Source : Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="text-align: right;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4849878289904333668-6466361332417282266?l=easymarketingreview.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/feeds/6466361332417282266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4849878289904333668&amp;postID=6466361332417282266' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/6466361332417282266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/6466361332417282266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/2008/06/foreign-exchange-market-forex.html' title='Foreign exchange market (FOREX)'/><author><name>Hens</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12829333940927758290</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849878289904333668.post-8803461324850572755</id><published>2008-06-08T17:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T17:38:07.941-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Work At Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;How Can a Part-Time Work at         Home Business Opportunity Equal Full-Time Success&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;        &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;How many hours a week         should you have to put into the right work at home         business opportunity? An important question might be         what defines success when you are working from home         in your own business? In this article we are going         to attempt to answer these questions. The number of         people working at home is at an all-time high,         that's for sure. Many people have a home business         that they use to achieve their dreams and they never         leave their front door to do it. What is interesting         is the number of hours that it takes to get a home         business started. What many successful entrepreneurs         do not tell you is how many hours they put into         building their business before they became         successful at it. I would submit to you that         starting a home business from scratch is never as         easy as it sounds. As a matter of fact you may even         have to work twice as hard as you do at your         full-time job. On the other hand, if you already         have a full-time job and are starting your business         on a part-time basis it may be possible for you to         develop a full-time income. Consistency is a key         factor when you work on a part-time basis. If you         lead a busy lifestyle outside of work it might be         tough for you to develop a work at home business         opportunity into a full-time career. However, the         Internet is making that possible as well. You can         achieve about any level of success that you want by         outsourcing many of the day to day activities. The         Internet makes it possible for you to outsource         everything from website design to article marketing         and blogging. There is no shortage of people willing         to work for you if you are willing to pay them. This         definitely makes it possible then to develop a         part-time home business into a full-time success.         Full-time success can be defined on various levels.         A lot of people really do want to quit their job as         quick as possible and need replacement income         totally. Others want to supplement their income and         use that money for various things including         finishing the basement, taking a vacation, paying         off bills, and so on. Regardless of what your goals         are, you can certainly turn a part-time work from         home business opportunity in to whatever you want to         be. The key is to manage your time and your money         properly to help you get where you want to be. Elmar         Sandyck is dedicated helping others to succeed         online. It is his passion. He has been making a         substantial income on the internet from the work at         home opportunities described on his website. If you         want to start your own successful home based         business please visit his site to learn more here         now : ====&gt; http://www.365daywealth.com &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: right;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Article         Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Elmar_Sandyck&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4849878289904333668-8803461324850572755?l=easymarketingreview.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/feeds/8803461324850572755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4849878289904333668&amp;postID=8803461324850572755' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/8803461324850572755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/8803461324850572755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/2008/06/work-at-home.html' title='Work At Home'/><author><name>Hens</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12829333940927758290</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849878289904333668.post-1056152888191012861</id><published>2008-06-08T17:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T17:25:59.398-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Successful Internet Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;p  style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" class="lead" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Rule of Thumb Guide to         Successful Internet Marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;What id Internet Marketing?         We all use many other names to describe the same         actions. Bottom line is, we want to sell whatever in         order to make money. It reminds me of an advert for         antiques. "We buy JUNK and sell ANTIQUES". Marketing         is the ART of packaging our product and presenting         it to a potential customer in such a way that they         want to buy and will buy. This means we need to         know; 1) Our customers, their likes and dislikes.         This information is invaluable as it is the KEY to         successful Internet Marketing. 2) Source or create         suitable products or services to suit our targeted         markets. Remember that no one product will suit all         customers. 3) Advertising RULE is the same. Your Ads         must project an image which will suit your group         audience. This means your Ads MUST be different in         their appeal. 4) Another rule we need is         FLEXIBILITY. By all means see what your competition         is doing, but don't be a copy cat. Be creative in         your presentations, this includes your PACKAGING of         products as well as ADVERTISING. See if they are         working and be prepared to Trash or Amend as the         case may be. Since there is a huge field of         competition out there, the above paragraphs are not         a ONE TIME do and I can sit back and become rich. To         stay on top we must be like the champion athlete who         trains every day. He eats drinks and sleeps his         burning desire to stay ahead of the competition. Two         words come to mind, Dedication and Commitment. You         want to be a successful Marketer then apply these         words to your Vision of being successful. It is a         case of Review, Review, Review, and then Review         again and revise if necessary. Don't believe all the         hype you read about getting rich quick. Nothing is         free in this life! YES you can and will get rich         provided you apply that four letter word; WORK.         Those who got rich discovered this secret of         dedication. Another word to describe dedication or         commitment is Sacrifice. In other words "Short term         PAIN for long term GAIN" Listen up; I could go on         about how to sculpt your Ads and how to set up sales         pages. That is the easy part for there are many         books and stuff on the Internet which deal more         effectively than I can in this article. Here is the         deal, be a good manager. Do I mean your website? No,         that is important but not so important as in Setting         Goals and Time Management. You have a vision to get         rich that is your major goal. However to reach there         you need the where with all to be an achiever.         Acquire the necessary knowledge, which means setting         lesser goals and this is where managing you time         comes in. Prepare yourself well before embarking on         the venture of you life. This is where sacrifice         comes in. Fewer nights out, less time spent in front         of the TV. If you are a family person, you need to         manage your time even more so. Why do so many would         be 'Get Rich" fall by the way side? Simple, they are         not good managers. They lacked dedication and         commitment with no real preparation. Perhaps too, a         little gullible for believing you can be an "Arm         Chair" million heir racking in the LOOT! Friend, it         takes a lot more to be a successful Internet         Marketer. Submitted by George Brown AnuStart &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: right;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Article         Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=George_Brown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4849878289904333668-1056152888191012861?l=easymarketingreview.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/feeds/1056152888191012861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4849878289904333668&amp;postID=1056152888191012861' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/1056152888191012861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/1056152888191012861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/2008/06/successful-internet-marketing.html' title='Successful Internet Marketing'/><author><name>Hens</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12829333940927758290</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849878289904333668.post-590254265720911063</id><published>2008-06-08T17:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T17:31:31.834-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Make Money Online</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="lead" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="lead" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A few ways to make money         online&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;There are many ways of         making a residual income or just a little bit of         extra cash in your pocket by using the internet. It         can be very hard to make money online, but if you         have the right tools and the confidence, it can         become very easy and make you very wealthy. Making         money online is a great way to live, and if you are         good at it, you can get out of those 9-5 jobs that         we all hate! A few ways to make money online: Online         surveys -Most of these will not make you very rich,         but can give you quite a bit of extra money in your         pocket and all you have to do is give your personal         opinion. MLM (Multi-Level-Marketing) -These are         programs you can sign up for and invite people to         join and use the site product and get paid. These         are kind of like pyramid schemes, which are illegal         by the way, except these have other products. (some         are free but others will have an initial fee or         monthly fee) Affiliate Marketing -This is a great         way to make money online. You get paid to traffic         people to sites and can get paid with pay-per-click         or pay-per-sale using affiliate programs. Works good         if you have your own website. Selling- If you have         products that you can sell, using the internet is a         great way! Anyone can make money online. All your         really need is a computer with access to the         internet, your brain, and the initiative and         confidence to accomplish success! Learn how I make         Money online!!!&lt;br /&gt;http://makemoneyonline-jeffehboy.blogspot.com/         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jeff_G_Charles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4849878289904333668-590254265720911063?l=easymarketingreview.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/feeds/590254265720911063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4849878289904333668&amp;postID=590254265720911063' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/590254265720911063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/590254265720911063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/2008/06/make-money-online.html' title='Make Money Online'/><author><name>Hens</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12829333940927758290</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849878289904333668.post-7602526054596293510</id><published>2008-06-08T17:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T17:19:12.557-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Internet Marketing System</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="portalheadline"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Best Internet          Marketing System&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best internet marketing         system is now revving up. The traffic is organically         finding you. Now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; what. Forget gulping, there's no         time for that... It's time to get your Squeeze Page         ready. A Squeeze Page is a dangled carrot, a way to         put some KILLER content in front of your traffic and         to "dare" them to leave their first names and emails         to learn more about your offer. I WANT TO STRESS         SOMETHING HUGE HERE: this dangled content has to be         SPECTACULAR or do not bother. Do not offer an ebook         that you and 6.3 billion others have the rights         to...that's pointless. You need to go out and have         found and assembled great content and then cut it         into delicious bite sized bites and then made it         ready to go out via emails. Now this content in YOUR         best internet marketing system could be mp3 files,         video, plain text emails, html emails, links to         anywhere, social bookmarking widgets...whatever you         want. But the more ENGAGING AND ENTERTAINING the         better. Sorry, we live in web 2.0 land now! Okay,         brace yourselves becomes here's the big         news...GOOGLE HATES YOUR SQUEEZE PAGE! WTH? Google         hates it because it's an ad (which really is what a         Squeeze Page is.) This means you will get destroyed         on your Quality Score for this page. Meaning higher         PPC prices and far lower showings on the content         network. Bad and worse. But there is hope. Ta da!         There is software out there that will turn your         hated Squeeze Page (a CRITICAL part of your best         internet marketing system into a LOVED one. It         creates DYNAMIC CONTENT INSERTIONS. (This is key for         everyone doing content generation like I'm         suggesting and ALSO using that page to get immediate         results using Google AdWords.) With a dynamic         Squeeze Page, you will get a Quality Score of         "GREAT" from Google. You will be the envy of your         friends, and if you open your CONTENT network up,         you will get about a million impressions a day!!!         Want to see a dynamic Squeeze page in action? You'll         love this...go to the link you see below and then         type in "WHATEVERKEYWORDYOUWANT.html". Seriously,         right after best/video-game/ type in "chocolate         monsters" or "killer nuns" or "explosive onions" it         DOES NOT MATTER! The page will reload. Scroll to the         bottom every time and look at all the new ULTRA         TARGETED content you just generated. The jaded         internet gurus will roll their eyes when they see         this...because they don't want you to know about it.         But I do. If you would like a page like this for         yourself NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE SELLING, contact me         through the link below. Part four of the best         internet marketing system is being written as we         speak. This is fun, no? To learn EXACTLY how you can         start using this best internet marketing system         TODAY, and how you can have my partners and I         working with YOU, WATCH OUR FREE 9 VIDEOS by         visiting http://www.premier-promotion.com/best/video-game         And to read get a Dynamic Squeeze Page of your own,         contact Kevin at kb62591b@gmail.com and use the         Subject Line "Squeeze Page Inquiry." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Article Source:         http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kevin_D_Browne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4849878289904333668-7602526054596293510?l=easymarketingreview.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/feeds/7602526054596293510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4849878289904333668&amp;postID=7602526054596293510' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/7602526054596293510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4849878289904333668/posts/default/7602526054596293510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://easymarketingreview.blogspot.com/2008/06/internet-marketing-system.html' title='Internet Marketing System'/><author><name>Hens</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12829333940927758290</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849878289904333668.post-5419389711095410151</id><published>2008-06-08T16:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-08T17:01:02.532-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Internet Based Affiliate Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How to Set Yourself Apart From Your Competitors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Internet based affiliate marketing industry has grown significantly over the years. It believes to be one of the best and easiest ways to earn money online. The concept of affiliate marketing bases largely on revenue sharing and commission-based payment schemes. Many people attracted to this business, which means more competitors for you. In most cases, you and your competitors will promote the exact same program, in the same exact zone, or even the exact same websites. In this very competitive industry, there are some aspects to consider setting yourself apart from other affiliates. Have your own website. If you are serious about your business, it is very essential to have your own website. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Your website will act as your showroom where you display your products or services&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;. Your potential customers will visit your website to learn about your products or services. If they found what you are looking for, they will then make the purchase. Write your own ads When you join an affiliate program, many times the merchant will provide you with some ads to promote. However, these kind of generic ads are not too effective. People usually just ignore the same ads they saw repeatedly. By writing your own ads, you can tailor your ads to encourage people read your ads and be curious to click through your website. Have your own product.Once your website is running, it's important to have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;some products&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt; that your customers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;can't find at other affiliate's sites&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;. The best way to keep your customers come to your site is by having your own products or services. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Build strong relationship with your customers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;. To fully answer the query of your potential customers, it is best if you buy and try the product yourself. You will be able to share your personal experience with the product to your customers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Build your credibility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;. It is important to be honest to your customers. If you find out the program you are promoting is a fraud, stop promoting it and inform your customers about it. You will gain trust from your customers. Admitting your mistakes also will increase your customer's confidence in you. Focus on one niche market. So many products or services on the market you can promote. However, it is not a good idea to promote everything you find. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;It is better to focus on one market and promote products that the market would want, which called niche marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;. Internet based affiliate marketing is a huge business that continue to grow. It is likely that the industry can potentially become a profitable way to earn income. However, it will not happen over night. Like everything else in life, you are going to put a lot of hard work to make it a success. 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