Why I Bother Helping Others

Pain. Traders that are trying to make money but are still losing are in pain. It's embarrassing to lose after trying for months and sometimes years and still not earning more than you've deposited into your account. I know exactly how this feels and one day about three years ago I stopped losing.

If you've ever had someone give you one of those little steel puzzles made of stiff wire? They'll ask you to pull it apart and you try a dozen different ways to twist and turn the wires but you just can't pull them apart. Then after your friend shows you the secret---it seems so simple. Well, that's what happened to me after years of struggle. No one showed me, but I finally figured out the magic twist that allowed me to go from struggling to having literal x-ray vision and the ability to make money every day.

Over a 45 year period, I had successful careers in real estate, finance, technology and marketing. But success as a Forex trader eluded me. From the time I started trading to when I found my formula, I lost over $500,000, two homes and one of the most scenic plots of land in all of Colorado. Sure, I'm embarrassed, but it's true and now I can buy it all back if I want to.

What's your truth? Sadly, if you're not making several hundred dollars a day, you're a loser too. It's an ugly word but we have to take a hard look at ourselves in order to be good traders---and it's almost always our own minds that are triggering us to make stupid mistakes or stay in losing trades. My mind was sticking it to me---and thank god, I finally dug out the triggers that were causing me to keep from winning.

During the Covid lockdowns is when the magic happened. I finally found the time and motivation to spend 12 to 18 hours a day testing the most common strategies and indicators. Nothing was quite right so I programmed my own indicators and alerts---and it was like having a crystal ball. I could literally see when "to trade" and when "not to trade". There are so many patterns that look like perfect entries, but then fail. Luckily, I found a way to see "under the wings" of most patterns and can see very clearly the strength starting a trend or whether a reversal is real. It was like the puzzle I mentioned, it just became clear.

But, even seeing clearly when trades were most likely to work, I was still having trouble winning week after week. It was as if I would zone out for a period of time and literally take chances and trade larger lot sizes or I'd trade after I'd earned what my goal was, and keep trading until I lost it all. It was horrible to be up $7,000 one day and down $2,000 the next day after losing all my gains. My strategy was working, my indicators were clear and I was making money almost every trade, but something inside me was causing me to continue to lose.

It is my opinion that the mechanics of trading are easy to learn and follow, but it's our inner game that stops most of us from making more money than we can spend. Without launching into my entire history, let me just say that I found the 5-7 things that I had been taught to do to "keep my life the same". These behaviors were in my subconscious mind and whenever I wasn't consciously focused on the trades, I'd default to "screw things up so you don't grow too much" mode and sleepwalk into a situation that would flatten my gains.

After resolving the inner issues, I found a few friends to trade along with me. This has helped us all to stay accountable and focused on winning. We keep improving and now I earn about 2% per day. Anything over 1% per day puts the team and I in the top 1% of Forex traders. You can easily confirm that statistically 95% of retail Forex traders fail and quit trading within one year.

Today, I'm looking for a few Forex traders to join our group. If you've been trading for at least six months and you're still struggling either to master yourself, or to find a winning trading strategy, then join us. It will be very informal and I'll give you the secrets to the puzzle so you very quickly stop losing and start winning.