Decide what currency/instrument you want to buy and sell. Currencies are always quoted in pairs, such as GBP/USD or USD/JPY. The reason they are quoted in pairs is because in every Forex Market transaction, you are simultaneously buying one currency and selling another.
How to Read a Forex Quote? Forex example EUR/USD = 1.13158. In this example EUR is Base currency and USD is Quote currency. The first listed currency to the left of the slash (“/”) is known as the base currency, while the second one on the right is called the counter or quote currency.