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  • #21
  • Apr 5, 2019 8:13am Apr 5, 2019 8:13am
We continually make losses in forex trading because we simply refuse to learn and follow instructions. Making consistent profits come with perseverance and a lot of patience. There are traders who win and make a lot of profits, but if you hear there stories, they all came from such humble starting points
  • #22
  • Apr 6, 2019 9:40am Apr 6, 2019 9:40am
Why we lose? Its because we just cant win unless we lose first. In forex trading, the rule is that you have to lose first before you finally start winning. I dont know whether its a rule, but I guess its just because new trader have so much zeal that they don't want to learn first. It takes patience and consistency
  • #23
  • Apr 7, 2019 5:55am Apr 7, 2019 5:55am
most of the time i lost my equity during news , its really a complicated issue
  • #24
  • Apr 7, 2019 1:14pm Apr 7, 2019 1:14pm
Quoting Adelhard
{quote} Well; if your success ratio is above 60% then it’s not a problem; here we can’t expect 100% success; because Forex is all about probabilities; not certainty.
This statement is very dangerous and misleading. You do NOT need a 60% win rate to make money. A high win rate does not mean profitable trading. You really need to understand expectancy, which you obviously don't at the moment. You can be VERY profitable with a 20% win rate. You now need to work out why that is. Good luck .
  • #25
  • Apr 8, 2019 6:25am Apr 8, 2019 6:25am
Not that many people make hardly anything in Forex no matter what rumors said how all will be reach. With short term trading you need to keep your eyes at every market shake, that's why it called short term in the first place. People who successfull in long term probably knows some insider info
  • #26
  • Apr 11, 2019 9:09am Apr 11, 2019 9:09am
Quoting Infassen
Not that many people make hardly anything in Forex no matter what rumors said how all will be reach. With short term trading you need to keep your eyes at every market shake, that's why it called short term in the first place. People who successfull in long term probably knows some insider info
I do not think this is the case at all. You can be profitable on the short term trading and long term as well. The shorter timeframe have more opportunities in terms of risk:reward -

ALso, insider info? really? if that is what you believe, why are you even trading? unless you have insider information? which I hope you dont
  • #27
  • Edited Apr 12, 2019 1:34am Apr 11, 2019 1:40pm | Edited Apr 12, 2019 1:34am
We lose because it's our duty as diligent speculators to provide the best possible deal for real producers and positive contributors to society so they can feed THEIR family and manage THEIR prosperity
If you play the financial markets and win consistently you are an anomaly.
  • #28
  • May 2, 2019 2:33am May 2, 2019 2:33am
we lose , because we are not able to control emotions when trading , only for one reason so many times traders faces unfortunate losses.
  • #29
  • May 2, 2019 11:58am May 2, 2019 11:58am
Or because we get scammed, or because we don't know how to trade, or all of the above, etc. There are many reasons why we lose.
  • #30
  • May 3, 2019 3:30am May 3, 2019 3:30am
yes we dont know how to trade and how to over come when making losses , generally after having losses we trade over and over and become loser , at the end we consider Fx as a scams.
  • #31
  • May 4, 2019 9:36am May 4, 2019 9:36am
Do you think all forex trading is a scam?
  • #32
  • May 5, 2019 9:46pm May 5, 2019 9:46pm
I think we lose because we lack experiences..sometimes we missed the timing or didn’t react fast enough to market changes. Or just because one bad decision.

All forex trading is a scam? I’m not sure..is it??
  • #33
  • May 6, 2019 2:23am May 6, 2019 2:23am
we lose , because our trading strategy not works at all times and the money management we have is very poor , it cant avoid risk and no capability to predict the real faction of this market with certainly.
  • #34
  • May 6, 2019 4:26am May 6, 2019 4:26am
Any Forex strategy should develop after passing sometimes , regular practice in demo only the way to develop your trading strategies performance.
  • #35
  • May 6, 2019 10:23am May 6, 2019 10:23am
It's like one knows math better than another one
  • #36
  • May 7, 2019 3:22am May 7, 2019 3:22am
How much information online with regards to trading has anything to do with money management? It's always some strategy ... I know i sound like a broken record but i am telling you if you can improve your money management and concentrate on that then you will be far more succesful
  • #37
  • May 7, 2019 9:03am May 7, 2019 9:03am
Quoting allinazi
How much information online with regards to trading has anything to do with money management? It's always some strategy ... I know i sound like a broken record but i am telling you if you can improve your money management and concentrate on that then you will be far more succesful
I too fully agree with you because when I started trading I was using huge contract sizes until my account had a negative balance
  • #38
  • May 7, 2019 9:05am May 7, 2019 9:05am
First of all, GnWFx's answer is awesome. Really thorough. The only thing one could add to that, in my opinion, is that there is an emotional element to trading that no machine learning or prediction algorithm has mastered yet.
  • #39
  • May 7, 2019 9:17am May 7, 2019 9:17am
I think its because of not having realistic goals to reach we wanna always making profits because once a trade is on $1 we quickly close but when its going against us we keep holding and hoping that the price will reverse but it keeps going deeper and deeper in losses till we are stopped out
  • #40
  • May 7, 2019 10:39am May 7, 2019 10:39am
Apart from ignorance and lack of discipline it’s scams, scams and more scams.

Case in point - Australians lost over 86 million USD to investment scams in 2018 alone – the biggest portion of the almost 490 million USD in losses from over 378 000 scam reports, the latest report of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) reveals.

The investment scams have increased with 34% that year compared to 2017.
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