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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Power of the Forex Market To Make Money

By Frank M. Rivera

Trading on the forex market only became legal for individual investors in the 1990s, when that sort of trade was deregulated. Now, daily forex trades run to three trillion dollars or more, and it's something that lots of investors can get involved in. It's a popular investment conduit, and we're going to examine why.

Forex is popular because it's accessible, and, on the surface, easy to understand. Your trade is aggregated to your broker, and entered straight into the market, meaning that it's possible to be a very agile trader, playing on the market's daily volatility. There are trading programs that you can download that can handle the routine actions of buy and sell orders, and even alert you of possible trends.

Forex markets happen the world over, not in some fixed location; you're trading online (like the major brokerage houses do). An order gets put in and gets consolidated at the broker's desk with all of their other clients. From there, it goes on to the market, and that means you can run from the start of business on Monday in London to the close of business on Friday in Hong Kong, 24 hours a day, for almost six days a week including the time zone adjustments.

In addition to that, you get to control large sums of money without having to actually have that much money in your account. Some brokers allow you to use 500:1 leverage on your trades. This means that for every dollar of your money you're trading, you are actually trading 500 actual dollars in the markets. Using other people's money is how people can create massive wealth for themselves.

Forex trading can be lucrative, if you're willing to be wired in to be a constantly shifting day trader. You're playing the swings in volatility, and with leverage, even shifts of a thousandth of a unit of currency can create (or lose) large sums of money quickly. With forex trading, it's very unlikely that your investment will become utterly worthless - it's still currency at the end of the day.

Like any investment, there is an element of risk. Especially when playing with large amounts of leveraged capital, you run the risk of big losses. Be careful, start out slow, and used strict money management techniques while you figure out if this is a job you like.

Forex has a lot of strategies beyond day trading. One of the saner ones, for people who don't want to be glued to the Internet for 100 hours a week, is position trading. There are longer term trends in forex trading and this is a lot less stressful (and time intensive) than trying to run the volatile day by day swings.

Forex is a good way to get a high paying job you can do from home. Make no bones about it - it IS a job. One that you have to pay attention to to do well. It is NOT a system where a computer program will make you money while you sleep; if there were any kind of automated way to beat the market, with trillions of dollars at stake, there is no way that the big trading houses wouldn't be using it; anyone who did have such a secret would be using it to make hundreds of millions of dollars per year, not selling it on the internet for $99. - 23159

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