Why Trade Forex?

Enormous volumes
It is about 4000000000000 $ per day. To this in perspective, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) trades around 28 billion U.S. dollars per day. The entire U.S. stock market trades over 191 billion U.S. dollars a day. The futures market trades over 437 billion U.S. dollars a day. None of these only approximately $ 1000000000000, occur much less several trillion dollars.


What advantage is that you?
More volume means better fills the orders (less slippage). Slippage is where you get on a market price or, click on a different price at the time of your order can be filled in full. The more volume at each price level, the better the filling. Therefore, the Forex market offers the least slip of a market. Note also that slippage is expected to cost a "real" trade.
On top of the filling better, the spreads are less and less means your costs are and you can be used to get to profitability in this market due know that typical spreads are 2-4 pips on the majors and 4-7 pips on many of the crosses.

No commissions
You have no commission in this market, because you do not go through a broker on the way to the market maker. You can directly with the market maker and therefore you have no broker commission. This is a huge savings and allows you to get to profitability sooner. For example, in stocks, you are twice (one free sale Commission and a sell signal Commission). Ouch!

24 hours a day Trading
Unlike stocks that can only 6 ½ hours a day trading, forex trading, you literally at any time 24 hours a day (Sunday evening to Friday evening). So instead of working to trade (such as people all over America with stocks), they can trade after work, when they concentrate really something. So it does not matter where in the world you are or what shift you work ... You can trade Forex. More opportunities means more hours of tradable tradable.

Many important announcements come from stocks if they were not even the trade (before or after the bell). In Forex, you can currencies at the time the news release, if you want to trade.

No restrictions on short selling
In stocks, they make it difficult to short. Why? You want to go shares and not down. You want a rising trend in corporate America to its growing stock prices aid. They have no incentive to help you just a terrible camp, or one with falling revenue.

However, in Forex, you can short just as easily as you can "go long" buy (). The fillings are just as fast. There is no need for a company to "lend to check stocks," as in shares. There is no "uptick rules do not". There are none that take care of nonsense.

Except in the currencies, you are always long one currency pair to go in and essentially short the other. They do not care which one you are long or short.