I was introduced to the world of trading by someone I met over the internet when I was trying to sell a lotion for bald scalp at clickbank. I had a faint idea you could make money with your computer but I soon realized internet/online marketing was not my piece of cake. Partly this, and unfortunately my friend's story of how he converted his $25 into $300 in over a day of trading by buying when he saw price going up and selling when he saw it was going down, eventually padded me up, not for a swift move up the ladder of success in quick time, but to occupy a seat in the most crazy roller coaster I had ever ridden. Of course I had little idea I was doing that.
Looking back I've often felt I was better off knowing the reality of trading with regards to the years of effort that needs to be put in and the mammoth sized work required to handle the psychological side of being a trader, very early in my career, but then I have no idea how I would have reacted to it. I don't think I would have had the balls to still want to pursue it just at bad as I in fact did, with this false desire and belief burning inside me.
These four years at trying to succeed as a trader have taught me more about my inner self than anything else in these 22 years of being alive ever did! Yes you read that correct. I have learned more about myself than about trading in all these years, and that's one reason why I absolutely love this profession. It just is a wonderful way of projecting your true self on the canvas of charts and the amazing feeling of inner accomplishment following outer achievements is unmatched.
Being the thick headed person that I am, I deserved to be nowhere near where I am today, had it not been for Almighty God to provide me with the guidance I can, with zero hesitation, label as divine. It happened about three years ago that I googled "forex forums" and stumbled upon Forex Factory. For only a couple of months I was lost in the myriad number of trading systems being discussed there before I happened to drop by the James16 chart thread. Ask me to nominate the luckiest moment of my life and this would be it. I can't help cringing just thinking what would I have been today had it not been for this lucky moment.
All of what I know about trading today is because at this very group, some selfless, martians would spend countless hours helping me alongside several others without seeing me, without ever knowing me and with no commercial motives involved. Its here that I understood what being a human is, and that to be a trader one must as a rule, first be a human! A human willing to go to any extent to help another human caring not about geography, nationality, religion, color - anything and everything that could possibly divide humanity. A winning approach to life I know very few people adopt.
This blog is a result of this very thought that is the founding stone of the inherent culture of the james16group. The purpose is to delineate my journey thus far like an open book for you to read, learn from, and hopefully apply it in a way that is in some way helpful to you in achieving all your dreams.
Enjoy your stay,
Regards,
Ghous.
