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Originally posted by mishak
Well, I agree with DB that our POLL is biased.
Obviously, people who did not read the Forum and people who had not registered as a member - did not vote on this poll. 
I would like to assume that forex fellows who voted meet two conditions:
1. want to be successful on the forex market;
2. have tried some (or at least one) of the ways offered at our poll.
Therefore a newbie who meets condition #1 but did not try any of proposed ways on forex, would better start from the road recommended by the majority.
However, in total, the majority of newbies will save time starting from the road number one and avoiding other roads. 
Cheers
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Mishak:
Considering your comment that you agree this poll is somewhat biased I think you've kind of missed my point and therefore diminished the significance of my point of view.
It is well known that most of the people who post on this forum are not consistently trading profitably. Also I think it is reasonable to conclude that a majority have extremely limited funds to trade with. Also it is reasonable to suppose that the majority who voted have tried no more than three of the methods mentioned and also the majority have probably traded less than three years. Also the majority of those who voted on this thread didn't post any arguments. Therefore how can you conclude that the majority of voters are qualified (by both experience and success) to judge even for themselves what is the best method? How can you or I or any of us make that supposition on such limited information and suppose that it will be correct for the majority of newbies when it is entirely possible that the majority of voters were newbies themselves?
Here is a comment from a bank trader who is one of the most successful traders I've met. He was responding to me in a discussion about their bank's approach to developing traders:
"Forex trading as you know is a high volatile business and dealers go through years of on the job training before they can trade currencies on their own. Their Trading skills are developed through continuous on the job training. Over the years each dealer develop their own appetite for risk and 90% of the time they end up getting it right."
Only about 10 percent of their traders who complete their training program end up being unsuccesful traders. It doesn't exactly point to "study on your own" as being the best method. Why promote point one as being the "best advice" when we don't know how valid the advice really is?
Maybe it's the chosen method of the 90 percent of traders who lose and maybe it is represented statistically here.
DB