What is Currency Trading?

Currency trading is the largest market on the planet. It is estimated that in excess of US$2 trillion is traded every day. Compare this to the New York Stock Exchange’s daily transactions of approximately US$50 billion, and you can see that the magnitude of the currency trading market exceeds all other equity markets in the [...]

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Risk Warning

Risk Warning
Trading foreign currencies is a challenging and potentially profitable opportunity for educated and experienced investors. However, before deciding to participate in the Forex market, you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience and risk appetite. Most importantly, do not invest money you cannot afford to lose.

There is considerable exposure to risk in [...]

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Education

Foreign Currency Trading Basics- Education

Forex (Foreign Exchange) is the name given to “direct access” foreign currency trading. With an average daily volume of $1.4 trillion, online foreign currency trading is 30 times larger than all of the futures markets combined and for that reason, is the world’s most liquid market.

In the past, online foreign currency [...]

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The Basics

CURRENCY TRADING BASICS

CURRENCY PAIRS

All currencies are assigned an International Standards Organization (ISO) code abbreviation. In currency trading, these codes are often used to express which specific currencies make up a currency pair. For example, USD/JPY refers to two currencies: the US Dollar and the Japanese Yen.

EXCHANGE RATE

An exchange rate is simply the [...]

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