Popular Currency Nicknames in Forex Market

Popular Currency Nicknames in Forex Market

Apart from their official names, the major currencies carry special nicknames as well, which are widely spread among Forex traders. Do you want to know from where these nicknames come? So, let us reveal the origins.

USD – the US dollar. The USD received a nickname mainly because calling it simply “the Dollar” might have arisen some confusion. Let us recall that the currencies of such countries as Canada, Australia and New Zealand are also called the dollar. The nickname Dollar or Buck is popular among professional traders. But it was the term “Greenback” that has gained great popularity among Forex market commentators. This term has its history. I will now tell you, it’s very interesting. So, it was during the Civil War in America in the late 1800’s when then-president Abraham Lincoln printed U.S. Demand Notes to finance the war. He printed the front side of it black and the back side green. It was something new, since all currency notes had blank backs in that period. Now, I hope, you have understood how USD received the nickname “Greenback”.

EUR – the European Union’s Euro. The European Union or Eurozone is now using the EUR as its official currency. The circulation of the EUR started not long ago, in 1999, however it is gaining more and more popularity, yielding only to the USD. Fiber or Fibre stands as the nickname of the EUR. According to some sources, it has received that name because the EUR bills are made of cotton fiber.

  

GBP – Britain’s Pound Sterling. In Forex market the GBP is very often called just Pound, Sterling or Cable. The nickname “Cable” came about because formerly the USDGBP exchange rate was transmitted via the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, laid between London and New York.

CHF – Switzerland’s Swiss Franc: Swissie, the Chief. The Swissie is mainly spread among professional traders, whereas the retail Forex market prefers the name “the Chief”.

CAD –Canadian dollar. The pair USDCAD is frequently referred to as “the Funds”. This is because the currency pair trades for value one business day for funds, not two business days as in case of other currency pairs. The CAD carries the nickname “Loonie” as well. The loon is the national bird of Canada which is pictured on the one dollar Canadian coin.

AUD –Australian dollar: the Aussie: Aussie is named after a native of Australia.

NZD –New Zealand dollar: the Kiwi. Kiwi is a flightless bird, specific only to New Zealand. Thus it comes to be the national bird of the country and appears on the one New Zealand Dollar coin. Sometimes natives of New Zealand are also called Kiwis.

GeWorko Method - A Real Revolution in Financial World

Financial world already has an opportunity to enjoy an entirely new approach to financial markets research and analysis. The method is the result of a joint work of NetTradeX Corp., one of the leading trading software companies and of IFC Markets, a Forex brokerage company. The method carries the name personal composite instrument (PCI) GeWorko.

The method may sound to you as something complicated but in fact it is very simple. It will allow you creating portfolios from a range of financial assets, available on the platform NetTradeX and, most importantly, to determine the value of one portfolio relative to the other one. As a result you get a new financial asset – PCI GeWorko. Moreover, you can create both a simple structured PCI, when each portfolio consists of one asset, and a complex one with a variety of instruments.

For clarity let us see an example. You decide to trade a simple structured portfolio. So for the first portfolio you select Oil and for the second one SnP500. So now you have OILSnP500 and like in case of currency pairs the first asset stands for the base currency and the second one for the quoted one.

Likewise you can create a complex portfolio, in the first one including, for example OIL, SnP500, Gold and in the second one AUD, USD and Silver.

And take into consideration that the prices of assets are expressed in US dollars.

So, you see that the most attractive thing about portfolio trading is that you are completely free to use your imagination. There are no limits, you select as many assets as you wish, thus creating your own quotation - personal composite instrument (PCI) GeWorko.

Enjoy your Forex trading with IFC Markets!

Rupee, who are you !?

The History of the Rupee

The official currency of the Indian Republic is called the rupee (INR) and the coins are called the paise. One Indian rupee is made up of 100 paise. Paper money comes in allotments of Rs.5, Rs.10, Rs.20, Rs.50, Rs.100, Rs.500 and Rs.1000. Coins come in allotments of 10 paise, 20 paise, 25 paise, 50 paise, one rupee, two rupees and five rupees. 

So how old is the Indian rupee? The Indian rupee history goes back to the 15^th century when Sher Shah Suri (1486–1545), the founder of the Sur Empire in North India, introduced the first rupee. The word “rupee” derived from Sanskrit rūpya "shaped; stamped, impressed; coin" and also from the Sanskrit word "rupa" meaning silver.

The United Kingdom, whose colony was India, was trying by force to put into circulation the pound; however these attempts were not a success. In that period the rupee was spread in other colonies of the UK: Kenya, Qatar, Uganda, Bahrain, etc.. After the recognition of independence of India in 1947, the rupee became the official currency of the Indian republic.

On the front side of the banknote features a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Indian rupee has its special symbol. It is a blend of ‘Ra’ in Devanagri script and ‘R’ in Roman. It has two parallel lines crossing this ‘Ra’ or ‘R’ which shows that the symbol “is equal to” one Indian rupee. If you look more closely at the symbol, you can notice the robustness of the Indian economy.

Rupee in Forex Currently the Indian rupee is widely traded in Indian Forex market. The rate of the currency pair INR / USD is controlled and managed by the Reserve Bank of India, while other pairs INR / EUR and INR / JPY are volatile and are in a free-floating. At present IFC Markets does not provide INR as a trading instrument. But in the nearest future INR will be included in the list of currencies traded in IFC Markets.