11/05/2022 17:30
Only 19% of the world‘s online traders are women, with a higher concentration in Asia and the UK, while Italy is in fourth place. This is what emerges from the research of Broker Notesaccording to which the trend is now reversing and women are proving more skilled than men.
Women and money, a complex relationship since ancient times and recent data are not yet entirely comforting. In Italy, women who deal with money for work are still too few; only one in two women works and one in three women does not have a current account.
As he points out Andrea Unger, the only trader to have won the World Trading Championship four times and founder of the Unger Academy, in my daily experience I notice that most of the people who approach financial projects are male. There are women in this area, but they are far fewer in number. In my Academy, for example, the ratio is one woman for every ten students “.
According to Unger, “one of the possible reasons why the number of women who have turned to trading in the past two years is lower than that of new male traders is that women, by being more pragmatic, have avoided falling into the trap of trading as easy solution to financial problems. Unlike many men, women seem to have one greater awareness of the fact that trading is an activity to be carried out when you have extra money to invest and not an alternative to work or a solution to make money quickly. “
According to research conducted by Broker Notes, only 19% of the world‘s online traders are women, but the trend in recent years seems to reverse the trend and sees women growing in this sector, with skills often absent in male colleagues. In fact, online trading is accessible to everyone even from home and this aspect has facilitated the increase in “pink quotas”, despite the fact that their number compared to men remains small.
Among other things, as Unger reiterates, land women are potentially even better than men because they are more thoughtful and analytical. “Women traders, by their very nature, have a greater ability to develop long-term strategies and are less instinctive than men in making decisions. In addition, they also have a greater ability to perform multiple tasks at the same time. A very useful aspect when, for example, you want to invest simultaneously in different assets.
There is no shortage of virtuous examples such as actress Michelle Williams became world champion of Futures Trading, or Petra Ilona Zacek, who became world champion of Trading 2018 with a score of + 257.9%.