Market participants use forex to hedge against international currency and interest rate risk, to speculate on geopolitical events, and to diversify porfolios, among several other reaons.
Hard commodities are natural resources like oil, gold and reubber and are often mined or exracted. Soft commodities are agricultural products such as coffee, whear or corn.
Indices CFDs are available to cover all the key indices around the world, which allows the trader in one country to take part in the world markets.