I agree with you mostly, Mr. Marketz, but personally, I'd put a different spin on it. Yes, making money in the forex has a lot to do with YOU, the trader.
From my perspective, it's spiritual battle because it involves spiritual elements.
- Faith: You've got to have faith that your strategy is valid and worth sticking to. And when you lose a trade, you've got to have faith that you'll recover. You've got to have faith not to "meddle" with your strategy midstream. If it's good, it'll work. That's all there is to it!
- Courage: You've got to have courage to put your hard-earned money on the line without getting all stressed out.
- Hope: You've got to hope for the best. If you lose hope, you're done!
- A sense of destiny: This comes from God. It's another way of saying that you've been directed into this activity. It has purpose, and you're supposed to be doing it. That's divine guidance. Without that, you might think something like "fate" is against you, and you could get paranoid.
- Peace: You've got to have peace about your wins and losses. Get philosophical about them. They're "just the way it is," in a sense. God is at work here, because He is testing how you respond to trials and giving you patience.