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Average daily currency trading volumes exceed $6.6 trillion per day (as of 2019). That’s a mind-boggling number, isn’t it? $6,600,000,000,000 — that’s a lot of zeros, no matter how you slice it. To give you some perspective on that size, it’s about 10 to 15 times the size of daily trading volume on all the world’s stock markets combined.

That $6-trillion-a-day number, which you may have seen in the financial press or other books on currency trading, actually overstates the size of what the forex market is all about — spot currency trading.