In foreign exchange trading, there are two types of currency pairs: direct and indirect. In a direct currency pair, the Quote Currency is the first listed currency.For example, in the EUR/USD pair, EUR is the base currency and USD is the quote currency. In an indirect currency pair, the quote currency is the second listed currency. So in USD/JPY, USD is the base and JPY is the quote.The term "quote" can also refer to how much one unit of a given country's money is worth in another country's money.The home country's money is always equal to 1 unit (e.g., 1 U.S.$ = X Japanese Yen), but that number fluctuates based on economic conditions like inflation rates or interest rates set by each nation's central bank as well as other global market forces beyond any one government's control (e..g supply & demand).