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No better than roulette. How foreign exchange trading rips off mum and dad investors

  • Written by Mark Crosby, Professor, Monash University
No better than roulette. How foreign exchange trading rips off mum and dad investorsThere's no trading strategy that will deliver better returns than chance.Shutterstock

In 2013 I wrote a piece on The Conversation arguing that foreign exchange trading should be much more tightly regulated.

In particular, I said that retail (mum and dad) investors should only be allowed to trade foreign currencies in limited circumstances. Since...

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