No. 1 Reason Nigerians fail in the FOREX market
NIGERIANS APPROACH FOREX LIKE A GAME AND NOT AN INVESTMENT Forex trading is an investment and not a game. Forex is not bet, neither is forex a ponzi scheme. A lot of the traders in Nigeria approach trading the same way they approach Bet Naija. They jump into the market because their instinct says its going up or its going down. This is one of the mistakes I made earlier in my trading career. I lost fortune in the forex market in 2006 because at that time forex was a game to me, and not an investment. In 2006 I funded my account with $1000 and I entered a EURJPY trade. I actually funded my account with $1000 because I made about $80 the previous day on a $50 account. The more critical part of the incidence was that I borrowed the $1000 to double it the next day and pay back the $1000. So I did the same thing I did the previous day and entered a sell on eurjpy. I only entered the trade because Bollinger band SMA told me to. I came back 1 hour later hoping to see $1500 or more in m...