Why Forex?

Nowadays Foreign Exchange Market (FOREX) is the most profitable sector for your investments.
Unlike other financial markets the Forex market has no physical location, like stock exchange, for example. It operates through the electronic network of banks, computer terminals or just by phone. The lack of physical exchange enables the Forex market to operate on a 24-hour basis, spanning from one zone to another across the major financial centers (Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, London, New York etc). In every financial center there are a lot of dealers, who buy and sell currencies 24 hours a day during the whole business week.
Here the most important reasons why Forex is so popular nowadays:
• Liquidity. Forex is the largest financial market in the world, with the equivalent of over 3-4 trillion changing hands daily when the volume on the stock markets is only 500 billions of dollars.
• Flexibility. Because of 24-hour trading participants of the foreign exchange market would not wait to react on some events, as this happens on other markets (for example: stock markets). On other markets you simply can be late if you have to wait till morning to show your reaction, as in the morning the event will be already in the price, greatly differ from the desired level.
• Lower transaction costs. Traditionally the Forex market has no commissions, except spread, the difference between ask and bid prices.
• Price stability. High liquidity helps ensure price stability, when unlimited contract size can be executed at a fair price. It helps to avoid the problem of instability, as it happens in the stock market and other exchange-traded markets because of the lower trade volume, where at one price only limited number of contracts can be executed.
• Margin. Margin size for trading on Forex is defined in the contract entered between a client and a bank or a brokerage company, which gives the opportunity to enter the market for the individuals and usually it is 1:100. So, the collateral of 1000 US dollars allows a trader to make