Forex History

By Tom Eraway

Firstable, What is the Forex Market

The Foreign Exchange Market (Forex) is a market where currencies are traded. Currencies such as the Euro, the US Dollar, the British Pound and many others are traded in the trillions every day.

Why?

People buy and sell these currencies because they fluctuate throughout the day making opportunities for the traders to make a quick profit. Because the movements are normally just cents the profits are small, but if you combine it with a big number of trades per day you're looking at a hefty profit.

Forex History

Since 1874 to the First World War the gold standard ruled the world economy. Every money that was printed had to be backed by gold. Once a country's economy started to climb, they needed to import heavily to keep up with the amounts of goods being sold. As this happened, since the only tradable currency a country had with a another was gold, their gold stock was depleted and it no longer represented the amount of money that was in circulation. This created inflation. The country's economy soon came to a recession making the value of goods so cheap that other countries started to import from them having them fall in recession themselves while the other country recuperated.

As you can see this system offered a highly unstable economy. In 1944 nations got together to prevent currencies from fleeing across nations, and so the Bretton Woods Agreement was signed. The price of gold was set to $35 per oz and all other countries would do the same, setting their currencies to gold. If Britain set it's oz of gold to 70, that means that to buy 1 US Dollar would cost them 0.50 Pounds. This prohibited speculation of currencies.

In 1971 the Gold Standard ended in 1971. The currencies of the world were no longer backed by gold which opened way to economic tools such as monetary policy. The value of the currency in each country was now what the market said it was. It's value was represented by how well that countries economy was doing.

Forex History - A New Era

With the advances in technology, computers and the internet made Forex possible. Now people from around the world can speculate and trade currencies as they see fit. Along with computers came software that analyzed the market trends. Having almost unlimited analytical power, these softwares are able to examine huge amounts of historical data in order to make trade suggestions or even trade decisions for the user making profits without their focused attention making Forex history.

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