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Finding The Right Currency Trading Tutorial For You
By pegweb
If there's one currency trading tutorial for sale on the internet there must be a thousand. All sold by or on behalf of a thousand different "experts" and mostly giving details of a thousand different methods of making a fortune from the currency markets.


So how is it that over 95 per cent of currency traders lose all their money within a few months and have to give up? Simply because most of these tutorials aren't written by people who can trade successfully themselves.

Selling information on currency trading, or forex, has proved to be very profitable. More profitable, as far as most people are concerned, than actually trading the financial markets. The trouble is that there's no regulation, and nobody who does not successfully trade the financial markets is qualified to write or make tutorials telling others how to do it. Yet they do it all the time. It's like people who can't drive a car selling information on how to drive well.

Cheap or free information about forex is available all over the internet. You can buy private label rights to masses of information, some good, some bad. There are many free ebooks written by amateur traders convinced they've found a method that works, that they use to profit from the markets. There are nuggets of advice, again, some good, some bad, to be found in forums focused on the currency trading market.

So it's not difficult for anyone with a few computer skills to download enough material to cobble together their own "tutorial" aimed at the lucrative forex market.

They can get a copywriter to write a compelling sales letter and slap it up on an attractive web site or blog designed by someone at rentacoder.com or elance.com, together with some graphics bought cheaply at any of the hundreds of places it's found on the internet. Then they're in business selling their own branded "secrets" to making money in forex.

Or they can simply sign up as an affiliate for a product proving to have a high conversion rate, and promote it on the forums, through Google Adwords or any of the other ways of promoting products online.

All this sounds depressing, but actually there's a silver lining. It's easy to tell if a seller of forex information is genuine or a fraud. Ask him how much money he personally has made over the last 12 months through his currency trading account. Unless you receive a straight answer that satisfies you then keep away.

The only way you can succeed in trading the financial markets is to, first, accept that forex alone is not the way, and secondly, to find a successful trader who has made substantial profits from trading and who is prepared to teach you how to do the same. A $97 or $497 course or DVD set just isn't going to do it.

How do you find such a person? I can't tell you much more at this stage (and I'm not that person), but you're closer than you think.
Philip Gegan is a retired UK lawyer who has studied the financial markets since 1991, and actually trades them for profit. You too can make profits such as 70% in less than a week on gold at www.onlinefinancialtrading.com