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Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Advantages of Forex Trading

Foreign Exchange, Forex or FX is one of the world’s largest financial markets dealing in real-time exchange of currencies of different countries. This currency exchange market has a greater volume of buyers and sellers, than in any other financial market of the world.

With major trading centers at Sydney, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and New York, Forex is the only financial market, which is open 24 hours a day, 5.5 days a week, across the globe.

One of the most popular speculation markets, Forex is a market well known for its huge volume, superior liquidity, as well as the steady trading prospects. Also attractive is high levels of Leverage, one of the unique features offered by the Forex market.
Advantages of Forex trading

High leverage

Starting from a minimum of 100:1, Forex markets offer its traders with huge amounts of leverage which means that fat profits can be produced by investing small amounts of deposits.

No commission

If dealing with a financial market on daily basis, the regular investors or traders are the ones who are really benefited by the “free of commission” trading. The currency trading market lets its traders keep a whole 100% of their trading profits.

Superior liquidity

With most of the currency transactions comprising of 7 main currency pairs, the huge volume and the global trading aspect helps these currencies exhibit price stability, little slippage, narrow spreads and high levels of liquidity.

Profitability

Being an over the counter market, the trading done at Forex can be known as “over the counter” trading, wherein, a trader always buys one currency and sells of the other one in real time. There is no organizational prejudice in the market and every investor has the equal prospects for profit in it.

24 hours trading

Forex currency trading market offers its traders with a 24 hour trading opening, wherein, a Forex investor can trade ant any time of the day, whatever suits him/her, as the market is open for trading 24 hours a day, from Sunday 5:00 pm (ET) to Friday 4:30 pm.

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