Forex stands for “Foreign Exchange” and refers to the active trading of currencies — exchanging one currency for another.

Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina and has taught and ...

More and more trading in U.S. stocks is coming from overseas. Some of those traders are used to how trading in futures, FX and other markets work, where they offer trading outside U.S. working hours, ...

The relative strength index (RSI) is a momentum indicator that measures the magnitude of recent price changes to analyze overbought or oversold conditions.

When stock prices and stock futures fall rapidly in a single session, exchanges implement halts in trading to allow a moment for cooler heads to prevail and avoid market crashes we've seen in the past ...