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Mayank Ahuja 19021321063 Ibfs
Mayank Ahuja 19021321063 Ibfs
Market (FOREX)
The term Foreign exchange implies two things:
a)foreign currency and b) exchange rate
Foreign exchange generally refers to foreign currency, eg for India, it is a dollar, euro, yen, etc…
The other part of foreign exchange is the exchange rate which is the price of one currency in
terms of the other currency.
Forex is the international market for the free trade of currencies. Traders place orders to buy
one currency with another currency.
4. Arbitragers:
● They want to earn a profit without taking any kind of risk (usually commercial banks).
● Try to profit from simultaneous exchange rate differences in different markets.
● Making use of the interest rate differences that exist in national financial markets of two
countries along with transactions on spot and forward foreign exchange market at the same
time (covered interest parity).