I've been a member for almost a year now at a certain forum based on investing and being frugal ect... Now, on forexsignals.com generally we have a very positive attitude towards forex and we do consider following a trader such as Viper an investment. For example lets say you open a 25K account with Viper on the mam now, that would in our eyes be investing in Viper/forex. I've been at this site for just over a year and a half and I've made just over $41K AUD following the traders here.
On the other forum which I love due to how open we are towards finance, networth ect... I'm looked upon as "pretty impressive" due to my high, self-made networth for my age (21). The moment however I mention that I have just over 100K invested in forex (60% of my networth) suddenly the hate rushes in. I'm known as a gambler, a bomb waiting to go off ect. Literally every time I bring up the subject "forex" and how much I have made without having my accounts blown they go nuts saying (not an exact quote) "yea, you can make money at a casino as well and not blow all your money for a while but you will blow it eventually."
Has anyone else been on an investing forum and had other users look upon forex extremely negatively, as a form of gambling rather than investing? The users on this particular forum I'm referring to LOVE to invest in stocks for the long term (5 years plus). Their second favourite investment is property and apart from those 2 investments they don't really seem to like anything else. SOME of them sorta like online peer to peer lending investments and ALL of them hate having money in the bank (if you have money in the bank it's not working for you) ect which I actually agree with.
Anyway what response to forex outside of forex forums have you encountered? As much negativity as I have?
On the other forum which I love due to how open we are towards finance, networth ect... I'm looked upon as "pretty impressive" due to my high, self-made networth for my age (21). The moment however I mention that I have just over 100K invested in forex (60% of my networth) suddenly the hate rushes in. I'm known as a gambler, a bomb waiting to go off ect. Literally every time I bring up the subject "forex" and how much I have made without having my accounts blown they go nuts saying (not an exact quote) "yea, you can make money at a casino as well and not blow all your money for a while but you will blow it eventually."
Has anyone else been on an investing forum and had other users look upon forex extremely negatively, as a form of gambling rather than investing? The users on this particular forum I'm referring to LOVE to invest in stocks for the long term (5 years plus). Their second favourite investment is property and apart from those 2 investments they don't really seem to like anything else. SOME of them sorta like online peer to peer lending investments and ALL of them hate having money in the bank (if you have money in the bank it's not working for you) ect which I actually agree with.
Anyway what response to forex outside of forex forums have you encountered? As much negativity as I have?
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