There is a psychological principle called "target fixation". This means that one achieves what one concentrates on, even if you are trying to avoid it. Two well-known examples: (a) a motorcyclist may look at a tree next to a curve on the road, concentrate on it with a view to avoiding it, and then end up crashing into it; (b) a person with an alcoholic parent may see throughout their childhood what their parent is like when drunk, resolve to not be like that, and then become an alcoholic when older. Now, in a novel application of this "target fixation" principle to online trading, if we fixate on the possibility of losing money - even if we concentrate on the topic in order to avoid doing it - we may in fact end up doing just what we are trying to avoid. Thus anyone who reads a thread with a negative topic like this may be setting themselves up for a loss. Naturally the more one ponders ideas from such a thread, or even contributes to such a thread, the greater the chance that one will fall into the "target fixation" trap. The bottom line is that I've done myself a disservice by writing this, and you've all done yourselves a disservice by reading it. We should rather have spent our time debating positive topics such as "how to double your money in a month".