Online foreign exchange trading occurs all around the planet. From Monday to Fri it is always business hours somewhere, so trading can take place twenty-four hours per day, five days each week. This is superb for anybody who cannot trade during business hours in their own time zone. You can get online evenings or early mornings instead. Forex trading is always an exchange of one currency for another. This suggests that you can trade in either direction, going long or going short. While this can be done in some types of stock trading, it is continued and thus much more available in online currency exchange trading. Perhaps it is just because stock movements are less systemic, depending more on company policy and inside knowledge than technical research. Anyway, this will actually be one of the benefits of online foreign exchange trading.