I spoke at the FXCM expo yesterday. There were approximately 600, maybe even 700, traders in the room, and we brought free stuff -- but not enough of it. I expected 100-200 people and we brought way too few CDs and t-shirts and smoking monkey figurines (more about that later).
Before I started my presentation, I took $700 in cash out of my pocket and set it on the table in front of me, next to all the free stuff. At the end of the presentation, a mob of people descended on the table and grabbed all the free stuff they could. And you know what? Even with 50 traders all standing around the table, not one person touched the money. Not one. It would have been easy to do, but no one took it.
I think that it says a lot about people like you, who are trying to make a living from trading. As much as any of those traders wanted to make money, not one of them would have considered for a second that stealing was the answer. A lesson to me, and hopefully to all, that the great majority of forex traders are good, honest people.
