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Well let's examine some of the options you have. In my experience you basically have three choices. In 2002, the CFTC, the SEC and the State of Utah filed an action against a company known as 4NExchange� for violations of state and Federal laws as the firm's principals illegally offered foreign currency contracts through an alleged Ponzi scheme that cost investors nearly $15 million.

I invest online in forex,� Nick replies in a deep baritone. He sports a pompadour and an unbuttoned red Hawaiian shirt. Institutional cheating of the kind we have seen in the Libor and forex scandals will probably die out for a while. The next day, the website went offline. It never returned. Neither did the Mandals' investment. As far as he knows, their entire $60,000 has disappeared forever.

One way to deal with the foreign exchange risk is to engage in a forward transaction. In this transaction, money does not actually change hands until some agreed upon future date. A buyer and seller agree on an exchange rate for any date in the future, and the transaction occurs on that date, regardless of what the market rates are then. The duration of the trade can be one day, a few days, months or years. Usually the date is decided by both parties. Then the forward contract is negotiated and agreed upon by both parties.

FXCM, short for Forex Capital Markets, is a no dealing desk Forex broker that offers two distinct services. DailyFX, a news service, provides regular financial news to Forex traders worldwide, while FXCM itself offers trade executions on multiple platforms with competitive spreads. For US traders, leverage is restricted to 1:50 because of NFA regulations. Specifically useful for new traders may be the company's free online learning seminars that are offered on a regular basis. Experienced traders will appreciatethe company's fractional pip pricing and non-dealing desk nature, which ensures that the brokerage will not take the other side of your trade. Partnerships with top banks enable FXCM to have fast execution and respected trading conditions.

The world then decided to have fixed exchange rates that resulted in the U.S. dollar being the primary reserve currency and that it would be the only currency backed by gold, this is known as the �Bretton Woods System' and it happened in 1944 (I know you super excited to know that). In 1971 the U.S. declared that it would no longer exchange gold for U.S. dollars that were held in foreign reserves, this marked the end of the Bretton Woods System.

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