Does anyone really make money off of the Forex?

Couldn’t you say the same thing about price action…

only 4 months ?? c’mon you don’t really expect to become profitable in that time of period do you ? if that’s so I’m afraid that you are a victim of false Forex propaganda usually given by brokers.

before I discover babypips I was a “student” of this successful trader name Jose Soto and I quote student because he really didn’t teach me anything. he is not a bad guy or anything but the only thing he does is give you entry signals and live access to his trading operations, so you really know his making real money

the thing is he is different from me and if you want to became a trader You need to do things on your own , but if you want money just give you account to a professional trader and relax .

i have a year and a half in the Forex world and for the first time I ended in profit on my demo account for October you can check my trandings on meetpips icisnerosfx

So in a nutshell your saying you do well trading Forex and are able to make a living doing it. I myself believe there are people making a living trading. I don’t know about Forex, but I know in the stock and commodities markets there are traders doing very well. I think a lot of people here are simply beginners and haven’t actually made it to that skill level yet. After all this is a beginner Forex site. Not saying you have to be a beginner but a lot of people come here to learn Forex. And if you are a Pro then why would you want to post threads on how much money your making. Your probably to busy trading.

The answer of Billionaires or Millionaires helping the poor in my opinion won’t work. I do believe that many Billionaires who run there companies should have better benefits for there workers. I think it is simply greed and to much of it. The Government has had to step in on many occasions to help the citizens of the US. The great depression, world war 2. Roosevelt. The new deal. That had to happen. Companies don’t help citizens until someone steps in and says, Hey! Better do what’s right. Take Unions for example. Medicare, minimum wage, insurance. All this was because Unions stepped in. On the other hand the Government does a really crappy job of allowing policies to be passed that actually hurt American workers. Then due to job losses and outsourcing the US workers don’t make enough to pay taxes and we wind up getting cuts in Government programs like Social Security that we pay into from our hard work. It’s a vicious cycle of no return on investment for us and the Government.

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Are you trading demo?

I’m not sure if you’re agreeing with me, but yes I said that billionaires helping the poor won’t work.

Pretty sure I mentioned this. If we take away my CEOs salary and spread it among the workers, it’d give each worker about $30 a year.

A companies profits gets split among investors, doesn’t just go to execs.

The thing is, in a free market, the process of becoming rich benefits society. Because in a free market you have to create a product or innovation that betters society.

The only rich people you should despise are the ones who become rich off the government. The people who lobby to restrict competition by having politicians pass regulations that make it harder to compete or by granting themselves subsidies or government ensured loans. Those are the disgusting rich people. And it is because of the government that they get rich. Look at Washington DC. It is the Richest area in the country because all the wealthy bureaucrats, lobbyists and politicians consolidate there to get more laws passed that fill their pockets with your money.

All these things the government does have unintended consequences. Look at minimum wage, it has only shipped jobs overseas. Why is it that some businesses pay above minimum wage? You would think that if it wasn’t for minimum wage everybody would make next to nothing, so why is it that even with a minimum wage many employers pay above minimum wage? Because a wage is the price of your labor and if you are highly skilled your labor is worth more. There is competition for labor and if somebody is highly skilled companies will offer higher salaries and to entice them. All minimum wage did was destroy opportunities for people right out of high school or people new to the workforce who aren’t as skilled. Minimum wage jobs are launching pads for your career. That is where you develop skills and experience that can help you to get better jobs. When the government imposed minimum wages it basically banned low skilled workers from getting jobs.

As far as the great depression, that is a problem the Federal Reserve created. So once again, the government creates a problem and then the solution makes the problem worse. It is interesting to note that from 1921 -1929 the money supply increased 61.8%. Where do you think most of that money went? It went into the stock market and was used to bid up stock prices and create the roaring 20s, which inevitably led to the Great Depression once the bubble burst.

The idea that the Federal Government’s job programs actually helped the economy is debatable. I personally believe that the government’s involvement prolonged the depression.

Look at the 1920-1921 depression and the Great Depression. They were both started by inflationary booms. What is the main difference? In 1921 the Federal Reserve and the government did the exact opposite of what Statist Keynesian economists recommend. The Fed Raised interest rates to historic highs and the Government didn’t get involved in the economy and we actually reduced government spending by 65% in one year. Horrible? Well, the depression of 1920-1921 didn’t even last a year.

In 1929 all the Keynesian prescriptions were used. And Herbert Hoover WAS NOT the lassez faire president people make him out to be. He incurred large deficits and supported large spending projects on things like the Hoover Dam. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was established under hoover and it injected 1 billion dollars into the banks that made bad loans, and that was back when a billion dollars actually meant something…

Near the end of Hoover’s presidency he pushed taxes on the top income rate to 63% in 1933. That is probably why 1933 is considered the worst year in US economic history. And even with those 63% tax hikes on those “evil” rich people, the revenue only went up 3.8%.

FDR continued the policy and even with all his socialist programs we never saw a full recovery of the stock market until 1954, and that was partially because the dollar lost a good portion of its value. In short, the government’s actions during the great Depression were EPIC FAILURES. It’s amazing how, when we did nothing during the depression of 1920-21 the economy immediately got better, meanwhile when we do all the worthless government programs after the collapse of 1929, the economy didn’t recover until 1941. And here, I learn in school that the great depression ended because of FDR’s spending, even though it lasted 13 years longer than the 1920-21 recession where we did nothing… It’s Bunk. FDR and Hoover didn’t help end the depression, they prolonged it. And it is questionable whether the economy was actually better during 1941. Yeah the GDP was back up, but why? Because we were producing loads of tanks and weapons that were useless to American citizens. You can’t use tanks or bombers… So from 1941-1945 Americans were living under wartime austerity and rationing for the war and all our best quality workers were out fighting in Europe and in the Pacific. Hardly prosperity.

And after the war all the Keynesian economists said the economy would implode if we cut government spending. They said the economy would go into another HUGE depression when the millions of our soldiers returned back to America.

Well we cut spending anyway, and millions of troops came back home. What happened? Prosperity. The economy thrived and grew faster. So once again the Keynesian were dead wrong. We didn’t have a depression, we had strong economic growth.

just like in gambling, only trade money you can afford to lose… do not rush of force income… forex trading takes time… even I went throught the process of blowing an account and it was not fun, stick with demo and back track to the basics, explore differet strategies and look for your comfort zone in forex, do not rush it!!

You don’t try to build a wall. You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say, “I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.” You don’t start there. You say: “I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.” And you do that every single day, and soon you’ll have a wall.

Will Smith

Or you just copy a wall that’s already been built…we wont get into copy trading :wink: My view on that is rather dull

Love that quote. :slight_smile:

Hey I’m back to bring Newbies back into reality, one guy here stated his facts were 2-4 out 10 traders are profitable, after I said 1 out of 10 traders are profitable but even with his biased facts you can see the point MOST traders are not profitable.

That’s you, the guys who are profiting are making money off your hard earned money, and paint this great picture that you can making a living doing this to pay the bills for their mansions.

I’m here to tell you the truth of the matter, I’ve been trading for over 2 years now and HAVE lost my life savings in this market. I know everything there is to know about FOREX now, all these little fancy things they tell you like reading indicators, candle stick patterns, trend lines, non farm payrolls, following the news for fundamentals are all hog wash when you get your feet wet.

You can know everything for FOREX and still lose your life savings, very few people make money off FOREX and its those who have a lot of money, the more money you have the easier it is to make money its like anywhere else.

Don’t trust their language, it will get you to lose your money like me, the government has to lower the leverage to 10:1 before most traders can begin to make money, right now the odds are still against Newbies.

That is why you keep hearing them fighting against lowering leverage, because the more NEWBIES like us make, the less the rich veterans make, its a [B]mathematical certainty[/B] that they want you ignorant of.

Define Kalman Filter, Brownian Motion, Random Walk or Portfolio Variance.

And speaking of which, why are you here again? You lost your life savings to FOREX, yet you’re still here preaching.

I don’t know what you’re on about. You’re complaining that only people with money can make money in this business, but then you want them to lower leverage. I noticed I’ve been saying this a lot when reading your posts, this doesn’t make any sense.

I really can’t figure you out. You’re a walking contradiction.

Others may be immoral, but the question is does anyone make money off FOREX and there has to be one voice of truth in this mess of lies.

9 out of 10 traders don’t make money in FOREX, but 9 out 10 traders here will say otherwise to capitalize on the victims.

No, you know NOTHING about FX. Only an idiot would bet his life savings using big positions without an edge. I have challenged you to show some of your trades to tell you where you made your mistakes… NO ANSWER YET.

Two years and you don’t know how to use an indicator? May be you lack some basic education or have some psychological issues… as I said before I hope you do NOT have family that depends on you…

I’m sorry but this victim mindset is not good for you.

Think about it this way, if it is possible for you to lose consistently, then there must be something that you are doing ‘right’ that if you reverse it, you will be able to win consistently… Just something to think about.

Unfortunately, reversing what you are doing doesn’t mean you ll be profitable… I have first hand experience.

Hmm well there are a lot of variables involved and it is not so clear cut as just changing a buy to a sell… you have to take into consideration the change in risk of ruin etc.

Most people don’t trade a method long enough anyway because they over risk on each trade and let their losers run and lose everything before that so it’s hard to say that a method is not profitable in the LR until you have tested it out sufficiently say over 40 trades and have blown up your account by following the rules strictly…

I don’t have first hand experience reversing my trades so you are the authority on this one :wink:

I am a newbie. Been studying and studying. Still not trading. I will someday, then I will know for sure if I am in the top 10% of traders who make money. Truth is like you say “The more money you have to trade, the better chance you have of succeeding in Forex or any market.” The brokers will tell you that, or most of them and if they don’t then they are doing the newbie a disservice. I can see why you lost so much money. But it sounds like maybe you played more like a gambler than a trader. I suppose after a few loses, say a couple thousand dollars a person might want to rethink his position and step back and say Hey! Maybe I shouldn’t trade anymore. But the Brokers are making money that is for sure. Us newbies are probably paying for there lunches, why do they try and get so many people into trading. If they weren’t making money then I guess they wouldn’t have to tell us newbies that Hey this is where the money is! Give it to me.