forex: you will most likely fail if you are undercapitalized (because you will want to trade with a high leverage then, which increases the risk of your capital.) think about it, if you are able to make 100% a year, and you have a 1000? account, will you trade full time? I doubt it. If you have a 100000? account? sure, that would make sense...
and - you need to be very good at what you do, if not, you will fail like 99% of the ppl that try. if you do not have a complete system that works (all parts of it) you will fail.
and often, the more you trade, the less profitable you will be... "overtrading", and you will fail.
its way more stress on the mind because if you have a losing trade, you lost money (or you might be so insane to hold onto a losing trade, which is even more stress, but you can get away with it for some trades until you kill your account).
I failed in forex even though I was profitable. how so? because my depot was too small to begin with. Thats what I want to change with IM now...
IM: you can even start without any investment, the more you do, the more likely success will be (some strategy has to work, scale it up, there you go...). Most investments you made are risks you can calculate and if you do a wrong investment it might turn out to be profitable later on(buying domains, software...hosting...)
but for both the same is true:
if you dont commit yourself to it, and work hard on it, and invest a lot f time to make it work chances are, you will fail...
in both you can get scammed. shitty affiliate programs, shitty networks, shitty publishers... or in forex, shitty broker.
most people will fail in trading, but more will make it in IM. IM is definately easier... I would guess 99% fail in trading, but only 90-95% fail in IM.
