Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Forex Dealing Room | ForexGen
In appearance, the trading rooms of many major dealer institutions are similar in many respects.
All have rows of screens, computers, telephones, dedicated lines to customers and to brokers,
electronic dealing and brokering systems, news services, analytic and informational sources,
and other communications equipment.
ForexGen customer satisfaction is our major objective. To reach our business goals, we strive to put our client's goals in focus. We highly value our clients and always aim to exceed their expectations and cross the limitations encountered by the sophistication of the Forex trading industry.
The ForexGen's provided services are all restricted and regulated by the international banking and financial regulatory standards. All our provided activities are supported by creativeness and modernization. Ambitious & motivated employees are working simultaneously to protect the customer's confidentiality. ForexGen is continuously providing the market's most competitive conditions.
All have various traders specializing in individual currencies and cross-currencies, in spot,
forwards, swaps, and options; their specialists in offshore deposit markets and various bond
markets; and their marketing groups. There are funds managers and those responsible for
proprietary transactions using the dealer’s own funds. All have their affiliated “back offices”—
not necessarily located nearby—where separate staffs confirm transactions consummated by
the traders and execute the financial payments and receipts associated with clearance and
settlement. Increasingly, there are “mid-office” personnel, checking on the validity of valuations
used by the traders and other matters of risk management.
ForexGen complies with the trade commissions in the USA, EU and Australia. Being registered by the commercial authorities in 18+ countries, we adhere to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
The equipment and the technology are critical and expensive. For a bank with substantial trading activity, which can mean hundreds of individual traders and work stations to equip, a full renovation can cost many, many millions of dollars. And that equipment may not last long—with
technology advancing rapidly, the state of the art gallops ahead, and technology becomes obsolete in a very few years. But in a business so dependent on timing, there is a willingness to pay for something new that promises information that is distributed faster or presented more effectively, as well as for better communications, improved analytical capability, and more reliable systems with better back-up. These costs can represent a significant share of trading revenue.
Each of the market-making institutions uses its facilities in its own way. All will consider it
essential to have the most complete and most current information and the latest technology.But
profits will depend, not just on having it, but on how that information and technology are used.
Each institution will have its own business plan, strategy, approach, and objectives. Institutions
will differ in scale of operations, segments of the market on which they wish to concentrate, target customers, style, and tolerance for risk.
The basic objectives and policy with respect to foreign exchange trading are set by senior management. They must decide which services the foreign exchange trading function will provide and how it will provide those services—often as part of a worldwide operation—in light of the bank’s financial and human resources and its attitude toward risk. The senior management must determine, in short, the bank’s fundamental business strategy—which includes, among
other things, the emphasis to be placed on customer relationships and service vis-a-vis
the bank’s trading for its own account—and how that strategy will deal with changing market conditions and other factors.
The trading rooms are the trenches where the battle is joined, where each trader confronts the
market, customers, competitors,and other players, and where each institution plays out its
fundamental business strategy and sees it succeed or fail.A winning strategy and a sound battle plan are essential, and teamwork—with each trader being aware of the actions of others in the group and of developments in related markets—is of enormous importance to success.
Posted by Forex Return at 7:03 AM
Labels: Foreign exchange market, forex, forexgen, Hong Kong, Risk management, Trade, UNCITRAL, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, United States
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