In terms of liquidity, the foreign exchange market is the largest financial market in the world, and the daily capital flow momentum in the foreign exchange market is more than 2 trillion US dollars. High liquidity makes foreign exchange transactions volatile and easy to make profits. The daily trading volume of the futures market is over 50 billion, although it is also very large, but it is still much worse than foreign exchange.
Judging from the trading time, the foreign exchange market is a global financial market. Although all regions have closed hours, the whole world is connected in series, creating the advantage that foreign exchange can be traded 24 hours a day. Because the futures market is all transactions of some futures exchanges, all transactions are often relatively short and the time is relatively short. It is difficult for investors to find the right trading opportunity when trading. The foreign exchange market can trade at any time.
Trading situation The foreign exchange market is the most liquid market in the world, and it is definitely superior to the futures market in terms of trading speed and quality. On the other hand, foreign exchange transactions are spot transactions, and investors can hold foreign exchange indefinitely if they want. The futures market belongs to futures, and trading has a certain time limit. Investors must close their positions before the futures delivery date, otherwise they will be forced to close their positions. So the foreign exchange market is more profitable than the futures market.
At present, investors in the foreign exchange market have no commission, and all of them use the spread as the billing aspect, while the futures market still uses the commission as the main handling fee, so the cost of foreign exchange transactions is much lower than that of futures.