How to Use XE

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How to use XE


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Jason San Diego / 2011 2

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Getting Started

Current Exchange Rates

Historical Exchange Rates


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Scope

Use the site as reference. Does not covertrading


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XE?

A Forex website. You can check past andcurrent 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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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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There is another row called 'Inverse' underevery currency


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Doing the same USD-JPY intersection, it is readas...


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1 Japanese Yen (JPY) = 0.01215 USDollars (USD)


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Let's look at another way to check CurrentRates...


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The 'Universal Currency Converter'


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Click Tools > Universal Currency Converter

E t t f i i l t b


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Enter amount of original currency to beconverted


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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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'Quick Cross Rates' is for per-unit reference


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'Universal Currency Converter' is to convert achunck of money

The 'Personal Currency Assistant' is the


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The Personal Currency Assistant is thewindowed 'Univeral Curreny Calculator'


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Same input


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Same results


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This can be used for research puroposes


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One is through 'Current and Historical RateTables'

Go to Tools > Current and Historical Rate


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Go to Tools > Current and Historical RateTables

S l t i i l


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Select original currency

S l t hi t i l d t


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Select historical date

Sort by Country (Eg. Euro) or Currency


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Sort by Country (Eg. Euro) or CurrencyCode (Eg. EUR)

Ti k ti l tti


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Tick optional settings

Click 'Go'


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Click 'Go'

See values per Base Currency and vice


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p yversa


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Let's see USD JPY on March 5, 2010

Read two ways


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Read two ways...

1 USD = 90 32 JPY


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1 USD = 90.32... JPY

1 JPY = 0 011 USD


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1 JPY = 0.011... USD


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The other way to check is though 'CurrencyCharts'

Go to Tools > Currency Charts


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Go to Tools > Currency Charts

By default it's USD to EUR


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By default, it s USD to EUR


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To change the settings...

Select 'From' currency


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Select From currency

Select 'To' currency


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Select To currency

Select Time Period(1Y 1 )


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(1Y = 1 year)

Click 'Go'


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Click Go

Check out the chart below


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Check out the chart below


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How to read the chart

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


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'From' currency

This shows the time period


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If you hover your mouse on the chart...

You can find the value at a point in time


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At that point...

1 USD ~= 92 JPY


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...on June 3, 2010


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