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Mar 22, 2010, 4:46:32 AM3/22/10

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Foreign exchange currency trading is also known as Forex trading, or
FX, and has no single physical marketplace like the New York Stock
Exchange does on Wall Street in New York or the Tokyo Stock Exchange
does in Japan. The New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock
Exchange online traders are limited to making purchases during the
actual trading hours governed by New York Stock Exchange hours or the
Japanese Stock Exchange's Tokyo hours. In contrast online Forex
trading gives traders access to the online Forex trading community
through an electronic series of different online trading platforms.
Online Forex trading and online accessibility are nicely compatible
because the world's foreign currency exchange market is a 24-hour
market, and the internet makes online forex trading a 24 hour
possibility open to anyone with a computer, a telephone line and
money. Anyone, any corporation or any bank can log onto an online
account at any time, and trade foreign currency through online forex
trading.

Online forex trading is primarily the purchase of one currency from a
particular country, using the currency of a different country. This
exchange involves currency from two different countries at once. It
can mean purchasing Japanese currency with Australian currency or
purchasing German currency with Spanish currency. While that sounds
simple, in fact, approximately $1.9 trillion is traded on Forex daily,
making Forex online trading the biggest exchange worldwide. Although
anyone can participate in Forex online trading, the key players are
usually banks - commercial and investment - and exchange traded
futures and registered futures commission merchants.