Forex, FX, or 4X are acronyms for the Foreign Exchange market, the largest financial market in the world. Trading Forex allows you to trade one currency against another and actually make money on the fluctuation of exchange rates between currencies.

Forex, FX, and 4X are acronyms for the Foreign Exchange Market, which is the biggest financial market in the world. Trading Forex allows you to trade one currency against another and actually make money on the fluctuation of exchange rates between the the currencies.

The Largest Financial Market In The World

Did you know the Foreign Exchange Market is by far the largest financial market in the world? Take a look at the illustration below which shows how vast this market is compared to the US equity markets.

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As you can see the Forex market has an average daily volume of $1.5 trillion per day, making it 150 times larger than the New York Stock Exchange!

The Forex market differs from other financial markets in that it has no central location or exchange. It is instead a global electronic network of banks and traders that trade one currency for another in every major financial center in the world. The result is a 24/hour a day market!

The Forex Market is the Newest Market in the World

If you are familiar with the Forex Market, you're likely to have heard of the huge profit potential it holds. If you haven't even heard of Forex, this is probably due in part to Forex being a relatively new market, created in 1978 when the entire world adopted a free floating currency exchange rate between all of the currencies in the world, making it possible to trade and speculate on their changing values.

Finally the Average Investor Can Take Advantage of Forex

Did you know that until very recent years the virtual owners of this market were the major banks, large brokerage firms, and multinational corporations? Major banks, even the Federal Reserve (which most Americans are unaware is a privately owned bank owned by mega-wealthy international bankers) realize a large segment of their profits (sometimes as much as 40% or more) from trading currencies (and then give you a measly 3% a year for the privilege). Up until recently, if an individual wanted to trade currencies on the Forex market, the only way possible was to invest with a bank, which required not only a minimum of a one million dollar cash deposit, but this large deposit also had to be backed by a five to ten million dollar net worth.

Due to the far lower margin requirements and the many brokerage firms across the world that now specialize in Forex trading, the Forex market is now available to just about anyone. Just in the last decade the market has been opened up to the average person with tiny minimum investment requirements.

In addition, the recent boom in computer and communication technologies has made this market accessible in ways previously exclusive only to large players. Thanks to the Internet, electronic trading is now possible for anyone with a computer and access to the internet.

The Best Home Based Business

Currency trading on the Foreign Exchange market has numerous advantages as a home based business.

When trading currencies you make profits on the fluctuation of exchange rates between major currencies. Currencies constantly fluctuate against one another regardless of the condition of the economy in individual countries, including the US. It is the perfect financial market. Trading Forex is truly a recession proof business.

$300 Account Minimum

No more are the days when you had to have millions of dollars to trade Forex. The minimums have now been lowered to the point where most people can afford access to foreign currency trading.

Liquidity

Forex is by far the most liquid market in the world. There is NEVER a problem buying or selling a position as in the stock market. The Forex market can absorb trading volumes and per trade sizes that dwarf the capacity of any other market. On the simplest level, liquidity is always a major attraction to any investor as it allows one the freedom to open or close a position at will. You can access the funds in your Forex brokerage account as easily as you can your bank account.

24-Hour Market

Foreign exchange trading is the only 24 hour market. It is the ideal market for active traders. Unlike stock and futures trading, currency trading on the Forex market is not cut short at the "close" of each day's trading. Forex trading is never paused, which ensures true 24 hour trading and the ability to trade during virtually any important event. The benefit of Forex being a 24 hour a day market is that there are little or no gaps in the market, meaning there is no chance that prices will close one day and reopen the next day at radically different rates.

When you are trading equities or futures, the central exchanges close at the end of the business day. This means that there is no liquidity in these markets after hours since the market is closed, which makes trading impossible. In addition, there is a high degree of risk for traders who have open positions after the market closes. If news or events take place after the close that affect their positions they will have no opportunity to liquidate their trades. The next day, at the open, prices may immediately jump drastically, forcing the trader to close their positions at a rate which they incur a far greater loss than if they were able to close their position after hours. The continual, 24 hour a day liquidity of the Forex market ensures that the trader can always open or close a position anytime, thus eliminating the large potential risks with market gaps.

No Trade Commissions

There are NO trade commissions when trading Forex. Brokerage companies instead make money on the spread (difference between the buying and selling price) which barely affects your profits at all. It's MUCH better than commissions!

Clear Trends

Any professional trader knows that trends are the essence of profitable trading, and knowing this makes the idea of trading currencies very attractive, because currencies are the world's best trending markets! Many studies of trend following systems prove that currency trends are the most consistent and profitable. Regardless of the type of trend following system used; long term, intermediate term or short term, currencies invariably outperform all other markets including stocks, bonds and other commodities. It should come as no surprise that some of the world's most successful traders are currency traders. Traders such as George Soros, Bill Lipschutz, and Bruce Kovner earn hundreds of millions of dollars per year trading currencies! It is a well known fact that on one occasion George Soros made a $1 billion dollar profit on a single trade he executed on the British Pound against the US dollar. The trade lasted less than one day. This would not be possible trading stocks or equities.

No Bull or Bear Market

You can easily profit in both directions, long and short, buying low and selling high as well as selling high and buying low. There is no "Bull" or "Bear" market in Forex. You always can earn money either buying or selling currencies. It doesn't matter if there is a booming economy, or a deep recession. In the stock market, most of the money is made during a period of booming economy, when the stock market goes up, which in turn is very limiting. But economic development is cyclical - and periods of growth will eventually be replaced by periods of recession. And in this case, when the stock market is going down, you can't win as a trader. On the other hand, during all times of the year, regardless of the strength or weakness of the US economy or other major economies, currency exchange rates are always fluctuating, thus giving traders year round, continuous opportunities for profitable trading.

Demo Trading

When trading the Forex market you have a unique feature -- a “Demo Account” or simulated account, which allows you to participate in trading using real-time prices on the Deal Station with the same interface and functions as real trading, using the same news and technical analysis tools to predict market movements. You can gain experience in trading without risking any of your real money, all from the comfort of your home. On the stock market you don't have such a unique training tool for Internet day trading. In order to take a shot at the stock market, you have to put down your money first - your real money.

If you haven’t heard of Forex it’s probably because it is the newest financial market in the world, created in 1978 when the entire world adopted a free floating currency exchange rate between all of the currencies in the world.

Before this time, there was no such thing as the Foreign Exchange market since currency values of each country were directly pegged to the value of Gold, under the Bretton Woods agreement. Not only has the market been developed so recently, but it’s only the last decade that individuals were able to participate in the trading of Forex. Before that mainly banks and large institutions were the only players in the Forex market, since the minimum lot sizes to trade Forex were millions of dollars. Because of this, people are just now finally realizing the endless benefits of trading this profitable market.

With an average daily volume of $1.5 trillion per day, Forex is far and away the most enormous financial market in the world, dwarfing the trading volumes of other markets. It is literally 150 times larger than the New York Stock Exchange!

Take a look at some of the advantages of trading Forex over stocks...

You can profit in an up or down market. When trading stocks most of the money is earned in bull markets, which is very limiting. With Forex, you can easily profit in both directions, long and short, and make profits on the fluctuation of the exchange rates between any two currencies. It matters not which currency is rising or falling in value against another.

Forex is the most liquid market in the world. Because of its size, there is never a problem buying or selling a position, no matter how large. In addition, your funds are not tied up for long periods as they are when waiting for stock values to rise. With Forex your account is totally liquid, just as readily available as your bank account.

Forex is much more predictable than stocks. Many studies of trend following systems prove that currency trends are the most consistent and profitable. Regardless of the type of trend following system used; long term, intermediate term or short term, currencies invariably outperform all other markets including stocks, bonds and other commodities. The stock market is tiny compared to the vast foreign exchange market, and technical trading with stocks is not always reliable because the fundamentals of stocks can change with the wind. The Forex market is much more reliable and predictable, and the trends once they begin tend to persist, giving tremendous opportunities for profit.

No commissions or exchange fees. There are NO trade commissions when trading Forex. Brokerage companies instead make money on the spread (difference between the buying and selling price) which barely affects your profits at all. It's MUCH better than commissions! You end up saving a lot of money on costly commissions when trading Forex.

24 Hour a day market. The Forex market does not come to a halt each day at the close of business hours like the stock, equity and commodity markets do. The gaps and erratic price jumps these gaps in the market cause can cost a trader dearly. The Forex market never stops trading the entire week long. Only on the weekends does the market temporarily stop trading until Sunday evening.

Trade mini contracts with an account as little as $300. There is now the option of opening an electronic mini Forex account which allows you to trade with $100 per trade and start out by taking much smaller risks than you often have to take with stocks or equities.

High leverage. When trading Forex you enjoy up to 50 times the leverage of trading stocks. In stocks, for every $1,000 cash you invest, you control a maximum of $2,000 worth of stocks. The maximum leverage is 2:1. But with Forex, if you invest $1,000 margin on a foreign currency trade, you can control up to $100,000 in currencies.

The ONLY Forex trading system in the world that allows you to make money trading Forex in just 5 minutes a day!

When developing 5Minute FOREX™, Beau Diamond's main goal was to make a system available that would be incredibly simple to follow and easy to trade, even for people who have zero experience trading Forex or any other market. He sought to create a system that would be feasible for anyone to use, not just a special few with experience and free time.

Important Note: What you will not hear from other companies and individuals offering courses, systems, and software for trading Forex, is that you must stay up all night to trade. How many people have unlimited free time, and a schedule that would allow them to be awake for most of the night, every single weekday? Very few. This rigorous schedule is what most authors of courses and systems fail to mention until after you buy.

Did you know that when day trading on the Forex market the currencies traded are mainly European currencies against the dollar, and more of the trading volume than anywhere else in the world takes place in London? This means that the active trading hours, where there is actually an opportunity to make profit are between 2:00 AM and 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time because of the time difference between the US and London.

If you are day trading, and you are not in front of your computer from 2:00 AM to noon every weekday, you simply will not make any money in Forex...

Unless you use the 5Minute FOREX™ Trading System!

Spend Just 5 Minutes A Day with the 5Minute FOREX™ System!

Beau Diamond's 5Minute FOREX™ System is the only Forex trading system in the world that gives you the unique opportunity to profit big trading for just 5 minutes per day. The unique aspect of the 5Minute FOREX™ System is that you do not have to day trade. The 5Minute FOREX™ Trading System, instead, capitalizes on larger movements in the Forex market, and uses a very unique and powerful system that allows you to make money by only placing orders in the market once a day for 5 minutes. Yet you can make more money than most other Forex trading systems, day trading programs and signal services available anywhere!

Profitability of the 5Minute FOREX™ System

Like hundreds of 5Minute FOREX™ traders have already shown, you can potentially make thousands of dollars a month using the 5Minute FOREX™ System. Five main currency pairs are traded with the system and there are roughly 35 trades per month on all currencies combined:

EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/CAD, AUD/USD, EUR/JPY

Below you can see the total monthly profit per currency, and total monthly profit for all currencies combined in 2003 and 2004. To see the full results, including all individual trades for each currency, please click here to download the spreadsheet.

The 5Minute FOREX™ System has an excellent risk to reward ratio. The system can come out ahead only winning a small percentage of the time because the average winning trades of the system are approximately 6 times the size of the losses. Many novice traders place far too much emphasis on the percent of winning trades of a system, but highly successful and experienced traders will always tell you that it is of far greater importance for your winning trades to be much larger than your losses. This is simply because every system will eventually experience a point where there are a high percentage of losers, and if your winners are not much larger than your losses, you will never be able to come back from these drawdowns.

Hypothetical performance results have many inherent limitations. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown. In fact, there are frequently sharp differences between hypothetical performance results and the actual results subsequently achieved by any particularly trading program. One of the limitations of hypothetical performance results is that they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. In addition, hypothetical trading does not involve financial risk. Variables such as the ability to adhere to a particular trading program in spite of trading losses as well as maintaining adequate liquidity are material points which can adversely affect actual real trading results

The Power of Diversification

With the 5Minute FOREX™ System the maximum drawdowns (periods of losses) are very tolerable because the mix of currencies chosen tend to work very well together, in that when one or two are losing, the others are experiencing winning periods, so trading them all together gives you a perfect diversification and yields extremely consistent profit, with small drawdowns.
The average profit of the 5Minute FOREX™ System is over 800 pips per month! There is doubtfully any other system in the world that will enable one to make these kinds of incredible profits spending just 5 minutes per day trading!

You have a huge opportunity to profit in the same market that Banks make their money! Get started now and become one of the many people profiting from the 5Minute FOREX™ System!

Other than the fact that this is the only foreign currency trading system in the world that you can profit from trading just 5 minutes a day, the major feature that sets this system apart from most others is that it gives you an exact system to follow. Many courses out there teach you information about the Forex market but do not actually give you a system to trade with clear and precise prices of where to buy and where to sell in order to make money.

Most courses only tell you about the Forex market.

This course tells you exactly how to trade and make money on the Forex market.

Not only does the 5Minute FOREX™ trading strategy give you a system that will show you exact entry and exit prices in order to make money, but you also get well over 100 pages of valuable information on the Forex market, telling you everything you need to know from beginning to end to start trading in a very easy to follow, step-by-step format. This includes money management strategies, the psychology of trading, how to pyramid your profits to make even more money and dozens of other valuable subjects. Nothing is left to chance, you will have everything you need to immediately start trading and making money.

Unfortunately, most "systems" out there are not totally mechanical, and they still leave decision making and judgment to the trader, and when you are trading a system that is not totally mechanical you inevitably end up losing money, unless you have a tremendous amount of experience in the market. Beau Diamond designed the 5Minute FOREX™ System to be so simple and mechanical that there is absolutely no decision making or discretion needed on your part when trading the system. You just follow the simple strategy, and if you can read and follow directions you can profit in trading this system!

When you buy the 5Minute FOREX™ Trading Course you receive...

A full color, step-by-step course telling you all the following information and more.

Information on the psychology of trading which most courses neglect and is paramount to being a successful trader. Not having this information can make you or break you whether you have a good system or not. Controlling fear and greed is a must when trading. Mr. Diamond's background in psychology very much helped him learn successful methods to utilize psychology in trading.

Full training and support through the comprehensive Diamond Forex Support Forums. After you purchase the course you are not alone – you will have access to the 100% free Diamond Forex Support Forums, where you can rely on Beau Diamond’s experience as well as interact with many other users of the 5Minute FOREX™ System. The support forums are hosted by Forex Factory on the most user friendly forums available. While other systems being sold charge as much as $5,000 extra for this level of support, you get it free when you purchase 5Minute FOREX™!

Information on how to get a FREE demo trading account, with mock funds that you will be able to trade in exactly the same manner as you will with your real funds. This way you can get your feet wet and prove to yourself you are ready to trade with real money after you see the system work in real time on your demo account.

Free updates to any new information that becomes available regarding the 5Minute FOREX™ System.

Free online charting software. The 5Minute FOREX™ Course gives information on 100% free online charting software that you can access from any computer in the world with an internet connection.

Click here to see a table of contents of all information covered in the 5Minute FOREX™ Course.

There is only one small cost to trade the 5Minute FOREX™ System, and that is to receive the daily Trend Reverse Levels (TRLs). The TRLs are daily pivot levels for each currency pair that are provided to you by Beau Diamond via e-mail. Over many years of analyzing the Forex market Beau Diamond discovered certain indicators and a calculus formula used together which provide pivot levels that are very significant price levels for each currency. When currencies break though these TRLs, it signifies the probable beginning of a new trend, and thus a prime opportunity to enter the market to make a profit.

Since calculating the TRL is time consuming and relatively complex, Beau Diamond provides them to you daily as a very cost effective service. They are a very important ingredient in the 5Minute FOREX™ System and are available at a very low price. Most long term trading methods require some kind of pivot levels for trading, and comparable services that offer daily pivot levels for each currency pair are normally many hundreds of dollars per month, and you can easily find this out for yourself by checking out a few of these services on your own. The 5Minute FOREX System™ comes with a one month free trial of the Trend Reverse Levels, and after this period you may subscribe for $99 per month. If you use Beau Diamond’s recommended Forex broker you can receive a free 3 month TRL subscription.

Users of the 5Minute FOREX™ System are amazed at the incredible accuracy that the TRLs predict trend changes in the currencies, and feel it is a bargain to have access to these pivot levels for such a small price, since they are an important part of a system that can make you potentially thousands of dollars a month.

The 5Minute FOREX™ System was developed by world renowned currency trader and author Beau Diamond.

Read more about Beau Diamond here.