Forex, short for foreign exchange, is a worldwide market where traders are able to exchange one currency for another. For instance, an investor from the U.S. who has purchased the Japanese yen may be seeing the yen getting stronger as compared to the U.S. dollar. If the dollar happens to be stronger, there’s a lot of profit in it.

Forex trading depends on worldwide economic conditions more than the U.S. stock market, options and futures trading. Here are the things you must understand before you begin Forex trading: fiscal policy, monetary policy, interest rates, current account deficits, trade imbalances. If you don’t understand these things, you will surely meet with disaster when you begin trading.

Moving your stop loss points just before they are triggered, for example, will only end with you losing more than if you had just left it alone. Stay with your plan. This leads to success.