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Its quick and easy to make money in the forex. Get your account setup on forex.com and start out with the mini account. Initial invesemt in the mini account is only $250 and you can make about $200-300 a day easy if you know what your doing. Where I learned everything is babypips.com. People please read the entire course babypips.com offers because if you don't you'll lose money. I think forex is very profitable as that's how I'm making my money now.

People can make a lot of money with it or lose a lot of money with it. I think it's too risky personally.

One of my most profitable trad was 10k in one night!
Then the most money I ever lost was 4k
Yes you're correct that you can make and loose alot of money but I like it more than stocks. It put food on the table and paid all the bills when ebay kicked me out so I'm still trading until ebay is back at 100% for me again. Also used craigslist to pay bills so I am always gonna use craigslist and forex.com.

That's awesome. If you're so good at forex, there can be a lot more money made from it then you think. :)

The bad thing about the forex is that you are always on the computer staring at the currency pair. You start pulling your hair when its going down and when its going up your so happy. Even when your sleeping your thinking if the pair is going up or down. Its stressful.

:eek: Between ebay and forex, I think the stress would be terrible then. I like
money but there is a limit to the angst for my way of thinking.

gambling is bad :) and i class this as the big G!

What's good right now John?

My advice is when your starting out only trade on currency pair. Me personally only trade on the USD/JPY. The thing is trading that pair is good almost all the time because japan is always lowering their value of their currency due to their import and export business.

This is a really stressful business the forex is. To tell you the truth ebay is less stressful.

So any beginer forex traders who have any questions ask away!

hi john,

i like to learn forex,where should i start ?
thanks !

First and foremost go and take the entire FREE forex school course from babypips.com and then after finishing the entire course go and setup a free practice account on forex.com practice on the practice account atleast 2 weeks and then open up a mini account and start making money from there. In a couple months I will be opening up a standard account which offers tighter pips. As a beginner go for the mini account as I did. Each pip in the mini account is .95 cents and oj the standard account $9.95

You only make losses and don't make it in the forex by not studying the candle stick chart and by not studying the over all market of currency which you will be trading. That is why I said only concentrate on one currency pair. I only trade USD/JPY. I do agree if you make unwise choices you will make loss. One thing I learned is when you see first sight of profit sell the lot!

About 9 months but once my ebay business is back up 100% I will be leaving the forex business because there is really too much stress involved. I really can't take too much of forex trading as it makes me not get enough sleep and it makes me always think if I'm loosing any money. I literally wake up in the middle of the night to see if I'm loosing any of my money.
I can certainly deal with all the crap ebay throws at me (of course getting a lot of help and support from this wonderful forum) but don't want to trade the forex. There is money to be made and I have made it but with all the headaches I don't think so.

ya sounds stressful alright but you seem to be doing ok on it

URL please

"No one I know personally has sustained profits on forex. As a matter of fact, not one person I know has lasted a year without getting wiped out"

1000% correct Modee,99.999% of the people trading Forex get cleaned,its only a matter of time.
Ask me how i know.......

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How do you know?
Have you done it before?

Yes,i have everything started out beautiful(sucked me right in).
Was making good $ first month.
What happens to most people is they get cocky and think its easy money.
Everything starts going their way,so they increase their leverage and start using house money 100 to 1,and as soon as the currency moves a few pips against you they give you a margin call(you either put up more $ in the trade or you lose all the $ you put up.
Not fun!
There is a reason over 98% of the people fail at that game.
There are very few people that make consistant money doing it.

Well thank God I was able to keep it up for 9months!
It freaks me out big time when the currency pair goes down even one pip.
The biggest loss I ever made was $4,000. Its kind of a gamble the forex is but if you know how to do the market analysis then you will be able to last. Its too much for me and Im going to quit the forex just as soon as ebay comes to 100%.
How much did you invest initially?
How much did you loose?
What currency pairs did you trade?

wow. stress is at a all time high for me with ebay and I'm only 21 considering I lost my power seller account and have been put down by eBay a dozen or more times the past year.

But, $250 sounds like not a lot and I'm a freak when it comes to research and stuff like this so maybe I could do good with small trades and small time stuff. I'm the strongest willed person so I know I will not get sucked into losing by doing something stupid although losing is inevitable the reason most people go for broke is the same reason casinos are rich.

By the way, what kind of profits does it take or initial investments to get that kind of return any numbers you can throw out? thanks.

If you can cope with stress then go for it. As for the investment it only costs $250 for a mini accout which makes you $.95 cents per pip and standard account which requires a initial investment of $2,500 and makes you $9.50 per pip. In a day 10-20 pips can easily be made if you do the the RIGHT procedures. As I recommended before for a forex newbie go and read the ENTIRE free course babypips.com has to offer and then invest your money. Babypips teaches you all the basics and will get you to making some money in the forex. So you can easily make $100-200 every day in the forex and as I said with the right moves. Trade only the USD/JPY as it is easier than other currency pairs to trade.

This would be a funny thread if it were not so tragic. I was a registered commodity broker for 4 years in 90's.

I can tell you that these forex cos are bogus scams. $250 to open an account and trade currencies? BS, BS, BS, BS. The only legitimate regulated currency market for individuals is in Chicago at the merc.

Here are the initial margins to trade currencies in a legimate account

EC (euro) $3,105 (initial) $2300 (maintenance)
JY (yen) $3,300 (initial) $2500 (maintenance)
CD (canadian) $2,160 (initial) $1600 (maintenance)
BP (Pound, UK) $2,025 (initial) $1600 (maintenance)
AD (Australia) $2300 (initial) $1600 (maintenance)

I can say with 100% certainty that these forex cos are bogus.

Open an account with Lind, Mann financial, Ira Epstein, or any other honest commodity broker and trade the currencies if you want. But leave the forex scams to crooks.

Don't really know how you are saying what you are saying because I've been trading with forex.com for almost 9months and I've always put a withdrawn request and I always recieved my money in 3 business days into my bank account.

I do not believe the trades are real. They may pay out for a while but the trades are not real, I think they act as a "Bucket Shop". Unregulated markets like forex (and stocks, up until the1930's, plus gold "brokerage", coins, etc..) have a history of Bucket shops.

The bucket shop is like a bookie for those that cannot afford the real deal. They take advantage of the fact that 98% of their traders will go tits up within a year. Not only do they take commissions, but they are on the opposite end of each trade, and eventually every one of their traders will bust.

Needless to say, this is amazingly profitable for the forex cos.

If you are on any affilliate programs, the forex offers ALWAYS the highest paying, $200 -300 per acquisition. They can afford to pay that much for new customers, because they have a 98% chance of taking every penny invested in the account.

There is no legitimate forex market that will let you trade on an $250 account. Real forex trades are either done on an exchange (the CME, margins listed above) or done on an interbank network (minimums around $100k).

more on bucket shops

-----http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)------

Bucket shop is a brokerage firm that “books" (i.e., takes the opposite side of) retail customer orders without actually having them executed on an exchange.[1] These brokerages are also often called boiler rooms.

Bucket Shop is a specifically defined term under the criminal law of many states in the United States which make it a crime to operate a bucket shop. [2] Typically the criminal law definition refers to an operation in which the customer is sold what is supposed to be a derivative interest in a security or commodity future, but there is no transaction made on any exchange. The transaction goes 'in the bucket' and is never executed. Without an actual underlying transaction, the customer is betting against the bucket shop operator, not participating in the market. Operating a bucket shop would also likely involve violations of several provisions of US federal securities or commodity futures laws

Bucket shops are common in the finance biz.

even Morgan Stanley recently go busted for running a bucket shop on silver investors.

Morgan Stanley to settle class-action lawsuit | Reuters

---The suit, filed in August 2005, alleged that Morgan Stanley told clients it was selling them precious metals that they would own in full and that the company would store.

But Morgan Stanley either made no investment specifically on behalf of those clients, or it made entirely different investments of lesser value and security, according to the complaint. ----

They took their clients money, told them they had bought silver, and morgan stanley just pocketed the money. Then to add insult to injury, Morgan Stanley charged them money for storage of the nonexistent silver.

Those forex trades are not real.

I don't know how you say that the trades are not legit because the all the trades I made and I made a profit on I did get paid for those. They only charge 2 pips on each trade so that doesnt hurt me. The $250 is for a mini account that is the bare minimum you have to invest to trade but for a standard account which gives you tighter spreads the minimum is $2,500. Also on a standard account the spreads are tighter. The forex has been about 20% of my income and and I've been doing this for 9 months so I can honestly tell you this company forex.com is no scam.

--- However, the term came to apply to other types of scams, some of which are still practiced. They were typically small store front operations that catered to the small investor, where speculators could bet on price fluctuations during market hours. However, no actual shares were bought or sold: all trading was between the bucket shop and its clients. The bucket shop made its profit from commissions, and also profited when share prices fell.

The terms of trade were different for each bucket shop, but bucket shops typically catered to customers who traded on thin margins, even as low as 1%. Most bucket shops refused to make margin calls, so that if the stock price fell even momentarily to the limit of the client's margin, the client would lose his entire investment ---

Sorry I don't mean to go overboard on this but, these bucket shop operators really piss me off. because of their crimes, they make it a thousand times harder for legit commodity guys to get clients

Yes I understand what you are trying to say that some companies are bucket shops comitting crimes but forex.com is not one of those companies.

The trades are not real. The forex company is on the other side of the trade. They are running a "bucket shop" on you.

It is very common, even Morgan Stanley did it to their silver clients. When I was a commodity broker we shared the floor of our building with a Gold Investment company, that was running the same style of scam.

do me a favor and just google "forex scam"

I don't want to have a argument with any one. I started this thread to tell people of my experience of the forex and to tell people of the company which I used to trade the forex with. I have had a good experience with forex.com and I have not had any problems withdrawing the money I earned. If these company really was a fraud then why do they give me the money I make?

1st off there is no way in the world that you can legitimately trade currencies on a $250 account. Any broker who takes that small of an account is a bucket shop.
End of story.

They may have paid on your winners because they are running it like a pyramid, or maybe they are setting you up to ask for a larger deposit. Just because they paid you a few times does NOT make them legit.

Even if they ran your trades straight, they would still have a 98% chance of taking all your money because of the attrition rate on trading and their commissions.

Sorry man a $250 forex trading account is not legit. never has been and never will be.

If it sounds too good to be true, IT IS.

cynic who cares if it is a "bucket shop" or a small company not a quote unquote regular trading company. You should know that money speaks louder then words and if he is making money then their is nothing to complain about, I think I might just join up when I get some time. Make me some of that money baby!!!

It pisses me off because I used to be a legit commodity broker, and forex scammers just give the whole business a black name.

Plus this John seems like a nice enough guy, I don't want him to suddenly put a big chunk into that account and find out that it is gone tomorrow.

I never put more than $250 in my trading account. I just build the $250 to $1,500 and then whatever I made after the $1,500 I kept as profit. As long as forex.com pays me what I'm due I'm good if they don't then we have a problem and then I will see them in court. But so far in my 9 month experience I have put a withdrawl request and then 3-4 business days later I had money in my bank acccount. I have been paid about 14 times to be exact.

$250 accounts are run from bucket shops ONLY. They are not legit trading accounts. Don't get me wrong, I wish you well. Thing is, that account is not legit and it will end badly if you stay with them.

Take your profits, close that account and open an account to trade the yen dollar spread at lind waldock, Ira Epstein or Mann Financial or any other legit commodity broker. Those accounts are insured up to 1/2 million and all funds are segregated.

If you have a legit account with one of those, you will not wake up one morning to find that forex.com has gone away. Good luck

Well I'm gonna be quiting the forex simply because there is to much stress involved. I will quit as soon as my ebay business reaches 100%.