Helloooooo! I’m so excited to share with my most most favorite online community that I just got engaged!!! AAAAAAAAAH I was just crying the whole time. I’m so happy and I can’t believe I’m already at this point in my life. The actual wedding will happen like over a year from now, and I’m just curious if the married life had any effect on your trading. This goes out especially to those who were already trading even before they got married.
I’m just so excited and thank you to this community for keeping me sane enough so the stress I got from forex didn’t let me mess up my relationship.
Congratulations! Despite i started trading while already married i can tell you that there wasnt much change in the relationship between my wife and me through marriage. We were together for five years before we got married. So up until the point where kids are on the table i would say your engagement shouldnt affect your trading much. With a newborn i would say, that trading is quite impossible.
Of course the life of married people is very different across different cultures. Because i read through the forum a lot i already know your are from the philippines. I dont know what the society expects from a wife there?
Thank you sooooo much! It’s good to hear it didn’t really affect your marriage! Weren’t there any moments when your wife told you you’ve been spending too much time trading, instead of spending time with them? Haha.
Hmmm. I would say that compared to western countries, there is still more pressure here for women to have children as soon as they get married. You know, the usual expectation that women are the ones taking care of the household and the family. But now, there’s that added pressure of doing all these while working a full-time job also.
As my accountability partner my wife is part of my trading plan. She was in the boat before i even started demoing. So when we talk about trading, we talk like business partners. Because i was extremely stressed with my 9 to 5 job, a newborn baby and trading we decided after some time that i had to find a strategy which doesnt require much screen time. We are happy now.
We hadnt much family to help us with our daughter because we moved away from them for our jobs. If you have family around and they are supportive then you can define your trading windows in which grandma comes and takes care of the baby. But after giving birth, while i had my time with our daughter, my wife wasnt even able to concentrate enough to read a book.
Maybe the other mothers in this forum can say something about breastfeeding dementia and if trading could be affected.
That’s a good and healthy way to put it! At least she’s still very much involved with your trading progress. I wish I could also get my bf to become my trading accountability partner.
OMG That’s greeeat! Good for you! If you don’t mind, what strategy are you using for this? I would assume you’re a day or position trader, then?
I feel like the baby will come a lot later so maybe I’ll have more time to prepare myself for that. Hahaha. But thank you so much though! And I’m happy that you’re living a happy family life.
Yes i am a day trader. I trade the opening of DAX and US30 on the 5m timeframe while also considering the 1m chart. I trade price action at and to support / restistance lines, daily closing prices and pivot points.
No i started in March 2021 with demoing, went live in August 2021 , lost a little bit, created and testet my first real strategy, restarted in January 2022, won a little bit but wasnt able to keep this strategy because of the problems mentioned above. I was very depressed because i felt that i had not enough time with my daughter and the first losing streak crushed my trading discipline. I quitted in May and created a new strategy which i am still testing in demo and want to go live with in September.
I hear you @Worker_Bee . That’s tough. I giess I’m lucky cos my kids were already in their mod to late teens when I started trading, so didn’t need to spend as mich tme as when they were little.
Yes this (short) time wasnt nice. But it forced us to step back, assess our situation and think about how to fix it. To stop trading entirely or to make a baby break was discussed. But instead we decided to build a strategy which takes out my mental weaknesses we discovered and is also compatible with our family life.
This is also one reason why strategy sharing doesnt work. At least if you trade without AI. Your successful strategy may be a losing strategy for me.
Congratulations! For sure I recommend not forcing him to trade with you lol. Especially if it doesn’t interest him! It might take time though but you could eventually persuade him. And when that happens, you better write a thread about it here!
You’ve just found the perfect excuse to not be disturbed! Hahaha. Smart. With how some guys are using forex to hide from their wives, maybe I should really NOT get my fiance involved in trading. Hahaha.
I’m happy that you still gave forex another chance! I really hope this new strategy works out for you once you go live. Do you plan to create a trading journal? I would love to watch your progress too. Good luuuuck!
Thank you soooo much! HAHA. I’ve decided to keep him away from trading cause I realized he might end up here if he starts to trade. And with all I’ve shared to the people here, I don’t think I’d want him invading my safe space.
Thanks. I already thought about creating a journal at some time. I will if my strategy proves itself as profitable and i think i can handle the additional pressure of being watched.
I’m so excited to share with my most most favorite online community that I just got engaged!!! AAAAAAAAAH 
This goes out especially to those who were already trading even before they got married.
Weren’t there any moments when your wife told you you’ve been spending too much time trading, instead of spending time with them? 
Haha. 
You know, the usual expectation that women are the ones taking care of the household and the family. But now, there’s that added pressure of doing all these while working a full-time job also. 
Good for you! If you don’t mind, what strategy are you using for this? I would assume you’re a day or position trader, then? 