Forex trading is hot, hot, hot right now. And one of the biggest reasons why is that traders are using leverage to amplify returns by 200 times - where $1 controls $200 worth of foreign currency. The returns can be staggering.

For example, on the British “Black Wednesday” of September 16, 1992, George Soros made a single day’s forex profit of $1 billion by short selling the Great Britain Pound Sterling.

At the time, these kinds of profits were only available to large players.
But recently, a major change in the way forex trading is done has opened the trading desks to the little guy. The Internet has opened the door to the small investor into this $3.98 trillion daily market.