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20 May 2009It is perfectly understandable that people hate the idea of going to the workplace for 9-5 job and much prefer working from home. They think that forex currency trading would give them this desired break and hence they wish to learn how to do that.
It’s sure explains why I began trading forex. My career was terrible, going nowhere. I wanted to join the folks I heard about on the Web, the ones who were having such wild successes with forex trading. Who wouldn’t?
One of the first things you discover when venturing into the world of online forex trading is that the community is good at talking but very few of them do what they actually say.
During just a cursory look at forex, you’ll hear amazing percentages being tossed around, like “95% of forex traders are losing money, not making it.” 95%. So is forex currency trading so complicated, so demanding, that an ordinary person can’t do it? Not at all.
It’s just that lots of people plunge in without a thought. They treat forex like a game of chance in a casino, a gamble that they hope they’ll be lucky enough to win. Figure out where a currency is going, and hope. That’s a losing strategy.
Forex isn’t “playing”, a word often erroneously used by traders to describe their activities. I’m playing with a hundred grand, they’ll say. Is it any wonder they’re not successful? Their frivolous attitude, the way they approach their trades, is not conducive to success.
A lot of people want a shortcut. They expect their trading software to do the thinking for them. They expect a lot from the system and are not bothered to really learn how it is to be done.
If the software is that terrific, and can really accomplish the miracles these traders expect it to, then why aren’t they making money using it in their trading?
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