A new trend in investing is in the Foreign Exchange Market, or forex.  In the forex market, forex investments are quite lucrative and liquid.  It does take a pretty good amount of risk investment, but once an investor learns the “how to” of forex trading, there is a good chance that the investment in forex will have a good return.  Since forex is based on currency exchange, the Stock Market has little affect.  The trends are limited because there can be only a certain amount of possibilities in play depending on the currency.  This makes forex trading much easier to understand than the trading stocks.  So if risk capital is available and something new is of interest, then forex could be a good choice for that investor.