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Forex trading used to be limited to fairly well-off, long term investors and all trades had to be carried out physically by a broker, which might or might not have been your bank. The client had to telephone his broker, who would pass on any knowledge the firm had about latest developments in the currency markets and the client and the broker would decide whether to buy a new position, or sell or hold an existing position on the strength of that intelligence.

Being in retail business means buying and selling something or other. This is also called trading and men and women have been trading, buying and selling for tens of thousands of years. However, there are other kinds of business accessible to the ordinary person now, especially since the spread of the Internet. Now, instead of trading items, you can trade intangible objects like shares or currencies.