at any given time all currencies are gaining or losing against all others... works the same as stocks, exept for the fact that all the money in the world is not enough to manipulate that market, there is just not enough money to do it, PERIOD... do a google search for Forex, there are a multitude of Forex brokers out there and they all offer practice accounts to get you familiar with it. Another advantage is that you can risk as much or as little as you want, you can 'hedge', the market is open from Sunday 5pmest to Fri 5pm est and goes round the clock between Sun-Fri AND you NEVER have to wait very long to gt in or out of a position, I'm usually in or out of a position MAX 15 minutes and neve risk more than 2% of my account on a trade... I have not had ONE losing day, until I got into stocks, I got into stocks for long-term investments, but finding it hard to be patient when I see my investments go down %50 in less than a day, every stock I've gotten into has become a sleeping dog... never happens with Forex, my accont goes down just 2% and I consider that a failed trade and get out and move on to the next trade...