Forex vs Stocks
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOREX MARKET AND STOCK MARKET
Every one is familiar with buying and selling of stocks. It is called share trading and is very popular. It is known as share trading because stocks are issued as shares by the companies. The companies have started trading their shares to increase there investment and expand their market. People buy and sale shares in stock market and make profit.
On the other hand forex trading deals with trading national currencies. It is not a familiar concept in public. Very small section of people is familiar to forex trading. Forex is known to general people since past 50 years only that are why it is not very popular like stock market.
There are many differences between the two markets. In stock trading there are listed stock markets where as in forex trading, no such type of listing is available. This makes it easy for people to excess in forex market because there is no time limit in it. You can access your forex account any time from any part of the world at any day, whereas in stock exchange market there is limitation of time after which the market is closed.
Another difference in forex and stock is time period of investment. You may find that stock market is very challenging then forex market because stocks are not as volatile as currencies. It is difficult to make profit in short period of time in stock market whereas forex is simpler to make profitable trading. You can simply say that stock market is long term investment whereas forex is like a short term investment.