The advent of automated trading software has made it easy for the average smart person to get into forex trading, regardless of if they know little about the markets before they begin. They can be downloaded for a good price and set up to trade on your broker account without you needing to understand anything about the world currency market – at least in principle. But do currency exchange bots work? Can a total beginner really make money this way?
Currency exchange (short for forex) is just foreign exchange trading, exchanging a lot of one currency for another in the expectancy that the price will change in the right way and you’ll make cash.
With the slackening of the gold standard in the 1970s, costs were no longer fixed and the banks started to trade currencies, purchasing more than they required of a currency whose price seemed about to rise, to sell it for a decent profit later. At the same time the minimimum lot size was reduced with the introduction of mini and then micro accounts by many brokers. The result is that you can now start to trade currency exchange from home with only a few hundred greenbacks in capital or even less, and a PC hooked up to a broadband connection. What is more, you may even buy automated trading software so that you can do it hands free.
