I am a person who enjoys some risk but really wants to be cautious with something that is new to me. I have always kept my money in the more traditional investments that were related to stock and bond sorts of markets but recently there were reasons for me to look in to diversifying my portfolio. My brother has had great luck and success in the foreign exchange market that has no connection to the ups and downs of the stocks as we know them. I found that he was able to steer me toward that same place to put some of my own money.