Category: Forex Trading

While each equity waterfall is unique, it’s important to understand this concept, because it surprises many ex-bankers. You’re used to thinking about equity as one or two uniform tranches. But the equity split between the sponsor and the management team can be nuanced and is an important negotiation point. The power of a growing earnings…

For the superior trading conditions, flexibility and reliability HFM offers to its traders. Comprehensive information about all the orders and open positions is always available in the Toolbox — Trade window. Through the Toolbox window, traders can track their number of orders and positions, open prices, volumes, stop-orders or their account status. MetaTrader 4 (MT…

If the contract is settled on a cash basis, then the buyer pays the seller the agreed-upon price or any outstanding differences. Commercial banks, Central Banks, Broker/Dealers and Speculators are also users of FX Forwards. However, the pricing of an asset in the forward market in foreign exchange sphere is determined by the difference between…

The fact that forwards are traded OTC makes them more flexible and customizable compared to their counterparts, futures contracts. The forward market helps in price discovery and setting future prices of assets and financial instruments. Buyers and sellers enter into contracts to buy or sell an asset at a specified price for delivery at a…

Other common names for the Euro include Yoyo (Irish English), Leru (Spanish), and Ege (Finnish). Like the dollar, the euro is managed by one central bank, the European Central Bank (ECB). Being shared by 19 countries complicates its management, as each country sets its own fiscal policy that affects the euro’s value. The euro was…

The treaty called for a common unit of exchange, the euro, and set strict criteria for conversion to the euro and participation in the EMU. Although several states had public debt ratios exceeding 60 percent—the rates topped 120 percent in Italy and Belgium—the European Commission (the executive branch of the EU) recommended their entry into…