Yesterday I made this post about a friend who has been investing for a year in Forex and hasn't made any money.
I deleted my OP because I wanted to send him the link to read the comments but I didn't want him to know my reddit username. I'm posting from a throwaway in case he decided to peruse around here I still don't want him to find my username.
This is my OP____________________________________________________________________________
Is forex market legit? Worried about a friend who's been doing it for a year and is still not making money, he refuses to get a job because he hopes to score big any time soon.
My friend studied computer science, he had an office job doing apps but he quit because he demanded they raise his wages after not even 3 months working there, claiming the company was making money off his work and not paying him a %. We tried to explain to him that’s how most jobs work, you make the same amount and the company pockets all big profits.
So he quit and has been for the last year working in, I quote ‘investing in forex market, cryptocurrency and stocks’. None of us in our group of friends have any idea what that’s about and when asked to explain he told us his job is to sit in front of the screen pressing F5 for hours, watching the forex market, when asked if he’s investing in bitcoin he says it’s other type of cryptocurrency but he won’t give us the name or go into detail.
The thing is that we’re worried about him because for the last year he’s not made any money whatsoever, he’s always broke and asking to borrow from us, he’s struggling economically but doesn’t wanna hear anything about getting a job because he insists there’s money in forex market but he’s got to wait till he hits jackpot. He’s always been one of those people who wanted to get rich fast and easy.
We think is a huge waste of energy and resources, since he could be making money with a proper job and doing this on the side instead of full time. He’s also doing some online jobs like making websites and programming, but we think the site he works for is dodgy as hell since he’s always telling us how he has trouble when withdrawing the money they own him, they either freeze his account or demand a minimum amount before he can cash out his money.
Part of the reason he’s also doing this kind of jobs is to save up and invest more money in Forex market, hoping to one day being able to invest $200. His words, I don’t know if that’s a set amount to invest or something. So far he’s invested much smaller amounts than $200.
So in resume, we think this all sounds very weird and we’re worried Forex market isn’t legit and he’s got himself in a sticky situation.
I showed the post to him today to read the comments and this was (literally copy&pasted from our conversation) his reply:
Ok I am reading, so far so good. They are just bunch of idiots to me, who go on reddit and type comments to get points, they don’t know nothing about me. Nope, I am gonna do what I think is right for me, don't care what others say or do, this people don't feed me or pay my bills, my parents do. You can’t change me nor can anybody. You don't know what u are talking about at all. I’m not gonna argue, you just read stuff online, until you try forex for yourself I won’t listen to you. Reddit means nothing. They don’t know nothing, has anyone said that I have done forex and lost money, nobody can say it, because they never tried, they are all like ‘I know friend who did it…’. And they are all genius right? Reading and commenting in reddit, not doing anything. I just said I don’t wanna listen to anyone and do what I wanna do.
So I agree with another commenter who said 'you can take a horse to the water but you can't make him drink'. If my friend wants to spend his entire days watching forex and remain broke rather than get a job then so be it. At least now we now who's paying his bills and food, but I's be beyond ashamed if my family was as in much debt as his family is and he not only wants to get a job but he's ok with his parents paying his food and bills at his age (36).
It's clear when presented with evidence that he wasn't doing forex the right way or wouldn't get rich doing it, instead of listening he thought everybody was stupid but him and got pretty defensive. I can't do anymore for him and he said it very clearly, he doesn't wanna listen to anyone.
Submitted October 15, 2018 at 08:43AM by ForexMoronFriend https://ift.tt/2PATMW7
