Whilst stock trading enables you to bet on the price/performance of a company, forex trading enables you to bet on the price/performance of a country/currency.

Whilst stock trading enables you to bet on the price/performance of a company, forex trading enables you to bet on the price/performance of a country/currency. You bet, however, not on a single currency but on a currency pair so you are really betting on how one currency will perform against another currency.