Is Forex really gambling

Forex trading is gambling to me when you trade using technical analysis but a form of lucrative investment when you trade using fundamental analysis by trading news events coupled with managing your emotions and money.. You are predicting what price is going to do technically in the next sec, minute, hours, days, weeks or months, which is uncertain no matter your analysis..The last time i checked only God can predict the future! So dont ever feel bad when you loose a trade because you are just human!

One thing i know for sure is Life generally is a risk but i know risk can be managed and calculated..For example you have sex with a stranger without protecting yourself using condoms, you are at a bigger risk of contacting STD but with condoms you have a very slight chance of contacting any disease..The condom is the news release which limits your loss significantly and protects you..well i really thank Forex factory administrators for providing fundamental news reports as its the only way i can speculate the market..If you are trading fundamentals, you are not gambling thats why most forex brokers dont like retail traders trading the news release..

LOL @ that vid.

So to sum it up, the 5% who make it know when to buy and when to sell. Got it. Well, what else were you expecting? Of course people lose money trading. That's because they don't know what they're doing. They haven't learned everything properly, had enough screen time, and/or haven't developed as a person (mentally, emotionally, psychologically, etc) enough to be good at trading. It's a no-brainer that a lot of people fail at trading. What I don't get is why so many people have such unrealistic expectations about things. If you are learning to be a mechanic but are only 1/5th the way through your training, do you really think you'll be able to rebuild an engine? Of course not, and you don't deserve any sympathy for not being able to. Trading is no different.

As for whether or not trading is gambling, well, there certainly are a lot of parallels. However, you have a lot more control over things in trading than you do at a casino. That should be very obvious. You can scratch a trade with a small profit, but if you fold your hand at a poker table you lose everything you put into it up to that point. I would even go so far as to claim that there are more successful traders in the world than successful poker players or black jack players, perhaps even on a percentage basis. I don't have the data to back that up, but I can say that I know of many more successful traders than gamblers. In fact I can't even name one professional poker player. LOL

it's only gambling if you don't have a winning system http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/computer-17.gif

gambler do have winning system, or what they think as winning system
we can try to count what card that has been dealt to know what is left.
we can try to figure the opponent card by the way they hold their card.
by how the previous card is stacked and shuffled we can guess the possible sorting.

i've try that and lost almost 100% against the experienced gambler.

for them, playing against me is called investment,

Absolutely, and the money management nad positive expected value make the difference between the successful and un successful traders and gamblers. The problem is that 95% of the traders never realize this.

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