To answer the question, is Forex trading gambling, we have to break it down by the very definition of what it is to gamble.But before we do that, I want to share a brief outline of the way I used to think about trading and gambling. I remember when I first started trading Forex back in late 2007, a little more than 6 years ago. Forex, or foreign exchange, trading is an international market for buying and selling currencies. It is similar to the stock exchange, where you trade shares of a company.Like the stock market, you don't need to take possession of the currency to trade. Forex is a portmanteau of foreign currency and exchange. Foreign exchange is the process of changing one currency into another currency for a variety of reasons, usually for commerce, trading, or