FOREX does not trade on a fix exchange rate

Foreign exchange market, or better known as FOREX, is the world's largest and most prolific financial exchange market originated on 1973. Bearing the status of largest and most prolific currency exchange market, FOREX is the center stage where a vast majority of the currency trading or FOREX trading takes place, with a total daily tuover of currency worth more than $1.2 trillion.For having such an enormous sum of total tuover everyday, FOREX can be considered as a liquid market ideal for Forex trading.

Unlike many other securities, FOREX does not trade on a fix exchange rate, instead, currencies are traded primarily between central banks, commercial banks, non-banking inteational corporation, hedge funds, private investors and not to forget, speculators. Previously, smaller investors are precluded from trading in FOREX due to the large amount of deposit required.

However, until the recent years, with the continuous growing of Inteet and the rise of competitions, smaller investors can now trade in FOREX as the requirement to trade in FOREX has been amended.Truthfully, there are a few factors why FOREX trading is starting to attract more and more medium and smaller sized investors. One of the main reasons is due to the fact that FOREX trading operates at 24 hours per day, 5 days per week.