Clicking for a living – ethical or not?
If you're just starting your yourney into forex world(or simply losing your money instead of profiting, like you supposed to), you probably haven't thought about it too much.
Only when you actually start making money this way and the prospect of easy, comfortable life without financial worries gets very, very real, you begin to wonder whether it's actually 'fair' to live your life without creating anything.
You've heard it many times - forex is a zero-sum game. Someone can profit only when the other side(directly or indirectly) of the transaction losses. You're not manufacturing anything nor providing a service to anyone. Or maybe you are?
One way to defend it and present forex trading as ethical is to look at it as a service. By executing an order, you're effectivelly providing someone with needed liquidity. I guess in this sense, it's no different than selling stuff on ebay or having your own shop. It's just the medium that changes.
Having said that, I wouldn't want to look back and at last few years of my life and see only increasing balance - it's great to create something from time to time. I think trading is a great tool to pay your current expenses while you're working on something bigger, but I guess different people will have different goals in mind.
