There is a clear advantage to investing and trading in the forex currency market rather than stocks and mutual funds. The advantage is that the forex currency market is a 24-hour currency market that offers unmatched liquidity and potential for profitable trading in any market condition or any stage of a business cycle. This eliminates any false creative accounting practices for insider trading and shields and protects the market from being controlled or corrupted. 

No one can corner the currency market:  The currency market is so vast and has so many participants that no single entity, not even a central bank, can control the market price for any extended period of time. Even interventions by mighty central banks are becoming increasingly ineffectual and short lived. Thus, central banks are becoming less and less inclined to manipulate market price. The global market place has changed the foreign currency market dramatically over the last decade.

Unlike the equity markets, in the 24-hour forex currency market there are no restrictions on short selling. Profit potential exists in the foreign currency market regardless of whether an investor is long or short, or which way the market is moving. This means an investor has equal potential to profit in a rising or falling currency exchange rate in the foreign currency market.

The lack of a central physical exchange enables the currency market to operate on a 24-hour basis, spanning from one time zone to another across the major financial centers throughout the world, and is never shut down due to any kind of catastrophe. The liquidity in this huge market not only helps ensure price stability, but currency brokers can always open or close a currency position at a fair price, mainly due to the high level of volatility, especially with the major currencies, which are the USD, EURO, JPY, GBP, CHF, CAD, AUD.