Put simply, Forex Trading (Foreign Exchange Trading) is the practice of trading currencies from different currencies against each other. If, for example, Euro exchange rates were low and US Dollar exchange rates were high, a Forex trader might buy Euros whilst selling US Dollars at the same time, known as ‘going long’.
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