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Advantages of Forex CFDs

The Forex market is one of the world’s largest financial markets and is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Trade Forex CFDs whenever it suits you.

Margin foreign exchange is a contract between two parties agreeing to exchange the difference in the value of a currency between the time at which the position is opened and the time at which it is closed.

The main advantage of foreign exchange (Forex) is that is open around the clock 24 hours a day 5 days a week, enabling traders to buy and sell from Sunday night to Friday night and access leverage in order to speculate from global currency flows and news events. Forex is also one of the largest and most liquid markets in the world making it the last of the true arenas where fair market competition and real price discovery exists.

Some of the advantages of Forex trading are listed below. Find out why Forex is fastest growing market in the world.

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24 Hour Market

The Forex market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Trading starts when major global financial centres around the world open. The market opens in New Zealand on Sunday evening and ends after the market closes in New York on Friday. The greatest liquidity occurs when multiple time zones overlap.

Liquidity

One of the main benefits of the Forex CFDs market is its superior liquidity. The foreign exchange market is one of the most liquid markets in the world, this is one of the main differentiating factors between the Forex market and other financial markets. The foreign exchange market turns over 5 trillion dollars each day and this high liquidity means that your assets can be quickly converted to cash without any price discount, making it easy to convert a large sum of money into a foreign currency with little impact on the price.

Accessibility

The amount required to trade Forex CFDs is generally lower than what would be required to trade other financial markets. In addition to this, multiple desktop and mobile trading platforms make it easy to access the Forex markets at any time.

Leverage

Forex can be traded on leverage. Leverage means a lower initial outlay is required to open a larger position. For example, if you have $1,000 in your trading account and use leverage of 1:30, you would be able to open a position with a value of $30,000 (30 times the amount in the your account). It is however important to note that although leverage gives traders the ability to open larger positions to maximise potential profits, the potential for loss is equally as large.