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SPOT FOREX - what is it? About crosses Currency swap Bid/Ask spread Many buyers and many sellers Many buyers and many sellers, part 2 Structure of the foreign exchange market International date line of the forex Electronic conversations per hour Dealers and forex market Dealer - trader Everybody loves dollars, the forex too SPOT "American or european terms" Numerator and denominator Futures Forex means "no limits"? Forex forecasting What is the Currenex? Crawling peg Linked exchange rate Endaka FxMarketSpace Retail forex Snake in the tunnel Forex size to NYSE volume, US$ reserves, futures Tax Advantages of the Forex Market Bretton Woods system Forex turnover - U.S. Dollar, Euro, Yen, Pound sterling, Swiss Franc, Canadian Dollar Forex turnover - other currencies Forex turnover - US dollar against: EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF Forex turnover - US dollar against: other currencies Forex turnover - Euro against: USD, JPY, GBP, CHF Forex turnover - Euro against: other currencies Foreign exchange turnover by country and currency Forex turnover - Outright forward transactions by country and maturity Forex turnover - Swap transactions by country and maturity Total Forex turnover by country (1989-2007) SPOT Forex turnover by country (1989-2007) Notional amounts outstanding of OTC Forex derivatives by instrument, counterparty and currency Execution methods for foreign exchange transactions Regulated Forex Brokers: What's the Difference? The spot rate is the current market price, the benchmark price. Spot transactions do not require immediate settlement, or payment "on the spot". By convention, the settlement date, or "value date", is the second business day after the "deal date" (or "trade date") on which the transaction is agreed to by the two traders. The two-day period provides ample time for the two parties to confirm the agreement and arrange the clearing and necessary debiting and crediting of bank accounts in various international locations. It is possible to trade for value dates in advance of the spot value date two days hence ("pre-spot" or "ante-spot"). Traders can trade for "value tomorrow", with settlement one business day after the deal date (one day before spot); or even for "cash" with settlement on the deal date (two days before spot). A spot transaction represents a direct exchange of one currency for another, and when executed, leads to transfers through the payment systems of the two countries whose currencies are involved.In a typical spot transaction, Bank A in New York will agree on June 1 to sell $10 million for Deutsche marks to Bank B in Frankfurt at the rate of, say, DEM 1.7320 per dollar, for value June 3. On June 3, Bank B will pay DEM 17.320 million for credit to Bank A’s account at a bank in Germany, and Bank A will pay $10 million for credit to Bank B’s account at a bank in the United States. The execution of the two payments completes the transaction. In the foreign exchange market there are always two prices for every currency—one price at which sellers of that currency want to sell, and another price at which buyers want to buy.A market maker is expected to quote simultaneously for his customers both a price at which he is willing to sell and a price at which he is willing to buy standard amounts of any currency for which he is making a market. source: Federal Reserve System