Quote from: beachbummer on September 12, 2019, 10:43:27 AM

Quote from: Zionatin on September 12, 2019, 03:27:46 AM

I often wonder what is a trader? Is it something you can learn then how do you learn it? How can you become good at something if it is like gambling? I see these stock exchange apps on google play and they all show people winning money not losing. It looks just like gambling and you choose up or down. How can you possibly train or study for this? Yet you do get full-time traders?

What you see in those ads are binary options, and they are not considered to be trading. Your observation that they are similar to gambling is spot-on! Many regulators consider binary options to be gambling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_option

There's a lots of different types of trading practices and if you are referring with binary options and yes it's same deal with gambling, you are betting with the next possible movements it's more on luck based trades, though there's also other types of trading where you can choose between short, medium or long term investment, it's not to have a good interest for you to be able to learn much deeper information about trading.

You can protect yourself and succeed from this field and of investment if you have good dedication to keep learning from every situation that you will going to experience while still in this market.