Forex trading players


Who does Forex
As stated above, Forex was once the private domain of a very few. These included licensed national banks and national governments, and a very few other clearing houses. Today, however, Forex is open to anyone, pretty much, and is being exploited by lots of Websites all across the Internet.
Today, in this unregulated market, virtually anyone can be a market-maker, since a market-maker is any trading platform, including any Internet program which is capable of making trades between two clients.
Today, 95% or more of the $3,000,000,000.00 (yes, three trillion USD)/day traded in the Forex marketplace are speculative trades. These are trades made whose major goal is to accrue profit by "buying low" and "selling high."
Each transaction, or trade, in this market includes a buyer, a seller, and a market-maker. Of the three, only the market-maker is operating in a no-risk environment. The market-maker takes its profit from what is called "the spread," which is the difference between the buying price and the selling price. The other two participants are trying to make their profit by capitalizing on the "movement" of the specific currencies, (in relation to each other). To be completely honest, anyone can be a trader, and virtually all traders are at one time or another buyers and sellers. Market-makers, also can be virtually anyone, person or corporation with the programs in place to make the transactions happen, and the advertising to attract clientele.