A considerable advantage of forex over other markets is that you can trade 24 hours a day from Sunday evening to Friday night. 

In addition, the FXCM Mini account (standard forex account) offers something really special. The Mini account makes it possible to develop a disciplined investment strategy with trading decisions based on objective criteria. Furthermore, the Mini account puts traders in a position to realise gains within their own specified guidelines. 

The Mini account also helps familiarise you with the forex market so that you can find a trading routine and develop an appreciation for the world’s largest and most liquid trading market. FXCM offers new traders special help in the form of the Mini account, since it introduces the forex market under real conditions. 

More than 165,000 trading accounts from approximately 150 countries trade with the FXCM platform, averaging more than seven million transactions a month.

FXCM offers customer assistance and support around the clock in more than a dozen languages.

FXCM has won numerous awards and prizes:

• Best Forex Broker (Shares Magazine)
• Best Retail Platform (FX Week)
• Best FX Specialist (Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities)
• Best Forex Broker (t2w Magazine)
• Best independent Forex Trading System (Global Finance)
• ... and many others (see this page right column)

Growth and expansion since 2001 have enabled FXCM to increase its staff to more than 600 permanent employees across all of its departments, including research, trading, IT and customer support. In addition, FXCM was named one of America's 500 fastest growing companies in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2010. Twice - in 2005 and 2006 - FXCM ranked among the top 100 companies. 

In 2006 FXCM introduced pricing and order execution via large banks and financial institutions (no dealing desk, no market maker), resulting in highly transparent and competitive pricing and bid/ask spreads. 

FXCM also introduced a series of updates last year, including a hedging feature, proprietary trading signals, additional currency pairs and trading in indexes, gold, silver and crude oil, as well as one-click order execution.

The quality and reliabilty of FXCM's order execution has attracted private traders and asset managers, account managers, hedge funds and numerous institutions. FXCM was one of the first online forex brokers and has provided real-time forex trading with 24-hour service ever since. 

If you take the time and compare trading on the forex market with any other market you will see that no other market can offer such ideal conditions. You too should opt for forex trading.

• Superior currency pricing and order execution thanks to competing large banks.
• The exchange rate pricing competion among the banks eliminates potential market manipulation.
• No conflict of interest between trader and broker.
• No debit balance risk: FXCM guarantees that traders can never lose more than their account balance – never!
• Trading without any restrictions: trade whenever and however you want!