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Hi everyone!

My name is Oliver (36), I am currently residing in beautiful Cyprus. For a living I mostly eat, drink, breathe, sleep etc., the usual stuff, and I like to be really unfunny so that it hurts. :slight_smile:
I have learned and worked as a commercial pilot, bush pilot and divemaster. Nowadays I spend my time mostly at home making sure my daughter doesnā€™t die and is loved in the process. :grimacing:

As you have realized by now, I like to take life lightly and enjoy it in every possible way. Just recently, 2 months ago I think, I have fallen in love with trading forex, gold and oil. Been studying everyday since and also dabbling and wetting my feet on a demo account to try out different things and learn how the market evolves during the passing of time.

Speaking of education, I would love to pick all your brains about where you get your legit info and how you go about training yourself. (Apart from babypips of course ;))

Contact me at any time you wish, I would like to be in contact with fellow traders on the mission to success!

Alright, good trading everyone!

Oliver

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Hey ho Oliver! Super to have you here. Iā€™ve never been to Cyprus. Would love to visit it sometime. What got you interested in trading?

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Thanks QP!

Please come round sometime! I love this island! :slight_smile:

I had some interest about 10-15 years ago but never really went for it. About 6 months ago I was looking into what profession I could learn that I could do from home, as I am a stay-at-home dad, but also something that I can be passionate about and love doing.
It took quite a while to root through the countless ā€œwork-at-homeā€ ideas that are out there and most were not even worth the time I would have to put in.
As I love a super-hard challenge, trading, being one of the hardest professions out there, finally showed up on my radar (again) 2 months ago and the rest is chart historyā€¦ :slight_smile:

Now Iā€™m mainly on a educational and networking quest almost every day!

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Interesting. Iā€™ve had a similar trajectory. Explored several business opportunities before settling on forex. Iā€™m still stuck in a job but Iā€™m growing my account steadily, as time permits, and looking forward to switching over to trading for a living in the near future.

Good luck on your journey and hit us up with questions as you have them. Many knowledgeable and helpful people here on BP.

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Thanks a lot and all the best for your plans and endeavors as well!

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Welcome @DalaiTrader you know I have always wanted to trade from the beach :slight_smile:

Great to see you have so much enthusiasm for Forex and commodity markets. Even better, after Iā€™m sure those pilot skills will come in handy when it comes to building a process and adjusting for risk management.

Would love to network as they are so many wonderful opportunities to collab and add value.

As your following oil what do you think of the ARAMCO IPOā€¦Do you think we will start to see cutbacks in drilling to inflate prices?

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Thanks for the welcoming words!

As your following oil what do you think of the ARAMCO IPOā€¦Do you think we will start to see cutbacks in drilling to inflate prices?

Iā€™d love to see a consensus with experts in regard to the whole recent oil drama, including the attack, the IPO and the path that SA wants to go from here.

Personally, I think the IPO was way to hyped during the course of the year and it feels the air is kind of out of that hype, especially with possible delays in getting the IPO out there (which will also, apparently and initially), only be offered locally.

As for drilling, I cannot really say if they would cut back their production to inflate prices. If I had to take a vote, I would say no.

Iā€™m regarding the whole ā€œoil-businessā€ with skepticism and I will remain very conservative in any trade decision I might make. Currently, with all those unanswered questions and uncertainty about, I might remain out of any short term trades.

What I think impacts the oil price the most is the looming fear of war in the region. I think that will drive the oil prices up in the short and long term. As long as there is this heightened tension between the US, SA, Iran and all the other players, oil looks bullish to me. Obviously, the opposite will happen should there be words of deescalation, especially between the US and Iran, either easing the oil price into a range or even dropping it, depending on other factors as well.

But since I am really new to all this, my words might sound very naive or newbieish (is that a word?) :wink:

I will redirect your own question right back at you and as what your opinion is on the IPO, oil price and possible cutback on production.

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Welcome to the community, Oliver! Howā€™s your demo trading going and what strategy are you using?

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Hi there @baemax023!

Thanks for the welcome!

Iā€™m currently using a trend-following strategy utilizing 3 EMAs (8,13,21) on M15 and H1 (for trend confirmation). R/R is between 1:1.5-3 avg. So far so good. But, following the law of large numbers, I will continue using this strategy for quite a while until I can make a verdict on how itā€™s working for me. I follow a personal checklist to keep me on track! We all know the FOMO! :sweat_smile:

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Welcome to bp Oliver! Good luck on your trading journey. :blush:

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@CoinLady

Thanks you very much! I wish you the same and that youā€™ll always spot the perfect entry! :smiley:

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