Forex is also known as foreign currency trading or even just Foreign exchange. In a simpler way it means that a country’s currency is exchanged for another country’s currency. The most common foreign currencies that are traded in the forex are Japanese Yen, Euro, US Dollar, Swiss Franc and British Pound. But among these the US Dollar is the most popularly used currency in the world for almost all the third world countries in their commercial transactions. The above five currencies makes up North American trading of more than 70%. Foreign currency trading is greater than other stock markets and also has a greater liquidity since it has a volume of trading around 50 to 100 times more than the New York Exchange that undergoes the trading of stocks and this New York Stock Exchange has the highest trade volume when compared to other stock markets. The liquidity is mainly because of the nature of currencies and other factors like economical stability that control the currency’s value. Due to this high liquidity and high volatility in the forex market, the forex traders can make profits at least more than five times that a trader does in trading liquid shares in the stock market. There is a great volatility of 500 generated by the foreign currency trading whereas the liquid stocks generate only a volatility of only 60 to 100 and there are no transaction fees and other miscellaneous fees for doing currency trading with iforex.
The Currency Trading has gone up to $3.2 trillion every day in the present trend in the world and the technology advancement like internet also has been its key to development. The other reason is that it is recession resistant and has greater benefits than other financial investments such as stocks and bonds.