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Forex Demo Accounts - Do They Really Work?
Forex brokers who offer a demo account for their new traders can be doing their new members a service but, at the same time they could actually be reducing their chances of success in real currency trading. Along with Mini & Micro accounts, demo accounts have become a tool used by many brokers to attract new traders with little to no experience. These traders are much more comfortable with virtual money or a relatively small deposit amount rather than a full blown trading account when they're first starting.
Most legitimate brokers allow for new traders to use a demo trading account. Brokers offer this practice account option so that traders are able to learn trading strategies & test out Forex software they have may have purchased. While these accounts can be very helpful, there is a major problem
Every broker I've ever worked with that offers a practice account automatically puts $50,000 in it, virtual money.
Unless a new trader has $50k to reallyinvest in an actual trading account, this $50k practice account can not give a trader an actual sense of what his trading experience in real time will be. $50k is a large starting investment & it may give new traders the idea that they can trade carelessly & get away with it or fail to analyze the market correctly or, worse yet, skip some of the automatic signals they may be getting from a Forex signal service.
Without using the real amount of money that they're planning to deposit into a trading account, a new trader is unable to get a real sense for currency trading in the market. Brokers should allow new traders to choose how much to actually "deposit" into these demo accounts so they can get real trading experience with the investment amount that they actually are ready to use.
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Whats a good Forex trading system?
I am just getting into trading forex online...what is a good online trading system with good profitiability? I'm just a beginner, I don't know much about it but i know a little, but am trying to learn as much as possible. Right now i just want a basic good trading system that I can invest a little bit of money and try to turn that into good sums of cash. Also one that has free practice accounts.
I don't mean I want someone's system... I meant like and actual online company that does it. Kind of how Ameritrade is a good "system" for stocks, whats a good "system" for Forex?
I've read a lot about Forex, but I've never seen a proven profitable forex strategy, despite the claims of some scam web sites. Playing Forex can appear alluring, but the majority of people who try it lose money. All you have to do is do a web search on the words "Forex" and "lose" to see this is the consensus.
Forex is what we call a "zero sum" game. You are making a bet with someone else about whether a currency will rise or fall. For every winner there has to be a loser. If you are smarter than the average player, you may make money. If you are dumber than the average player, you are likely to lose money. Most of the people making the "bets" in Forex are highly trained professionals at banks and other institutions. You are unlikely to beat them at this game.
Actually Forex is not quite a zero sum game. It's a slightly negative sum game as the Forex broker takes a small percentage each time in the spread. It's a small amount but over a hundred trades, it ends up being a considerable amount of money. So the average player is likely to lose money, and remember the average player is a highly trained professional and probably smarter than you.
There is a lot of luck in Forex, and if you play it, you will have some periods of time where you make money. This is usually because you are having a lucky streak, not because you have suddenly become an expert Forex player. However, most people are unwilling to admit their success is due to luck. They become convinced they have a system that works, and lose a lot of money trying to refine it.
Further complicating the problem is the large number of Forex scams on the internet. Most Forex websites are of questionable honesty. You will find many people on the Internet that claim they made a lot of money using Forex. They are usually liars trying to make money. They will say: "Go to Forexcrap . com/q2347." The "q2347" is a signal to the Forexcrap site that you are being referred to them by "q2347." If they sell something to you, "q2347" gets a kickback. These coded signals can be hidden by different methods in the link. Other people will refer you to their own private website or blog for the purpose of trying to get money off you. Also there are a good number of trolls out there that like to pretend they are successful forex traders just for the fun of it.
I would recommend not trying to do Forex at all, unless you are a trained professional. It's like playing poker with people better than you, with the house constantly taking a small percentage from the pot.
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