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Because of its sheer size and huge daily turnover volume, foreign currency exchange offers unmatched liquidity. What this means is there will always be a buyer for every seller and a seller for every buyer.

The environment in forex trading is very much unlike the stock or options markets where you may not always be able to liquidate positions any time because of the absence of a counter trade. You would often experience incidents in the stock or options market where it is difficult to settle your position at certain price levels just because few traders are more than willing to match your offer. This never happens with the forex market. You would be able to settle at any time and at any given price. Because of its sheer size and huge daily turnover volume, foreign currency exchange offers unmatched liquidity. What this means is there will always be a buyer for every seller and a seller for every buyer.

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A political election—a common event in almost every nation—can have a large impact on a country's currency. Elections can be viewed by traders as an isolated case of potential political instability and uncertainty, which typically equates to greater volatility in the value of a country's currency.

That's because a change in government can mean a change in ideology for the country's citizens, which usually equates to a different approach to monetary or fiscal policy, each serving as big drivers of a currency's value.

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- The dollar is the most dominant currency in the foreign exchange market. This currency is paired with every country’s currency being traded in the forex market. In a major proportion of transactions every day, the dollar is one of the two currencies being traded.
- The U.S. dollar is also an important factor in the foreign exchange rate market for other currencies, where it may act as a benchmark or target rate for countries that choose to fix or peg their currencies to the dollar's value.
- One other feature of the U.S. dollar is that it is used as the standard currency for most commodities, such as crude oil and precious metals. Thus, these commodities are subject not only to fluctuations in value due to the basic economic principles of supply and demand but also to the relative value of the U.S. dollar, with prices highly sensitive to inflation and U.S. interest rates, which can affect the dollar's