What is Forex Currency Trading?

Forex, FX or Foreign Exchange trading is the foreign currency trading to make some profit. Forex currency traders purchases one currency and sell another simultaneously. The profit and loss comes from the raise and fall in exchange rate of purchased currency with sold one respectively. The daily trading volume of forex currency market is approximately daily 3 trillion dollars and is the biggest trading market in the market so far.

Forex currency trading is practiced over-the-counter, OTC; i.e., there is no centralized market for currency trading. Trades can be done around the clock because of the global nature of the market. Also the traders can buy and sell currencies online from any part of the world by sitting in home. The major players of the forex currency market are banks which constitute up to 80 percent of the trades in forex market. The online forex currency trading on advanced forex trading platforms popularized forex currency trading among individual traders.

Forex currency trades are done as pairs like CAD/USD and EUR/JPY. The trader buys one currency by selling the other one. Although there are numerous currency pairs available for trading five major currencies constitute around 85% of forex market. These currencies are US Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound and Swiss Franc.

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