Yes indeed both are necessary to succeed in the trade. We are required to have skills that can have a strategy in trade, so that we can predict with a good price so that could be an advantage. But luck is also needed because of the skill with no luck in my opinion would be futile.
Is it really true that skill with no luck would be futile? Do you know of any one successful lucky trader anywhere? As an experienced trader,I must say that it is very possible to have skills and zero luck and turn up quite successful in trading currencies, but it is near impossible to achieve same with luck and zero skill. Any trader relying hundred percent on luck, isn't really not a trader, his/her veritable place is with the casinos.
Yes it is true that the skills of the main factors affecting the success in trading. But that does not mean we do not need luck, professional traders also definitely need luck to enhance their skills to be an profit. So I think to be successful in the trade in addition to skills also need luck, the market is very difficult to predict especially when the economy is unstable.