What is Online Forex Trading

What is Forex Trading?

Online Forex Trading

Foreign exchange currency trading is also known as Forex trading, or FX, and has no single physical marketplace like the New York Stock Exchange does on Wall Street in New York or the Tokyo Stock Exchange does in Japan. The New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange online traders are limited to making purchases during the actual trading hours governed by New York Stock Exchange hours or the Japanese Stock Exchange's Tokyo hours. Incontrast online Forex trading gives traders access to the online Forex trading community through an electronic series of different online trading platforms. Online Forex trading and online accessibility are nicely compatible because the world's foreign currency exchange market is a 24-hour market, and the internet makes online forex trading a 24 hour possibility open to anyone with a computer, a telephone line and money. Anyone, any corporation or any bank can log onto an online account at any time, and trade foreign currency through online forex trading.

Online forex trading is primarily the purchase of one currency from a particular country, using the currency of a different country. This exchange involves currency from two different countries at once. It can mean purchasing Japanese currency with Australian currency or purchasing German currency with Spanish currency. While that sounds simple, in fact, approximately $1.9 trillion is traded on Forex daily, making Forex online trading the biggest exchange worldwide. Although anyone can participate in Forex online trading, the key players are usually banks ? commercial and investment ? and exchange traded futures and registered futures commission merchants.

How to trade currency online (Forex)
Step1
Search online for "currency trade" or "forex". There are many agents all over the world. You don't need to be US to trade "money". But, there are several US companies provide service over sea. For example, "Forex.com", "FCXM.com" and "e-trade". You will find more than this list.

Step2
Sing up for practice account. Most company provide free practice account with real time market. It is good opportunity for people to know this trading and to see are they fitting to this kind of trading.

Step3
Also read all the learning information on the web site. You must read through the learning material. Most of them you may know if you familiar with stock trading or some other online trading. But you still need to read. Currency trading is much high risk than other trading.

Step4
After you have basic knowledge and try with your practice account. You than make the decision to start trading on real market or just go away.