The Market for Foreign Currency Exchange, also known as Foreign Exchange Forex or FX, is an international market in which operations are carried out buy and sell currencies 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Unlike other markets such as U.S. treasury bonds averaging about $ 300 billion in transactions a day and American stock markets exchange about $ 100 billion daily, FOREX Foreign Exchange has a daily turnover of about $ 1.5 trillion, making it the largest financial market in the world.

Interbank Foreign Exchange Market is an international forum unregulated and decentralized in which transactions take place among the major currencies of the world, with virtually no direct interference or regulation by a government. In this market,

The Forex market is a "market" in the traditional sense of the word, because it has no centralized location for their activades of sale. It is an international network linked electronically, currency traders scattered throughout the major world financial centers such as New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris and Frankfurt.

An international community of approximately 400 banks made daily foreign exchange for buyers and sellers worldwide. All operations are conducted by telephone or via the Internet, fax machines, and other means of instantaneous communication.

The Interbank market consists of distributors direct ability to settle foreign exchange, operating as constituents. It is this sector of the market distributors responsible for the creation of a large portion of the total volume of foreign exchange markets. The transaction creates distributors increased movement in the market, making the Forex market is the most liquid of all financial markets.