Its took me 20min to join
Very good question. I guess I could say that I really heard about Forex Trading in 2015 but I was given bad advice from several people until around 2020 when I started seeing people trading and they were partially showing me how to trade but really they were not truly sharing how to trade.
I probably opened my first Live Account in 2018/2019 but I did not know what I was doing at all so I constantly gave back everything that I made and probably gave a lot more than I made.
If I could go back and do everything again, I would have thoroughly gone through BabyPips and took my time trying to find a mentor but the Forex world has more people making money off of the innocent versus training people on how to become traders.
Got interested in trading, found me fond of it and opened my first paper trading account mid-2020 (to my great astonishement, cause I had always thought the whole matter was b*llshit scam…). Kept practicing again and again to find the perfect trading style to match my personality, to find a good strategy (which I learned from one of my mentors, adjusting it here and there) and to make a solid trading plan. Started with a real account only recently - January 2023. So far, I’m trading with a very small account cause I’m very cautious and I don’t want to rush. I have a bigger capital which I will use fully only gradually. So, I took 2 years and a half to start with real money. A very long time, but I’m very happy not to have taken shortcuts: I’ve learned a lot and I’ve seen quite different market conditions. Still learning, still at the beginning of my career, but I definitely enjoy it.
Took me about a few weeks. I wish I did it much sooner though but I suppose it doesn’t really matter since I’m still actively trading to this day.