What are the differences b/w Stock markets & Currency markets?

I've a few questions on comparison between stock trading & currency trading, such as,
Is the stock market easier way to trade than currency markets?
Are there any forex brokers who also provide a platform for indices trading?
If any, quote few of them.
What is the Major difference which makes one of them easy?
Hope many of you share your information and opinions here.

Before we go ANY further with this, what is your agenda, or course of action towards GOAL?

If you think you are going to GET RICH QUICK - you are DEAD wrong on both markets - unless of course you have a friend at Goldman Sachs,
Credit Suisse, JPM, the list goes on and on.

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The MAJOR DIFFERENCE is as follows:

FOREX or FOReign EXchange Market is exactly what it says, foreign exchange of currencies and that's it.
There is the spot or "cash FX" market - then there is the futures market.

There is no way to go Long only or Short only in this market as you are always trading a PAIR- One VS the OTHER.
for example - Long EUR/USD means you BOUGHT the EURO and SOLD the USD against it. U likely know this.

The stock market - is based on various indices, Like the Dow Jones, S&P 500 as well as STOCK in COMPANIES traded on different exchanges Like the
NYSE or the NASDAQ... or the FTSE or the etc, etc, etc.

Stocks are individual shares at a current market price that are part ownership of a COMPANY such as COCA-COLA - CSX - PLAYBOY - GOOGLE - APPLE - FXCM
These have all had IPOs. Otherwise they would be PRIVATELY owned and not traded.

The chart analysis is similar, yet the fundamentals are far different in many circumstances, the Global or even National rather fundies remain similar for the Country in which you are trading, HOWEVER, Just because the USD slumps, doesn't mean FACEBOOK, is not making money...............

Instead of comparing imports, exports, GDP, Employment data, Central Bank activity, as you would in FOREX- as a daily / weekly job,
With stocks you want to know about the company, are they in debt, how long have they been around, what was the IPO, what is the price NOW,
Who are the CEO's, what does their budget look like, are they run by crooks, do they have a decent product or service, for said product is the share price
@ fair value / undervalue or just right.... etc..........

All the DOW or the S&P are is an index of a bunch of STOX traded as a whole.....

Need more info.................................from you..................

When you get into international stocks or stocks that have a basis with international trade, FOREX understanding is an ESSENTIAL part of trading.

MT4 Brokers use CFD's to simulate futures indexes. CFD's are an in-house broker/market-maker derivative, whereas the futures indexes are real futures contracts traded on the exchange.

If you're serious about trading indexes, trade futures because the spreads are way lower, the liquidity is much better, and you don't need to deal with CFD market maker manipulation.

To illustrated the difference, the E-mini (ES) futures contract, almost always has a spread of 0.25. If you look at the corresponding spread for the ES CFD on a MT4 brokers, you'll find it's 0.50 to 1.00. That's a 2-4x difference!!

There's many brokers that offer futures e.g. Interactive Brokers, TD-Ameritrade, E-Trade, RCG plus many others.