| When you turn on your favorite business channel, | | | | you many shares of a respectable company. $1,000 |
| which is probably CNBC or Bloomberg, you hear | | | | would buy you two shares of Google. $10,000 would |
| ranting and raving about stocks all day long. You hear | | | | only buy you 10 shares. With $10,000 in the Forex |
| that the DJIA went up or down 200 points and that | | | | markets, you can make some serious trades. |
| Warren Buffett is the smartest investor on the | | | | Additionally, when you trade Forex you don't pay |
| planet for the one millionth time. But what you don't | | | | commissions to an online broker. When you trade |
| hear about is how a large majority of traders don't | | | | stocks, you can expect to pay your favorite trading |
| have one penny invested in the stock market. They | | | | house for each trade you place. For making quick |
| have all there money invested in the Foreign | | | | trades, on a small number of shares, this can really |
| Exchange markets, also known as the Forex | | | | eat into your profits. Another reason that trading |
| markets. | | | | stocks for the average person is so horrible is |
| Why would people want invest in foreign exchange | | | | because all the big price movements happen during |
| currencies instead of stocks you may be asking | | | | the working day, Monday through Friday. If you have |
| yourself. Well, there are many very powerful reasons | | | | a normal job, this makes it very hard to take |
| why people enter Forex and stay far, far away from | | | | advantage of huge price swings. The Forex market is |
| stocks. The biggest reason of all is that you only | | | | open 24 hour a day, 7 days a week, because it |
| really need between $1,000 and $10,000 to start | | | | trades all around the world. You can make trades |
| trading Forex. That is it. If you want to trade stocks | | | | whenever you have the time. |
| you can start with that little, but it isn't going to buy | | | | |