90% of traders lose money?

Trading is not fun for me because i must say that we have to become serious if we have to earn something, because in business you have to be a professional businessman so if you want to become a professional trader you must have to be serious about the trading so i can not do it for the fun. i just accept it as a profession so i have to be professonal. What you think?

Absolutely, everyone wants to make quick money and for that they prefer short-cuts. But forex is not at all a get rich quick business. Uniformity and discipline is must. Proper risk management techniques and learning about working of the market is essential. Along with high probability of making money, loses can also be there but with continuity and right approach one can aim ahead and become successful trader.

Why would you want to know if 90% are losers ?

Don’t be discouraged if 95% are losers and only 5% are winners. In those 5% there could be thousands if not millions of people. Everyone who goes to university and earns an IT degree can’t start a successful start up and be in the top 1%. Life is unfair. Same with trading what makes you think everyone who “tries” will be successful you to try harder. But a lot of variables will depend on you.

We must try to find a broker which has normal trading conditions and i think loosing is just a probability so is winning.

This statistics doesn’t look surprising taking into account the fact that 90% of traders are beginners who treat Forex as a source of easy money. So yeah, I’m not surprised at all. Newbies must understand that Forex is not about luck or intuition; it all comes down to persistent learning, practicing, and gaining experience.

90% loser, containing
new trader,
Revenge trader,
Emotion trader,
Place trade n forget trader,
Ego trader,
nervous trader,
Rely too much on indicator traders,
Blur traders,
Rely on luck traders,

So I think it contains of all this kind of traders. Sad to say… We r human… All of us hv abit of this and that. Forex is long term business. Have to Mantain it slowly n constancy. If any trader think it’s fast earning machine, I suggest casino is much better place . Free drink sometime free food somemore… Forex is unpredictable expecally when news going to b release. Indicater is lagging…it super perfect when back test… And It provides alot of signals and tat true. But… U get the signal when real price is going far away from u… So to b one of the 10% winner… It really not easy… Beside discipline, practice, experience n emotional control is v important. Just this few things, it easy to say than done. But at list we try. That y in Babypips here, all traders is helping one another. Like mi… I’m not the best, I’m one of the Iousy… need help n advise from other traders too. That where we learn, we control, we analyze, we try n error. Used to rely alot on indicator but now non indicater. B4 he or she become a real retail trader, he must know himself v well, what kind of trader he or she want to be. Long term? Short term? Scalper? Price reverse traders? From there then chose the best strategy that suit him. N don’t keep changing strategy, cos will get confused, hv confident. Learn price action, it help. Trade wisely.

A number of novice traders start their trading with a wrong mentality, yes they want to earn huge amount of money automatically! As a result, they start their trading with huge damages and then leave! But I see, pro traders are very silent here! I am not sure about this popular statistic; but I believe knowledgeable traders can make money here quite comfortably!

Huge damages… That was so call money… Nobody pointed a gun on their head to tell them to trade with so much amount. It the same as putting all eggs in one basket… Y don’t they think of trade abit by abit n add up will b alot too… Just do more trade will do… Add all the pips up together it means alot… Trading need patient… Even trading for breakout… Alot traders when see breakout they straight away got nervous, quickly place a trade but who know prices went against them… N stop them out. Don’t b nervous when trading. Just relax, as even for break out price will always pull back. Below is a example of my trading platform which happens just now, just wait to yr the price to go up to the max. It will stay on the tip top for awhile. Than it b a great time to place trade. Don’t b greedy don’t throw huge amount don trade to large size… Bit by bit alot means so much.


I can’t say that exactly this percentage of traders loses money, but judging by myself, at the beginning I drained a lot, I started trading in the plus after six months or more, so maybe this statistics is really truthful, it’s just that not everyone can hang in there long enough.

You will NEVER find a PERFECT broker. Everyone has its flaws and advantages. As far as I know scalpers and pipsers are always unhappy. They always сomplane that fulfillment is bad.

Erm…not all…I’m a scalper…and I’m happy with my result.just that I want to know what strategy other trader using.n I can learn more about it

Whether you’re a successfull trader or not, there will still be unlucky deals and I can’t agree with those who say that they trade without drawdowns completely, that means they don’t trade at all.

Those who’ve been trading over a year never trade with a negative balance. It’s newbies that can drain deposits quite actively.

Forex market is a platform where money is transferred from impatient to patient so we can easily say that 90% of traders are lacking patience and want to make quick money and in this process they lose.

95% of daily traders loss money to 5% of investors who are more patience, more knowledge and more experience.

[1] - Just daily traders, or was this posted in hast?

[2] - Investors, traders and speculators are three very different identities. Retail clients are for the most part speculators, never trading anything; simply placing a bet with the retail broker. These bets are never passed onto the market as trades.

This gives an entirely wrong impression of what actually happens.

The vast majority of retail traders trade through brokers and probably 95% of those 95% who lose actually lose to their broker, who is their counterparty. They do not do transactions directly with other investors.

Even with ECN, the trade is passed through to a liquidity provider who is usually a market-maker bank, not an investor.

Yes, indeed, retail traders lose because of a lack of patience, a lack of knowledge and a lack of experience- and a lack of other things, too.

But they lose because of their own inadequacies (which can be rectified), not because they are beaten by the superiority of other investors. You do not need to be better than anyone else in order to succeed - you just have to be good yourself. That is the beauty of trading such markets, we are all on the [I]same [/I]side…

what do you think about forex analytic? do you use it in your trading?

This is very, very wrong. Those two groups are not even in the same marketplace as each other, so there’s no issue of one them “losing money to the other”.

I also believe this statistic, because maximum new Forex traders start their live trading so early without enough demo practice, so they haven’t enough plan on live trading! As a result, they lose their real money!