Well, here are few answers which should answer this question.

• Your financial stand is in your hands. You can very easily beat the dividends from mutual funds, hedge funds or managed funds.

• Your initial investment is low when compared with stocks.

• You will be one of the players in the world's largest market.

• Everyday trading volume is $1.9 trillion. And no single issue can control the flow for a long time.

• Make money when the market goes up and so too, when it goes down.

• The trends in the market are good and so will be the technical analysis part.

• The leverage offered at forex is 100:1 but the usual advice is... "please avoid it if you can". On the contrary, stocks offer 1:1 or 2:1 while futures 15:1.

• You will seldom lose as traders can open or close a position at a very fair price for forex being the most liquid market.

• You work when you want, where you want and still make big money.

• You can be in any corner of the world. All you need is an internet connection.

• You learn trading like child's play by using a demo account, thus risking no money of yours.

• You have so many options to choose from ... nearly 40,000. Select a couple of pairs of currencies and focus your analysis on them.