Trading currency cross rates

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The Wiley Trader's Advantage Series is a new series of concise, highly focused books designed to keep savvy futures, options, stocks, bonds, and commodities traders abreast of the latest, successful strategies and techniques used by the keenest minds in the business. Each title delivers timely cutting-edge guidance on a key aspect of trading, including trading systems, portfolio management methods, computerized forecasting, and systems optimization. Trading Currency Cross Rates is designed to help forward-looking traders and corporate financial specialists successfully move into the interbank cash markets, and once there, easily master a battery of winning strategies for trading cross rates successfully. Packed with profitable ideas and insights about today's astonishingly liquid cash currency markets, this timely guide first familiarizes you with the full range of foreign exchange-traded cross rate instruments available in the world's organized exchanges, including futures contracts, options, and warrants. From here, the guide profiles the 24-hour Interbank Currency Markets, explaining how it operates, who the principal players are, and how banks create new markets. This in-depth treatment reveals such hidden gems as how to begin trading without depositing funds in foreign exchange-trading banks, how to capitalize on forward and spot rate agreements, over-the-counter options transactions, currency swaps, and how to accurately measure profits and losses. For maximum utility, Trading Currency Cross Rates also guides you through the key fundamental, technical, and confidence factors that move foreign exchange rates, and shares proven methodologies for forecasting and profiting from futures moves in foreign currencies. It includes clear, straightforward guidance on trading fixed exchange rate systems, using currency ranking models and triangular trading techniques, and easily integrating cross rates into any current trading system. Whether you're a trader looking to switch from the futures market or a portfolio manager seeking better methods for hedging corporate risk - whether you want to profit from interest rate plays or exchange rate moves - you'll confidently turn to Trading Currency Cross Rates for the proven, professional guidance needed to trade the world's exchange rates.