<prompt> Human: Original is here.After my original post, my husband did end up working a fulltime contract job that delayed his plans to get into currency trading. I hoped hed love the job and forget the FOREX plans, but he remained convinced that the trading was the way he would make up for lost time and lost income from being unemployedunderemployed for so long. I continued to share my concerns; he continued to believe he was the guy smart enough to work the system to his advantage. His assumptions played out well in a demo account with imaginary money, and back-tested well against historical data provided by the broker. Short of a divorce ultimatum the nuclear option, it was clear to me that I would have to let him learn his lesson the hard way. I asked a lot of questions, spelled out my fearsconcerns, set firm limits on how much he would put on the line, required him to give me the same tracking app on the account that he installed for himself...and then bit my tongue and stepped back to let him do what he was determined to do. He opened his trading account this week.Anybody notice what happened to the market yesterday? Um, yeah. He had one day of thinking he was a genius up 1000 in a day, and on the second day more than half his account was gone. Unfortunately, I dont think the loss translated into a lesson in his mind, unless the lesson was I just picked the wrong week to dive in. He wants to regroup and continue to explore FOREX, but through manual rather than automated trades this time. I think its time for me to insist on counseling. Not only because this is a point of contention in our marriage, but because I am genuinely concerned about his state of mind if he fails at this. Wish I had a better update, but were now heading into rrelationships territory rather than rpersonalfinance.tl;dr: Decided to let him learn the hard way. Market smacked him down fast, but Im not sure hes learned his lesson. Probably time for rrelationships.  <response>: Wish I had a better update, but were now heading into rrelationships territory rather than rpersonalfinance.Agreed. 