Pips Explained
May 30th 2010 Posted at Forex
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FOREX trading pips are a vital part of forex trading that any trader have to grasp. They are the measure of changes in price, and so of profit and loss. However , when comparing two trades with different position sizes it is the profit or loss in pips that tells you more than the profit in bucks. PIP means percentage in point. It is used as a measure of change in price . The pip is the littlest part of the measured cost of a quoted currency. 1.2315. In this situation one pip is 0.0001 units of the quote currency. So if that price changes to 1.2316, the price has increased by one pip. The japanese yen is the only one of the major currencies that’s low enough in value to be usually quoted to 2 decimal places. So when the yen is the quote currency, one pip is 0.01 yen.