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How to use XE

Content

Getting Started

Current Exchange Rates

Historical Exchange Rates

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Scope

Use the site as reference. Does not cover


trading

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XE?
A Forex website. You can check past and
current rates.

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Getting Started

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Go to http://www.xe.com/

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Current Exchange Rates

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There are many ways to see the latest rates

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One is 'Quick Cross Rates'

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Home page has the 'Quick Cross Rates'

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Some currencies are shown there

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Now to read the information

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Let's say you want to know USD to JPY

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Simply cross-reference USD...

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… with JPY

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The intersection is what you need

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It is read as...

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1 US Dollar (USD) = 82.3100 Japanese Yen
(JPY)

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Now the other way around

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There is another row called 'Inverse' under
every currency

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Doing the same USD-JPY intersection, it is read
as...

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1 Japanese Yen (JPY) = 0.01215 US
Dollars (USD)

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Let's look at another way to check Current
Rates...

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The 'Universal Currency Converter'

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Click Tools > Universal Currency Converter

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Enter amount of original currency to be
converted

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Select currency of the amount

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Select the currency to be converted to

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Click 'Go'

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See results

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Read as: The 1000 USD is converted to
82,310 JPY

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'Quick Cross Rates' is for per-unit reference

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'Universal Currency Converter' is to convert a
chunck of money

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The 'Personal Currency Assistant' is the
windowed 'Univeral Curreny Calculator'

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Same input

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Same results

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Historical Exchange Rates

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Historical Exchange Rates

This can be used for research puroposes

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Historical Exchange Rates (cont)

There are two ways to look at Historical Data

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Historical Exchange Rates

One is through 'Current and Historical Rate


Tables'

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Go to Tools > Current and Historical Rate
Tables

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Select original currency

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Select historical date

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Sort by Country (Eg. Euro) or Currency
Code (Eg. EUR)

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Tick optional settings

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Click 'Go'

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See values per Base Currency and vice
versa

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Let's see USD <-> JPY on March 5, 2010

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Read two ways...

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1 USD = 90.32... JPY

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1 JPY = 0.011... USD

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The other way to check is though 'Currency
Charts'

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Go to Tools > Currency Charts

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By default, it's USD to EUR

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To change the settings...

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Select 'From' currency

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Select 'To' currency

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Select Time Period
(1Y = 1 year)

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Click 'Go'

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Check out the chart below

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How to read the chart

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This shows the value of 'To' currency per
'From' currency

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This shows the time period

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If you hover your mouse on the chart...

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You can find the value at a point in time

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At that point...

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1 USD ~= 92 JPY

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...on June 3, 2010

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End of Tutorial

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