Forex stands for the Foreign Exchange Market, and it's a basically a place where you can go to trade different forms of currency (money) on the stock market. You can exchange dollars for Japanese Yen, then wait until the Yen are worth more money and sell them back for a profit. That's basically how Forex works, and how people are getting rich from the stock market.

Forex processes over 3.2 trillion dollars on a daily bases from traders exchanging money all around the world. There are many things that make Forex unique to other stock market programs, such as the volume of daily trades, the high liquidity of the currency market as well as things that can effect exchanges rates.

The Foreign Exchange Market has been around since the 1970s, but has only started growing rapidly the last 5 years. Many people are turned off from a stock market like this because of the economic crisis and the fluctuation of exchange rates between certain denominations. But this instability is what attracts some of the most successful investors, so you have to decide for yourself if Forex is right for you.

The highest trader in Forex is the Deutsche Bank in Europe. Their transactions account for over 20% of the total volume of trades every day. This means this bank is putting a lot of risk and hope into the Forex market hoping they can trade Euro's for different currencies and make a huge profit when those monies increase in value.