Every business both offline and online is profitable but the most important thing is how you are approaching this business, are you approaching this business for the main purpose of making money? No sometimes most business are not to be approached that way because going into the business with a pure mindset of making money and not caring about what you have to offer is a good reason you may not likely to succeed, now I am not really interested on how to make money in any online business I have interest on but the most important thing I would be concentrating on is how to learn the business to understand how it worked perfectly so that I can be able to handle the business even in most terrible condition, with this strategy I believe that the chance of making money with online business will be very high just the same with forex trading, forex trading is profitable if you are approaching it to really learn about it to understand how it should be traded for maximum profit .without good understanding you may not be able to make money in any online business you have interest to start, that is just the simple fact.