The Forex Market or the Stock Market?  Podcast: #398: The Forex Market or the Stock Market? In this video: 00:28 – Which is the best market to trade? 00:51 – The Forex market is open 24 hours a day 02:27 – It’s easy to follow and understand the 8 FX currencies 03:43 – Massive liquidity in the Forex market 04:44 – Use Leverage to your advantage 05:42 – You can trade Forex long and short 06:27 – The low cost of trading the Forex market 06:47 – The ability to take high reward:risk trades 08:13 – Send me the trading topics you’d like me to discuss Should you trade the Forex market or should you consider trading the stock market instead? Which is best? Let's talk about that and more, right now. Hi Forex traders. It is Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 398. Which is the best market to trade? And I want to talk about the differences, the comparisons, the benefits of trading the Forex market over the stock market. It's a question I get asked quite often. And so I thought to help you out, I'll give you what I see the benefits of the Forex market that are clearly beneficial to us as traders and why I choose the Forex market over the stock market. So to list these in no particular order. The Forex market is open 24 hours a day The first one, the market is open 24 hours a day when you trade the Forex market. So it's open five days a week. It opens at 05:00 PM, New York time on a Sunday, and it closes at 05:00 PM, New York time on a Friday. So it's open for five complete days, 24 hours a day, and it doesn't shut within that time. Now that has many benefits. Depends on where you live around the world. You may find that some exchanges, if you're trading the stock market, it may be crazy hours of the day for you. As an example, for me, living here in New Zealand, I can trade the Forex market quite easily, any time of day. Yet, if I wanted to trade the US stock market, I'd need to be up from about two o'clock in the morning through to about 06:00 or 07:00 AM every day. And there is no way I'm doing that. And it depends on where you're living. If you're in Europe, let's say, you can't trade the Australian stock market very easily because of the time differences. And when you have time differences and you have exchanges open for, let's say eight hours a day, what you tend to find is between one day and the next day you have gaps in the price and you have price jumping from here and opening the next day up here. So all sorts of different things like that, which as a trader can become a problem. Yet with the Forex market, it doesn't matter where you live in the world, what time zone you're on. When you look at the market, the market is open. And that to me is a massive, massive benefit. And you just get that continual flow with the Forex market that you don't get in the stock market. It’s easy to follow and understand the 8 FX currencies Another benefit, when you look at the Forex market, there's really only eight currencies that we look at trading. You get to know pretty soon the characteristics, how they move, how they flow with each different currency and the currency pairs. Yet if you're trading the stock market, how on earth do you get to really know what's happening with each of those stocks, those companies, what their debt levels are like, what their employment levels are like, what their plans are? All those type of things that I don't believe that you really can know. And even if you study just a few of them, well, there's thousands of them to go and look at. So how do you know which one to look at?