You'd be probably right. My understanding, which may be wrong, is some professional investors or traders trading or investing in international futures (index or else) or stocks would have to trade or invest into forex, either directly by themselves, or indirectly through others who are currency overlay professionals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_Overlay http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currencyoverlay.asp http://riskbooks.com/ForeignExchange/Currency-Overlay.php Would you like to share your forex investing experience? Most welcome! What's your annual returns on that, any drawdown data? PS:: the "last year" in my last post should be read "before last year".
Which market is better for real traders: Stock index, or Forex? "$55 million insider trading allegation" http://business.theage.com.au/business/55-million-insider-trading-allegation-20090529-bqbs.html Q It says he was told: "The market is expecting Merrill Lynch in New York to come out with a bad result on Thursday night. It's not going to be bad, it's going to be awful and this market is going to plummet on Friday and may fall leading up to the result, as it will start to leak out. I know you have other accounts with other brokers. Do yourself a favour: do not write any puts whatsoever this week. We've known a little bit about this before you got into trouble and the market is starting to wake up that the financial world is in for a lot of pain and trouble. We will close out your risky positions as quickly as possible." UQ