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In the forex two-way trading market, traders who can consistently participate for 20 years are an extremely rare group.

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If such traders don't achieve stable profits, they must possess special qualities that support their long-term survival. These qualities can generally be categorized into two core traits: either they possess exceptional perseverance and self-control, able to withstand market fluctuations and the pressure of losses with strong self-discipline; or they have a strong family background, independent of trading profits, thus having ample margin for error and the time to invest, allowing them to remain in the market for a long time even when they are unprofitable.
From the perspective of perseverance and self-control, the 20-year cycle of the foreign exchange market involves multiple rounds of global financial turmoil (such as the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic), drastic monetary policy adjustments (such as the Federal Reserve's multiple interest rate hikes and cuts), and countless currency pair trend reversals. If ordinary traders experience prolonged losses, they are prone to mental breakdown and capital depletion, forcing them to exit the market. However, traders with perseverance remain rational even when facing consecutive losses. They avoid blindly expanding their positions to "recover losses" or easily dismissing their trading systems. Instead, they gradually optimize their strategies through review and analysis. Their self-control is reflected in their strict control over trading frequency and risk exposure. Even when tempting market opportunities arise, they adhere to their pre-set risk management rules to avoid exacerbating losses through impulsive trading. This combination of resilience and self-control has enabled them to maintain a 20-year trading career, even when unprofitable, by maintaining a steady pace of losses.
From the perspective of "family financial foundation," forex trading is essentially about "trading money for opportunity." If a trader relies on trading profits to cover daily expenses (such as rent, mortgage, and household expenses), they may be forced to exit the market due to a "broken capital chain" if they face long-term losses. However, traders with substantial financial resources often have "idle" trading funds. Even long-term losses do not affect their quality of life. This "freedom from pressure to survive" frees them from the pursuit of short-term profits and allows them to navigate market fluctuations with greater composure. For example, during a market downturn, they can pause trading for months or even years, waiting for clear market opportunities to emerge before re-entering the market, without the need for frequent trading due to "capital costs." This "room for error" is difficult for ordinary traders to possess and is the key to their ability to survive 20 years without profit.
It is worth noting that 20 years of trading experience not only shapes a trader's resilience but also profoundly changes their mindset and approach. After 20 years in the market, traders witness countless shattered "myths of huge profits," the disappearance of "fraudulent platforms," ​​and the loss of ordinary retail investors. They gradually see through the high-risk, low-return nature of forex trading and understand that stable survival is far more important than short-term profits. This ingrained understanding can make them more reserved and less eager to promote their trading philosophies or share "success stories." On the one hand, they are deeply aware of market uncertainty and understand that "no strategy works forever," and they are reluctant to mislead others with their own experience. On the other hand, long-term market experience has smoothed out their character's "edge," diminishing their desire to prove themselves and preferring to maintain a solitary rationality in their trading. Therefore, the stories of these traders rarely appear in public, making them a "silent minority" in the market.
However, it is important to view the correlation between "20 years of trading" and "stable profits" as not necessarily necessary. Time itself cannot directly "honed" profitability. Some traders, despite surviving 20 years in the market, have yet to break through their cognitive bottlenecks. For example, they cling to a "short-term, heavy-weight" trading strategy, neglecting risk management; or they rely on a single technical indicator for extended periods, failing to dynamically adjust their strategies based on macroeconomic and liquidity factors; or they even fall into "path dependency," mechanically applying past experience to a changing market environment. Even with immense perseverance or a solid foundation, these traders struggle to achieve consistent profits. Their 20-year trading experience is more of a cycle of repeated losses than a cumulative accumulation of cognitive evolution. Truly profitable long-term traders must not only "endure the time" but also continuously reflect, learn, and optimize over time, transforming "trading time" into "depth of understanding" to break the "survival ≠ profitability" dilemma.
In summary, the unprofitable traders who have survived for 20 years in forex trading are supported by perseverance and restraint, or perhaps financial resources. Long-term market experience can also make them more reserved and reserved. However, time is no guarantee of profitability. Only by continuously improving knowledge and optimizing strategies over the long term can one transform their survival advantage into profitability. For ordinary traders, the value of these long-term traders lies not only in their survival experience but also in the accumulated knowledge behind their silence. Understanding the market's complexity and one's own limitations, and learning how to maintain stability before pursuing profits, is the core principle of forex trading.

In forex trading, investors must carefully select forex brokers and resolutely avoid unsafe platforms.

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When these forex platforms enter the domestic market, they often operate in a gray area. They attract investors by offering high leverage. While seemingly attractive, this high leverage carries significant risks. Furthermore, these platforms employ a structured A and B positions, creating a complex and risky trading environment for investors.
When investors choose A-position trading, the platform dumps their orders into the market, effectively engaging with other market participants. This approach offers relatively safe profits, as the platform doesn't directly conflict with investors and investors don't have to worry about the platform withholding profits due to its own losses. However, this type of short position trading incurs a spread cost, which is the platform's primary source of profit. If the spread is too low, the platform struggles to maintain operations, let alone provide services to investors at a loss. Therefore, excessively low spreads are often a red flag, potentially indicating a platform's lack of genuine market-based short position trading capabilities.
On the other hand, if investors choose B-position trading, the platform directly gambles against the investor. In this model, the investor's profits translate directly into losses for the platform, and vice versa. This betting model gives the platform an incentive to hinder investors' profits through various means, even directly deducting their principal. Such platforms are often referred to as "black platforms." Their sole goal is to obtain investors' principal and they could abscond with the funds at any time.
When choosing a forex broker, investors must be wary of seemingly attractive offers of low spreads and high leverage. While these conditions may attract investors in the short term, they can hide significant risks in the long term. Investors should choose brokers with a good reputation, transparent operations, and regulatory compliance. Only in this way can they ensure the safety of their funds in forex trading and avoid greater losses from pursuing small profits.

In the actual practice of forex trading, many retail traders often face a common problem: directly applying the strategies of "expert traders" in the market not only fails to achieve the expected profit targets, but can also result in significant losses and even a reduction in account funds.

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This phenomenon isn't because the expert's strategy itself is ineffective, but rather stems from the "personalized attributes" and "dynamic adaptability" inherent in trading strategies. Any profitable strategy is a "personalized system" constructed by the expert based on their own trading experience, psychological characteristics, risk appetite, and market understanding. If retail investors ignore the core differences between themselves and the experts and blindly imitate them, they will inevitably experience operational incompatibility and ultimately stray from the path to profitability.
From the perspective of the core differences between traders, there are fundamental differences between retail investors and experts in terms of "accumulated trading experience" and "mental strength," and these differences directly determine the ultimate effectiveness of strategy execution. Expert trading experience is the product of long-term market practice. This includes not only proficiency in the use of technical indicators and trend analysis, but also an intuitive understanding of how to deal with unique market scenarios such as "false breakouts" and "liquidity traps." For example, when the EUR/USD fluctuates repeatedly at a key resistance level, experts can draw on past experience to discern the "capital game logic behind the fluctuations" and flexibly adjust their holdings. However, retail investors, lacking similar experience, can only mechanically adhere to the "breakout entry" rule in their strategy, making it extremely easy for them to frequently trigger stop-loss orders during these fluctuations. On a psychological level, experts, through the dual baptism of long-term profits and losses, have developed stable emotional management skills. Even when their strategy experiences short-term drawdowns, they can strictly follow the rules and avoid changing their established strategy due to emotional fluctuations. Retail investors, on the other hand, often lack sufficient psychological resilience. Once a strategy incurs a small loss, they will doubt the effectiveness of the system, either closing their positions prematurely and missing out on subsequent profit opportunities, or arbitrarily modifying stop-loss points, increasing risk. Ultimately, this distorts the execution of the strategy and runs counter to the original profit logic.
The deeper contradiction lies in the fact that it's easy to imitate a strategy's surface, but difficult to grasp its core. When retail investors emulate expert strategies, they often focus on explicit rules like "entry points," "indicator parameters," and "stop-loss and take-profit ratios," overlooking the underlying "core logic" and "implicit decision-making framework." Even if they manage to copy the strategy in a sparse manner, they still struggle to grasp the strategy's essence. For example, a certain expert's "trend-following strategy"—"entering the market when the 5-day moving average crosses the 20-day moving average"—is merely an explicit rule. Behind it lie implicit logic like "assessing trend strength based on macroeconomic data" and "adjusting position size based on currency pair liquidity." These implicit logics represent the "cognitive loop" that experts develop over the course of long-term trading and cannot be replicated through simple imitation. If retail investors only grasp the explicit rules and lack an understanding of the core logic, they will be unable to make the same adjustments to their decisions when faced with market fluctuations (such as a sudden policy reversal), naturally creating the illusion of strategy failure.
Furthermore, trading strategies are not static, fixed tools; rather, they are dynamic systems that need to be adjusted according to market conditions. This is a point often overlooked by retail investors. While expert traders' strategies may appear fixed on the surface, they are actually implicitly optimized based on changes in market structure (such as shifts from trending to volatile markets), monetary policy adjustments (such as the Fed's shift in interest rate hike cycles), and liquidity characteristics (such as increased volatility around the release of non-farm payroll data). For example, during a "narrow range" period when global central banks implement low interest rates, expert traders will proactively reduce stop-loss orders and open fewer positions to adapt to market conditions. However, retail investors who simply copy the strategy parameters used by experts during trending periods, using larger stop-loss orders and frequent openings, will inevitably waste significant capital due to excessive stop-loss orders during volatile markets. This ability to dynamically adjust strategies is the product of a deep understanding of market fundamentals. If retail investors fail to understand the compatibility of strategies with market conditions, even if they apply the same strategy framework, their results will be skewed due to a mismatch between the market and the market environment.
More importantly, the profitability of a trading system depends not only on the logical integrity of the strategy itself, but also on the user's overall ability to match it. The gap between retail investors and experts extends far beyond technical analysis, encompassing risk management, execution, market awareness, and other dimensions. These disparities exacerbate the phenomenon of using the same strategy but producing different results. In terms of risk management, experts set dynamic positions based on account size and the strategy's drawdown. For example, they increase positions appropriately when the strategy is consistently profitable and reduce them when a drawdown occurs. This smooths the profit curve through scientific fund management. Retail investors, on the other hand, often overlook the relationship between position and funds. Even when using the same strategy, they can suffer unacceptable single losses due to heavy positions, thus undermining the strategy's long-term profitability. In terms of execution, experts are able to "never make any moves outside the rules," strictly adhering to their strategy signals even when tempting market opportunities arise. Retail investors, on the other hand, are easily influenced by short-term fluctuations or market noise. For example, if they see a sharp rise in another currency pair, they may deviate from their current strategy to chase the upward trend, ultimately leading to operational confusion. These disparities in comprehensive capabilities mean that even when retail investors and experts use the exact same strategy, their actual profit results can differ dramatically.
From the perspective of the "value judgment criteria" of a trading system, "others' profitability" isn't the only criterion for evaluating a strategy's quality; "suitability for the individual" is the key criterion. A strategy that generates consistent profits in the hands of an expert is ineffective for retail investors if it doesn't match their risk tolerance, time, energy, and cognitive level. For example, the high-frequency scalping strategy used by experts requires over 10 hours of daily market monitoring and can tolerate a high frequency of stop-loss orders, making it more suitable for full-time traders. However, for part-time retail investors, who may only have 1-2 hours of daily market monitoring and are unable to tolerate frequent stop-loss orders, forcing them to use this strategy will inevitably lead to distorted execution due to insufficient market monitoring or psychological discomfort. Therefore, when choosing a trading system, retail investors shouldn't blindly pursue "profitable strategies proven by experts." Instead, they should tailor their trading system to their specific circumstances. For example, time-constrained investors can opt for daily trend strategies, while those with a lower risk tolerance can prioritize conservative strategies with low drawdowns and low positions. Only by deeply integrating the strategy with one's own circumstances can the system's profit logic be effectively implemented.
In summary, the fundamental reason why expert strategies are difficult to adapt to retail investors in forex trading lies in the contradiction between personalized systems and generalized imitation. The key for retail investors to overcome this dilemma lies in shifting from blind imitation to independent development. By learning the core logic of expert strategies and integrating it with their own trading experience, psychological characteristics, and overall abilities, they can gradually hone a trading system that suits them. This process may take a long time trial, error, and optimization are essential, but only in this way can one avoid the problem of "strategy not adapting to the local environment," truly achieve the transition from "following others" to "independent profit," and establish a sustainable trading logic in the forex market.

In two-way forex trading, a frustrating yet undeniable fact is that the vast majority of forex traders ultimately lose money.

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This phenomenon is not accidental; it aligns with the "80/20 rule" in economics—the principle that 20% of the population controls 80% of the wealth, while the remaining 80% only share the remaining 20%. This principle is not only prevalent in the forex market, but is also common in traditional society. However, in the field of foreign exchange investment, this disparity appears even more pronounced. Statistics show that the ratio of losses to profits approaches 99 to 1, further highlighting the difficulty of foreign exchange trading and making it one of the most challenging investment methods among many financial investment fields.
This phenomenon reflects a deeper social reality: wherever people gather, resources and wealth are often unevenly distributed. A small number of individuals, leveraging their unique advantages, extensive experience, and keen market insight, gradually accrue the majority of wealth, while the majority struggle with limited resources and struggle to achieve significant wealth growth. This phenomenon is vividly demonstrated in both the trading market and real society. Take the stock market, for example. Large investors, with their deep pockets, can often profit through short selling and other means, while small investors, with their smaller capital and lack of resources and access, can only watch helplessly. This skewed distribution of resources allows a few to gain a dominant position in the market, while the majority struggle to survive amidst market fluctuations.
However, this doesn't mean that ordinary investors have no chance. Just as children from ordinary families can achieve social mobility through hard work, in the forex market, small-capital traders can also find their niche by diligently improving their knowledge. The purpose of learning isn't just to master specific skills or knowledge; more importantly, it's to enhance one's cognitive abilities. Only when our cognitive abilities are enhanced can we truly break through those invisible barriers and shackles, stop being easily manipulated and manipulated, and avoid falling into carefully designed traps.
In the real world of trading, insufficient knowledge is often a dangerous state. The market's complexity and uncertainty expose investors to potential risks at every step. Lack of sufficient knowledge can lead investors into unwitting situations, even leading them to remain unaware of losses. Many investors mistakenly believe their losses are due to a lack of technical proficiency, but in reality, this is often superficial; the real cause lies in insufficient knowledge. Therefore, instead of blindly pursuing so-called "magic tricks," it's better to calm down, read more, and improve your cognitive level and mindset through learning. Only when we can face our emotions, learn to self-reflect and adjust, and become more mature and rational investors, can we truly gain a foothold in the trading market.
In forex trading, many investors are often too obsessed with frequently checking market conditions, while neglecting to deeply reflect on their trading strategies. This incorrect trading approach not only fails to bring expected returns, but can actually lead to greater losses. In fact, numerous investors have personally proven this point. However, despite this, many investors are still unwilling to stop and reflect on their trading strategies, and instead continue down the wrong path. To truly break through this dilemma and join the ranks of the less than 10% who succeed, investors need to temporarily put trading aside and focus on improving their cognitive thinking. By taking a break from trading, they can give themselves time to reflect and better adjust their trading strategies and mindset.
In forex trading, investors can take six months to carefully study books on trading philosophy. While the content in these books may seem abstract and even somewhat cerebral, the wisdom and concepts they contain can have a profound impact on investors' trading practices. These books can help investors upgrade their mindset and enhance their cognitive capabilities, leading to greater trading proficiency. When investors return to the market with a fresh perspective, they will find a significant improvement in their trading skills. While their entry points and technical techniques may remain the same, their operational level has undergone a qualitative shift. This shift is precisely the power of cognitive thinking.
In forex trading, the purpose of learning is never to ace exams, but rather to enhance one's cognitive abilities and avoid being exploited in the market. Many investors repeatedly encounter setbacks in trading because their perspectives are limited by their own thinking. Therefore, investors need to step back and, through reading, absorb the wisdom of others, break through their own cognitive barriers, and ultimately improve their trading skills.
In the forex market, not trading is often about trading better, and leaving the market is about understanding it better. Sometimes, seemingly intangible and unpredictable factors are often the most important. Investors need the courage to temporarily step away from the market to accumulate knowledge and experience, thus becoming more confident in future trading. However, most investors are driven by a speculative mentality, eager to get rich quickly, and unable to calm down and patiently learn. They tend to only listen to what they want to hear, while selectively ignoring risks and what they don't want to hear. This mentality ultimately leads to repeated losses in trading, yet they remain stubborn and unrepentant.
Some forex investors, after learning some technical analysis, become complacent, believing they have mastered the laws of the market. However, when they actually enter the market, they discover that their technical analysis skills are not fully adaptable to the complexities of the market, resulting in losses. Even worse, after losses, they refuse to admit their mistakes, clinging to their own opinions and even becoming obsessed with their own issues, ultimately leading to further losses. To achieve profits in the trading market, or at least avoid losses, investors must possess a patient spirit of learning, a positive mindset, and a humble attitude. Only by being willing to admit and correct mistakes can one continuously improve in the trading market and ultimately achieve their investment goals.

The core significance of abandoning short-term thinking and adhering to long-term strategies in forex trading is profound.

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In forex trading, whether a trader can abandon short-term trading thinking and establish a long-term investment perspective is the core foundation for their trading system and achieve sustained profitability. Short-term trading thinking is not only incompatible with the underlying operating logic of the forex market, but can also easily lead to mental imbalance and strategic deviation. The shift from short-term speculation to long-term investment is essentially a cognitive upgrade for traders, from "pursuing short-term gains" to "building a system for long-term wealth growth." It is also a critical watershed in determining whether they can maintain a long-term foothold in the forex market.
From its fundamental perspective, short-term forex trading exhibits more "speculative" attributes than "investment" attributes, with its core logic approaching zero-sum games or even gambling. In this short-term trading model, traders focus on short-term market fluctuations, often measured in minutes or hours, attempting to profit from price differences by rapidly entering and exiting positions. However, this approach can easily trigger a chain reaction of emotions. Due to the high randomness of short-term fluctuations and the frequent swings between profit and loss, traders can easily become angry after consecutive losses, placing orders that violate established trading rules to recover losses. Alternatively, they can become impulsive after short-term profits, blindly expanding their positions in pursuit of higher returns. This ultimately leads to irrational decision-making and a complete deviation from their established trading strategies. For example, some short-term traders, after a stop-loss is triggered by short-term fluctuations in a trade, will immediately open a position to "bet on a market correction." This lack of logical support essentially deviates from the realm of investment and becomes purely emotion-driven speculation, inevitably leading to long-term losses.
Judging from the current foreign exchange market environment, the space for short-term trading has shrunk significantly over the past decade. This phenomenon is not accidental, but rather the result of the combined effects of global monetary policy and exchange rate fluctuations. Since the 2008 financial crisis, major central banks around the world have implemented long-term low or even negative interest rate policies. Furthermore, interest rates in most major currencies are closely tied to the US dollar, maintaining an extremely narrow interest rate differential. Interest rates, as the core factor driving cross-border capital flows and influencing exchange rate trends, have experienced narrow fluctuations, leading to a lack of momentum in the foreign exchange market for long-term unilateral trends. Against this backdrop, exchange rates of major currency pairs have tended to fluctuate within a narrow range rather than exhibiting clear trends. For example, the average daily volatility of major currency pairs such as the EUR/USD and USD/JPY has decreased by 30%-50% over the past decade, with the exchange rates largely fluctuating within a fixed range, making it difficult to generate sufficient volatility to support profitable short-term trading. In this market environment, short-term traders not only struggle to capture sustained profit opportunities, but they also face the dilemma of "the more frequent the trades, the greater the losses" due to fees and spread costs incurred by frequent position openings, as well as losses caused by misjudgment. This is the core reason for the sharp decline in the number of short-term traders in the global forex market and the overall market's "stagnation."
For forex traders, true investment behavior should be based on a long-term perspective. By setting long-term profit targets, making long-term trading decisions, and optimizing trading rhythms and risk control systems, they can achieve the transition from "speculation" to "investment." From an operational perspective, a long-term perspective requires traders to reduce unnecessary position openings and focus on high-certainty opportunities that align with their strategies, rather than searching for trading signals in every short-term fluctuation. For example, when the market is in a trendless period of volatility, traders with a long-term perspective will choose to wait patiently until the exchange rate breaks through a key range and a clear trend forms before entering the market, rather than frequently entering and exiting the market in an attempt to capture small fluctuations within the market. At the same time, trading with a long-term perspective prioritizes optimizing the profit-loss ratio and strict risk management. By setting appropriate stop-loss and take-profit levels to ensure that individual profits significantly outweigh losses (for example, setting a profit-loss ratio of 2:1 or even 3:1), even if a single trade's win rate doesn't reach 50%, positive returns can still be achieved over the long term. Strict risk management, such as limiting single-trade risk to 1%-2% of principal, effectively mitigates the impact of market black swan events or consecutive losses, providing a safe haven for long-term trading.
In terms of specific strategy selection, a light-weight, long-term strategy is a typical implementation of a long-term perspective and a more robust option suited to the current foreign exchange market environment. Traders employing this strategy avoid rushing for quick profits in the short term. Instead, they adhere to the core principle of "patiently waiting." Initially, they establish a light position when a clear trend signal appears. Once the trend is further confirmed and unrealized profits reach a certain size, they gradually increase their position in small increments, achieving long-term wealth growth through the accumulation of small profits. The advantages of this strategy lie not only in risk control—operating with a small position keeps the potential loss per trade extremely low. Even in the face of a short-term market correction, overweight positions prevent significant losses, effectively mitigating the fear of floating losses. It also embodies emotional management—long-term positions eliminate the need to constantly monitor short-term fluctuations. Traders avoid the greed of "rushing to cash in" on small floating profits, nor the anxiety of "panic stop-loss" on small floating losses. They maintain rational decision-making and adhere strictly to the strategy's rules. In contrast, heavily weighted short-term trading not only fails to avoid emotional interference, but can actually amplify the impact of short-term fluctuations due to overweight positions. Small losses can trigger panic, while small gains can trigger greed, leading to a pursuit of even greater returns. Ultimately, this leads traders to frequently adjust their positions driven by emotion and make erroneous decisions that go against the trend. This is the fundamental reason why heavily weighted short-term traders struggle to achieve long-term, stable profits in the forex market.
In summary, in forex trading, abandoning short-term thinking isn't simply a strategic adjustment; it involves a profound restructuring of a trader's cognitive structure and operational logic. Only by fundamentally understanding the limitations of short-term trading and the characteristics of the current market environment, establishing a long-term investment perspective, and adopting a prudent, long-term strategy with a light position can one escape the speculative trap of "quick come, quick go," build a sustainable wealth growth system, and truly achieve the transformation from "novice trader" to "mature investor."

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