A new website has been launched to cater to individual investors who want to trade currencies, taking advantage of the boom in foreign exchange trading and growing interests from retail investors.

GAIN Capital, a foreign exchange trader and asset manager, launched www.forex.com to provide information and trading services for the growing retail market. It allows investors to open an account with as little as $250, with up to 200 times leverage.

Mark Galant, chief executive and founder of GAIN said, "Over the past several years, the Forex market has gone from being virtually unknown to most retail investors into one that now attracts individual investors worldwide, and of varied experience levels."