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2012-07-24T00:46:44Z

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What's Forex? A Quick Guide Into the World of Currencies

Why don't we get started! What is Forex?

Forex is an acronym for Foreign currency. The foreign currency is really a currency market where currencies are traded. It represents the largest financial market on the planet with daily trading volume exceeding $4 trillion. Simply to compare, other real estate markets such as equities at $50 billion daily trading volume, and also the futures market at $30 billion in daily volume you can start to realize how big the animal and most importantly the infinite trading opportunities that lie before you!

The foreign exchange market is a 24 hour market running from Monday morning in Tokyo to Friday evening in New York - non-stop action across the globe! This differs vastly from the other real estate markets (like stock markets and commodities exchanges) which open at the beginning of and close after their trading day. They are directly tied to time zone they are by which makes them more difficult to trade. So for instance, for someone residing in Australia, when they wanted to trade the united states stock exchange they would need to be up all night to do so due to the time difference. You'll have no such problems in Forex! You can trade anytime, at your convenience. Obviously, the very best times to trade are once the biggest financial markets are open - that's the US and European markets - as the biggest players are to play and liquidity reaches its highest.

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Players which come into the forex market vary significantly, its probably the only marketplace where you can find traders with $500 accounts trading against big players (and winning!) for example hedge funds, large banks, corporations and governments!

So I get what Forex is, but explain Forex Trading!

Essentially, Forex Trading means exchanging once currency with another, for any period of time, for a profit. In this business (yes it is a business) you're basically speculating that, for a number of reasons, you anticipate that the currency goes down or up in relation to another currency and you're prepared to bet some your capital to learn from that idea. For instance, you may expect the Euro to go up from the US Dollar, so you buy Euro's then sell $ $ $ $. When the Euro actually goes up, marketing the Euro's, buy US Dollars and take your profit.

Fundamental economic news and political situations play an important role within the fluctuation in worth of a currency for just about any given country. I'll be going into a lot more detail relating to this within the Fundamental vs Technical trading article which you will be posting within this series!

CassaundraGrizzle836

2012-07-24T00:46:38Z