Forex Quadrasis

Posted by Quadrasis on June 22, 2010 in Forex with No Comments


Until World War I it was always allegedly possible to go to the central bank and ask for gold or silver in the place of your bank notes. Naturally, this very infrequently occurred in important amounts and many state banks stopped keeping enough gold to cover. On occasion such as in Germany after World War I, there would be a tragic run on the banks, leading to silly inflation and the breakdown of the nation’s economy. This was a big factor in the upward push of the German fascist party and therefore may be declared to have caused world war 2.

To stop a similar disaster going down in a vulnerable nation again, the Bretton Woods agreement was drawn up in 1944. Around the same time, the world monetary Fund and World Bank were made to assist in maintaining international business stability. This held until the early 1970s.

All of a sudden it was possible to trade in currencies, and the fiscal institutions were quick to recognize the potential. Banks had to exchange money to provide their clients with foreign currencies for travel and importing goods, but pretty soon they were exchanging far more than they wanted so as to profit from the continual rise and fall in the values of the different currencies. Gradually, non-public investors joined in the game and the currency market mushroomed. The development of the internet meant that the market became accessible to anybody, in theory. To deal with the massive numbers of potential new clients and because their costs were dropping, brokers commenced reducing the minimum investment amount. At this point in foreign exchange history, daily trading turnover has reached between $3 and $4 trillion, more than the trading volume of all the world’s stock and bonds markets added together.

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