Intra Day (or within one day) Trading is a popular Forex trading style or strategy. The phrase refers to the practise of opening and closing positions on a single business day, rather than carrying them over to next. The idea being to avoid overnight risk and to treat each day as a new opportunity. There is some debate about closing positions, based purely on a time restraint, regardless of their profitability.  

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Day Trading describes the process whereby an investor trades a given security or financial instrument within a single business day. Closing their position in that period rather than holding it open overnight. This type of trading became particularly popular among individual investors largely thanks to the growth in the availability of the internet and home computers, that was seen in the late 1990's and early 2000’s. The ability to trade from home or other remote locations encouraged many investors to take up trading full time. They choose Day Trading as style for its specific advantages and to limit their overnight risk exposure.  

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The modern Forex market is fountain of data and information that is distributed to almost  every corner of the world via the internet and social media networks. The Forex markets operate 24 hours a day, 5 days a week across the globes financial centres. These markets encompass dozens of FX pairs and crosses, whose prices react continuously to a constant stream of data, order flow and sentiment changes. In truth there is far too much information generated in today's Forex markets for any one individual to consume and sensibly comprehend. Apart from anything else we all need to sleep sometime.  

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Swing Trading is a shorter term trading strategy that is popular among FX and CFD traders. Swing Trading positions are typically held for a matter hours though traders may hold the position for longer under the right circumstances. The aim of Swing Trading is to firstly identify and confirm a trend, then to enter a trade and capture as much of the upward or downward movement of that trend as possible.  

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Commodity Trading has been conducted amongst consumers and producers since the beginnings of human civilisation. Raw materials such as Iron Ore, Copper, Tin, Wheat, Salt and Spices moved around the globe on ancient trade routes such as the silk road for thousands of years. Empires rose, expanded and fell but trade continued.The situation is no different in today's globalised modern economies. Key commodities are extracted in one continent and shipped, perhaps for thousands of miles,to consumers on another. A whole supply and logistics chain has developed to facilitate this trade, one key part of this support network is the Commodity Markets.  

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