To Trade EUR JPY
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
I order to trade EUR JPY you will need to have an account with a broker. To set up an account the broker will require personal information as well as company information if you wish to trade as a company. These days a lot of personal information is required by brokers to set an account.
Anther aspect which is important in being able to trade EUR JPY is the type of trading you intend to undertake. Trading full lots which means each trade is approximately $ 1000 USD, controlling $ 100,000 USD trade. One lot is $ 100,000 trade. Broker will want to know your trading pattern so that he can set minimum trading balance which you will need and opening trading amount. For full lot trading $5,000 – $10,000 is required to start trading.
For traders who do not want to trade full lots mini lots are available. When trading mini lots smaller balance is required. Again it is up to the broker to set minimum opeing balance. Mini lots are popular with with traders with low start up capital and those traders who want to limit level of their risk.
Controlled trading is really risk assessment. If your strategy is to say risk 5% of your balance and you have $ 10,000 balance then your max trade is $ 500 (being 5% of $10,000). Automatically the trade is in mini lots as 1 lot is usually valued at $ 1,000. For this reason money management is a major factor when you enter EUR JPY trade.
To trade EUR JPY, the trade is about buying or selling Euro in Yen currency. Effectively the trade is in Japanese Yen. For example when you buy EUR JPY at 133.00, what you are doing is paying 133.00 Yen for 1 Euro. When a trader is in this type of trade he is hoping the Yen currency will go up in value to say 134.00. If he was to sell at this point he would make 100 pips profit which is approx. $ 1,000 USD. 1 pip is equal to 0.01 Yen.
When buying EUR JPY trader is looking for Yen to increase in price. Conversely when selling EUR JPY trader is hoping Yen will drop in price. Traders who trade EUR JPY look for signals to either buy or sell Yen currency. The signals are provided by variety of sources. Most of the time software programs are used to analyse the movements of price , volumes of trades, volatility, current news events and so on.
Large traders of EUR JPY are generally ones with interest in Japan economy. In order to prop up Yen, Japan will start buying EUR JPY to send the price upwards. Governments will do this when the trading price is lower than they want and they enter the market with plan of increasing the price.
Other than governments major players who trade EUR JPY currency are banks. These days banks put in a lot of effort in trading currencies since this is a profitable income stream for them.



