Currencies are another asset class …

David Newman here ... on Investing versus Trading

How many times have you seen pictures of people sitting on the beach with their laptop in hand in those “Trade Forex Commission Free” advertisements? Open a FX account, quit your real job, sit on the beach and get rich is the implicit message. It’s ridiculous! But unfortunately that is what sells.

It doesn’t have to be that way. You don’t have to buy into the hype…and you don’t have to take that much risk in order to get involved in currencies. Trading can be profitable; but it requires extreme focus and discipline. There is another way if you want to “invest” in currencies.