Earn money by buying and selling USdollars?

India
September 28, 2011 8:38am CST
I have got this on my mind for alot of time that if i can buy a USD converted to indian rupees when its low like 1USD= 42 rupees and then sell it for much increased rate like 1USD = 49 rupees which gives a profit of 7 rupees a dollar. What you think of this way of earning, and first thing is i dont know where exactly i can buy and sell this money,please help me out......
5 responses
@Vrilya (128)
28 Sep 11
you can in theory make money this way but you should ask yourself if you really want to be holding fiat money when the world's central bankers keep printing more and more of it, making it worth less and less.Perhaps if you are determined to carry out this business plan, you could buy the dollars from tourists or at a hotel.If you buy them through bureaux de change, they will take a percentage commision from every transaction that you do with them, greatly reducing any profit you can make from this. They also won't give the same up to date exchange rates that are quoted on the international markets.Why are you not trading physical gold and silver? I have heard that the Indian market for these commodities is huge.........
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• India
28 Sep 11
hmmmmm ....i dun have any ideo on gold and silver will get some information on that too...
@Vrilya (128)
28 Sep 11
There are lots of videos on you tube about how to trade junk/scrap gold.Seems to be good sideline to earn a little extra money, if you put some work in, though you have to be careful not to get ripped off, so there is some stuff to learn..
@Olleenz (3398)
• Indonesia
28 Sep 11
I call this Forex trading. Look easy (in term buy cheap, sell high) but in fact is really difficult. You must calculate several factors before you decide buy or sell currency. You need to learn a lot before you involve in this business.
• India
28 Sep 11
Yeah i know but there is an online forex trading site... i forgot its name but all i know is it requires 1000$ investment to start trading...so i had to quit that site...
@Olleenz (3398)
• Indonesia
28 Sep 11
There some sites only require $100 - $500 deposit. But if I were you, I gonna looking for free sites. It useful for practice since you beginner in this risky business. Even I already play this business for 8 years, I still lost sometimes. Be careful, knowledge and practice is everything when you try money like this.
@GemmaR (8517)
28 Sep 11
I have done something like this in my home town a little while back, and I was able to actually make a fair amount from it. We have three foreign exchange shops in my home town, and on one particular day there was a different exchange rate between dollars and pounds, so I changed the £100 I had on me into dollars in one shop and then walked to the other and exchanged it back into pounds but obviously got a bit more; and then kept going backwards and forwards for two hours until the rate at the other shop caught up. I ended up doubling my money, and I was very proud of myself because of that.
@ekoytyas (4679)
• Indonesia
29 Sep 11
i think you can try to get much money here first, you can collect as many usd as you can, then you can sell it with rupee.
@rafiholmes (2896)
• Malaysia
1 Oct 11
well..when u see it at rupee 42..then buy it! so just keep it till you wanna sell at a higher price..it won really do much ..unless u purchase a large amount of dollars.. say maybe 500 dollars,,