| For some people, the only financial instrument they | | | | dividend, and are more resilient in a turbulent market |
| have ever traded is stocks and shares. Anything else | | | | economy. Others will subscribe to the belief that |
| to them belongs to the dangerous genre. In a way, | | | | "Cash Is King", and will just liquidate their shares and |
| they are correct in their thinking because all things | | | | hold their capital as cash. |
| unfamiliar do pose some difficulties; we do sense | | | | But for a special group of stock market traders, any |
| some discomfort in our hearts working with the | | | | stock market crash will provide them a golden |
| unfamiliar. | | | | opportunity to utilise their capital for trading another |
| This fear can easily and quickly turns into extreme | | | | financial instrument that will escape unscratched from |
| anxiety when the stock market crashes, because | | | | the vagaries of a market collapse. |
| many are new to the stock market game and have | | | | That financial instrument is forex or currency trading. |
| never ever gone through any semblance of a market | | | | Irrespective of any stock market collapse, the forex |
| crash or a collapse. All they ever know is to buy a | | | | market continues 24 hours every day without fail. |
| stock at the low, hold it as it rides its way up in price | | | | Gone are those days that only a big time individual or |
| and sell it off after a few months. For some it is | | | | institution such as a bank can only trade the forex, |
| holding the stock on and on...so that it is just all paper | | | | now every private trader or investor can trade the |
| profits, without selling! | | | | forex with as little as $25 with an established forex |
| A day ago, fear was written on the faces of many | | | | broker, who also provides you with the trading |
| stock market traders and investors as millions of | | | | platform. More interesting is that you can put your |
| dollars were wiped off the market capitalisation of | | | | trading skills in the stock market to use very quickly |
| the major markets of the world. To them, with the | | | | after learning some special nuances peculiar to the |
| stock market drop, their source of additional income | | | | forex market. |
| was all gone. For some, their capital would have been | | | | So where the stock market has crashed and burned, |
| wiped off if they had just got on the bandwagon of | | | | another financial instrument is available for the trader |
| stock market investing or trading the week before. | | | | who is able to seize the opportunity, and to create a |
| Admittedly, it is a universal understanding that in | | | | solid stream of income for himself adopting forex as |
| turbulent times like a major market collapse, there is | | | | his next trading vehicle. For these, the exciting world |
| always a flight back to quality- where traders will | | | | of forex trading beckons, and with that the prospect |
| seek to move their capital into the blue chips or | | | | of great wealth if they can learn how to trade and |
| more established shares that will generate them a | | | | capture the profits consistently and confidently. |