Exchange rate riskWhat is the FOREX?. • Accessibility to all individuals and corporative traders Trader’s purpose: get profit as the result of foreign currency purchase and sale Ex
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IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM
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Nguyễn Thị Huyền Trang
Hoàng Thị Minh Ngọc
Lê Thị Loan
Nguyễn Thị Thùy Linh
Đào Thị Thanh Xuân
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Analysis the risk by the foreign
exchange on FOREX
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2 Interest rate risk
3 Credit risk
4 Dictatorship risk/Country risk
4 Dictatorship risk/Country risk
Contents
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What is the FOREX?
International currency market
• A special kind of the world financial market
• Different from other sectors of the world financial system.
• Heightened sensibility to a large and continuously changing number of factors.
• Accessibility to all individuals and corporative traders
Trader’s purpose: get profit as the result of foreign currency purchase and sale
Exchange rate change under the action of demand and supply alteration
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What is it?
How it works?
Position limit
Loss limit
The risk involved based on the effect
if the continuous and usually
fluctuating shift in the worldwide
market supply and demand balance
on an outstanding foreign exchange position
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What is it?
How it works
Position limit
Loss limit
•Quite substantial
•Based on the market’s perception
of which way the currencies will move
at anytime &
anywhere in the world
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What is it?
How it works?
Position limits
Assessing
Establishing the maximum amount
of any currency at which a trader is allowed to carry,
at any single time
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What is it?
How it works?
Position limit
Loss limit
The loss limit is
a measure designed to avoid
unsustainable losses made by traders by
means of setting stop loss levels
It is imperative that you have stop loss orders
in place
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In fact, this change is also what we expect when investing in the Forex market
This is the biggest risk of all types of risks, but also bring huge profits for investors.
Any tools to limit this risk also limited potential profits.
1 Exchange rate risk
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Refers to the profit and loss generated by
fluctuations in the forward spreads , along with
forward amount mismatches and maturity gaps
among transactions in the foreign exchange book.
To minimize interest rate risk, one set limits on the total size of mismatches A common approach is to separate the mismatches, based on their maturity dates into up to six months and past six months.
2 Interest rate risk
Trang 11The central bank's interest rate changes
periodically to manage the economy and as such, the interest rate differential is also
changing rapidly
This change is rare and a large interest rate cuts never occur rapidly but slowly, step by step That is why traders should keep an eye on the interest rate change of currency
if they want to pursue a long-term investment strategy
2 Interest rate risk
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What is it?
Replacement risk
Settlement risk
Possibility that
an outstanding currency
position may not be repaid
as agreed, due
to a voluntary
or involuntary action by a
counter party
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What is it?
Replacement risk
Settlement risk
Occurs when counter-parties
of a failed bank
or Forex broker find they are at risk of not
receiving their funds from the failed bank
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What is it?
Replacement risk
Settlement risk
-Occurs because of the difference of time
zones on different continents
-Currencies may be traded at different prices at different times during the trading day
Australian and New Zealand Dollars are credited first, then the Japanese Yen, followed by the European currencies and ending with the
US Dollar
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Dictatorship (sovereign) risk refers
to a government's interference in the Forex marketplace
Although theoretically present in
all foreign exchange instruments - currency futures are, for all
practical purposes, exempt from
country risk, for the reason that
the major currency futures markets are located in the US.
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account for all types of risk and take the necessary
measures to account for
possible administrative
restrictions that may affect their market positions.