As you may be aware, stock markets all over the world have slumped this week due to China’s economic woes and the continuing decline in commodity prices.

Commenting on the week’s events, this article from Bloomberg reports that China’s Shanghai Composite Index has fallen by more than 10% this week, and is very close to wiping out all of the gains that have occurred as a result of the government’s intervention last month.

It is a similar story in Europe and other areas of the world, and the United States didn’t escape unscathed either because the Dow Jones closed more than 500 points lower on Friday.

Indeed in some cases, stocks have recorded their worst losses since 2011, which shows the depth of the current stock market slump.

So if you hold stocks in your investment portfolio, it is almost certainly a lot lower now than it was at the start of the week, and could continue to fall in value if you plan on holding them for the foreseeable future.

That’s why I think this is a great time to consider trading forex if you haven’t already done so. The great thing about forex trading is that it doesn’t matter if currencies rise or fall because you can make money from long and short positions.

Furthermore you don’t have to endure sleepless nights wondering what’s going to happen to the value of your stocks because it is possible to enter and exit positions on the same day if you so wish.

Another benefit of forex trading is that you don’t necessarily have to risk lots of money in order to make some decent returns. If you make use of leverage, for example, you can turn a relatively small amount of capital into quite a tidy sum if you are successful.

I myself started off this way many years ago and managed to build up a decent pot using a few basic trading strategies.

Of course I have to put in a disclaimer and point out that it is not easy to make money from currency trading. It is estimated that up to 95% of people end up losing money in the long run.

However if you are fed up of seeing the value of your stocks going down and don’t think that the world’s economies are going to improve any time soon, you might want to take control of the situation and consider forex trading as an alternative way to make some money from the financial markets.

If you can contain your losses and ensure that your winning trades more than compensate for the occasional losing trades, you should find that it is not that difficult to come up with a winning strategy that will generate decent returns in the long run.