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The Forex (foreign exchange) market is the largest and oldest financial market in the world. It is also called the foreign exchange market, or "FOREX" or "FX" market for short. It is the biggest and most liquid market in the world, and it is traded mainly through the 24 hour-a-day inter-bank currency market - the primary market for currencies. The forex market is a cash (or "spot") inter-bank market. By comparison, the currency futures market is only one per cent as big.

Foreign Exchange simply means the buying of one currency and selling another at the same time. In other words, the currency of one country is exchanged for those of another. The currencies of the world are on a floating exchange rate, and are always traded in pairs - Euro/Dollar, Dollar/Yen, etc. In excess of 85 percent of all daily transactions involve trading of the major currencies - Australian Dollar, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc, and the U.S. Dollar.

Unlike the futures and stock markets, trading of currencies(FOREX TRADING) is not centralized on an exchange. Forex literally follows the sun around the world. Trading moves from major banking centres of the U.S. to Australia and New Zealand, to the Far East, to Europe and finally back to the U.S.

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Day Trading - Go to Day Trading Education Home

The definition of day trading is as follows: Day Trader – by strict definition, the day trader buys stocks each day and sells all shares of those stocks before the close of each day. The day trader does not own any positions at the close of any day.

Swing Trading - Continue to Swing Trading Education Home

Swing Trader – studies stock prices and identifies cycles or swings in prices. A cycle could span multiple days, weeks or even months. But, a swing trader does not hold stocks for the long term.

Long-Term Investing - Stock Market Investing Education Home

Long Trader – creates a portfolio of stocks balancing personal financial goals with asset allocation strategies. Stocks are acquired and held in an account for at least one year. At the end of each year the portfolio performance is reviewed and changes are made to individual stocks within the portfolio.

Futures and Options Trading - Futures and Options Education Center

Options Trading - A very general definition of Options; An Option is a legal financial contract. An Option allows the holder the right, but not the obligation to acquire or to sell a predetermined number of stock or futures contracts, in a particular asset, at a fixed price, on or before a specified date, ending with the expiration date. Options can be traded on stocks, stock indices, treasury issues, currency and various other financial instruments.

Futures Trading - A standardized, transferable, exchange-traded contract that requires delivery of a commodity, bond, currency, or stock index, at a specified price, on a specified future date. Unlike options, futures convey an obligation to buy.

Forex Trading - Currency Trading Education Center

Forex, short for foreign exchange, is trading where the commodity is not stocks or shares, but currency. The return for the investor is not in the value of the currency per se, but rather the relative exchange value of one currency against another currency. The trick in the black art that is Forex trading is accurately forecasting the direction of the fluctuation between two currencies. Change is frequently rapid and influenced by world events and a multitude of other factors such as oil prices, interest rates and economic climates.