Remember George Soros; the one who had broken the British pound and brought the Bank of England to its knees in the early 90s. George Soros made cool $1 Billion profit in a matter of few days by betting on the fact that the British pound was overvalued and Bank of England could not sustain its price for long.
Acting on his hunch, he told his associate to purchase $10 Billion put and call options on British Pound and German Mark. It was a huge bet. He was in fact swaggering all the assets under his control on a single bet that may or may not pay off.
His knowledge of the currency markets was perfect. He was sure that his conviction that the Bank of England cannot sustain the overpriced British pound would come off right. Soon other currency speculators also joined. A huge selling pressure on British pound developed. Bank of England could not sustain the selling pressure too long and in a matter of 24 hours had to take British pound out of the European Monetary System and let it float freely.
British pound plummeted in the currency markets. George Soros had won his bet. He became famous as the man who broke the British pound with his pictures in all the famous newspapers and magazines.
Daily more than $3 trillion are transacted in the currency markets. You as a forex trader can profit from the volatility in the currency markets using a number of methods. Forex options is one of the methods
You as a retail forex trader can trade any one of these contracts: spot, futures and options. Two more contracts are traded in the currency markets primarily for hedging by large institutions like banks, corporations and hedge funds. These are forwards and swap contracts.
What are forex options? Options are derivative instruments that allow you to buy or sell an underlying asset at a price known as exercise price before or on a certain date called strike date. There is no obligation on you to actually buy/sell the currency like that in futures.
Currency is the underlying asset in forex options. You can purchase a forex options on payment of a certain premium. This is the price that you pay for getting the right but not the obligation to buy/sell a certain currency.
You may or may not exercise your right to buy/sell the currency. If the market price of the currency is above/below your strike price, you can buy/sell that currency by exercising your option.
In case, the market price is not above/below the strike price of your forex options contract, you can simply let the options contract expire. You only lose the premium that you had paid for purchasing the options.
There is a very good forex options strategy that lets you profit from the currency markets in whatever direction it is moving. You can profit regardless of the direction of the market.
This method is guaranteed to give you profits with an ROI of 30-50%. Try this method. It is risk free.
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