In this video we go over the basics of the currency market – the largest market in the world which trades over $200 billion every hour globally.

From the building blocks of what currency pairs are and how they trade together to what buying and selling a pair actually means we cover the things underpinning this 24/5 market.

David Jones simplifies the terms and definitions that any trader needs to know, breaking them down in easy to understand explanations of what currency trading is and why it has a low cost of doing business.

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