Forex, or Foreign Exchange, is the interbank currency exchange market at the uncontrolled prices. Forex rates are formed unrestricted or without specified values. It's acceptable to use the term 'Forex' for the mutual currency exchange notation , but not for the whole totality of the currency transactions. However, there are some nuances in the term meaning in different languages. So, in Russian language the term 'Forex' usually is used in the narrower sense. It means solely speculative currency trading through business banks and dealing centers, including online forex trading. There are different transactions depending on their aims on the Forex-market.

With an advent of the Internet era the online forex trading system has become winning the information spaces on the Web. The term 'Forex' implies not a currency exchange system on the whole, but only a marginal trading through banks. There is no differentiation between the currency exchange and the marginal trading concepts even on the courses of online forex trading for beginners. Usually, users associate Forex with an unbiguous phrase 'to earn money with Forex'. One the one hand, this is an ordinary wage job with a defined remuneration of labour. On the other hand, it's an opportunity to get practically any acquisition of income. It should be taken into account that the marginal trading doesn't provide for the wage job with payment. This is one of the business type which includes an outset and the inevitable risks. Although the marginal trading as a business type has a number of specified features, the online forex trading platform is still the same.