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History of
forex:
The origin of FOREX trading traces
its history to centuries ago. Different currencies and the need to
exchange them had existed since the Babylonians. They are credited with
the first use of paper notes and receipts. Speculation hardly ever
happened, and certainly the enormous speculative activity in the market
today would have been frowned upon.
In those days, the value of goods were expressed in
terms of other goods(also called as the Barter System). The obvious
limitations of such a system encouraged establishing more generally
accepted mediums of exchange. It was important that a common base of
value could be established. In some economies, items such as teeth,
feathers even stones served this purpose, but soon various metals, in
particular gold and silver, established themselves as an accepted means
of payment as well as a reliable storage of value. Trade was carried
among people of Africa, Asia etc through this system.
Coins were initially minted from the preferred metal and
in stable political regimes, the introduction of a paper form of
governmental I.O.U. during the Middle Ages also gained acceptance. This
type of I.O.U. was introduced more successfully through force than
through persuasion and is now the basis of today’s modern currencies.
Before the First World war, most Central banks supported
their currencies with convertibility to gold. However, the gold exchange
standard had its weaknesses of boom-bust patterns. As an economy
strengthened, it would import a great deal from out of the country until
it ran down its gold reserves required to support its money; as a
result, the money supply would diminish, interest rates escalate and
economic activity slowed to the point of recession. Ultimately, prices
of commodities had hit bottom, appearing attractive to other nations,
who would sprint into buying fury that injected the economy with gold
until it increased its money supply, drive down interest rates and
restore wealth into the economy.. However, for this type of gold
exchange, there was not necessarily a Centrals bank need for full
coverage of the government's currency reserves. This did not occur very
often, however when a group mindset fostered this disastrous notion of
converting back to gold in mass, panic resulted in so-called "Run on
banks " The combination of a greater supply of paper money without the
gold to cover led to devastating inflation and resulting political
instability. The Great Depression and the removal of the gold standard
in 1931 created a serious lull in FOREX market activity. From 1931 until
1973, the FOREX market went through a series of changes. These changes
greatly affected the global economies at the time and speculation in the
FOREX markets during these times was little.
In order to protect local national interests, increased
foreign exchange controls were introduced to prevent market forces from
punishing monetary irresponsibility.
Near the end of World War II, the Bretton Woods
agreement was reached on the initiative of the USA in July 1944. The
conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire rejected John Maynard
Keynes suggestion for a new world reserve currency in favor of a system
built on the US Dollar. International institutions such as the IMF, The
World Bank and GATT were created in the same period as the emerging
victors of WWII searched for a way to avoid the destabilizing monetary
crises leading to the war. The Bretton Woods agreement resulted in a
system of fixed exchange rates that reinstated The Gold Standard partly,
fixing the USD at $35.00 per ounce of Gold and fixing the other main
currencies to the dollar, initially intended to be on a permanent basis.
The Bretton Woods system came under increasing pressure
as national economies moved in different directions during the 1960’s. A
number of realignments held the system alive for a long time but
eventually Bretton Woods collapsed in the early 1970’s following
president Nixon's suspension of the gold convertibility in August 1971.
The dollar was not any longer suited as the sole international currency
at a time when it was under severe pressure from increasing US budget
and trade deficits.
The last few decades have seen foreign exchange trading
develop into the world’s largest global market. Restrictions on capital
flows have been removed in most countries, leaving the market forces
free to adjust foreign exchange rates according to their perceived
values.
The European Economic Community introduced a new system
of fixed exchange rates in 1979, the European Monetary System. The quest
continued in Europe for currency stability with the 1991 signing of The
Maastricht treaty. This was to not only fix exchange rates but also
actually replace many of them with the Euro in 2002. London was, and
remains the principal offshore market. In the 1980s, it became the key
center in the Eurodollar market when British banks began lending dollars
as an alternative to pounds in order to maintain their leading position
in global finance.