Who are the participants in today’s Forex market? In general, there are two main groups in the Forex marketplace: hedgers and speculators.

Some investment management firms have more speculative specialist currency overlay operations, which manage clients' currency exposures with the aim of generating profits as well as limiting risk. Whilst the number of this type of specialist firms is quite small, many have a large value of assets under management (AUM), and hence can generate large trades.

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