Unlike any other financial Market, investors can respond to currency fluctuations caused by economic, social and political events at the time they occur - real time- day or night.

The FOREX market is considered an Over The Counter (OTC) or 'interbank' market. This is because the transactions are conducted between two counterparts over the telephone or via an electronic network. Trading is not centralized on an exchange compared to stocks and futures markets. The foreign exchange market operates 24 hours per day throughout the week between individuals with forex brokers, brokers with banks, and banks with banks. If the European session is ended the Asian session or US session will start, so all world currencies can be continually in trade. Traders can react to news when it breaks, rather than waiting for the market to open, as is the case with most other markets. Though FOREX trading is done 24hrs the reference for FOREX trading is that it begins each day in Sydney, and moves around the globe as the business day begins in each financial center, first to Tokyo, London, and New York.