What is traded?

The simple answer is Money .
Because you are not buying anything physical.This kind of trading can be confused.

Think of buying a currency as buying a share in a particular country, kinda like buying stocks of a company. The price of the currency is a direct reflection of what the market thinks about the current and future health of the Japanese economy.

When you buy, say, the Japanese yen, you are basically buying a "share" in the Japanese economy. You are betting that the Japanese economy is doing well, and will even get better as time goes. Once you sell those "shares" back to the market, hopefully, you will end up with a profit.

In general, the exchange rate of a currency versus other currencies is a reflection of the condition of that country's economy, compared to other countries' economies.

By the time you graduate from this School of Pipsology, you'll be eager to start working with currencies.

Major currencies 

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Symbol                       Country                             Currency                    Nickname
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USD                       United States                          Dollar                           Buck
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EUR                      Euro Zone Members                 Euro                            Fiber
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