Forex Brokers perform the task of the middle man when investing in  the forex market. If you’re going to trade currencies then you require a broker to put  your orders through. You don’t necessarily have to  open trades using a forex broker though.  Dealing directly with banks are an  choice only the richest traders have while floor trading is the other  way around brokers.Unfortunately, most of us aren’t Billionaires and lack  the ability and resilience necessary for the  rigors of floor trading.  These brokers get a separate currency rate from  their respective banks. Forex brokers then offer us higher spreads and this is how they  make money. The difference in the spreads are how they ultimately make money.  Here is a  review on two of the most popular forex brokers on the internet today.Very accepted, Oanda is one of the major players in the online currency trading scene. Even from the start, they offered trading accounts in different  base currencies. Oanda actually started as a company converting large sums of currencies for large corporations. Oanda is the creation of  Richard Olsen who founded the Olsen Group. He has authored two books on forex trading with one of them being the famous manifesto, the forex traders bill of rightsThey have collected a good number of awards over the years including the 2009 World finance forex award. They have lower than usual variable spreads compared to other brokers. They have a web based trading platform that users can use from any computer terminal worldwide. Forex Capital Management (FXCM) probably the most accepted forex broker on the  internet today. They offer some of the lowest spreads found anywhere to micro account holders and have been branching out internationally. They are a multi-lingual forex broker with all the  key languages covered and it takes as little as $25 to open a micro  account with them. The FXCM trading station II is their platform of choice but they are  looking at offering metatrader 4 in the future due to its popularity. Accounts can be had in Euro,  British pound, American Dollar, Japanese Yen and the Australia dollar.