How Currency Risk Can Turn Gains Into Dollar Losses
Summary
Hollow Point Trading shares a hypothetical example of how currency risk can erase a foreign investment gain. A holding rises from 100 to 110 euros, but when the euro falls from one dollar to 90 cents, its value drops to 99 dollars—showing why exchange rates matter to investors.
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A foreign investment can rise locally while losing dollars. In this hypothetical unhedged example, a holding worth one hundred euros rises ten percent to one hundred ten euros. Initially, one euro buys one dollar. Now suppose one euro buys ninety cents. The holding converts to ninety nine dollars, versus the original one hundred dollars. The dol...
