I am a intermediate skilled investor and have only concentrated my portfolio in stocks/options. Although I have been eying a job in this sector in the futur and would like to understand every concept of finance. I have also seen that forex is cheaper in commissions and easy to learn.

Any website recommendations, books to follow up, best brokers?
A referral to free trades or a nice gift would be great aswell!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

As a forex trader, who used to trade the stock and option market, I would say the biggest difference is the sheer size of the forex market. It’s global and 1.5 trillion dollars exchanged on it every single day.

You’ve got traders in every single country, at one time. You can’t really say that about the US stock exchanges. For the most part, its basically traded by American citizens.

As far as trading is concerened, forex is much more news driven than the stock market. There are news announcements going on every single day, and every one of them has some effect on currency exchange rates.

From a technical analysis side (which is how I trade), I can tell you that the forex market is better for a price action trader. When you look at charts on currency pairs, you can see that their are patterns that get repeated over and over again.

When it comes to stock trading, the patterns are a little more difficult to catch.

The only advantage that the stock and option markets have are the brokers. Since the stock exchange is more regulated, you can trust th e stock brokers, more than you can the forex brokers.

By the way, most forex brokers, don’t really charge commissions. it’s sort of built in to the trade.

Hope this helps.