Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Forex Market: How Foreign Currency Exchange can Profit You

By Berke Tavinosh

The foreign currency exchange market is popularly known as the Forex market. In this market people trade on currency, buying and selling one countrys currency that will appreciate or depreciate against other world currencies.

The Forex market is used to trade currencies of various countries. The currencies of the world are put up against each other with the gamble that one will in fact do better than the other.

Although the New York Stock Exchange is one of the largest in the world, Forex is even larger with more than $1.5 trillion dollars traded each day. Note that this makes the Forex market 100 million times larger than NYSE. Forex has become the absolute mother of all trading markets, yet transactions to exchange currency for travelers or business account for only five percent of its business.

More than $1.5 trillion are traded every day in the Forex market. That's more than 100 million times that of the NYSE, one of the largest in our world. Forex is really the giant among all the speculation markets. Only 5% of trades are done to change any currency for business or travel.

There is no building where buyers and sellers meet for the Forex market. There are no brokers hanging around. The Forex market is a virtual market and all of the trading takes place over the phone or online.

The Forex trading day lasts for six days straight. It begins in Sydney, moves to Tokyo and on to Frankfurt, London and then New York before going back to Sydney. It closes in New York on Friday night. During the week, at any time of the day or night, someone is trading on the Forex market.

Due to the longer trading hours available to investors, they are able to accurately estimate on what is happening across the world in other markets. When another market reports any increase or drop, this represents the current state of the market. - 16089

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