How to Minimize Risk with Forex Options

If you are in the business of currency trading then a really smart move will be to get forex options rather than buying the money today and hoping the value will go up. Because if you are not some amazing genius, who can accurately predict a currency’s value accurately, then crash and burn you will go.

Let’s say you are into Japan Yen (JPY) and United States Dollar (USD). The current rates tell us that 1 USD is equal to 97.4346 JPY.

You buy Japan Yen today hoping to sell it in the future. You are hoping that the JPY’s value increase in the future so that you profit in selling it. (the scenarios that follow are hypothetical just to show example)

First Scenario:

You spend 100 USD to get 9743.46 JPY. You wait year after year hoping that the JPY rate increase but it does not. It dips time after time and now 1 USD = 48.7173 JPY. You just lost 50% of your invested money.

Second Scenario:

Instead of buying the JPY today, you opt to get a forex option. You pay a premium of $10 to get the right to buy 9743.46 JPY for 100 USD in a span of 10 years. Again the value of JPY dips to 1 USD = 48.7173 JPY. Now instead of losing half of your investment, you have the option not to buy the Japan Yen. And all you lose is $10.

This is how forex options help minimize your losses especially if you are not sure on how the currency’s value would behave.

Timothy Stevens is a Forex Options Trader who owns http://www.NonDirectionTrading.com – He has helped hundreds of people on Trading Forex with Options

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