Why do more than 90% of traders lose?

[Fireplace]

Oooh, I noticed something that is maybe affecting your trading....150% is not possible, only 100% is possible.......maybe a math skills refresher course would help out?

Quote from oilfxpro:

This is elite traders , more than 150 % are successful traders

 

[al trader]

everybody lose. end of story.

 

[Fireplace]

Do you moonlight as a motivational speaker?

Quote from al trader:

everybody lose. end of story.

 

[emg]

Time to bump this thread.


http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/03/business/la-fi-amateur-currency-trading-20110403


of the total 615K forex accounts, 605K accounts lose on an annual basis.

 

[emg]

Small Traders will never make it

 

[Gyles]

How about having some information on the 10% winners?

 

[SGlad]

Quote from emg:

The reality is, more than 90% of small traders lose!! They just lose!!!
I am looking for the best answers

Let me try to participate by my 5 cents

Traders (i.e., small speculators) are doomed because the exchange (and the market as a whole) is a specialized organization to ravage them.

Mammals can not eat predators, at best, only a similar or even weaker. It is the law of the nature, and nobody can arguing against it.

Sg

 

[cornix]

Quote from SGlad:

Let me try to participate by my 5 cents

Traders (i.e., small speculators) are doomed because the exchange (and the market as a whole) is a specialized organization to ravage them.

Mammals can not eat predators, at best, only a similar or even weaker. It is the law of the nature, and nobody can arguing against it.

Sg

Small animals can successfully parasitize on top predators in food chain, though, nature knows many precedents of this.

 

[SGlad]

Quote from cornixforex:

Small animals can successfully parasitize on top predators in food chain, though, nature knows many precedents of this.

of course!
until "top" allows them to do it and after they will be are eaten as usual food

 

[cornix]

Quote from SGlad:

of course!
until "top" allows them to do it and after they will be are eaten as usual food

I have yet to recall the case I saw on Discovery or NatGeo when lion ate a vulture.