An Introduction to Forex for Newbies
Forex Market
The Forex market is also called the Foreign Exchange Market. It is where international trade takes place.
Several countries across the globe in different time zones participate in trading through the Forex market utilizing different currencies, stocks and commodities. FOREX is actually open 24
hours a day, 5 days a week — thus, different countries can do transactions anytime and anywhere, even with time and day differences. It opens 7:00 am New Zealand time on Monday and closes 5pm New York time on Friday with days off on weekends.
Forex Market vs. Stock Market
If you compare the forex market to the stock market, the stock market usually operates eight hours a day only and requires a bell to ring before transactions can be started. It also requires one to be in a certain place in order to do transactions.
Even though the FOREX market is much flexible than the stock market, it still post many risks to traders especially those who are doing their transactions 24 hours every day. Having a 24 hour transaction does not allow one to monitor his investments every time thus comes the possibility of the holdings to plummet at night while sleeping (other countries are still trading at this time since they are in a different time zone).
In line with the scenario above, it is recommended for novices to have their first attempt in making money on the stock market or any nine-to-five domestic trading market for them to monitor their investment.
Forex Market Functionality
The Forex market has the same functionality as with the domestic stock exchange, but there is more volatility in terms of prices and commodities. In FOREX, one needs to contend with the value of the stocks and currency he owns, but also with foreign currencies and foreign values of goods and services (which are inconsistent and always fluctuating).
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