Forex Blog: Currency Trading

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Have you ever found you’ve had enough of having enough?

Some people might think I’m a “iron-man” greedy ex-bank trader without emotion.

That is so untrue.

Because I know in my own history the things that have meant the absolute most to me have been such activities as looking after the sick and dying, taking care of elderly people spending time with my family and worshipping God, amongst other things.

That is not the profile of the average forex trader.

I became so altruistic at one time that I trained to become a doctor. I may even go and do that again for four years and actually complete the training this time!

What that means though is that anyone can do it. I say that because of who I have been and who I was before I did some of those things (and some time during and after as well).I am no superhuman by any stretch.

The only reason I have a posh photo of myself on this website is my partner literally forced me to do a photo shoot one time because she thinks I’m good looking (and has done a good job of convincing me enough I want to show off !!)

But you’ve got to believe me, that forex trading can be done by the retail trader and it can be done by you.That goes for if you’re a teacher,lawyer,doctor,unemployed,student,housewife,single mum any of those things.

Just please, Keep It Simple.

Figure a way to take pips out of the market when you know which way the market is going to be headed in the direction you want it to. And it tells you, doesn’t it?

Now people will argue that you can never know when the market is going to move and which direction.

So why then, in the last two days where I have been in what I call “uptime” have I demonstrated prior to moves happening that we can figure it out. Firstly I wrote about and recorded on video my trade of the downmove from 2.0085 on GBP and the market moved 100 points. Secondly I wrote about the move from 1.9978 in the GBP/USD and the market moved 150 points.

It was not fluke, I have invested in myself, I have poured over every nugget of information I can on forex and found out. We make it too complicated and it can be easy. How much should I charge for this information that can make you FREE? If I gave it for free you wouldn’t use it. I guarantee that. Because I’ve never used anything I was given for free to build anything worthwhile (apart from my body, health mind etc and gifts which came from God - and even those things I haven’t taken especial care of like I should)…so I ought to charge several thousand pounds (double that in dollars) like most of the gurus, mentors and trainers. I don’t I charge £1000. And that is it, no more subscriptions, nothing more to pay. And it probably won’t last. Because the more effective, the more productive you become, the more valuable your time, your efforts and your work becomes. It’s a golden rule. And so I will charge more for my time, unashamedly, because I am worth it and because more importantly, you are worth it. I have a great thing to offer people and I do my absolute utmost to try to make sure people who do invest in themselves and in me do get the message I have to offer on forex. And some of them I know are learning, some have learned really they want to do something else with their lives and forex was something used to give them purpose inappropriately and others are highly successful and profitable, even with their own students with my total blessing (when they are open and honest about what they’re doing and have got some results under their belt for themselves and have done something for themselves first).

You see if you put the masses before yourself, the masses in fact suffer more. Because they miss out on who you could be and who you could become.And that can help them more than you can imagine that the value of putting the group before yourself has. Think Russia, think Eastern Europe, think even China (whose reason for such success has been from a total compromise of prior pure socialist operation).

Enough ranting again…good luck to Asia session traders. I am looking for a possible short correction in the GBP. This is risky. I believe we are on that road North now and the recommendation is buy on dips for the road North. I don’t see an immediate trade, so I am out of the market. This is because the prevous 4 hour candle has not been confirmed as an end of upmove, and I need to see significant downward movement to enter the short and I’m not entering the long either because the markets moved 180pips already in the last 24 hours. So time for a break and a rest for me.

Which comes to the answer to the question in the title of this blog nicely. What do you do when you’ve had enough of having enough?

Here’s what I do — and I’m going to be brutally honest with you…

= I go on a spiritual retreat with or without my family

= I go on a holiday to any destination of my choice with my family or without them

= I go for a walk and I spend time in peaceful places for a few days

= I participate in religious or spiritual activities intensely for a week

= I limit my trading time to 3 days per week and half a session per day

= I go to the doctor and have a check up of my health

= I put my house in order (pocketbook)

= I pray and meditate

= I take time for friends

….etc. And balance has a way of restoring itself and a new leash of life enters me. And ‘the market calls me home’

Blessings,

Sma