Forex trading can be an equally successful niche if you do it part-time or invest your time, energy, and hard work into evolving it into a full-time job. However, for the average investor in this market, Forex trading is more like a part-time endeavor or even a hobby they aim to exploit along with their original full-time career. The forex market is open 24 hours a day, five days a week, which makes it one of the most appealing markets for part-time traders.

Foreign currency trading, or forex, is no longer the domain of professionals. That all started changing in the mid-nineties, especially with the advent of the Internet. Now, many part-time traders are finding success in forex. Today, anybody with the guts, the gumption, and of course loads of discipline, can decide to start dealing in retail forex – dealing in the exchange rate of currencies of various nations across the world.

The majority of people that get interested in forex trading do so because they are unhappy with their job or with the current amount of money they are making, or both. Also many forex investors do not have the time to trade full-time. Instead, they focus their efforts on part-time trading in the evenings or during breaks in their workdays.