"Please check the evidence that 75% of investors are losing money"—a column is now published on Toyo Keizai ONLINE.

Good morning, this is Matsushita.

From the newsletter reader survey conducted last month,

there were many very interesting data points that came up, so

we are introducing them in sequence.

“2016 Personal Investor Performance Report”

Today, the topic of interest is

“Investors’ profits and losses.”

In short, our minimum responsibility as individual investors is

to “grow money (assets) through investing.”

This time, for all investors in every market who answered the survey,

a total of 201 respondents since they started investing,

their cumulative gains and losses since they began investing,

was that “75% of investors faced losses.”

This is the reality.

To grow money, people take on risk and

invest their precious funds in the stock market, the FX market, and commodity markets,

striving daily amid greed and fear, but

75% of market investors have unfortunately lost money.

I also say in my newsletters and various columns

and in seminars,

that “80% of individual investors are losing money,”

and many other columnists and speakers

say similar things.

That was a rule-of-thumb figure based on experience, but

this time it is confirmed by a single survey result,

as evidence.

Looking at the breakdown by market in detail,

68% of stock investors have been losing money since they began investing.

85% of FX investors have been losing money since they began investing.

75% of commodity investors have been losing money since they began investing.

(※Unfortunately, commodity investors are a small sample among survey respondents,

so the above results should be treated as reference figures.)

As for FX investors, a striking 85% are

losing money since they began investing.

In other words, most people cannot win.

This is my personal view, but to add a note,

this survey was conducted among readers who follow my newsletter daily,

and the demographic group itself is among Japan’s general individual investor population,

considered relatively eager to study and gather information.

Compared to ordinary investors,

even among those who study more zealously and seek information more,

68% of stock investors and 85% of FX investors

have been losing money since they began investing, losing money,

so if we broaden the scope widely across all investors in Japan,

the profitability will be even worse than these figures suggest.

This is the reality.

This is the evidence.

If you stay as you are, you cannot win.

If you stay as you are, you will lose money.

Then, as an individual investor,

to increase assets in the stock and FX markets,

and to live a richer life in the years ahead,

there is only one option: learn and get stronger.

Join the 32% winning group in stock investing and the 15% winning group in FX investing.

It is possible.

To do that, please study and become stronger.

There is no other way.

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to become a 32% winning stock investor and a 15% winning FX investor.

Please start soon.

If you don’t, by this time next year you will still be looking at this survey results with losses.

The path to becoming a winning investor in the market is a gradual progression.

There is no shortcut in this path.

However, there is a shortcut.

Continuing to invest alone as you are will be a detour, I think.

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