Foreign Exchange Trading: Easy & Affordable

HedgeStreet is the first regulated online derivatives exchange, providing a simple way for investors to grow and/or hedge their portfolio.

Profit from your insights if you are right in markets like Gold, Oil, EUR/USD, and more.

Easy access so you can trade directly on the exchange. No broker required.

Affordable $100 retail-sized contracts .

Know your upside and downside before you trade.

U.S. Government regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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Summary
Foreign exchange trading allow traders to manage the risks associated with exchange rate fluctuation. The key trading issue is where the trader thinks a particular exchange rate will be on the expiration date.

Example
Binary Contract: EUR/USD > 1.4500 (29 Dec 08)

The foreign exchange trading for Binary contracts allow traders to take a position on whether the underlying EUR/USD exchange rate, as calculated by HedgeStreet, will be greater than 1.4500 on December 29, 2008.

Strategies
You can use EUR/USD contracts to either hedge or speculate.

Hedge
Hedging is an investment strategy that lessens the impact of economic volatility on your future gains or losses. Hedging can be used to manage the risk associated with a devaluation in the U.S.dollar and lessen the impact such devaluation may have on your financial future.

-You can offset losses incurred from a devaluation in the U.S. dollar if the EUR/USD exchange rate rises by purchasing contracts that pay out if the underlying exchange rate moves against you.

-If the EUR/USD moves in your favor, the financial benefits of the exchange rate change will hedge against the losses incurred on your contracts.

By simply choosing the type and number of contracts to buy or sell, you have the ability to minimize the volatility risk that may occur in the underlying exchange rate to a level that meets your personal financial goals.

Speculate
Speculating involves taking a view on the outcome of an economic event with the hope of making a profit.

-Do you feel you have an insight into the future exchange value of the EUR/USD?

-Would you like to speculate based on your belief about whether the EUR/USD exchange rate will rise or fall?

Foreign exchange trading on HedgeStreet lets you invest in any amount you choose in order to hedge or speculate on increases or decreases of the EUR/USD exchange rate.