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The Forex market used to be the preserve of governments, banks, financial institutions and very rich people. That was not so long ago either. Fifteen years ago, perhaps, maybe even less. The advancement that changed all that is the Internet. These days, the Forex market is played by small companies and even ordinary people as well as the big players of former times. Continue reading →

Forex or Foreign Exchange Trading is the biggest market in the world. In fact, it is larger than all the world’s stock exchanges combined. It has another remarkable characteristic, there is no one single market place. The NYSE is in New York, the FTSE is in London, but the Forex is everywhere and nowhere. It exists only in electric wiring and the Internet. Continue reading →

Being in retail business means buying and selling something or other. This is also called trading and men and women have been trading, buying and selling for tens of thousands of years. However, there are other forms of business accessible to the average person now, especially since the spread of the Internet. Now, instead of trading items, you can trade intangible objects like shares or currencies. Continue reading →

When you start a new hobby or even profession, you are bound to come across terminology that you do not understand. The problem with not understanding the terminology of the industry, is that it hinders your development in your chosen field. Continue reading →

The foreign currency trading market, better known as the Forex, is by far the biggest market in the world. In excess of two trillion dollars are traded on it each and every day, whereas ‘only’ 50 billion dollars are traded on the world’s principal stock exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, every day. This actually makes Forex bigger than all the world’s stock exchanges together! Continue reading →

If you are searching for a money-making hobby similar to the stock market, then the Forex market could be what you are looking for. Forex is an acronym of ‘Foreign Exchange’ and is occasionally written as FX. The Forex market deals with all the currencies of the world and their correlation with each other. The Forex operates on a similar basis as the stock exchange. Continue reading →

If you want to become involved with foreign currency exchange or Forex you will need a Forex account. That is obvious enough, I think, because it is just too costly, the overheads are just too high, to just go into the bank and buy a few thousand dollars worth of whichever currency you think will rise in value. Continue reading →

Gambling on Forex is all about forecasting and the only tools you have to help you predict are news and charts, both being ways of representing historical data. Therefore, if you want to make money out of currency dealing, it follows that you will have to be able to understand these data correctly. The news can be manipulated by corrupt governments and corrupt officials, but historical charts can not. Therefore, the first task of any aspiring currency trader is to come to learn how to read a Forex chart. Continue reading →