Stocks have always been popular with investors. Stock markets have been the most popular form of investment among the people. But experts have started saying that the days of buy and hold investment style are over. 21st century belongs to market timing!
However, with the advent of computer and the internet, the investment landscape has changed a lot. Internet revolution has made possible online trading. Now any small investor can trade different markets from the comfort of their home. You can open an account with Ameritrade, Scottrade, eTrade, Think or Swim and so on and trade stocks in US Markets from anywhere in the world. Similarly, GLOBEX platform allows you to trade different stock index futures contracts.
Retail forex industry has experienced an explosion in the last decade. Opening of the forex market to retail investors is being called a revolution. For decades, this market was closely guarded by the big boys like the big banks, corporations, hedge funds and institutional investors. Many people turned towards the retail forex when the stock market crashed in 2008. Forex trading is being dubbed the answer to the present recession. Unlike the stock market, currency ,markets are neither bullish nor bearish. If one currency in the pair goes up, the other has to go down. This is the way this market functions. There is never a recession in the currency market.
Retail forex trading has opened many new exciting possibilities for ordinary investors. Forex brokers or what you call FCMs allow high level of leverage to retail traders in order to entice them to start trading. Leverage as high as 1:400 is allowed by some forex brokers. This high level of leverage is unimaginable in other markets. On a standard account using a leverage of 1:100 means that with a deposit of $1,000 you can trade $100,000. Leverage is dangerous. Many people learn it the hard way by first getting their fingers burnt. Use leverage but only when you have the experience. For a new trader even a leverage level of 1:5 is too high. Forex trading is exciting only if you know how to do it otherwise you will soon lose your money.
Forex markets are huge. Daily more than $3.2 trillion get transacted in the global forex markets. Forex market is open 24/5 meaning there is continous 24 hour round the clock action in forex. This is unlike stocks where you can trade stocks only during the trading hours in the stock exchange. This makes forex trading more exciting as compared to stock trading as you can choose your own time that suits you best to trade. Forex trading is expected to make many millionaires in the coming decade.
Similarly, the commodities markets is expected to experience a decades long boom in the first part of the 21st century. Remember the first half of 2008, when the crude oil prices had jumped from around $60 to almost $150 before it fell back. Many hedge funds made a huge fortune by trading crude oil futures during this time.Now, gold prices are touching their historical highs. This is the time to trade gold futures.
The essence of what I am saying is 21st century belongs to those traders and investors who know how to trade different markets as the opportunity shifts from one market to another. You need to become a Universal Market Trader if you want to become a millionaire in the new decade!
Author Resource:-
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