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Risks and Strategies for Beginner Forex Traders. Forex trading offers opportunity, but it also carries high risk due to leverage and volatility. Many beginners lose money early because they trade without a clear plan or emotional control. Common mistakes beginners make are over leveraging positions, ignoring stop loss orders and attempts to take quick…
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How to read Forex? Forex charts visually represent how currency prices move over time, helping traders analyse trends and make decisions. A pip (percentage in point) is the smallest recorded price movements in most currency pair. This is typically no smaller than 0.0001.A lot is the trade size. A standard lot equals $100,000 units…
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What influences exchange rates? Exchange rates fluctuate constantly due to a mix of economic, political, and market driven factors. The most common influences include interest rates, where central banks such as the RBA, adjust interest rates to control inflation. Higher interest rrates often strengthen a currency. Inflation can also paly a factor, where lower…
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Understanding Leverage and Margin in Forex. One of the key attractions of Forex trading is leverage, the ability to control a large position with a smaller amount of capital. For example, if your broker offers 1:30 leverage, you can control $30,000 position with just $1,000 is the margin requirement, and the broker effectively lends…
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How Currency Pairs Work? Every Forex trade involves a currency pair, uch as AUD/USD or EUR/JPY. The first currency (AUD in this example) is called the base currency, and the second (USD) is the qoute currency. If the AUD/SD is trading at 0.65, it means 1 Australian dollar buys 0.65 US dollars. Currency pairs…
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What is Forex Trading? Forex trading, short for “foreign exchange,” is the process of buying one currency while selling another at the same time. It’s the largest financial market in the world, with more than $6 trillion (USD) traded daily, Far larger than the share or commodities. Unlike the ASX or other centralized exchanges,…
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How Global Events Affect Commodity Prices. Commodity prices don’t move in isolation, they react quickly to world events. Wars, trade tensions, and natural disasters can disrupt supply chains, while economic growth or new technologies can drive demand. For example, geopolitical instability in oil-producing regions often causes fuel prices to spike. Similarly, the rise of…
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The Relationship Between Commodities and the Australian Dollar. Australia’s currency is often called a “commodity currency” because its value is closely tied to the prices of key exports like iron ore, coal, and natural gas. When global demand for these resources rises, export earnings increase, and the Australian dollar typically strengthens. Conversely, when commodity…
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How to Invest in Commodities? There are several ways Australians can gain exposure to commodity markets, without needing to buy physical gold or barrels of oil. The simplest method is through exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the price of specific commodities or a basket of them. Investors could also buy shares in mining and…
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How Commodity Prices Are Determined. Commodity prices are driven by a mix of global and local factors. The most powerful force is supply and demand, when demand for materials like iron ore or wheat rises, pices go up. When supply increases or demand falls, prices drop. Other factors include currency movements (especially the Australian…