Those were the words my friend said to me while he showed me images on his laptop filled with chart graph like patterns and numbers and a bunch of things I couldn't comprehend. Do people make money from this? I asked, he said all you have to do is... I stopped him right there saying whenever someone says all you have to do is they always end up saying something difficult to do and again he said if it was easy everyone would do it. I told him for one thing I'm not so good at math and whatever I'm seeing on your screen looks like a bunch of math to me he said nah you don't need to understand math to do this, so what is involved and isn't this thing a scam I've heard people saying they invest their money into it and lose everything, he said that's because they don't have accurate knowledge of how to become profitable. So I asked him what do I do? He said all you have to do is study a course on Market Structure and Technical analysis, and then do research on the setup that will make you profitable, you also have to learn risk management, how to use trading view, Mt5, indicators and various tools that will enable you sail through the raging and dangerous sea of the Forex Market. He warned me that I was going to suffer emotional and mental stress attempting to learn how to become profitable in trading and that it might take me even up to 5 years or more before I can become a profitable trader.
I bragged that there isn't anything in this world that I can't learn, which is true actually because I love learning new challenging things, I don't give up on a challenge. August 1st, 2024 I started learning with a demo account I was worse than a beginner I knew absolutely nothing of what I was embarking on but the prospect of not relying on a 9-5 job and having freedom and becoming financially capable was all I needed to be motivated because I have worked a 9-5 job before as a manager in a fast food restaurant and it nearly took my life i felt like a slave working for peanuts so I quit my job started a business which wasn't what I really wanted to do because being self employed doesn't offer me the kind of freedom I seek and then my friend started preaching the gospel of forex to me, mind you he wasn't a profitable trader either he was also an amateur but he believed, I still remember the day we made our first $10 we were over the moon we said to ourselves; "so you mean we can just be inside the comfort of our house and be making people's monthly and yearly salary " it was crazy.
September 15th, 2024 that was when we started trading a live account, normally it was recommended by the tutor on the course we took on Udemy that beginners should trade on a demo account for at least a year before using a live account because of the risk involved but we said to ourselves the only way we can be able to experience the trauma that comes with trading and build a strong resistance to it is if we trade a live account and besides we would be wasting our time trading a demo account for a whole year without making any money because we were broke. So we started trading a live account and we saw hell, truly if it was easy everyone would do it because trading is not what it appears to be, the sleepless nights of relentless back testing, market setup analysis, psychological battles, mistakes made, accounts blown, anger, frustration, burnouts studying the charts 24/7 trying to understand how it works, I swear there are difficult things to study and then there's forex.
Fast forward to April 31st, 2025 we came across a well known profitable trader called Dax we studied his trades and discovered something different something new it was our Eureka moment we were elated because finally after all these months we finally found something that works it's not the holy grail but it's a compass that would guide us properly in sailing the tempest that forex brings, we studied back to back for a month and now I can say the knowledge we've gained from Dax has given us a significant edge, i can confidently say there's great potential in what we can achieve in the next 2 years. The learning curve never stops if you ask me right now I'm still learning how to trade because of how dynamic the forex market is you can never know it all, it's ever changing and fascinating but I would take learning the finacical skill of forex trading over any other skill right now, for me it's not just about the money anymore my drive has evolved past that I live and breathe forex. This is a skill I've paid not just money to attain but time, energy, sleep, relationships, mental health I've paid so much and I don't regret it one bit, like I and my friend would say; it's forex or nothing.
Thanks for reading through.
Picture are mine.
