218386 Resource 119235 120646 120646 1227016333958 1227016364265 Controlled Forex Trading Terms: Spot Trade Understanding what it means to be on the spot market <font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Often, currency trading in real time is referred to as a &quot;spot trade.&quot; When learning forex trading, it can help to understand what such terms mean.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Spot trade</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Basically, a spot trade is a currency trade (it can also apply to commodities) that takes place &quot;on the spot,&quot; or immediately. It means that the currency is &quot;delivered&quot; now, as opposed to some point in the future (known as a currency future).</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It is also worth noting that futures contracts that expire within a month are consider spot, even though, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">technically</span><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, the delivery takes place in the future.</span></font><br /> 9 application/xml false commodities currency trade currency trading forex terms forex trading futures spot market spot trade Make a Spot Trade Learn forex trading and terms http://www.gftforex.com/land/index.asp?aid=446 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tipd.com/evbs.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> evb_url = 'http://forex.gftforex.com/public/item/218386'; evb_big(evb_url); </script> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.71.19 false true false false true 119235 blog blogsite/GFTForex/web