What makes the FOREX market different from the stock market?
A forex trade can take place worldwide and it involves as least two different currencies. The two countries are one, with the investor, and two, the country the money is being invested in. Transactions in the FOREX market usually take place through a broker such as bank or an currency investor.

What really makes up FOREX capital markets?
The foreign exchange market is made up of a variety of transactions and counties. Those involved in the FOREX market are trading in large volumes, large amounts of money. Those who are involved in the FOREX market are generally involved in cash businesses, or in the trade of very liquid assets that you can sell and buy fast. The FOREX market is extremely large. You could consider the FOREX market to be much larger than the stock market in any one country overall. Sometimes trading is completed on weekends, but not all the time because the FOREX market trades 24 hours a day as it is.

You might be surprised at the number of people that are involved in FOREX trading. The average daily trading volume in 2004 was almost two Trillion dollars. This is a huge number for the number of daily transactions to take place. To get a scope on the amount of money trading hands each day, think of how much a trillion dollars is and then multiply times two!

The FOREX market has been around for over thirty years so it is nothing new. With the introduction of computers, and then the Internet, the trading on the FOREX market continues to grow as more and more people and businesses alike become aware of the availability of this trading market. FOREX only accounts for about ten percent of the total trading from country to country, but as the popularity in this market continues to grow so could that number.