Thursday, March 10, 2011

Commodity currencies

The commodity currencies are the currencies of different countries that depend heavily on the export of the certain raw materials for the income. The currencies of the commodity include the currencies of different countries such as Australia, Europe, Japan and many other countries. The currencies of the countries which rely heavily on the export of the commodities are repeatedly referred as the term ‘Commodity Currencies’.

The very important factor which any forex trader should consider is the value of the commodity currencies typically fall and rise in tandem with value of country’s main commodity exports. Both of the value of the commodity and the country’s trade balance are very important factors in the valuation of the commodity currencies.

And the major usually traded commodity currencies are of New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. All these three currencies are referred as ‘dollar’ and these commodity currencies are repeatedly referred as ‘comdolls’ also. The other countries export the commodities too, the exports of these 3 countries makes a large proportion of their (GDP) annual gross domestic product.

The fluctuations in quantity or value exported of the commodities in these countries will have more important impact on the country’s currency. The positive correlation among the commodity currencies and their export commodities is important, although mostly in the long term. The short term points in the commodity prices typically mean little for correlated currency. Once a long term trend in the commodity prices becomes perceptible, the correlated currency pairs are typically followed. In addition it is better to follow forex tips.

The commodity prices are usually lead currency prices giving the forex traders a huge opportunity for profit. The detail of the commodity currencies is that the countries economy is based upon the export of definite raw materials. While making decision regarding closing or opening with the commodity currencies at forex trading brings to notice that the other factors influences on the country’s economy.

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