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talking about the non farm payroll news realese, is it like to be released this week cos this is the message am getting from my broker

Dear Client,

As you are likely aware, due to the current US government shutdown, there will be no Non-Farm Payroll (“NFP”) data figure announced today.

We have communicated with a number of our Liquidity Providers to discuss the likely implications of this on the underlying market.

In general, most of our LPs anticipate that they will be pricing as normal this afternoon, so the spread action around the time that the figure is normally announced should be consistent with other days in which there are no data announcements.

The one variable that is hard to predict is how systematic funds will behave at the time, as we anticipate that many of them will have parameters built into them that will automatically trade at the time that the figure would normally be announced.

As such, it is possible that there will still be artificially increased volatility in the market, which might have a detrimental impact on spreads.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact our dedicated customer support team via email or live chat.


Best Regards,

welldone fellas, there is something amazing about this ndicator, i think it cool for both short term and long term traders ........just saw it and i got it modified so i say i shud share,pm me for a copy incase needed

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Humans have made incredible health strides and are living longer lives than ever. Many of the maladies that struck down our ancestors have for the most part been completely eliminated – everything from tuberculosis, to polio to malaria.

Today, the biggest killers stem as much from our lifestyles as from microscopic bacteria and viruses. One of the worst of these is heart disease, and specifically high blood pressure. It’s a slow, but efficient killer that robs many people of what should be the last 10, 20 or 30 years of their lives.

Part of the reason that heart disease is so prevalent and intractable is that it often requires massive changes to one’s lifestyle— changes that are not easy to make. Everything from radically altering ones diet to implementing serious exercise routines. And while it’s never too late to start, people often realize the true danger only when it’s too late to make the changes and the damage is done.

Now, however, there may be a scientific breakthrough that could have an impact on high blood pressure comparable to penicillin’s ability treat infections or quinine’s effect on malaria.
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Scientists are claiming that they have now isolated unusual ingredients in a rare seaweed discovered by fishermen off the coast of Korea that offer incredible health benefits—including the ability to restore blood pressure to normal levels.

Dr. Haengwoo Lee, a renowned biochemist living near Seattle, Washington conducted a massive 15 year, multimillion dollar clinical study on these two ingredients. The first is Seanol, an extremely rare seaweed extract from Ecklonia Cava that's proven to be 100 times more powerful than any land-based antioxidant. That's because it stays working in your body for 12 hours, compared to land-based antioxidants that work for 30 minutes.

"Its secret is its make-up of special polyphenol antioxidants that are a whopping 40% lipid (fat) soluble," Dr. Lee explains. "Unlike nearly all land-based antioxidants that are water soluble, Seanol's protective compounds can get into things like the fatty tissues of your brain and penetrate all three layers of your cells, including the outside, the oil-based cell membranes, and your DNA."

Indeed, Seanol is so powerful, it's the only FDA-approved Ecklonia Cava marine-algae extract in existence.

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According to the CDC, about 1 in 3 U.S. adults has high blood pressure, which increases the risk for heart disease and stroke, the two leading causes of death in the United States. Increasing your omega-3 intake can reduce high blood pressure, and because it's difficult to get enough omega-3s in foods like fish and nuts, many people turn to supplements.

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The Deadly Lake…
There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret…

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…that Stonifies!
It turns any animal it touches to stone.

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Truth Behind the Lake
The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake.

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The Chemical Composition
The creatures pepper the area around the lake due to its constant pH of 9 to 10.5 — an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity.

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Seems Like a Horror Story!
The petrified creatures it leaves behind seem straight out of a horror film.

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There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret — it turns any animal it touches to stone. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake, but the petrified creatures it leaves behind are straight out of a horror film.

Photographed by Nick Brandt in his new book, Across the Ravaged Land, petrified creatures pepper the area around the lake due to its constant pH of 9 to 10.5 — an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity.

According to Brandt:

I unexpectedly found the creatures — all manner of birds and bats — washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry.

I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. Reanimated, alive again in death.



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poco a poco88: hi evry1,as a newbie i nid u guys asistance pls.i hav a demo account of $100000 wit xemarkets.in two days i've made 3trades whch i came out successful wit 58,56 nd 41pips respectively,dia by increasin d accnt 2 around $101550.d tin is,how do i reduce dis account balance 2 around $500 or even $300 so i cn minimize my lot size,asume am tradin live since $100000 isn't somtin i can afford 2 fund a real accnt wit.tnx

intelligent question for a serious trader, what you will do is take heavy lot against $3000 account, scalp it and make it lose until the balance is at the exact amount you want to start your real account with,wishing you a successfull trade

Ifonyinye: Buy or sell? I am a newbie.
Ifonyinye: Pls let me know what you are trading by 2pm. Thanks.
Ifonyinye: Buy or sell? I am a newbie.

it wil be much better if look for a good technical indicator, and learn the method of compounding your profits as you trade, use stop loss, tp and tstop, copy trading could be risky when your intuition is the best resources, hook up with someone close to you to put you through

deleo16: gud a.m pls what platform can you recommend for me to start up forex and what are the requirement to register with them

mt4 is the best platform, with a good ecn broker

naijababe: Mehn!!! Folks should be aware that scammers use this website to lure their victims. I have received every possible scam mail possible from fake, DHL, Fedex, Amazon delivery notes to bank alerts asking me to download something that's supposed to be a a new security feature.

same with me too, DHL wrapped up in a .zip file, please oo that virus is potent, dont even try to see whats inside

webdezzi: why is this man paying all our celebrities to do this stuff?
it's obvious these guys are doing it for the money

Thank God , i think am the only one awake alive

wonders never end....west africa don come again oo.......imagine jim iyke been delivered of evil spirit that has never made him to love.....Fear has really been a tool of history that has been held as a weapon of mental slavery by those that are megally profiting from suppressing the truth. spare me that delusional bull poo......

[quote author=pip love-vendor]About 2 weeks. Down side of hedging is no loss/no profit, time wasted. with the right system you can eck out profits. but like I said it's not for everyone.[/quote]broh i will tell u d candid truth,hedging is a cancer in d forex market,it must be stategically done,if u re nt careful wt it it kills u slowly ,except u have enuf margin to absorb the shock if price consolidate at ur hedging distance,be careful broh

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Truly, honey is a superfood, a nectarian delight and an effective healing agent all in one. It is packed with vitamins and minerals, enzymes and antioxidants, lots of carbohydrates in the form of sugars and even some amino acids. So sweet is it that, taken together, its unique combination of fructose and glucose makes it sweeter than table sugar.

When you have a moment, hold up a clear jar of honey up in the sunlight and see the golden nectar for what it is. Its amber color reflects much of the sun’s energy which was utilized in its process of creation.

In Ayurveda honey is considered one of the most effective natural delivery systems for the therapeutic administration of herbal preparations and other remedies.

As in all healing systems throughout the world, there is much subtlety and nuance associated with every healing agent “under the sun”. By that we mean that a single food or herb or spice has different healing qualities associated with it depending on it’s source, its specific type, ripeness, exact time of being picked or harvested, what kind of ground it is grown in, among several other determinants.
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In the case of honey there are additional differences which are even more subtle, but no less important in distinguishing one healing application from another. By way of illustration, here is a list of the eight different types of honey identified within Ayurveda which can be found at the website linked below:

Types of Honey:

Eight types of honey are described in ayurveda depending on the type of bee which collects it. They are Pouttika, Bhramara, Kshoudra, Makshika, Chatra, Arghya, Oudalaka, Dala.

Pouttika – This honey is collected by very large bees from the nectar of poisonous flowers. It increases vata, causes gout and burning sensation in chest. It is also sedative and reduces fat.

Bhramara – This honey is collected by large bees and sticky in nature.

Kshoudra – (Honey collected by medium sized honey bees) light and cold in nature. Dissolves Kapha.

Makshika – (Honey collected by small honey bees) very light and dry natured. Useful in VataKapha diseases and kapha diseases.

Chatra – Heavy and cold in nature useful in gout, Leucoderma (Shwitra).

Arghya – Good for eyes but causes arthritis.

Oudalaka – Useful in skin diseases, and helps in modulation of voice.

Dala – Dry and reduces vomiting.

Amongst all the above “Makshika” is considered as the best type with immense medicinal properties.
{SOURCE: “Therapeutic uses of Honey in Ayurveda” by Dr. Krishna.R.S at Pioneer Thinking}

Without delving into the ayurvedic nomenclature we can quickly see just how important this expanded understanding may be for those using honey medicinally on a regular basis, as well as for those who eat a lot in their regular diet like The Health Coach.

According to Ayurveda, honey possesses many useful medicinal properties which are not well unknown, except among the many practitioners of this ancient system of health and wellness. What follows is just a short list of some of honey’s more common usages which can be found at the same website:

Some Health Benefits of Honey:
a. Honey is very good for eyes and eye sight.

b. It quenches thirst.

c. Dissolves kapha.

d. Reduces effects of poison.

e. Stops hiccups.

f. It is very useful in urinary tract disorders, worm infestations, bronchial asthma, cough, diarrhea and nausea, vomiting.

g. Cleanse the wounds.

h. It heals wounds.

i. Helps in quick healing of deep wounds.

j. Initiates growth of healthy granulation tissue.

k. Honey which is newly collected from bee hive increases body weight and is a mild laxative.

l. Honey which is stored and is old helps in metabolism of fat and scrapes Kapha.
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sojmann: Its a STRESS FREE system. If you are patient enough.

4real u right, right now GU EU re al on d bullish zone,patient waiting is the key to using it
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market timing is difficult to perfect........the only sure thing in the market is your rules..............happy pipping for the weekend

sojmann: MBFX trading system rocks

I used it also , even added some entry fine tuning codes to it, it a very good way to parachute with institutional traders with both retracement / divergence, tp always sure even when you break even

chuckzoid: Are you telling that a Nigeria Broker like yours can handle large withdrawal? I was doing well with DUKASCOPY two years back in Liberia before I came back home. I'm concerned about your capitalisation?

i sense this blackwell to be a newly hatched naija bucketshopper, i cant imagine trading with a 50% stopout level account

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meshpips: It took me many years to discover that a trader becomes more successful when he engages in other non-speculative businesses to complement or augment proceeds from trading. Surveycash imports stuff as an addition to what he gets from trading. I feel he is in the best place to tell us what it feels like. Surveycash oya, over to you.

you are absolutely right, the reality is that somehow i feel attending to other things can fuel our presentmindedness(emotionally unattached, nonjudgmental unpretentious mind) which is the main recipe needed to make clear decisions as a trader

@naijababe

nice post but still, nothin feels like trading no matter what

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AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY …


1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.


11. An effective way to battle cancer is to STARVE the cancer cells by not feeding it with foods it needs to multiple.

What cancer cells feed on:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Note: Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.


b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells will starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes t o nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.

To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water--best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines will become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.

Anger, unforgiving and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

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GOd Help us All, how could it be that mossanto responsible for about all the 99.9% Genetically modified foods in ciculation is still the company that manufactured this agent orange

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this is a venomous snake, it is not a constrictor

The Op might seems frightened that he categorise viper and python together with the pics he posted is still not fair though releasing pythons and other constrictors into a social environment, they are calm and dangerous creatures

At this moment I was spending a lot of time on forums like strategybuilder.com and the forum . I knew of myself that I knew a lot more then most of the so called traders or people that wanted to make a living out of trading. I knew that it is the most hard road to walk on. The most impossible job that one can pick up. That one can do very well for several years and suddenly one can loos everything in a matter of days or weeks.
Bit by bit I started to build up a reputation on most forums. In this way that I knew that many people started to follow me. I had many hits on the topics that I started or the postings that I made. This gave me the final boost or launch in my trading life. I started to realize that I not had only pressure of my friend who sponsored me but also hundreds of people that followed me. And this made me to get my act really and finally together. That was tradin in a NORMAL conservative way. Stick to my systems but don’t get attempted to take to much risk. Making 50% profit is huge compared to Warren Buffet who makes “only” 30% yearly and this for 35 years now and became the 2nd richest person in the world. I said over and over again: forget to make several hundreds percentage of profits because that is always leading to destruction (sooner or later).
It can sound silly but even after all that time I was still learning every day. Not only to trade in a certain way but all the ways how one should not trade. I became on absolute expert in money management , where before I thought that money management is not trading more then 2-5% risk per trade.
I realized that to stay alive as a trader is to not take to much risk AND don’t place your eggs in one baskets. Trade several pairs. Trade several system. Trade with several brokers. Go for a small but sure yearly profit instead of risking a whole farm but ending up with burning that farm.
Of the several hundreds of people on my forum, there were people who had serious capital. And from one came to the other. The snowball started to roll and we got in contact with each other. They started to invest also some small money in me. Some of them left me already after a couple of weeks or months because of some normal trading losses I made where they hoped like me before, to only make profit and never make losses. But I did not worry anymore. I knew it was a natural selection between “investing capital” and “risk or casino capital”.
I progressed in such a way that now my best friend is still trading with me (which I want to thank him for very much because he believed in me from the very beginning and because of him I am still a trader) and all of the other people that with the years invested more and bigger capital in me. Also and especially forex-tsd that gave me a forum to make myself public so I could do my thing and give me the opportunity to earn money through trading by teaching developing and helping other people to make money through trading. I survived on giving lessons and having a trading room.
During that same period I continued to develop further and further my systems and placed them in expert advisors that I leased to others and at some point kept for myself because I had enough money that was invested in me.

As I write this I have 1.3Million $ invested in my pamm accounts as an account manager and I am also employed as a trader for an institutional investment company in Eastern-Europe.
One very important thing I know is that I will never get attempted anymore to take to much risk or think that I could get rich in 1 year time. I have months that I don not earn 1 single penny or dime or euro (except my income for the investment company). And I have months that I earn the same amount of money as 10 postmen are earning in Germany. This means that my monthly income is very volatile like the forex can be or that I never know in advance what my income will be. But that is what I want. I could never live with the knowledge how much money I would make every month because that sounds or feels for me like counting the days till I die or that I get my pension.

My investors are very pleased with the return they get on their investment. They get a lot more then on the stock exchanges. And the investment they make with me is not stocks correlated. I still live in my letterbox apartment. I still do not drive a car. But I know that I live from my trading and that this was my quest and ambition from the very beginning. Being a part of the financial world and be smarter then 95% of the financial world. Because 95% of the people who trade need to stop after 3 years. I want to thank the people who believed in me and the people who invested in me. I am glad to be a trader. It is the most difficult job in the world. You need to be more then a shark to survive in this world. Even after several years being profitable one can still stand on a cliff and have the urge to jump from it because you lost everything in your life.
If had the chance to do it all over gain, would I still become a trader ?...That is for me the absolute most difficult question to answer. I really don’t know. It had to give up so much in life to become a trader. I lost 2 beautiful relationships. But it gives me so much satisfaction to be a trader…I live from my trading, I am independent, nobody tells me what to do, I can do my job from anywhere in the world as long if I have an internet connection. And like Confucius pointed me to : I never had the feeling that I worked one day in my life because I love my job as trader enormously.
So I attempted to say: YES I AM a SUCCESFUL trader. I am making a very nice incomme now. But I would never recommend to someone to become a trader. It is by far THE most difficult difficult thing one can do.
A VERY important detail was that I felt from the very beginning and throughout my whole trading career was that there is the rule that only 5% of the traders can make it as a trader. I told myself from the very beginning that statically I belong to the 95% of the traders that would not make it. Where all the people that I meet on the internet believe from the very beginning that they will be a part of the 5% of traders that will make it.



Friendly regards… FXiGoR

With taking that decision I got 50% of the value of my house on that moment (the year 2000) 125.000€
I was learning very fast because the time that I took to learn was beyond what every other human would do. I slept in front of my pc. Was reading every book on trading. I was even able to write a book. My learning curve went up like a rocket. When someone would have cut open the veins in my wrist there was not a drip of blood that would have come out of it. Only charts, logarithms, systems, charts, indicators etc. And was I making money ?.. HELL YES. I was making an insane amount of money. I was making money like I never dared to dream.
BUT..yep as you expected here is the big but. I was trading in such a way that sooner or later it would lead to a total destruction. I had hardly ever a stoploss on my trades and was continuously averaging down. Every time I succeeded in my averaging down I made a lot more money. Brokers personally warned me (in that time one had only telephonic brokers) every time with the words: Igor, you got away with again but sooner or later you are going to get stuck in positions where you will loos everything in a couple of days.
As said I felt on top of the world (arrogant) and had no ears for what they said.

The 21st February 2001 ( 1 year after my divorce) my arrogance was stopped abruptly. In 48 hours I lost everything, every penny, dollar, euro that I had made and saved in my life. I had taken so much future contracts on the long side on the daxxetra ( german stock index) by continuously averaging down where on that moment that index (future) was dropping like a meteor that is falling to earth.
My broker called me after the trading session and said to me: Sorry Igor all your money is gone. I did everything to keep your positions open as long as possible. To even go over your margin till the zero point. But tomorrow you can’t trade anymore. Because no more money.
I said to him: Thank you and laid down the phone and got in the most scary trance for 2 days without going to sleep. I kept staring to my chart and to my broker platform. I had the most empty helpless and dying feeling one can imagine. I felt that the sharks had eaten me completely and that on that same evening not one of those shark would feel any compassion for me or realize that somebody has lost his life. Because they don’t know me. They do not see my face. They do not know how I feel. They did not know what I gave up in my life (wife and family) to get to this point.
This feeling got stronger and stronger till I was sure that I wanted to commit suicide. I started to think how ?... I hate pain and violence. So pills were the most obvious key to me to some sort of heaven or hell for traders that had bad luck or did wrong. On that very same moment (not sleeping for 48hours) my son, he was then 8 years, came in my apartment with the most lovely smile and said the most awakening words: Hello DADDY. He came to me and gave me a kiss while placing his arms around my neck and I placed my arms around him and held him so tight that he said DADDY what are you doing? On that moment I realized that suicide is no option at all because my sons need me and love me and I love them with all my hart.

A couple of days later my decision was made. I wanted to continue to be a trader. But I did not had a pot to piss in anymore. I realized to start to trade immediately would not be a good decision because I would only feel revenge and wanted to get my lost money back ASAP. I realized that this would only lead to revenge trading and that this would be the ideal ingredient to failer. I talked to my friend who had invested in me and explained my case. I explained him also my trading style and where I made crucial errors. On that moment we were the month of June. He said to me: I am going to pay you a very small monthly income. With that income I know you can hardly survive. But live like a monk. Trade for 3 months on a demo account and show me that you do not average down anymore and that on every trade you have a pre-defined stoploss and take profit.

I traded nearly 3 months on a demo account very strictly and with an enormous discipline and at the end of September my friend said to me: Lets go live again!... I felt that this would be my absolute last chance to make it as a trader. I decided that the money I had lost was absolutely lost. I accepted my defeat. I looked with a clear mind to the future and knew that I needed to start from zero again. Humble and modest. I was 38 years old then.
Everything went smooth and well. I started to put more and more of my trading decisions into expert advisors. I knew more and more that system trading is better then discretionary trading. No more feeling like greed and anger. It went from better to good. I started a new relationship. She was again a great woman and had a lot of friends ho had some money to invest. More and more money was added to my account as an account manager. Where at some point I was trading 1Million dollar. I was doing so good that again this dark evil greedy little devil sat on my shoulder and said to me: Boost up your risk. Make more money. You can do it..etc…. I started to investigate my own trading so much or lets say to much that I took again huge risks BUT suddenly I lost 50% of the capital that people had invested with me. Immediately people abandoned my sinking ship. My relationship broke up again and her friends told me that they wanted to stop and before I knew it I was back on the street with nothing. No more relationship. No more money.
I moved to a very small apartment. The right word for it would not be an apartment but a letterbox. When I moved my head from left to right it caused a head injury. I had a very long thought about my live and realized that the path I decided to walk nearly 10 years ago had brought me nowhere. I felt like a trader, I was a trader, but that was it. I had not 1 euro in my pocket. No car. No house. Only my 2 sons that still supported me and also my trading friend that had supported me from the very beginning
I asked him again if he could help me. He was again positive and said to me: You do not need to come to me I am going to bring you every month 1250€. Within 1 year you need to make money. If not then we finish with each other. This can sound strange but he knew and I knew that at some point you need to let go of your dreams. Especially if one is on that moment 42 years.

What are the parameters to measure if you are successful in trading ?...

Let me put it like this: what are the criteria to conclude if one is a successful baker or a plumber of lawyer or doctor or housewife …or a trader ?...

With this topic I would like to share my life as a trader or give my biography as a trader.

I am now 48 years old “young”. When I was 16-17 years I saw that my father red once per week a “special” newspaper that was filled with numbers and numbers and numbers. It looked like a newspaper with numeric coding between special agencies of different countries. I could not understand that one could find information or learn something from the enormous amount of numbers and names that did not mean anything at all to me.
The names were the names of different stock and bourses and the numbers were the quotes of stocks and indices and indexes and currencies.
Fact was that I had the feeling if one can read such a newspaper and find his information in that puzzle of tons of numbers must be a very intelligent person. So my first inspiration to become a trader was more to become someone that can read such a newspaper so I could feel intelligent ;-) . By the way that newspaper was the Belgium equivalent of the Wallstreet Journal.

A couple of years later when I was about 19-20 years I started to have a serious interest in the stock markets. To find information about stocks I needed to buy that very same newspaper (because we were still very far away from the internet and its highway on information).
I started to understand more and more the information that this newspaper contained but also started to have second thoughts on the word NEWS. Because I felt that in the financial world the moment that you read it in a newspaper (the day after what happened) something completely different is happening on that very same moment. When I red in my newspaper that the bourses or stock markets went up or down (the day before) that on that very same moment the stocks were going the opposite direction. So I realized that trading in a very accurate way was only for those who were standing in the pit or had the real time information from the stock exchanges. That made me decide to keep away from that circus where I felt I could not be part of. I still followed what was happening but only from the corner of my eye.

A couple of years later a new information source was born and that was teletext. On my TV I could read information about sport or national or international news but also about the stock markets. BUT with an hour delay. Lets call this information the very first steps that would lead to the internet. Immediately I felt that maybe now I could do some business or become a part of the financial world. My interest became so big now that I also felt that just plain normal stocks would not be the game that I wanted to play.
They felt heavy, to slow, to much capital invested and most important you can only make profit with stocks if they go up. When stocks go down you loos money.
Somebody that I knew (which later became a very good friend of mine and I am still managing his money) started to explain that there is also such a thing as options on stocks. He told me that there are call options and put options. And depending if you buy or sell them that one can make money with them even when stocks dropped. That was the moment that some HOLY FIRE started to burn inside of me. It made me realize that I no longer needed to depend on the mass hysteria that pushes a stock up so that I could make money. On the contrary. When I feel that certain stocks would go up I buy myself some call options. When I feel that stocks would go down I close my call options and buy myself put options. Yes yes yes I can also be rewarded for my vision if it would be bullish but also bearish.
The feeling and knowledge that I could be in control of bourses or prices going up but also down changed my whole life. From that moment on ( the year 1995) it became clear to me that this would be the path that I wanted to follow. Be part of the financial world. And the better that I could predict the market fluctuations the better I would be and the more money I would make. But important was that my main goal was not the money. It was the capability to predict where markets would go to.

The very same moment the internet was born, I immediately felt and knew that this would be a MAJOR thing for people who are traders. Major in finding news in getting quotes in real time. In getting brokers so one can get in and out of a position with the click of a mouse.
Little did I know that this was only the very beginning of a very long journey that would have enormous consequences in my life. I thought that with the internet it would take me only a couple of months to become a professional trader. By professional I mean that I would be able to make a living out of trading. On that moment I was still a real estate agent. I made a good living. I drove a Porsche 911 Targa. I had a relation with a very beautiful woman. I had to 2 fabulous sons with her. We had bought our house 300meters away from the beach and with a open view on the park. In a few words, we were the dream couple and family.
But I had this fire burning in me and wanted to become a trader at all cost. As said earlier, I realized (on that moment) that the main thing was to be able to predict the movements of markets or indices or stocks. I got involved with the first software programs that were able to do technical analysis. Those programs contained technical indicators that opened an other whole new world for me. Names as stochastic and Par. Sar and MACD and RSI and moving averages gave me the feeling that I had some secret weapons in my hand that 99% of the financial world does not know about and if I would study them very thoroughly I would have an edge on the “rest” of the financial world. I also started to buy books through amazon.com about trading and candle sticks and trading techniques.
I started to learn to build my so called own systems…etc etc… I was spending 16 hours per day in front of my pc. And this for 7 days per week. Needles to say that my beautiful wife was not happy with this at all. We had many discussions and heavy fights about the way how I was living. No more interest for her or the kids or social life or friends or family.
I knew and realized what she said made sense but again that holy fire was burning inside of me and it was even getting stronger and more important then all the rest in my life. I wanted and would become a trader. I wanted to become one of the best traders ever. Where at some point she confronted me with the choice: or I continue with what I am doing or we separate. On that moment I was loosing as much money as I made money. Sometimes I made a very big win with a big position but a couple of weeks later I had lost all that money. In short I was not making a living out of trading and was happy to be with my wife who actually paid the bills (because my interest in real estate got to a zero point.
It was a very hard decision for me to take but I went for the quest that I had in my life. To be part of the financial world. To do something where I was better in then the rest or the big crowd. To do something that I developed. That came out of my brain. Not something that people around me would like me to do.
On that very same moment I red a quote from Confucius who said: Find a job that you like and you will never need to work one day in your life. For me that was the answer that I searched in my decision and it was made. I gave up on a beautiful family and knew that from that moment on it was only me and the financial world and no more support from anybody. No more financial support, no more emotional support. Only me against the financial sharks. No mercy, eat or be eaten.
I lost on that moment an 18 year relationship with my wife, my house and only see my children every 2 weeks.

jamebex: Good day all, I really want to start trading forex but don't know how to please can you guys be kind enough to put me through?
I am a batch a corps member and would like to trade profitably immediately after my passing out come February next year is it possible?
i am a very fast learner and will be very dedicated to learning any fine details.
Thanks all and happy trading.

you can learn with a fast pace as long as you try to keep internet connection and power supply constant, all that is needed broh is practice and practice and dedication, wishing u a succesful trading

patience +self discipline + Method = profits

beautiful morning from the eurozone and GB

@ The Shootist,
lol....you sound quite funny,forex trading make some of us traders do technical analysis ,some do fundamental while others mixed both to optimise their trading result , you ccan try to see for urself what i was talking abbout http://www.mql5.com/en/signals ,the signals are available under your mt4 terminal if your broker(e.g xemarket) have it in there

@amyoge

am not advertising oo, please dont misunderstand,the idea am sharing is that

sometimes having a properly programmed(calculated) automated trading expert advisor can drastically adds to the growth of a portfolio when hybridized with manual trading...

ve been part of the mql5 community for a while now and i find it so exciting with the way the site is organised, in there you have the oportunity turn your converted strategy/advisor where it will be approved as a signal provider by a moderator for anyone to subscribe for free, you can also decide to monetize it for any amount that is if you wish, but i will be publishing this for free , if you wanna try it ,it verily available as am attaching it to the post,built only for EN, it is a scalper,one of my strategies that doesnt trade unless certain conditions are met(for the parameters, s.l 33 t.p 0, trailing stop 35, magic number 10001,slippage 3-7(depending on the maximum deviation you can afford)all parameters can be adjusted to increase the ROI,but might be risky if MM is not applied,but, it will be much better and you have more confidence if you try to convert yours also **just saying cos the parent idea still remain the fact that the pair trend moderately