Honestly, this website is just my personal trading journal/tracker/set-of-rules.
But, I like to keep adding to the website here and there – and so here we are.
Right now is the sort of “Part II”, let’s-try-this-again stage of my trading journey. I’m 43 as I type this. I started learning to trade when I was 23. I just wanted to make money …and then I could be happy. Simple, right?
Well, we both know, when you start something like trading (especially trading!) with mindset like that, it’s probably not going to unfold like a financial fairy tale.
Never mind only just wanting to make money …I was in a rush to make money. I spent every waking moment living Forex, breathing Forex …and blowing up Forex accounts. If you can name the mistake, then I can tell you the number of times I made it.
I managed to work at a prop firm in Essex, England for a while. I lost money for 10 months and then left (or perhaps was asked to leave, I can’t recall). I remember being in the trading room at that prop firm one afternoon …on the phone to someone in New Zealand, who was in the delivery room of a hospital, while my son was being born.
Let me explain…