it is simple if you have your own observation of the market. it is complicated if you are still lost.
Is Trading Simple or Complex? The question has one answer. It is SIMPLE to trade. It is if you can put up some money for margin then yeah its simple to trade. But uninitiated and unprepared, you will be losing money though - thats a definite. Also just one answer to this question if this question is meant to be to trade and win. By win, I mean make your money and get rich. Get real about this. It is NOT simple. If it were any idiot washing up on the tide at ET would become a millionaire plus. When and if you ever have a signalling system that is accurate, reliable and unfailing, you might then claim that it is simple - that is that it is simple to operate. Anything is simple once you know how. No offence intended to anyone, but knowing how is something that does not appear to be in evidence at ET.
Trading is a war game, the best war game that I have ever played . You have to study the 2 sides and understand what is the stronger at the moment, then putting your troops in the field and deciding if and when adding reinforcement, when retreating and so on . And your adversaries are not green, usually are great strategists. How is it possible for this type of game to be simple ?
I have seen successful systems/methods/strategies that were complicated... an untrained eye would view it as random and noise, but hidden underneath that was a pattern dependent on a lot of variables such that what determined when to buy or sell was not simple. Other strategies I use are quite simple, too simple to post on here in fact because even idiots could mimic them. Trading can be complex, or simple, depending on what the edge is.
Trading is hard as hell but if you stick with what you know, and have been consistently profitable, it's becoming an easy routine just like any regular working day of the week.
The greatest and most difficult activities are made to appear simple by the accomplished professionals who execute them successfully time and time again. The rules underlying successful trading are quite often complex and take years of study to understand and apply profitably. But executing those rules appears to be simplicity itself to the observer.
This is a good observation. Being able to trade and allegedly make regular money is not the same as making yourself rich.
Simple if you keep it simple Complex if you making it .......! But don't underestimate it. No gifts in this business.