If you are an expatriate living overseas in a foreign currency country, there are often limited opportunities to work away from home. Obviously this depends on where in the world you are located. Often in foreign currency countries unemployment can be high making it hard to find work. Added to this there will be a language barrier to overcome unless one can speak the local language well. All considered this can amount to a considerable challenge.
Depending on your own individual circumstances the need to derive an income can be of utmost importance. How does one cope in this situation, and what opportunities are there for those seeking to make an income whilst living abroad?
Enter the opportunity presented by the biggest marketplace in the world. The foreign currency exchange market. You will have experienced its workings when you exited your home country to move abroad as you will have at some point exchanged your host currency for those of the destination currency. In this marketplace there are trillions of dollars worth of currency changing hands daily.
You do not need to stand on the sidelines watching. You can participate for your share of the daily profit available to those operating in this market. This time not as an expatriate exchanging funds from one currency to another but as a live foreign currency trader working the markets for cash profit.
The reason you can do this from anywhere, is simply because the business of trading forex is completely portable. You can run your business from anywhere, any country and any place you choose. You do need one thing to be able to do this. You need a computer and an Internet connection. After those things are in place you are free to trade.
Opening an account with a broker who will execute your orders for you is a straightforward process and can be accomplished on line.
If you are successful you really can stop worrying about employment for good. Yes this will take a little time to achieve depending on how much money you have to start your trading business with. The good thing though is by starting small you do not risk a lot and by building this sum up you increase your experience and ability. These are the two things you need to grow you starting out capital into a big and sustainable sum.
This in turn will give you long term security living in the destination country of choice. It will also enable you to start to draw an income off your growing capital sum.

The currency markets are the largest and most actively traded financial markets in the world with a daily trading volume of more than $3 trillion (Triennial Central Bank Survey 2007). The majority of this trading is concentrated in the world's major financial centers such as London, New York and Tokyo. Large institutional investors such as banks, multinational corporations, hedge funds and central banks constitute the majority of the market activity. To knowledgeably compete in this overwhelmingly institutional marketplace, individual investors need to assimilate as much information as possible. This tutorial provides an overview of basic foreign currency (forex/FX) trading strategies, the markets for those strategies, and an examination of some of the most popular currencies traded.

Each transaction in the currency market involves two different trades: the sale of one currency and the purchase of another. The two currencies involved in the trade are known as a pair. While it is possible to swap virtually any currency for another, the majority of trading occurs among a handful of popular currency pairs.