01.21.08
Foreign Exchange Money Changing Made Fun
At party this weekend someone was telling me how they were making money by trading money in various foreign currencies. They said that they had foreseen the value of the dollar going down, so they bought a bunch of Euros and waited, and now have bought more dollars than they had used to buy the Euros. I of course asked how she got into this and she described a web site that made it fun with cool graphics.
Being the geek girl that I am I decided to check it out, and I was quite impressed with the graphics, or GUI that was available. You can find it at Etoro.com foreign currency trading .They have a cool part of the program that lets you play with virtual money to see how it works in the real world of “forex trading”.
Now if I could only use a crystal ball to know which currencies will be going and down over the next few months, I may have a chance to multiple these dollars using Euros or yen.
Some people will undoubtedly appreciate the available live chat. I think it is something that makes me feel more comfortable doing business somewhere, and shows that the web company in question is not just some random static html page. I wish all financial sites took more of a graphic approach like this.