Oh, much less than 5 years, my friend! And you are right, savvy people will be able to make money regardless of market direction. I've been putting up a series of posts that cover one of the ways of doing this. The first post is at https://steemit.com/forex-trading/@andyfx/trading-the-forex-market-part-1 and the second one is at https://steemit.com/forex-trading/@andyfx/trading-the-forex-market-part-2

Please take a look and tell me what you think.