This article discusses the opportunity now available to traders through electronic trading of the forex markets. The risks and opportunities presented by the market are presented.

The forex market is not only the largest financial market in the world, dwarfing the combined world equity, bond and treasuries markets, and the way in which banks balance their reserves and global businesses can exchange goods and services internationally. Forex offers speculation opportunities to hedge funds, individual investors and institutional traders.

There is a whole load of people trying to cash in off the "opportunity" of trading forex these days. Most of them are marketers, some of them are failed traders, but a minority are exceptional traders who would shock the banks themselves if the banks knew their results.