Thanks Mike! That is no nonsense and it helps a lot.
Reading through your comment, I saw a different perspective, a refreshing one. I needed that break. I feel more interested to learn. Especially this one “Learn something about how you like to trade.” It inspires me to check out different style by different traders, apply them and see which one I am comfortable with and hopefully create my own style. Wow! Thanks again!!
Not being able to make it. Some days go good I feel like I learned something and all, and other days are just miserable. One thing I would say, I haven’t seen so much scammy thing in other fields as I have in stuff related to forex, I am major in CS and there are so many good resources of it out there, I was learning guitar and so much good stuff out there. Not even related to courses and stuff, just finding a mentor and getting to know them and learn from them is much much easier in those fields than in forex.
All these people are for some reason afraid to show their trading history, a simple request for myfxbook link becomes into a huge rant about how it’s unnecessary and I should trust them as is. I have seen this done by most people on youtube and many others. It’s such a sad state of things. I believe anyone who claims anything should be able to show their trading history, after all, we don’t hire someone as a fitness trainer without some experience in gym or related degrees.
This scammy forex environment is making my head spin.
Do you mean like you ask the people who want to be your mentor these things and they don’t give it to you? Also, where do you look for these people?
So far I haven’t found anyone who seems legit to me. All the online people, especially who are selling some kind of mentorship or one-on-one teaching are just doing that, selling their course. Because they have literally very little proof other than the analysis they present and I have asked several people like that who are selling up to $1000 courses about proof of their trading history and none of them provide it and end the chat with a “all the proof is available on our channel/page”.
Yeah I’d be wary too. Although how do you find them? Google search? Or are they here on the forums? Social media? (Actually scrap the babypips forums, they typically get thrown out here by other forum members lol. Plus I don’t think they’re allowed here.)
Youtube, Facebook, and yes general google searches too. I have a few friends who join all kinds of paid signal groups (I am against it but can’t stop them) so I get to know some of these people from there too. Like I said before, if you are looking to learn guitar you can judge a person’s ability by how they play it but in trading we have somehow normalized it to not show the trading experience and history especially if they selling something or trying to act as a teacher. Anyone can make any kind of bullshit and call it some profound thing in this niche.
Al Brooks does not give results however I have been using his system and my trading has dramaticly improved.
Oh my gosh. 
This is very timely, I guess? 
I really feel you.
Tbh, I haven’t really reached much. I’m not yet a professional trader, and I don’t exactly have a “career” in trading yet. But I’ve been trying. I guess at this point, I’m scared of going back to square 1 and having all my efforts just not amount to anything. It’s so frustrating!
I think MikeW gives good caring advice here. I am also still learning, doing the School of Pipsology and rumaging through the forum, and I have not even opened a demo yet. I feel there is no point until i have made more progress building a suitable strategy and THEN I will put it to the test and adjust many times no doubt. But when my studying goes at snail pace or even stops for a few days because of lack of time or unavoidable commitments, I know that I am still learning internally (I think of this stuff constantly, even in dreams!), processing and digesting… you don’t want to rush your digestion do you? IMHO rushing can only bring faulty diligence and I’ve learned enough so far to have an idea of where that would lead. Learning is not just reading and memorizing, it’s a lot of letting time do its thing, just like learning to walk, talk, read, count, love… best wishes…
Running out of free margin.
Try cuebanks. Look him up on Instagram. He is legit
How do you know he’s legit?
just look at his IG lol trust me, he knows what he’s doing
Keep going family, one day all this sacrifice and hours of looking at the charts will pay off.
thanks for this! We will win as long as we never quit lol
At this point in your trading career, fear is one thing that you must not allow to bring you down. Let your success be affected by stumbling blocks from the outside environment like current news issues, but not from within you. Work on gaining your confidence back, learn winning strategies and set out on a new journey to successful trading.
I find that it is very important not to pressure yourself in Forex and give yourself some timing target. Better try to have profit targets and spend time investigating and searching for trading techniques that will help you to achieve your goals. Only dedication can bring success
i fear going back to square one!
I will keep this in mind. Thank you!
