What is the foreign exchange market?

Markets are places to trade goods, and the same goes for Forex. The Forex ‘goods’ are the currencies of various countries. The Forex market is a money market that never stops. It is the “market”, anywhere in the world, where any exchange of currencies is made. It operates 24 hours a day, on computers all over the world. Foreign exchange market conditions can change at any time because events that happen across the world affect the value of money.

The Forex market is the largest market in the world where trading between banks, organizations, investors and individuals happens. More than 2.5 trillion US dollars is traded every day. That comes to almost 29 million USD every second!