Forex currency market

Forex is the foreign exchange market, and it is called the term Forex or FX acronym for the term Foreign Exchange Market, and benefit investors in the currency market Forex from the change in foreign exchange rates, and that by swapping one currency for another and buy a currency at a low price and sell at a high price.
The currency market Forex financial market the largest in the world, where the volume of trading in the currency market Forex to 2.9 trillion U.S. dollars a day, which means that trading volume in the currency market Forex more than three times the volume of trading in the stock market and futures markets in the world, due to the presence of major central banks, investment banks and large financial institutions as well as senior investment portfolios, which led to the fact that the Forex currency market the largest financial markets and the strongest and most stable.
The technological revolution and the advent of the Internet at the end of the last century has contributed significantly to the spread of the Forex currency market, where all investors can now trading around the world through electronic trading platforms, regardless of geographic location.
Unlike other financial markets, it is not the currency market Forex headquarters of a specific geographical or central place is the trading operations, Vicef currency market Forex that is central, where is the quality of the exchanges exchanges across networks called the Over the Counter or OTC and operate via electronic networks and means of communication modern computers
Because of the decentralized nature of the Forex currency market works 24 hours a day, five days a week, and does not work the Forex currency market on Saturday and Sunday as weekly holiday universal.