Forex encyclopedia

The main feature of global Forex market is that there is no centralized ground for holding trades as it for example takes place in stock market. All market players (banks, investment funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, brokers etc.) work in different time zones around the globe. As the result, rate fluctuation keep going all the time. Official time of market operation is 24 hours, 5 days a week from 8 p.m on Sunday till 11 p.m of Friday (UTC/GMT). Exception is state holidays when all financial bodies are out of duty. On holidays Forex market works unofficially as well but because of the low liquidity and activity volumes, it is rather hard to find liquidity suppliers on the market. During that time all financial operations take place between various financial entities, banks and more often upon urgent issues.

Apart from Japan, the countries with the second economic power (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Korea) are also active in the transaction. * At certain periods, liquidity can be very low and visible for a very small price movement (no change in the relatively long time). A small price movemen allows breakout level of previous trends that occurred in the American market to form, so there is a phase of consolidation.