Why do Forex Traders fail? Insides from a Social Forex Network
Thursday, August 12th, 2010As you probably know, Forex trading is perceived as a dangerous business, where up to 90% of all traders burn their money. But why? The stock market has the same unpredictable moves, but investors are not in danger to burn their account immediately. So why in Forex?
Operating a Social Forex Network, we do have access to all trading activities of all our members. This gives us the opportunity to analyze, why and how traders fail. Even though we also have a lot of demo traders in our network, we focused our analysis on real-money traders, to provide a realistic picture.
So what is it? Do traders take too big positions sometimes? Happens to some, but its not the major reason. Do they trade exotic currency pairs without knowing them well? New traders are curious about everything and some also suffered losses because of that. But again, not the majority. Our findings revealed that traders fail because of two very simple reasons, which are known quite well, but apparently too much often still disregarded. So no surprise, but yet another proof about what has to change.