In the last couple of years there has been a growing interest in foreign exchange trading as a way of investing money and making a small profit.

 

You have to be quick if you get involved in forex especially at the moment while foreign currency exchange rates, the dollar, the euro and the pound, are all up and down like yo yos. Penny shares are another investment form that is appealing to the less ordinary investor the man on the street.

 

Other television programmes about antiques have also spawned an interest in investing in pieces of furniture, china and paintings that would have been unthinkable twenty five years ago.

 

Auction rooms, that used to be the preserves of the upper middle classes and the newly rich, are fast becoming a home from home for ordinary people who are learning about the benefits of investing in paintings and limited issue ornaments.