Why do you lose money in trading?

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You are one amongst the 90% of forex traders that lose money. So you are not unique.
I believe there is something fishing that goes on behind the scene. e.g. Have you ever noticed that immediately after you place a trade on a trending market, all a sudden it stops trending and the price starts going against you and never come back? As soon as you stop the trade manually or hit your stop loss, it continues to trend again. I can bet that this occurs between 80% - 90% of the time. So why does this happen? Do you think it is coincident? I don't think so. Have you ever noticed that when the trade goes against you the loss goes at a higher speed than when are making profit? These occurrences are not coincidences. They are real.
I guess I have answered your question.

Thanks.

Reason why most people lose money is that they do too much and over complicate things.

That's because they don't take the time to research to see what price is doing at support and resistance levels.

No one can tell the reason for another trader’s failure. Every trader faces different issues, commits different mistakes and has a different way of dealing with those problems. I think it’s not difficult to realise the reason for your failure and neither the way to avoid it, but the real challenge is in taking suitable action constantly to avoid those mistakes.
During my initial days in trading I was very eager to enter and exit multiple trades. Holding my position was a task for me but I don’t think anyone could help me with that except myself and I did that.

Ride it out, have a bigger bankroll.

I thinks the reason is WE ARE NOT ROBOTS..emotions are the only reason ..when you take a bad choice and you know that its a bad choice but still take it ,this is lead to loss.

Because of the unpredictable nature of the market, we cannot understand it completely. And so, we tend to make wrong trading decisions that lead to losses. The other reason can be that we can’t always control our emotions. Sometimes we become greedy and sometimes, we are so frustrated that we end up overtrading.

Pepole are losing money in trading for several key reasons.

1. High leverage
2. Trading mainly the lower TF
3. Poor money management

As of my personal experience I would say :

Unrealistic expectations.
Money Management.
Not sticking to one strategy or rules.
Not accepting losing and wanting to beat the market to get revenge.
My Advice

I treat trading like a business this is why I am making money , Find a strategy that fits you do it over and over consistency is the key.
Always Enter a Trade knowing there is no sure outcome

I don't know what broker you're using maybe you trade with a market maker that manipulate your chart or you are not good at management but there is nothing about what you are saying all the time there is a buy and same time a sell, you buy and sell from other people like you ,

First 2 years I have been trading live I was losing money but I never said that maybe there is something fishy but no I learned more about economic in stock market it easier to manipulate true but not in forex market

After I got experience am making good results ,
Because I learned from my mistakes and learned how the market reacts

I lose money mostly because of impatience, hard to control myself during loss, especially a streak of losses.

I think most of the traders lose because they don’t have a plan. They just hope for things to go their way. They enter the position without knowing when to stop, they don’t know if they need to hold the position for short-term or long term, they don't even have a backup plan for what they’ll do if the market takes the opposite turn. It’s very important to contemplate and think of every possible scenario if you really want to succeed.

Too many people rush into trading without a plan in place. I like to follow a strict strategy which means I only risk 1-2% of my account on any one trade. Losses are part of trading but they should be controlled in such a way that they are kept to a minimum.

I know why I have been losing all this time. It's because I set way too unrealistic goals for a market that doesn't do exactly what I think it's doing. So I've been setting very modest daily goals and hitting them so next year that's what I'm going to do for my intraday trading. Focus more on hitting these modest daily goals and focus on increasing lot size last

Trading Scared.
Lack of Belief / Confidence.
Fear of the unknown.
Taking Small Profits & Large Losses.
Moving Stoplosses once in a trade & when price moves against you.

Lately the markets are very profitable to trade on the news, I advise you to read the necessary information on this subject.

My main problem is curve fitting. I am trying to create a profitable strategy for long time in algorithmic trading. Real time testing never yielded the rosy picture you obtained in backtesting which you have created unconsciously by neglecting bad cases. That is, by curve fitting.

IMHO, scalping is the only way.. And never exceeding session hours. Meaning: a trade should be opened and closed within the session time. And mainly European and US sessions..

Halim.

one loses, until starts to win.

HODL was never a bad thing. ask your gf...

people do not research market well.