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Why does a currency fall or rise? Quick Economics Class with the USD/JPY

FX Market Strategist for TradersWay Wayne McDonell talks about the quantitive of money and the quantitate value of a currency. Purchasing power? Supply and demand? 

Quick economic class with Wayne McDonell taking the Japanese Yen as sample. 

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Wayne McDonell

Wayne McDonell

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Mr. McDonell is the Chief FX Market Strategist for TradersWay, a Forex ECN Brokerage firm that trades FX, Metals, Energies, Indicies and Binaries: all from the Metatrader platform.

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