What is Forex

The Forex stands for Foreign Exchange Market, is universally acknowledged as the largest financial market in the world, thanks to the value of transactions on it are made. In fact, every day on the Forex market are performed almost 2 trillion dollars of transactions.

The Forex market is very liquid for this reason, able to operate successfully, is always given the leverage.

It 'also a market operates 24 hours a day, except weekends. And 'possible to those transactions involving the major world currencies like the dollar, the euro, the pound and the Japanese yen, but you can also operate on major global stock indices such as Nasdaq, the FTSE 100 and the DAC 30, and the main raw materials, including gold and silver.

In order to Forex trading you need certain financial instruments that are in pspecifico Forward Transaction, ie an exchange of money against securities, futures, which are characterized by high standards of both trade amounts to deadlines, usually made every three months, the swap, or exchange of currencies and the Spot, which is a financial exchange whose duration is only two days.

Currently you can invest in the Forex also directly, through the various online trading software in internet. We must always keep in mind, however, that the risk of losing and there is real, although limited to their initial investment, while the profit that he can get is theoretically unlimited. Obviously, we must always be careful and if possible, upon the advice of a professional.