Anybody interested in making forex investments wants to understand a little about the forex market and how it works. They wait for the price to change, which with luck and/or good research will be a change in their favor, and then they exchange the currency back to shut out the trade with a profit. 2nd, forex investments are unlikely to be held for the long-term, by which we mean more than a few months at the most. Currency prices are relative to each other, so they don’t boom and bust in the same way as stocks.
It is possible that a stockholder might identify a country in the developing world that was likely to do nicely in the long term and invest in that country’s currency for one or two years. However, most players in the foreign exchange market are not doing this. They are identifying short to medium term trends in the prices of currency pairs (say, the US dollar against the Euro dollar) and purchasing (going long) or selling (going short) the pair in the expectation of making money quickly . Day trading is common, and a trade that’s held over several weeks would be considered a long term trade in the foreign exchange market.