Is Currency Trading Worth It?

The television today is saturated with ads that claim you can make money very fast trading forex currencies. I would not believe that unless you want to lose all of your money. It is not a fast way to make money. You can make money doing it, but it will take longer than a weekend seminar in Vancouver. The foreign exchange market, also known as Forex is a virtual market is open 24 hours a day from Sunday to Friday. 
It is where you can buy and sell foreign currencies. Some currencies that you can buy and sell are the US dollar, British pound and Japanese yen. The idea is that currencies are purchased or sold for one another. Speculators and traders make decisions based on the way the market moves. Professionals always have some sort of trading platform. They have a plan of how they will buy and sell in the market. They do this because currencies move up and down in comparison to one another, and these movements are what are speculated on. One may decide to buy or to sell or go long or short. Anyone that trades Forex market should know all of its basics. They should know fundamental and technical analysis cold. If you do not know these things, then you will lose. You may get lucky sometimes, but eventually you will lose everything. There isn't much successful dart throwing in the Forex market.
The reason that online forex trading has exploded is because of the Internet. Almost anyone in the world has access to it. Anyone that has a computer can trade the Forex. Large banks used to be the only ones that have access to it, but now this is not the case. If you have the time or the money in a computer, you can be trader.