Traditionally in a down market when unemployment increases, there tends to be an increase in the amount of free time that people have but a decrease in the amount of money that people have.

With an extra 5 hours per day, if you were willing to alter your sleep schedule to wake up earlier and trade the London market open from 5AM to 10AM New York time, you could earn anywhere from $100 to $5,000 or more per month with simple knowledge of basic economics.

Making money on the currency market is not rocket science: A simple trading strategy would be the example of the carry trade, where you sell a currency with a lower interest rate and buy a currency with a higher interest rate.

What is different about forex trading than anything you have seen is that instead of earning dollars you earn pips, an acronym that stands for price interest points, which is the lowest increment that an exchange rate can fluctuate in.