The Basics of Forex Trading

by Carley Garner

This is the eBook version of the printed book.What you really need to know before trading FOREX--sorting through the myths and the misunderstood to better your odds of trading success! The foreign exchange market, a.k.a. FX or FOREX, is a worldwide, decentralized, over-the-counter financial market that facilitates currency trading. There's no exchange and no clearing or exchange guarantee. Created to simplify asset transfer, FX has become a hotbed of speculation. Some characteristics that make FOREX valuable to speculators also create a complicated, treacherous marketplace for those who aren't prepared.

15 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 3, 2011

About the author

Senior Commodity Market Strategist and Broker, STOCKS & COMMODITIES Magazine Columnist, TheStreet.com Contributor, and Author

Carley Garner is an experienced futures and options broker with DeCarley Trading, a division of Zaner Group, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is also the author of Higher Probability Commodity Trading; A Trader's First Book on Commodities (two editions); Currency Trading in the Forex and Futures Markets; and Commodity Options. Her e-newsletters, The DeCarley Perspective and The Financial Futures Report, have garnered a loyal following; she is also proactive in providing free trading education at www.DeCarleyTrading.com.

Carley is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, from which she earned dual bachelor’s degrees in finance and accounting. Carley jumped into the options and futures industry with both feet in early 2004 and has become one of the most recognized names in the business. Her commodity market analysis is often referenced on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money on CNBC and she is a regular contributor to TheStreet.com and its Real Money Pro service.

Carley authors a monthly column in STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine and has been featured in the likes of Futures, Active Trader, Option Trader magazines, and many more. She has been quoted by Investor’s Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal and has also been known to participate in radio interviews. She can be found on the speaking circuit.