{"id":370,"date":"2025-04-14T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/?p=370"},"modified":"2025-05-26T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:51:09","slug":"what-is-forex-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/faqs\/what-is-forex-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"What is forex trading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign exchange trading (also known as forex, or FX) is the buying and\/or selling of one currency in relation to another.<\/p>\n<p>Given all currencies are priced differently, the price difference can make you a profit or a loss when the values of currencies change.<\/p>\n<p>The FX market is estimated to have a turnover value of over $5 trillion a day; which is quite a bit. Individuals, companies, banks, funds, and governments buy and sell global currencies all day every day until Friday &#8211; where the market closes at 22:00 GMT, and reopens on Sunday at 22:00 GMT. This $5 trillion turnover can be the result of import\/export activities, hedging against currency risk, or speculating on the change of currency values.<\/p>\n<p>Given you can normally exchange currencies through an exchange office or bank, forex trading is not centralised in a major national exchange, like stocks and futures. Such setup makes it very flexible, customisable, and of course, accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign exchange trading (also known as forex, or FX) is the buying and\/or selling of one currency in relation to another. Given all currencies are priced differently, the price difference can make you a profit or a loss when the values of currencies change. The FX market is estimated to have a turnover value of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs","category-trading"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneroyal.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}