The simple answer is MONEY.
Because not buying anything physical, this kind of trading can be confusing.
Think of
buying a currency as buying a share in a particular country, kinda like buying
stocks of a company. The price of the currency is a direct reflection of what
the market thinks about the current and future health of the Japanese economy.
When you buy, say, the Japanese yen, you are basically buying a
"share" in the Japanese economy. You are betting that the Japanese economy
is doing well, and will even get better as time goes. Once you sell those
"shares" back to the market, hopefully, you will end up with a
profit.
In general, the exchange rate of a currency
versus other currencies is a reflection of the condition of that country's
economy, compared to other countries' economies.
Major Currencies
|
Symbol
|
Country
|
Currency
|
Nickname
|
|
USD
|
United States
|
Dollar
|
Buck
|
|
EUR
|
Euro zone members
|
Euro
|
Fiber
|
|
JPY
|
Japan
|
Yen
|
Yen
|
|
GBP
|
Great Britain
|
Pound
|
Cable
|
|
CHF
|
Switzerland
|
Franc
|
Swissy
|
|
CAD
|
Canada
|
Dollar
|
Loonie
|
|
AUD
|
Australia
|
Dollar
|
Aussie
|
|
NZD
|
New Zealand
|
Dollar
|
Kiwi
|
Currency symbols always have three letters, where the first two
letters identify the name of the country and the third letter identifies the
name of that country's currency.
Take NZD for instance. NZ stands for New Zealand, while D stands
for dollar. Easy enough, right?
The
currencies included in the chart above are called the "majors" because they are the most widely traded ones.
We'd also like to let you know that "buck" isn't the
only nickname for USD.
There's also: greenbacks, bones, benjis, benjamins, cheddar,
paper, loot, scrilla, cheese, bread, moolah, dead presidents, and cash money.
So, if you wanted to say, "I have to go to work now."
Instead, you could say, "Yo, I gotta bounce! Gotta make them
benjis son!"
Or if you wanted to say, "I have lots of money. Let's go to
the shopping mall in the evening."
Instead, why not say, ""Yo, I gots mad scrilla! Let's go
rock that mall later."
Did you also know that in Peru, a nickname for the U.S. dollar is
Coco, which is a pet name for George Washington
