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Forex expo in Las Vegas
Quote: “about 1,500 people — from 26 U.S. states and 10 countries — descended on Las Vegas to get a bit of gambling education.

Over the course of the weekend, they were treated to seminars and presentations by more than three dozen specialists, and had access to booths set up by a number of exhibitors, most of them on-line forex brokerages.”

Forex Trading is in Rapid Growth
In January 2002 the National Futures Association (NFA) had registered 7 active dealer members with $42-million in funds for their retail customers. In September 2005 it had registered 31 forex dealer-members holding about $795-million for their customers.

George Davis, working for RBC Dominion Securities in Toronto attributes the new push into forex trading by individual investors to their search for other asset classes besides fixed income and equities. This has grown especially since the stock market rout of 2001 and the fact that bond yields are at generational lows.