Experience is the best teacher, because lessons learnt with tears are very hard to forget. Yet, practically, experience is the costliest teacher because most times you can barely recover from its gory effect. I prefer education as experience is corrective while education is preventive. At least if Collins, my uncle was thoroughly educated before entering the forex, he would have employed better diligence and thoroughly review his broker's dealing policy to avoid these consequent scandal he is suffering with Forex4you. Such a honorable broker with a FSC license can still use market maker tactics to widen his spreads with false quotes while deliberately delaying his execution speed just to protect themselves from the risks of their responsible fault of their trading platform, all in the name of some false modern NDD policies. He says he think that not all offshore brokers can do this, as some could be more transparent than these reformed regulated bucketshops we have in the US! I couldn't help laughing, what do you think?I think experience is the best teacher, however you still need to know the basic in order to make it.
In my opinion and from experience , One can NOT be without the other .To be a good trader, one must have an experience however, you must learn about forex. Thus, basic education is needed. Please share your opinions.
I agree that both education and experience are important.In forex we must fully equip ourselves with proper education to earn knowledge,experience in the same way gives us knowledge since we learn through our own experienced.