Forex

The foreign exchange market is one of the most popular markets for speculation, due to its enormous size, liquidity and tendency for currencies to move in strong trends. Presumably, these characteristics would enable traders to have tremendous success. However, success has been limited mainly for the reasons described below.
Forex Market is open 24 hours for Investment:
Unlike the stock market, forex trading market is open 24 hours a day during the 5 business days in a week. This is because the forex trading market is global. While the stock trading is done through the national stock exchange, forex traders deal globally by exchanging currency of country for another. The traders observe the price movements and enter into a trade when they feel the price point is right, and then they exchange the currency back to close the trade to earn profit.
By the time the forex market in United States close the Asian market is open. Thus it is the foreign exchange market is open somewhere in the world all the time, except on weekends and non-business days. One of the major advantages of forex investments is that you can do trading at just about any time of day or night, according to your convenience. You might also have to take the currency pair and the trading system into consideration while deciding your trading time. You might want to learn more about the best time to trade forex.