Forex online trading offers the enterprising individual the world from which to find trading opportunities. Forex is short for the currency exchange market. Compared to trading stocks, the player is limited to one country. Healthy market liquidity and leverage means the FX trader can make potentially generate huge returns by correctly predicting the direction of a specific currency. Currency exchange trading occurs 24 hours a day since each time zone have forex market dealers providing market quotes. To start forex futures trading, an account registered with a forex broker and a few hundred dollars is all that you initially need.