but this is a long time approach , so the traders who are particularly beginners always fall a great trouble when try to gather experience with very short time.
no, it's closer to 95%
Explanation is simple: 95% don't know what they're doing so they gamble their life savings away to feed the 5% winners
90% of trading is correct pricing and 10% ist risk management. That's what the fat cats do.Your explanation is spot on. However, I think that almost everyone fails. Like 99.99% fail. That is why the .01% are so fat.
But that is the failure stats for those who actively try to outsmart the markets.
The vast majority who put their money in mutual funds or dollar cost average into index funds or index ETF's seem to do quite well over the years, assuming that they keep a program of steady contributions active over a period of years.