Thousands of Romanians have been attracted in the past few years by the mirage of the big gains you can make in a very short span of time via Forex transactions, which offer the benefit that you can conduct transactions several hundred times larger than you could if you used only your own money.

Brokerage firms that intermediate forex transactions allow investors to do margin trading. So, for one euro brought by the investor, the broker credits the client with 99 euros or even with 499 euros in certain cases. This way, investors' profits, as well as their losses increase hundreds of times because the broker basically supplies almost the entire amount used in the transactions. In this way, Romanians ended up trading several hundred thousand euros' worth of foreign currencies on the international markets.

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