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Chapter 2:

Markets The Forex Taps Into

Synopsis

Being the type of market that has the highest trading volume at any given time encourages the further participation of the various different countries. The high volume and liquidity makes the  currency market a very attractive and viable platform for investment. The forex trading is also open to all such as traders, banking institutions, trading companies, financial and non financial institutions, companies and governments.

The Markets

One of the markets the forex often taps into is the tourists industry where the exchange of money is needed in order for the visiting tourists to make purchases and also cover all expenses during the stay at the foreign destination.

Therefore the exchange of currency would be processed via a currency broker and the said transaction would become part of the currency market. As this form of currency trading is not really suitable or viable for professional traders there are other forms of currency trading that are used for these types of transactions. And these would include currency futures markets and forex markets.

The forex markets exist for most of the major market currencies where the exchange of rates is between the two countries all of which is done in a twenty four circle, globally.

All of this is done directly as opposed to trading in contracts. Futures markets are currency futures provided by an exchange. This would mean that there is a centralized controlling system that keeps tabs on the pricing which is the same no matter where the trader is trading form globally.

In the past the forex has been used for negative reason of causing problems in other countries financials. This has brought quite a few economies to their lowest thus there are new legislations in place to prevent such conditions from reoccurring. There are also controls and “pegs” on currencies to curb such detrimental speculations.