[andyakb]

This is really, really misplaced advice. As a programmer, he knows how to program, he does not know how to profitably trade, nor is it easy to learn. An analogy would be telling a chef to open a restaurant because they are a good cook. While common advice, it isnt that simple. The analogy also fails because it is much easier to learn to run a restaurant than it is to trade profitably, let alone on the forex markets.

He has valuable skills that should easily command him more than what he "needs" to make, he should use those skills instead of attempting to learn an unrelated, saturated, and difficult field.