Pros and Challenges of Trading Forex

I found this below very useful, and newbies should always know about it
12 years ago I was a newbie too, but now a profitable proffesional. So always know what you are getting into.

Pro : The forex markets are the largest in terms of daily trading volume in the world and therefore offer the most liquidity . [2]  This makes it easy to enter and exit a position in any of the major currencies within a fraction of a second for a small spread in most market conditions.

Challenge: Banks, brokers, and dealers in the forex markets allow a high amount of leverage , which means that traders can control large positions with relatively little money of their own. Leverage in the range of 100:1 is a high ratio but not uncommon in forex. A trader must understand the use of leverage and the risks that leverage introduces in an account. Extreme amounts of leverage have led to many dealers becoming insolvent unexpectedly.

Pro : The forex market is traded 24 hours a day, five days a week—starting each day in Australia and ending in New York. The major centers are Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Paris, London, and New York.
Challenge: Trading currencies productively requires an understanding of economic
fundamentals and indicators. A currency trader needs to have a big-picture understanding of the economies of the various countries and their inter-connectedness to grasp the fundamentals that drive currency values.

The Bottom Line
For traders —especially those with limited funds—day trading or swing trading in small amounts is easier in the forex market than other markets. For those with longer-term horizons and larger funds, long-term fundamentals-based trading or a carry trade can be profitable. A focus on understanding the macroeconomic fundamentals driving currency values and experience with technical analysis may help new forex traders to become more profitable.

Trading is really quite risky, but there are not much more advantages, you just need to approach everything competently and judiciously.

Dorigda posted:
Trading is really quite risky, but there are not much more advantages, you just need to approach everything competently and judiciously.

There are much advantage to me though.

Dorigda posted:
Trading is really quite risky, but there are not much more advantages, you just need to approach everything competently and judiciously.

It's true you have to have a sober mind in trading. and for me forex has a lot of advantags. first of all i knew a lot of new thing. Now i know every economics event. and even politics is interesting for me now. and the bigest advantags is money. i have aditional money from trading.

Whatever trading style you follow you have to expert in that. If you do not have enough skills, you will not be able to stay here for long. A newbie should focus on learning and researching. They should remember it takes time to be expert.

Michihito posted:
Whatever trading style you follow you have to expert in that. If you do not have enough skills, you will not be able to stay here for long. A newbie should focus on learning and researching. They should remember it takes time to be expert.

On point

Yes forex market is the biggest financial market on earth. But only 5% to 10% people are successful in trading. It because it requires specific knowledge and skills to make profit. So every newbie should remember that they need to focus on sharpen their skills.

UweMoench posted:
Yes forex market is the biggest financial market on earth. But only 5% to 10% people are successful in trading. It because it requires specific knowledge and skills to make profit. So every newbie should remember that they need to focus on sharpen their skills.

True, took me over a year to develop strategy now I'm using back in 2008. Since then no going back till date. I always avoid contracts of some banks becauseonce they see you are successful, the will try to tire you down with contract.I prefer private banks and individual trading as I have freedom.

Pros Of trading

1.Low Costs
Forex trading can have very low costs (brokerage and commissions). There are no commissions in a real sense–most forex brokers make profits from the spreads between forex currencies.

2. High Liquidity
Compared with any other financial markets, the forex market has the largest number of market participants.

3. No Central Exchange or Regulator
Being an over-the-counter market operating across the globe, there is no central exchange or regulator for the forex market.

4. Low Capital Requirements
Due to tight spreads in terms of pips, one can easily start forex trading with a small amount of initial capital.

Challenges in trading

1. Lack of Transparency
Due to the deregulated nature of the forex market dominated by brokers, one actually trades against professionals.

2. High Risk, High Leverage
Forex trading is available on high leverage, meaning one can get profit/loss exposure multiple times of the trading capital.

3. High Volatility
With no control over macroeconomic and geopolitical developments, one can easily suffer huge losses in the highly volatile forex market.

Yes. You are absolutely right. It will help all the new traders to make their decisions easily.

The main challenge of trading is to handle the losses. Managing the risks properly. If you can not make proper deal with the losses you can not survive in this risky market.

The biggest benefit of trading Forex that I see is the leverage option and the only con I can think about is the high volatility.

Each has its own positive aspects, and I can say that there are indeed much more of them than negative ones.

There are pros and cons in each field. We got to see whether the pros are really benefitting for an individual and worth taking the risks for. In case of forex, the pros outweigh the cons for me.

EllisParker posted:
There are pros and cons in each field. We got to see whether the pros are really benefitting for an individual and worth taking the risks for. In case of forex, the pros outweigh the cons for me.

That’s true. I also agree. But traders need to know about both. It helps to grow as a trader.

Forex trading is not easy. You need proper knowledge and skills to make money from this market.

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I found this below very useful, and newbies should always know about it
12 years ago I was a newbie too, but now a profitable proffesional. So always know what you are getting into.

Pro : The forex markets are the largest in terms of daily trading volume in the world and therefore offer the most liquidity . [2]  This makes it easy to enter and exit a position in any of the major currencies within a fraction of a second for a small spread in most market conditions.

Challenge: Banks, brokers, and dealers in the forex markets allow a high amount of leverage , which means that traders can control large positions with relatively little money of their own. Leverage in the range of 100:1 is a high ratio but not uncommon in forex. A trader must understand the use of leverage and the risks that leverage introduces in an account. Extreme amounts of leverage have led to many dealers becoming insolvent unexpectedly.

Pro : The forex market is traded 24 hours a day, five days a week—starting each day in Australia and ending in New York. The major centers are Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Paris, London, and New York.
Challenge: Trading currencies productively requires an understanding of economic
fundamentals and indicators. A currency trader needs to have a big-picture understanding of the economies of the various countries and their inter-connectedness to grasp the fundamentals that drive currency values.

The Bottom Line
For traders —especially those with limited funds—day trading or swing trading in small amounts is easier in the forex market than other markets. For those with longer-term horizons and larger funds, long-term fundamentals-based trading or a carry trade can be profitable. A focus on understanding the macroeconomic fundamentals driving currency values and experience with technical analysis may help new forex traders to become more profitable.

Trading is really quite risky, but there are not much more advantages, you just need to approach everything competently and judiciously.

richardmarcus posted:

posted:
I found this below very useful, and newbies should always know about it
12 years ago I was a newbie too, but now a profitable proffesional. So always know what you are getting into.

Pro : The forex markets are the largest in terms of daily trading volume in the world and therefore offer the most liquidity . [2]  This makes it easy to enter and exit a position in any of the major currencies within a fraction of a second for a small spread in most market conditions.

Challenge: Banks, brokers, and dealers in the forex markets allow a high amount of leverage , which means that traders can control large positions with relatively little money of their own. Leverage in the range of 100:1 is a high ratio but not uncommon in forex. A trader must understand the use of leverage and the risks that leverage introduces in an account. Extreme amounts of leverage have led to many dealers becoming insolvent unexpectedly.

Pro : The forex market is traded 24 hours a day, five days a week—starting each day in Australia and ending in New York. The major centers are Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Paris, London, and New York.
Challenge: Trading currencies productively requires an understanding of economic
fundamentals and indicators. A currency trader needs to have a big-picture understanding of the economies of the various countries and their inter-connectedness to grasp the fundamentals that drive currency values.

The Bottom Line
For traders —especially those with limited funds—day trading or swing trading in small amounts is easier in the forex market than other markets. For those with longer-term horizons and larger funds, long-term fundamentals-based trading or a carry trade can be profitable. A focus on understanding the macroeconomic fundamentals driving currency values and experience with technical analysis may help new forex traders to become more profitable.

Trading is really quite risky, but there are not much more advantages, you just need to approach everything competently and judiciously.

true that

We must not forget that any business has its positive and negative sides, it all depends on your attitude and mood.