It’s important for everyone to have savings and retirement plans in place. Our most productive years are also the years where we spend the most money, so squirreling away a percentage of our earnings to savings and retirement plans is essential. Within that broad framework are many different investment options.

You could delve into mutual funds, ETFs, individual stocks, commodities, futures markets, treasuries, etc. The possibilities are endless. Here’s where things get a little tricky: how do you know where to trade, what to invest in, and how much you should be paying for these services?

Personal finance experts say no to trading. Be it stock trading, binary trading or commodity trading. I tend to shy away from trading and never ask my readers to take up trading as a means of getting rich. The main reason being we do not manage emotions very well, as human beings. Let me explain in details, as to why trading is not good for your personal finances.

Experts say trading is less strategy but more emotions. Some discipline and some psychology. For the majority of traders, trading part isn’t hard, it’s managing the emotions, and sticking to a plan, where it is hard.