There are no rules or restrictions against insider trading in the world of forex trading. Anyone who possesses information that is known only to a select few can and do trade that information in the forex market.

News is information. Information is what drives the forex markets. Publicly released news is disseminated to the various newswires. Any trader who has access to these newswire services can tap into that information and react accordingly in the forex market. Timely reaction to new information can be very profitable.

However, you must know that the institutional players do get information that retail traders dont have. Institutional players have access to the order book of their clients. They know the location of their market orders. They may also know something that others dont through their contacts in the industry.

At times, this isolated news access may not translate into real market action if other players dont have that information. However, sometimes the news may give an unfair advantage to the institutional players.

In nutshell, forex market is dependent on news. If there is no news, there will be negligible or little price movements in the market. Even if the currencies move based on the technicals, these technicals have been established previously by news or expectation of future news.

Now the market reaction to the news is staggered. The market reaction to the news is specific as it depends on both the type of medium that the news is transmitted on and the type of news that is being released.

Most active traders, get their information from electronic market news services. All of these online news service relay the information to the computer monitors of the traders at almost the same time as the market event occurs with very slight delay.

However, there are many other less active traders who feel they dont need real time news so they dont subscribe to these online news services. They rely on market commentaries written by analysts and published on websites or in newspapers. These traders may take time to react to the same news that may vary from a few hours to a few days to weeks. The market reaction can thus be staggered.

Market reaction may be immediate within the first few second from those who receive real time news to a more delayed reaction from those who obtain the same news hours or even days later.

The market reacts differently to different news. Some news may produce little or no reaction at all. Forex economic calendar is usually packed with an average of twenty to thirty economic news releases per trading day.

During times of scheduled news releases, currency prices adjust very rapidly to the released data. You have to be selective to what news to focus on as the market reacts to a varying degree in relation to the type of news that is released.

Currency market reacts to what of the news rather than the why. For example, the currency prices will move as the market reacts to the better than expected unemployment figures. The market will not have time to consider why the unemployment figures are better this month as compared to the last month.