There is no difference, 2400% on $500 or 24000% on $500, because all these amateur contests are absolutely irrelevant to real professional consistent trading day in day out...
No doubt . Market maker have advantage ,
slightly more as 50%
Observe ,how make profit Oanda , gret quantity of small clients with great quantities of operations
Shannon/Kelly form is relevant ,if operator have advantage
Retail have not
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If exist not advantage ,best strategy
to win ,limited quantities of operations
with heavy beat (100 % Risk)
Montecarlo roullete have advantage 51.60
to 48.40 . (with event game)
Retail in Montecarlo have only 48.60
Retail clients in forex very possible lower
as 48.60
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Any idiot can nearly randomly open positions on max leverage, eventually catch a strong trend, multiply $500 account in a very short time and show it to impress fools about how much profit he/she made.
It is no different ,more of them randomly open
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can be better ,as fundamental and technical
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indicators,news broadly used from professional as
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desinformation ( Buy on on rumour ,sell on news
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on example)
To end of the year 90% of retail would loss ,5% would have zero ,4.9% average win and only
0.1% very good win
Average retail account life expectancy by forex
60 days.
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But it is not even nearly called trading in a business sense of the word.
Nonsense . All operations ,1000 per day
or one per year .with risk 0.1 % of capital or
100% of capital related
to
1.Edge
2. Game theory -Shannon,Kelly ,Morgenstern,Puancare
Author point of view -retail have not any edge
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full correlated with industry statistic