My Forex Story
I semi retired from my day job (Managing Director 
of a Frozen Food company in the U.K) aged 42. Sold my shares, house, cars, the lot & emigrated with my wife & kids to the Canary Islands. We sold literally everything. Our luggage allowance was 1 suitcase each !
My very expensive introduction to forex
I spent over a year buying & trying out numerous “get rich quick” schemes. Arbitrage betting, online marketing to name but a few. I then stumbled upon adverts for forex trading from home.
I had never heard of forex or currency trading from home & presumed it was just another scam, but the more I read the more intrigued I became.
Over the years I have spent over $7000 on fx training courses, books, videos etc. I started trading currencies from home (badly) ! over 4 years ago. I made every forex trading mistake that is possible & invented a few more along the way.
Forex is NOT easy. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either a liar or more probably trying to sell you something.
“Make $1000′s a day working only 10 minutes from home. Guaranteed” – yeah right. You & I both know that its rubbish.
In the last 12 months I have managed to recoup my initial $20.000 losses and move into a healthy profit.I started posting advice on twitter in january of this year.
My real time advice so far has been 96% accurate in 2009/1200 pips profit in february & 900 in march alone !!
The aim of my main site is to teach you the basics of forex trading as well as some of the strategies that I use. You may decide forex is not for you. Great, it didnt cost you a penny !
If you intend to take forex further then you will need to spend some money to further your education, but not the $1000′s that I did.
The best training course/forex tuition that I bought? Cost $50 !!
It has the same amount of detailed information as the $3000 video course That I do NOT recommend. See my post on Forex training courses you should avoid. Forex courses that I bought, over paid for & you should avoid
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Dear Marc
Your story is fascinating !
But -
1st – I`d like to hear from your wife !
What was she thinking about ‘selling everything’ and moving to some deserted Island in the Atlantic – with only 1 suitcase to boot ???
What a brave lady !
My hat off !
Can we hear her side ????
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My Forex Story I semi retired from my day job as a
Frozen Food company manager in the U.K) aged 42.
Sold my shares, house, cars, the lot & emigrated with my wife & kids to the Canary Islands. We sold literally everything. Our luggage allowance was 1 suitcase each !
NO ! 2 of my kids had to be dragged here. Was difficult 1st year or so.
Hi mark
Just going through all the pages and was definately curious about”The best training course/forex tuition that I bought? Cost $50 !!”…….
Somewhere i read it is going to be launch in June…..
So when are you going to introduce that course.
Or you are to busy with LMT……??
hi suresh. i suspect the relaunch has been put back due to the success of the lmt. It includes systems that you can learn. Its more educational than anything. If I had the time its what I would like to be able to do. 100′s of videos explaininh techniques. how to use indicators etc, etc. will let you know when they are ready, marc
Hi Marc, $7000 for free stuff is really impressing. Sorry, I’m not laughing – I also spent lots of money for strategies I could write on my own, subscriptions for stuff freely available on the net, etc.
Only after I blew my first trading account, I simply started to think rather than mimic.
At the end of a day it proved, it’s all in my hands. All the pieces. They’ve always been there. You just have to take blinders out and make it. All for free.
That’s why I was very reluctant about the LMT – another person trying to sell me something I already know.
And even now, when it showed some of it’s power, it is still not enough just to pull a trigger when it says “do it”. You need to do some work to make sure you don’t buy a top or sell a bottom. So you need to know the market to some extend. Sorry, no simple solution but fortunately manageable.
If Forex was so simple, only computers would trade it. And believe me or not, they would not go anywhere – sooner or later they would adapt to each other making any trading impossible.