Avoid the hassle, the traffic, and the grind of a routine 8 hour per day job, and instead, work from the comfort of home. That sounds almost irresistible, and explains why forex trading appeals to so many people.

It’s sure explains why I began trading forex. My career was terrible, going nowhere. I wanted to join the folks I heard about on the Web, the ones who were having such wild successes with forex trading. Who wouldn’t?

One of the first things you discover when venturing into the world of online forex trading is that the community is good at talking but very few of them do what they actually say.

During just a cursory look at forex, you’ll hear amazing percentages being tossed around, like “95% of forex traders are losing money, not making it.” 95%. So is forex currency trading so complicated, so demanding, that an ordinary person can’t do it? Not at all.

It’s just that lots of people plunge in without a thought. They treat forex like a game of chance in a casino, a gamble that they hope they’ll be lucky enough to win. Figure out where a currency is going, and hope. That’s a losing strategy.

Many traders use the term playing and the expression, “how much are you playing with” is very common. Note how they are using the word playing instead of trading. The use of the word playing emphasizes how they are treating their money.

People love a short cut and easy ways to make money. Wouldn’t it be great to have one of these charting packages that do the thinking for you and the software does all the work, telling you when to buy and sell? Unfortunately reality isn’t that easy.

But of course if it were that simple, 95% of forex traders wouldn’t be losing money.