One of the great pleasures of watching a true professional in any field is how they can make a difficult task look easy. This is not the case for currency traders, as evidenced by the performance of six widely followed indices for currency-only money managers. The performance of these indices is either negative or insignificantly positive.

If the pros have had such a difficult time in the market, how can individual traders hope to succeed?

We have to ask whether the professional traders have made life unnecessarily difficult for themselves.