Before going any further, you must know what online Forex trading is. Forex is the shortened term for foreign exchange. The actual trading does not involve commodities like shares or stocks. It is a financial market where currencies are being traded with other currencies.
Forex trading is expressed in currency pairs, for example: US dollars and Euro or US dollars and UK sterling. The investor will get a return of his investment in terms of the relative ‘exchange value’ of a certain currency against another foreign currency.
One of the alluring myths that surrounds the stock market is the prospect that a certain stock may split, giving stock holders twice as many shares as before. What is poorly understood by the outsider, though, is that although the investor has more stock after a split, the value of each share is reduced. For example, if a corporation decides to split its stock 2-for-1, it issues one new share for each outstanding one. At the same time, the value of each share is cut in half. So the stock holders now hold twice as many shares but the total value is the same as before the split. A stock split is like receiving 2 five-dollar bills for a single ten-dollar bill. Same value – twice as much paper.
