Forex and trading are becoming an ever-popular activity. For many, it is just about making a little extra money on the side, while for others, it is about the enjoyment that they get out of it. There are a lot of ups and downs when it comes to trading, but overall, those that trade it for a hobby seem to love it. There are plenty of reasons to love it too, from the ups, the profits, the thrills, and more, so we are going to be going through some of the reasons why we love trading and the reasons why you probably will too.
The Incredible Highs
For many people, anything to do with money can give you some serious highs when you win. This is exactly the same when it comes to Forex. When you are winning, or on a winning streak, you feel like you’re on top of the world, you feel like you are on cloud nine and pretty much everything is great. If You have been trading forex for a long time, you will have experienced this a number of times, there isn’t a feeling like it and that is one of the reasons why we love it so much, that feeling is created by something that you have done, which makes it all the better.
The Adrenaline
There are many things in life that can fill us with adrenaline. When we are in charge of our money, and that money is actually doing something, that is one of those situations. When you see the markets moving up and down and your balance moving with it, you will gain a huge boost of adrenaline. This is true for when the markets are going both up and down, you want to win, you don’t want to lose. Whichever way it is moving, it will be playing with your emotions and filling you with adrenaline. It is basically what keeps bringing us back. There are, of course, some traders that are more methodical. They don’t get the emotions that the majority of us do. Instead, they are there simply for the money, but the majority, when things are going really well or really badly, will be filled with this emotion and the feeling of adrenaline going through their veins.
The Money
Let’s be completely honest, we are only trading because we can make some extra money, and the majority of other people are in the same boat. In fact, we have not yet met a single trader that is not taking part in trading for anything other than the money that can be made. Each month we withdraw a little bit of money that we can use to help us live a better life, to pay off debts, or to simply be a little better off. If the money was not there and you did not get any benefit, we certainly would not be trading. So we love trading for the simple fact that it allows us to make a bit of extra money each month.
You Don’t Need A Lot to Start
When I first started out with my trading, we started with about $100, which was great. It meant that we didn’t need to break the bank in order to start our trading journey, this made it very accessible for us. These days you can start with even less, some going as low as $10 or even $1. Of course, you will find it hard to be profitable with such a small amount, but it just shows that anyone can get started as you do not need thousands in order to join in. That is such a great thing for forex when you compare it to other things like stocks where you need a lot more in order to make any sort of decent money.
It’s Highly Accessible
Trading forex can be done from pretty much anywhere. We use our desktop computers, our laptops, and even our mobile phones to do it. The fact that you can use pretty much any platform that you want to access your accounts and the markets means that no matter where we are, we will be able to trade and potentially make money. It also means that far more people can get involved, many do not have a computer or a laptop, but they do have a mobile phone that is compatible with the trading platforms, meaning that they can now trade. A few years back when these platforms were not as easily accessible and so many people just couldn’t trade, that is simply not the fact now and those that missed out can quite easily get involved.
You Can Do It From Home
Normally, when we want to make a little bit of extra money, it will mean that you need to go out and get a second job, and you need to leave the house to do it. This is thankfully not the case with trading forex, you can do that from home, from in your underwear with no need to leave the house at all. This means that there is no commuting, no traffic, no other people annoying you on the way to work.
There Is No Boss
When we trade, we trade for ourselves, we are in charge of what we are doing and there is no one to tell us what to do. We have no boss, something that so many people strive for and something that a lot of people get into trading for. It will take a while to get to this stage, you need to be consistently profitable before you even think about leaving your job, but once you do, you will have all the freedom to trade when you want rather than when you are told to, freedom to choose.
Helps Us Manage Our Risks
When it comes to money, a lot of people are worried about losing it, this is why we use so much risk management when we trade and for good reasons too. The good thing is, that the cautious approach that we put into our trading we can take out into the real world too. Looking at more information before investing any money, before making decisions that will affect our lives. It helps us to better analyse the decisions that we are going to be taking.
It’s Always Changing
The forex markets are always changing, and due to that, we are very rarely bored. There are, of course, slow times when the markets are not really doing anything and our strategy is not relevant, those are times to take breaks. The rest of the time it is always evolving, due to this there are always things for us to do and for that reason, we simply do not get bored with it. We can always develop our own knowledge, we can always try and trade something else, either way, we are simply not bored by the forex and trading markets.
Those are some of the reasons why we simply love trading and the forex markets. It gives us so much freedom, teaches us a lot, and allows us to take part in it pretty much anywhere in the world. There is nothing quite like it, we love it and we are sure that you most likely will too.
