Forex for you

I was nervous. No...I was really very nervous. This feeling cannot be described with words. I worked so hard and finally got the desired sum. My demo account was giving small and unstable profit. But it wasn't necessary for me. I had to find the broker then. It was the first difficulty.

There are so many of them. I looked through dozens of forums, various ratings and websites dedicated to this topic. Accidentaly I found one website where I found all the necessary information for me. Their support helped me to choose a broker according to my wishes and that was Forex4you. I opened my real account there. It was the third crucial day.

I clearly remember how I opened my first deal. It was a long position on EURUSD, 1 lot, take profit of 90 pips and stop loss of 20 pips. I used Fibo, trend channel and Stochastic (unfortunately I don't have print screen). From one point of view it all seems reasonable. But I lost my deal. Then the second one when I tried to get my loss back. And the third one which was opened in despair. All in all I lost 540$ or 27% of my deposit. Without any strengths a went to sleep...

Now I know all my mistakes. But that time I felt quite terrible. Now I understand that a forex trader is not the person who tries to guess in which direction the price will go. He is not a predictor. No.. He is a money manager and a person who can control his psychological state. And really once I was told (later I'll tell about that moment) that even if you simply use money management techniques and open deals by chance your trading will be near the breakeven point - no losses, no profit. But I didn't know it that time. I had a good reliable broker but spent little time on studying the market. Wasn't able to control my emotions....I was doing everything in contrast to rules. I was also told that practically everyone suffers from this problem. But my situation was quite different. I had to give money to my family. So two weeks later there was zero on muaccount...

Step to trading

Hi again! Yesterday I remembered my first steps in the direction of financial markets. I remember the overwhelming feeling of happiness about the fact that I can solve the problems of my family in the nick of time.

Yeah, it was really great. The idea of becoming a trader came to me when I was watching TV. One evening after the work I was lying on the sofa watching TV. There was evening news. To tell the truth I don't like news. There you can always see information about wars, crimes, unability of politicians to solve their countries' problems. And even that evening there was something like that. The narrator described Spanish crisis and the role of markets in the slowdown of the economy. That thought was quite interesting. And really why? Why do I have to suffer from the activity of brokers and traders? Why do those guys on Wall Street decide the way I should live? They alsways sell or buy something, making money out of nothing. I thought - so if they trade, made their fortunes, am I worse? That pushed me out of my sofa. I ran to my notebook and started surfing the Internet. I read articles all night. Only in the morning I was satisfied. Now I knew what to do...

The following day while I was at the university, then at work, my thoughts were in front of my computer.  When I came hope I took a pen, a piece of paper and started to create my "plan". After having made my plan I fell asleep as I had no strength at all. Now when I look at this paper I realize how silly I was. The only clever thought that was there is that I need to be ready for a serious work. According to my plan I needed at least 2000$. I opened demo account and started trying different types of trading strategies. Weel I forgot to say that I decided to trade currencies.

There was only one thing left - to find money. The feling that I wasn't right didn't come out of my mind. May be I had to earn that 2000$ and give them to my parents? But then I thought that there wouldn't be the end of this story. I made an agreement with my conscience - I would apply all my to efforts to escape the ruin. Though the feeling that I can be betrayed and that this is all scam didn't leave all the time I was preparing for trading. And I decided not to tell my parents about my plans.

It was a difficult period. I found another job as a waiter. I started to miss my clases at the university. I slept 5-6 hours a day.  The idea that all this gonna finish soon gave me strengths to cope with that crazy lifestyle. 70 days of tough period...... brrrrr. I don't want to go through that again. But anyway I reahed my target - I got the desired 2000$. I was on top of the world....

Beginning

Hi! My name is Javier. I have no talent of a writer so don't judge me strictly. I just wanna tell you my story and hope it will help someone one day.

 My family is not big. Like many others I have a little brother, a mother and a father. My father worked as an engineer in the engine construction sphere. My mother kept the house. I graduated from Instituto de Empresa. But that didn't helped me much really. As one day everything turned upside down.

Everything started earlier when there happened the global economic crisis. As you may know Spain suffered from this crisis a lot. And is still suffering now. The rate of unemployement increased greatly. My father also got fired like many other people in our country. It's scary. It's really very scary. You don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. You are looking for a way out but can't find any. This situation happened about a six months ago.

I guess that the day when my father lost his job was the first day which influenced me greatly. Well, at the same time I think that it's good that this situation happened. Later I'll tell you why.  But now I would say that when a person is out of his usual lifestyle he begins to progress. I think I wouldn't have strated my own homebusiness if had lived my simple, calm life.

Anyway it was really difficult from the very start. It was really hard to look at my parents. They had some savings but not much. It was understandable that this can't last long. Father was trying to find a job abroad but wasn't successful. Mother found a job of a nanny but her earnings were spent on food and even less sometimes.

I knew that I have to get a job. I was really successful to get a job of a loader in a small shop. That was my first money. Which turned out to be a great help in future...