Benefits of Forex Trading & Market Participants

Some form of currency trading has been conducted for the past three hundred years or more. But with the growth of a vibrant over-the-counter (OTC) market, forex trading has become available to a much wider audience and is no longer reserved for wealthy individuals and large corporations. The growing number of active forex traders – combined with the inherent advantages of forex trading as discussed in this chapter – have helped propel the currency market to a multi-trillion-dollar-a-day operation serving the needs of a wide range of participants.