The private foreign exchange markets have allowed everyone who can come up with a minimal deposit to try their hand investing in the foreign exchange.
Of course, along with large rewards you have to be willing to accept risks of a similar size. Over-leveraging the wrong position while trading the foreign exchange can cost you your entire investment in seconds. Now there are regulations in place to stop a forex trader from incurring tens of thousands of dollars in debt based on a few hundred dollars invested.
This wasn't always the case and you can still find horror stories from the "early" days of private forex markets. If you are interested in the fast pace and large rewards available to you in the foreign exchange today, don't let these stories frighten you away.