Any form of trading is risky if you do not know what you are doing but risk management, training and money management (and some experience) can help minimise some of the risks.
Yes trading becomes risky for those who do not know the tactics of this method through which we could make a lot of money. Actually it is a difficult to understand thing and always requires some time to get adjusted with it even for those who think of them as highly intellectual individuals grabbing things at once. So all we need to do is to learn.