Intro to Forex

The Foreign Exchange market (also referred to as the Forex or FX market) is the largest financial market in the world, with over $1.5 trillion changing hands every day. This section covers the basic essentials of understanding forex and should help you decide if forex is right for you.

What is Forex?
Learn what forex is and how you already play a role in the foreign exchange market.

Trading Forex
Using fundamental and technical analyses, the individual trader attempts to determine trends in the price movements of currencies, and by buying or selling currency pairs, attempts to gain profits.

Fundamental Analysis
Fundamental analysis involves analyzing the value of a nation's currency based upon macroeconomic indicators, asset markets and political affairs. Based on this analysis a Forex trader tries to predict market changes.

Technical Analysis
Technical analysis involves studying patterns of price movement on the chart in order to predict the direction of current and future trends in the Forex market.

Forex vs. Stocks
Forex differs from stocks in many ways. Learn about the advantages people find in trading forex.

Forex vs. Futures
Higher leverage and lower margin are just are a few of the difference between trading forex and futures.