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Spot forex vs. currency futures

Spot forex vs. currency futures

Posted by Trader On August - 28 - 2009













In Forex overview we discussed the basic specifics of the forex currency trading. Best Technical Trading Solutions are interconnected with Technical trading practice. Oil Trading Technical System or any other might be applied to currency trading, if modified and tuned according to your expectations.

Many traders have recently left the currency futures trading for currency spot market. The main reason is that the spot market has higher liquidity and lower operational expenses. Banks and traders may execute their operations on the market all around the clock. Moreover the market is stock tax and NFA tax free that promises higher commissions for traders. That’s exactly why many trading  companies and financial institutions do the currency exchange on the interbank currency spot market, but not on the futures makret.

Spot forex market trading systems are very similar to the ones of currency futures. The most important difference is another currency quotation principle. Currency futures are always traded opposed to the USD rates. On spot forex some of the currencies are quoted the same way and some are quoted as USD opposed to this currency.

The chart below shows the spot currencies that change according to futures contracts and which are opposite.

Forex notion Currency pair Futures market notion Change direction
GBPUSD British Pound / US Dollar BP Parallel
EURUSD Euro / US Dollar EU Parallel
USDJPY US Dollar / Japanese Yen JY Inverse
USDCHF US Dollar / Swiss Franc SF Inverse
USDCAD US Dollar / Canadian Dollar CD Inverse
AUDUSD Australian Dollar / US Dollar AD Parallel
NZDUSD New Zealand Dollar / US Dollar ND Parallel
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