I think your question is completely fair and seems pretty simple to me. Anyone who wanted to could show you their return on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual basis easily. They just pull up their Realized P/L records and spill them out on the form here. I think that people only have two reasons for not providing you a straight answer.
1) They are not successful and don't even want to talk about it (some also choose to lie)
2) They do not want to sound like a "beginner" talking about their profit or loss. They feel that providing such raw numbers is amateurish and they have to beat around the bush and never give a straight answer to sound like a more seasoned trader.
These two things drive me crazy, when beginners really are just trying to figure out if they have any chance of being excited about this business. Most of us are asking how much can be made because we want to know if it is worth our time, and because we want to know how excited we should be about Forex. What is a reasonable amount to expect? What is unreasonable? Etc. etc.
I don't think that random people on the forums providing straight answers for once would hurt anyone, and I seriously doubt it would turn very many soon to be traders away from trading. That is the situation I am in now. I am about to start trading on the 27th. I have been studying and practicing on a demo for a year now. I have heard all of the negativity and how I am just going to lose my money and blah blah blah, but I still am going to do it because I have the itch to trade.
One final thought, those on the forums who post their sour grape replies about how much can be made in forex with something like "You can make a million dollars in forex, just start with 2 million", we have heard it all before and it is neither clever nor original. If you really hated forex that much, you would not be contributing to the forums in the first place. Don't pretend you don't still love it.
1) They are not successful and don't even want to talk about it (some also choose to lie)
2) They do not want to sound like a "beginner" talking about their profit or loss. They feel that providing such raw numbers is amateurish and they have to beat around the bush and never give a straight answer to sound like a more seasoned trader.
These two things drive me crazy, when beginners really are just trying to figure out if they have any chance of being excited about this business. Most of us are asking how much can be made because we want to know if it is worth our time, and because we want to know how excited we should be about Forex. What is a reasonable amount to expect? What is unreasonable? Etc. etc.
I don't think that random people on the forums providing straight answers for once would hurt anyone, and I seriously doubt it would turn very many soon to be traders away from trading. That is the situation I am in now. I am about to start trading on the 27th. I have been studying and practicing on a demo for a year now. I have heard all of the negativity and how I am just going to lose my money and blah blah blah, but I still am going to do it because I have the itch to trade.
One final thought, those on the forums who post their sour grape replies about how much can be made in forex with something like "You can make a million dollars in forex, just start with 2 million", we have heard it all before and it is neither clever nor original. If you really hated forex that much, you would not be contributing to the forums in the first place. Don't pretend you don't still love it.