Currencies are the money of different countries and currency trading is the exchange of buying and selling of these currencies. Forex (FOReign EXchange) trading is one of the popular ways of trading in the currency markets. The actual exchange rate between the two markets is done through forex trading. The most popular forex market is the Euro to US dollar exchange rate that trades the value of one Euro in US dollars.Since forex markets are global markets, they trade round the clock. Forex markets differ from day trading markets in that forex markets are decentralized and are not provided by an exchange.
The trades are directly between two traders and there could be many different exchange rates for the same currencies depending upon the location of the traders and the brokers being used.The currencies are traded directly in a forex market and the minimum amount that can be traded is known as a lot, which is at least 25,000 dollars generally. This is a margin amount and the individual traders need not be anywhere near the lot size in trading their account since the forex broker would offer the lot size instead