Introduction in the currency market

Forex is the foreign exchange market, called the term Forex or FX for short the term Foreign Exchange Market, will benefit investors in the currency market from the change of exchange rates of foreign currencies, and by exchanging one currency for another and buy currency at a low price and sell at a high price.

Currency market is the financial market the world's largest, with a volume of 2.9 trillion U.S. dollars per day, that the volume of trading in which more than three times the volume of trading in the stock market and futures markets in the world, due to the existence of central banks and major banks investment and large financial institutions as well as senior investment portfolios, which led to the fact that the currency market's largest financial markets and the strongest and most stable.

The technological revolution and the advent of the Internet at the end of the last century have contributed greatly to the spread of the currency market, where all investors can now trade around the world through electronic trading platforms, regardless of geographic location.

Unlike other financial markets, not the currency market the headquarters of a specific geographical or central location are the trades, Vicef currency market that is central, where is the quality of the stock exchanges across the networks called the Over the Counter or OTC and operate via electronic networks and modern means of communication like the computer mail.

Given the decentralized nature of the exchange market operates 24 hours a day, five days a week, the market does not work on Saturday and Sunday weekly holiday world.