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Greatest market share: Boasting with an approximately USS$ 1.5 trillion worth of transactions per day, foreign currency markets are the largest financial market worldwide. The significant market size is attributed to demand for foreign currency worldwide. Any person can contribute to currency markets by buying or selling International products directly from suppliers or vendors as well as International tourism. Central Banks gain mostly from international forex trade especially after the inception of floating gold prices instead of pegged gold prices. The affect of gold prices being extremely important on currency values. Online forex trading has been a great advantage for this market, making access easy and affordable.

Reasons for online trading: Online forex trading has many great advantages such starting trade with a couple of hundred US Dollars, trade twenty-four hours a day, seven day a week and no commissions payable to middlemen, making returns on capital more. Online forex trading companies generally offer high leverage ratio’s to clients as an added bonus. Special trade software provides real-time news, charts and analysis as well as demo accounts for you to try your hand at trading with no risk.

Cost efficient: Using online forex trading instead of normal brokered forex trading will save you bags of money as there is no middleman fees payable-you are your own broker. However online trading will attract costs in the form of opening, managing or administrating the account as well as software.

Experience necessary: If you are planning to play the online forex markets you will have to have some form of education or experience in the field as you are exposed to high risks and returns. Do a course in or buy books on foreign exchange transacting and make sure you familiarise yourself with the terms and procedures as well as the advantages and disadvantages of this market type. Be realistic and do not trade with money you don’t have.

Risks: Foreign currency trading is conducted over-the-counter, thus not on a formal exchange such as New York, Tokyo or Johannesburg Stock Exchanges therefore limited regulations and legislations are applicable making the chance of fraud, money laundering or plain theft greater. In general these transactions carry very high risk with the effect of gearing or leverage with very small movements in the market having a significant affect on your deposit either against you or to your advantage. Risk-reducing orders intended to eliminate high losses may not be effective at all, as some market conditions make order execution impossible.