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"American or european terms" 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 phrase "American terms" means a direct quote from the point of view of someone located in the United States. For the dollar, that means that the rate is quoted in variable amounts of U.S. dollars and cents per one unit of foreign currency (e.g., $0.5774 per DEM1). The phrase "European terms" means a direct quote from the point of view of someone located in Europe. For the dollar, that means variable amounts of foreign currency per one U.S. dollar (or DEM 1.7320 per $1). In daily life, most prices are quoted "directly". For many years, all dollar exchange rates also were quoted directly. That meant dollar exchange rates were quoted in European terms in Europe, and in American terms in the United States. However, in 1978, as the foreign exchange market was integrating into a single global market, for convenience, the practice in the U.S. market was changed—at the initiative of the brokers community—to conform to the European convention. Thus, OTC markets in all countries now quote dollars in European terms against nearly all other currencies (amounts of foreign currency per $1). That means that the dollar is nearly always the base currency,one unit of which (one dollar) is being bought or sold for a variable amount of a foreign currency.