let me just give you guys words of wisdom on some of this markets, leveraged markets like currency and options trading are extremely risky unless you are playing on 1:1 leverage, technical analysis is an area that requires extremely huge amounts of time to master , if you think you can make money by using a few moving average crossovers then you are deceived, there is so much noise in this markets that gains from a rally will be quickly eaten up by a small spike from some data release in any of the countries that their fundamentals affect the asset class . i have found stock to be pretty safe places to play because of lack of leverage in as far as deposit margins are concerned plus the fact that a fairly imperfect market like ours where discounting of fundamentals into price takes a bit of time therefore giving us an opportunity to make gains is a plus, in more sophisticated market price will have already moved all the way to overbought levels by the time results reach the novice trader, for us we can fairly predict that a county will make such and such gains and have enough time to buy into it and make gains without losing your head, i know tonnes of people that have lost theirs shirts in highly leveraged asset classes, just bit a bit cautious.
"Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process."
Benjamin Graham