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For more information on why so many people are now trading the forex markets, please read this article:

http://www.forex.com/pdf/pro2.pdf

The Forex Exchange market, also refferred to as the "Forex" or "FX" market in the world, with a daily average turnover of well over US $ 1 trillion -- 30 times larger than the combined volume of all U.S. equity markets. "Foreign Exchange" is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. Currencies are traded in pairs, for example: Euro/US Dollar (EUR/USD) or US Dollar/Japenese Yen (USD/JPY).

There are two reasons to buy and sell currencies. About 5% of daily turnover is from companies and governments that buy or sell products and services in a foreign country or must convert profits made in foreign currencies into their domestic currency. The other 95% is trading for profit, or specualtion.

For speculators, the best trading opportunities are with the most commonly traded (and therefore most liquid) currencies, called "the Majors." Today, more than 85% of all daily transactions involve trading of the Majors, which include the US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Euro, British Pound, Swiss Franc, Canadian Dollar and Australian Dollar.

A true 24-hour market, Forex trading begins each day in Sydney, and moves around the globe as the business day begins in each financial center, first to Tokyo, London, and New York. Unlike any other financial market, investors can respond to currency fluctuations caused by economic, social and political events at the time they occur - day or night.

The FX market is considered an Over the Counter (OTC) or "interbank" market, due to the fact that transactions are conducted between two counterparts over the telephone or via an electronic network. Trading is not centralized on an exchange, as with the stock and futures markets.

For more background about the Foreign Exchange market, review the Federal Reserve Banks' "All About the Foreign Exchange Markets in the United States"

http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/foreignex.html