Forex Vs Stocks

[DannyB]

as has been mentioned - forex offers greater margin - also due to the sheer size of the forex market, insider trading and other manipulations (such as an attempt to corner a market) are far harder to achieve than in other arenas.

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[Dave7612]

Originally Posted by vishalshan

Some of my friends are able to make decent gains thru stock picks and spend less screen time and less tension compared to Forex.

Just wanted to compare them based on ROI, efforts involved, risk factor and learning curve.

Those who have done both, please share your experience and let us know which is worth putting efforts as novice on both.

Shan

Personally, i've lost more in stock trading that i have in forex. i'd rather take my profit (or loss) the same day trading forex then waiting days and sometimes months to make a lously few grand in stocks.

[IntraDayRay]

Originally Posted by forextrades

I find stocks much easier to trade. Price action is much smoother, volume data, less overlap in ranging markets, a lot less false breakouts. They're just more predictable. However, I think there's a lot more money to be made in forex.

Hi there, I agree totally! I have traded the Australian market for about 3 years and have dabbled in FX for the last 2 or so. I really can't get a handle on FX trading, yet I make a living trading from a relatively small capital base on the ASX (using leverage of course).

Regards

[Quicmann]

Hey MaxDFx,
I love your language and the pattern your created. I am a newbie and have been on a demo a/c from . since late April this year and yet make much sense of the "fun" of forex. Honestly I enjoy forex even though I am yet to understand a thing but I am eager to learn. Please is there any help I can get from your knowledge and experience.

Originally Posted by MacDFx

As long as you're properly leveraged and practicing sound money management, then you should be OK trading forex. Newbies who plunge in head first without bothering to do their homework on the market dynamics of Forex will not fair well in their first year of trading, though. Which is probably why over 90% are losers over the long haul.

[cincin]

Yes I agree I have loss 100% on a couple of trades when the company went broke.

[shiteok]

Thank you so much for these discussions.

[EliteJ]

I have traded both stocks and the forex and I find that you will spend much more time studying stocks (if you play them right) than forex. When I choose to buy a stock or an option I have to research a whole lot of fundementals before I make my decision to go long or short because there are many different ways of analyizing earnings and a lot of times the earnings aren't even what people are looking at to base their decision on. You have to listen to conference calls, read financials, etc. Surprisingly enough, studying the economy as a whole as compared to studying one company is much easier because there are more defined variables to look at.
Hope this helps.

[Briancio]

Forex, because of huge amounts of leverage.