Invest in forex

Investing in foreign exchange can be started with the less amount of capital. Everyone can open an account with $100 at several corporations, which offer forex trading.

The Foreign Exchange Market is the biggest market around the globe, the daily transactions are aound $3 trillion. This market is very liquid, it does not have any geographical difficulty, because electronic trading is offered everywhere in the world. It is opened 24 hours a day, it is closed only at weekends.

Trading with currencies is not really attractive regarding to the estimated profit, when the investor does not buy on margin. Buying on margin means that the investor can trade with more money as he has got, but he must have a minimum amount of cash at his account. For example, at several corporations the margin is as low as 1% (or sometimes 0,5%), which means that the investor can trade with 100 (or 200) times more money as he has got.

The most traded currency pairs are EUR/USD (1), GBP/USD (2) and USD/JPY (3). The following charts show the changing of these currency pairs from 1999 to 2007.

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