Trading forex currencies is always done in margin accounts (at least for the retail trader). That means you are always leveraged, which can be both good and bad. The most popular accounts are traded in units of $10,000 or $100,000, and are leveraged at 1:100 or as much as 1:400. Leverage frankly is a two-edged [...]
Probably the most common (and liquid) way to short the US Dollar on the ForEx, or foreign exchange for currency trading, is to buy the EUR/USD currency pair. In essence, you are buying Euros with US Dollars. If you believe, like I do, that the economy is going to be in the tank for along [...]