Forex market trading is not housed in a building like the NYSE on Wallstreet. And you don’t have the pesky foreign exchange brokers snapping at your back to make a deal like stock brokers.

6 Days for the Foreign Exchange Trader

That is right the Forex trading spans six continuous days. It opens in Sydney, then it moves to Tokyo then on to Frankfurt, London and then New York before going back to Sydney. The foreign exchange trading week closes in New York on Friday night. Forex trading hours spans day or night, someone is always trading currencies on the foreign exchange market during the week.

Spot Currency Trading Ups and Downs

And with the longer trading days available to investors, it makes it possible to accurately estimate on what is happening across the world in other foreign exchange markets. When market reports any increase or drop, this provides an indicator of the current state of the forex currency markets.

Part 1 What is the Forex Exchange Market?