Moneymaker2... what happened to Moneymaker1? A "professional trader" that cries because leverage was limited to 50:1 and that this was the reason that made him unprofitable, combined with the notion that he became profitable again by using an ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

[/quote] Gamblers ruin, aka far too much leverage is the main reason why the lose so fast. I was able to simulate that with a quite simple mathematical model, but also found a lot of real world evidence / data that exactly confirms these findings. ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

I would have to investigate this in more detail to get a clearer picture what's going on there specifically. What I see is that the whole forex industry is making hundreds of millions in profit each year and they deploy a significant portion of this ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

At least you are right with this one.... what you don't say (on purpose) is that all evidence out there shows the 10-20% winners do not have any statistical significant higher probability to be winners again in the next year.... if you compare ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

Drolph, thanks for posting the evidence needed to prove you are a scammer or a soon to be victim of your own delusions. You show the equity / balance curve of a typical grid / martingale system or a system with a huge risk / reward ratio that works ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

Here you find a more or less complete list showing the percentage of customers that lose money trading forex over a periode of 12 months for many brokers. Every broker that offers service within the regulatory reach of ESMA has to publish this ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

The retail forex industry has an essential interest to keep the transparency as low as possible. They sell a myth, so facts are extremly destructive. The ESMA numbers are much better than the CFTC numbers and give you a much clearer picture ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

Drolph, nice try.... but try harder. The hyperlink you listed doesn't even match the picture you show.... The picture shows a typical behaviour of a grid or martingale system....before it blows up. I can produce such a chart easily on my own if I ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

Forex retail client losses overview thanks to ESMA! Finally we are getting numbers to debunk the myth of profitable retail traders..... they do not exist in the long run: image Keep in mind that this is still a short therm picture....in the long ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

1. the email you list looks suspicious 2. the email adress listed doesn't even belong to a forex broker url 3. check the email header to see if your conterpart is really the email adress shown... I doubt it. 4. A serious broker won't communicate ...

Scammers - Hall of Shame

check wheter this is a fishing operation to get your personal data.

SCAM - ADSS Forex by Orex

Speculative crypto trading is a negative sum game for losers - even worse than retail forex, because it's still far less regulated. Looking at wealth distribution regarding btc adresses: image So about 97% of all bitcoin adresses have less than 1 ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

BTC/USD has brocken 6000...... and now retailers trading BTC using any sort of leverage will be punished hard. Although BTC is already down about 10% and most other cryptos up to -20% I see almost no headlines...... interesting.... if it would go up ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

You will find greener pastures..... I can predict that with a 99.8% probability.. ;-) A big thank you for all the interesting stuff and especially your kindness you brought to this place over the years. Cheers, Hudi

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Snake oilers in overdrive..... love it. ESMA great job. Loss numbers from ESMA do even understate the real losses of retail customers..... so pointing out to the 100 pound punters isn't going to help to marginalize the fact that retail forex is a ...

Breaking: ESMA finalizes new rules to govern leveraged trading

Here you get an idea why brokers have to start to list their customers win / loss percentage over just 3 months. The reason behind is ESMA. url All hard scientific data suggests their is close to zero retail traders profitable in the long run. ...

Is trading really that hard?

It's important to understand this and what it means for a retail traders..... url ... just one puzzle piece more to explain why retail forex is a negative game for losers.

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

Due to ESMA regulations, which are of great benefit to retail traders, better stats will be gathered about retail forex trading. url image However, the clues out of these numbers is really completely misleading, as typical for the forex ...

Forex - A negative sum game for losers

Copernicus..... thanks for feeding my brain with interesting stuff! Some great posts!

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