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oussama94
05-28-2017, 00:13
The forex market is bi-directional, meaning
that you can trade both ways. You can buy or
sell depending on your strategy. ‘Long’ means
to buy, and you will go long when you are
looking for prices to appreciate, or rise. If you
are going ‘short’ you are selling because you
are looking for prices to fall. Going short is
just as common in currency trading as going
long. If you are ‘square’ or ‘flat’, it means that
your buy positions exactly of fset your sell
positions, or that you have no positions in the
market at all.