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Brandonn

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Disclaimer: I AM ONLY MAKE THIS POST ONCE.

Do not for the common sense in you, attempt to believe you need to pay to learn what is free.


All these online Guru's, Mentors, Courses make more money from you subscribing then to actually trading. Trading comes with risks. But convincing hundreds to thousands of people to pay a monthly fee is free money that's why so many do it. Tell me why would someone with a Lamborghini and 4 super Cars, a mansion want you to buy their services? If he makes so much money wouldn't it be easier for them just to focus on trading? It's because it's free money.

Worse it's for what's already out there for free.

1. Free classes & Seminars
If you want to learn. YouTube video. I know over 6 guys now who offer trading services like signals and mentorship who all started from watching Free YouTube videos. I will even create a sub post where I send all the video's we use to watch.
Now I know most people don't know this, but alot of brokers (who you need to have an account with in order to trade) offer classes and seminars weekly for free also they've already made videos on tools used for analysis and what certain patterns mean, ect. All free. There's then enough free resources out there.

Don't have time to go through everything? That's perfectly fine. Just ask AI to create a trading schedule for you that will teach you and give you opportunities to practice trading in your free time, it will create something around your life. No needs to feel overwhelmed. Just tell it what you want and your go to go.

2. How much do I need to start investing or trading.

Firstly the easiest thing you can do is create a saving account with your bank, you'll get interest for letting the bank " borrow " it. It won't be alot but it's risk free.

If you want to trade, opening a demo account is a good start. Just to get familiar with trading... Now don't be an idiot and open max trades and see $50,000 profit on your screen and believe now your ready. No the account you actually trade with will not be the same as your demo account.

Most demo accounts start at $3,000 or $10,000 when you open a real account and trade you honestly won't invest that much so immediately there's false assumption you have in your mind and you will loss money. Trading is psychological, it's about analysing trends and patterns in order to predict an outcome. It's a calculated guess, you can't be panicking or nervous or you'll misread opportunities and lose money. So when you done demo trading. Open a Cent account ( Mirco account)

This will let you trade with real money but won't be a traumatic experience if you lose money because you'll only be losing cents. This is teach you alot more and help you adjust your strategies in order to be more successful. Once your ready open a standard account and only deposit $30 - $40 you don't need more honestly. Trade that for a month and see how well or badly you did. If it went well do it able and see if you can recreate it. If it want bad, back to the drawing board and go through why it went bad.

This allows you to adjust without over committing funds. Also stick to common things like USD/JPY or USD/GBP ect there's always something happen in the US markets so it's easier to train on. Don't go after Metals or stocks or crypto or commodities. Your not ready for that level of trading.

Outside of trading you can research Real Estate investments, just join, fund and you'll get paid from that investment. Won't be a whole lot but it will be something that gets you familiar with real estate investment market.

3. Job in trading?
Banks do hire traders, and no you don't need degree. You just need to show them your track record.

How ? Best way is with a prop firm. A prop firm basically allows you to trade on big accounts $10,000 - $50,000 - $200,000 account for a monthly subscription but you have to pass a test first showing you know how to trade as well as trade under strict standards so that you don't lose too much money. It's alot harder then trading for yourself but is also a lot safer and rewarding. And then you can take those results and apply with and they'll take you. I've traded in a prop firm in order to test this, when I applied I was offered $60,000 per year based on my performance plus a 5% performance bonus when I made over a certain amount. Your job is to focus on one thing whether it's Gold or a particular stock or group of stock or whatever but it's always small because they don't want you to miss opportunities. Your primary job, don't lose money and if you can make some money. But very important that your not consistently losing money. Most of the funds these guys have are already in high yield interests accounts, they hire you in order to hopefully make more. They hate losing more then anything. So the entry is high. But all you need is that track record.

Aside from that there's multiple jobs outside of trading directly where you can still be in the investment space.

I'll end things here for now, I'll attach links to where you can find things or suggest where to search.

But do not be scammed. You are here to develop yourself. So you can grow to be more self dependant and be a dependable person for those around you. So go ahead and learn, take the time to teach yourself, there be many opportunities next year and the year after. But get yourself sorted first, emotionally, Spirituality and mentality. Make sure your health is good, don't rush.

Do what you can when your ready.

Hail ZEUS.
 
Disclaimer: I AM ONLY MAKE THIS POST ONCE.

Do not for the common sense in you, attempt to believe you need to pay to learn what is free.


All these online Guru's, Mentors, Courses make more money from you subscribing then to actually trading. Trading comes with risks. But convincing hundreds to thousands of people to pay a monthly fee is free money that's why so many do it. Tell me why would someone with a Lamborghini and 4 super Cars, a mansion want you to buy their services? If he makes so much money wouldn't it be easier for them just to focus on trading? It's because it's free money.

Worse it's for what's already out there for free.

1. Free classes & Seminars
If you want to learn. YouTube video. I know over 6 guys now who offer trading services like signals and mentorship who all started from watching Free YouTube videos. I will even create a sub post where I send all the video's we use to watch.
Now I know most people don't know this, but alot of brokers (who you need to have an account with in order to trade) offer classes and seminars weekly for free also they've already made videos on tools used for analysis and what certain patterns mean, ect. All free. There's then enough free resources out there.

Don't have time to go through everything? That's perfectly fine. Just ask AI to create a trading schedule for you that will teach you and give you opportunities to practice trading in your free time, it will create something around your life. No needs to feel overwhelmed. Just tell it what you want and your go to go.

2. How much do I need to start investing or trading.

Firstly the easiest thing you can do is create a saving account with your bank, you'll get interest for letting the bank " borrow " it. It won't be alot but it's risk free.

If you want to trade, opening a demo account is a good start. Just to get familiar with trading... Now don't be an idiot and open max trades and see $50,000 profit on your screen and believe now your ready. No the account you actually trade with will not be the same as your demo account.

Most demo accounts start at $3,000 or $10,000 when you open a real account and trade you honestly won't invest that much so immediately there's false assumption you have in your mind and you will loss money. Trading is psychological, it's about analysing trends and patterns in order to predict an outcome. It's a calculated guess, you can't be panicking or nervous or you'll misread opportunities and lose money. So when you done demo trading. Open a Cent account ( Mirco account)

This will let you trade with real money but won't be a traumatic experience if you lose money because you'll only be losing cents. This is teach you alot more and help you adjust your strategies in order to be more successful. Once your ready open a standard account and only deposit $30 - $40 you don't need more honestly. Trade that for a month and see how well or badly you did. If it went well do it able and see if you can recreate it. If it want bad, back to the drawing board and go through why it went bad.

This allows you to adjust without over committing funds. Also stick to common things like USD/JPY or USD/GBP ect there's always something happen in the US markets so it's easier to train on. Don't go after Metals or stocks or crypto or commodities. Your not ready for that level of trading.

Outside of trading you can research Real Estate investments, just join, fund and you'll get paid from that investment. Won't be a whole lot but it will be something that gets you familiar with real estate investment market.

3. Job in trading?
Banks do hire traders, and no you don't need degree. You just need to show them your track record.

How ? Best way is with a prop firm. A prop firm basically allows you to trade on big accounts $10,000 - $50,000 - $200,000 account for a monthly subscription but you have to pass a test first showing you know how to trade as well as trade under strict standards so that you don't lose too much money. It's alot harder then trading for yourself but is also a lot safer and rewarding. And then you can take those results and apply with and they'll take you. I've traded in a prop firm in order to test this, when I applied I was offered $60,000 per year based on my performance plus a 5% performance bonus when I made over a certain amount. Your job is to focus on one thing whether it's Gold or a particular stock or group of stock or whatever but it's always small because they don't want you to miss opportunities. Your primary job, don't lose money and if you can make some money. But very important that your not consistently losing money. Most of the funds these guys have are already in high yield interests accounts, they hire you in order to hopefully make more. They hate losing more then anything. So the entry is high. But all you need is that track record.

Aside from that there's multiple jobs outside of trading directly where you can still be in the investment space.

I'll end things here for now, I'll attach links to where you can find things or suggest where to search.

But do not be scammed. You are here to develop yourself. So you can grow to be more self dependant and be a dependable person for those around you. So go ahead and learn, take the time to teach yourself, there be many opportunities next year and the year after. But get yourself sorted first, emotionally, Spirituality and mentality. Make sure your health is good, don't rush.

Do what you can when your ready.

Hail ZEUS.
I've compiled beginner friendly websites where you can pick up what trading is and how to trade as well as free online courses. All the websites I've tried and tested and they are all safe to use do not require you to signup expect for Udemy which is a well known and safe online course platform and Tradeview which is a known and safe analysis platform. I'd say alot all traders use Tradeview.

All completely free.

I'll after collect enough introduction YouTube Video and PDF's, you might understand how one explains it better then others thus I want to provide a range of options.

As far brokers go, I'll find the best ones but it's very dependant on what country you are some are not available some are, but I'll give you the one's that are safe to open a demo account on. Alternatively if you do not want to register if you open MT4 or MT5 (MetaTrader) you'll be able to open a demo account. I prefer Deriv Limited. You can search on the search bar once you have the app, and fill in random details (doesn't need to be actual real name or email or number can all be fake and will still work fine) and practice on that. Deriv Limited has I believe the most tradeable options so you'll also see things you Will never see with other brokers. You can easily just Google what they are and have a feel for it...

Suggest is to use the lowest lot (0.01) or equivalent depending on the option. Then only open a maximum of 2/3 position of that one trade to see how it moves. See how much it costs by looking at margin, etc.

Play around, get a good feel. Try to enjoy.

Free Website for detailed Forex Lessons

https://www.fxacademy.com/

https://www.udemy.com/topic/forex/f...2SZOgFOPKPURvKKAL7D5M34utQbDWlOl6NSp0mJBnaMkw

https://www.forex.com/en/trading-academy/lessons/

Free Analysis

https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/fx-market-tools/charts/
https://www.tradingview.com/markets/currencies/

Will have more resources soon.
 
Disclaimer: I AM ONLY MAKE THIS POST ONCE.

Do not for the common sense in you, attempt to believe you need to pay to learn what is free.


All these online Guru's, Mentors, Courses make more money from you subscribing then to actually trading. Trading comes with risks. But convincing hundreds to thousands of people to pay a monthly fee is free money that's why so many do it. Tell me why would someone with a Lamborghini and 4 super Cars, a mansion want you to buy their services? If he makes so much money wouldn't it be easier for them just to focus on trading? It's because it's free money.

Worse it's for what's already out there for free.

1. Free classes & Seminars
If you want to learn. YouTube video. I know over 6 guys now who offer trading services like signals and mentorship who all started from watching Free YouTube videos. I will even create a sub post where I send all the video's we use to watch.
Now I know most people don't know this, but alot of brokers (who you need to have an account with in order to trade) offer classes and seminars weekly for free also they've already made videos on tools used for analysis and what certain patterns mean, ect. All free. There's then enough free resources out there.

Don't have time to go through everything? That's perfectly fine. Just ask AI to create a trading schedule for you that will teach you and give you opportunities to practice trading in your free time, it will create something around your life. No needs to feel overwhelmed. Just tell it what you want and your go to go.

2. How much do I need to start investing or trading.

Firstly the easiest thing you can do is create a saving account with your bank, you'll get interest for letting the bank " borrow " it. It won't be alot but it's risk free.

If you want to trade, opening a demo account is a good start. Just to get familiar with trading... Now don't be an idiot and open max trades and see $50,000 profit on your screen and believe now your ready. No the account you actually trade with will not be the same as your demo account.

Most demo accounts start at $3,000 or $10,000 when you open a real account and trade you honestly won't invest that much so immediately there's false assumption you have in your mind and you will loss money. Trading is psychological, it's about analysing trends and patterns in order to predict an outcome. It's a calculated guess, you can't be panicking or nervous or you'll misread opportunities and lose money. So when you done demo trading. Open a Cent account ( Mirco account)

This will let you trade with real money but won't be a traumatic experience if you lose money because you'll only be losing cents. This is teach you alot more and help you adjust your strategies in order to be more successful. Once your ready open a standard account and only deposit $30 - $40 you don't need more honestly. Trade that for a month and see how well or badly you did. If it went well do it able and see if you can recreate it. If it want bad, back to the drawing board and go through why it went bad.

This allows you to adjust without over committing funds. Also stick to common things like USD/JPY or USD/GBP ect there's always something happen in the US markets so it's easier to train on. Don't go after Metals or stocks or crypto or commodities. Your not ready for that level of trading.

Outside of trading you can research Real Estate investments, just join, fund and you'll get paid from that investment. Won't be a whole lot but it will be something that gets you familiar with real estate investment market.

3. Job in trading?
Banks do hire traders, and no you don't need degree. You just need to show them your track record.

How ? Best way is with a prop firm. A prop firm basically allows you to trade on big accounts $10,000 - $50,000 - $200,000 account for a monthly subscription but you have to pass a test first showing you know how to trade as well as trade under strict standards so that you don't lose too much money. It's alot harder then trading for yourself but is also a lot safer and rewarding. And then you can take those results and apply with and they'll take you. I've traded in a prop firm in order to test this, when I applied I was offered $60,000 per year based on my performance plus a 5% performance bonus when I made over a certain amount. Your job is to focus on one thing whether it's Gold or a particular stock or group of stock or whatever but it's always small because they don't want you to miss opportunities. Your primary job, don't lose money and if you can make some money. But very important that your not consistently losing money. Most of the funds these guys have are already in high yield interests accounts, they hire you in order to hopefully make more. They hate losing more then anything. So the entry is high. But all you need is that track record.

Aside from that there's multiple jobs outside of trading directly where you can still be in the investment space.

I'll end things here for now, I'll attach links to where you can find things or suggest where to search.

But do not be scammed. You are here to develop yourself. So you can grow to be more self dependant and be a dependable person for those around you. So go ahead and learn, take the time to teach yourself, there be many opportunities next year and the year after. But get yourself sorted first, emotionally, Spirituality and mentality. Make sure your health is good, don't rush.

Do what you can when your ready.

Hail ZEUS.
Thankyou for Sharing this insightful information , i too am a trader , im trading on crypto and futures. I still have a lot to learn and get better at. Its Glad to know there are professional traders in the TOZ , from whom i can learn more.
 
Oh man, it takes so much time, let's figure out how to make money in a different way?
What people don't understand is trading fall under " Investment" which are all long term processes to incur revenue.

If your looking for a get money fast or rich scheme. I can't help with that.

Whether you start a business or want to sell your service. You want immediately make money.

But if you want to get into something with money. Won't get rich immediately but you'll have enough to enjoy life.

Buying Pre-existing already de-risked business is the way to go.
 
For the record,

there was a user who not only blasphemed the Clergy, but also demanded that we give money to it so that it could teach us, something that @Brandonn is giving us FOR FREE.

But there is always a price.

And the price has to be paid. This price, however, is: attention, diligence, knowledge, learning from mistakes. Oh, and not claiming to be an authority just because someone's been doing that for... a year.
 
For the record,

there was a user who not only blasphemed the Clergy, but also demanded that we give money to it so that it could teach us, something that @Brandonn is giving us FOR FREE.

But there is always a price.

And the price has to be paid. This price, however, is: attention, diligence, knowledge, learning from mistakes. Oh, and not claiming to be an authority just because someone's been doing that for... a year.
100% it's one thing to offer something.

Then another to call people stupid for not giving you money for what you offer.
 
3. Job in trading?
Banks do hire traders, and no you don't need degree. You just need to show them your track record.

How ? Best way is with a prop firm. A prop firm basically allows you to trade on big accounts $10,000 - $50,000 - $200,000 account for a monthly subscription but you have to pass a test first showing you know how to trade as well as trade under strict standards so that you don't lose too much money. It's alot harder then trading for yourself but is also a lot safer and rewarding. And then you can take those results and apply with and they'll take you. I've traded in a prop firm in order to test this, when I applied I was offered $60,000 per year based on my performance plus a 5% performance bonus when I made over a certain amount. Your job is to focus on one thing whether it's Gold or a particular stock or group of stock or whatever but it's always small because they don't want you to miss opportunities. Your primary job, don't lose money and if you can make some money.

PROP FIRM TRADING

I'm going to add a bit more information on this. Then my next post after will be a list of prop firms you can try out.

I'm currently testing as many as I can right now.

To join in. As I've explained a bit at the top. A financial institution whether it be a Capital firm/ Bank subsidiary/ investment fund have large amounts of capital but a limited amount of skilled traders. One reason why these institutions limit funds is they know they can't handle more then a certain amount and keep making a profit that makes investors happy.

So there's always a demand for trades especially if your good with maths and also use algorithms to trade, and prop firms are the doorway to those opportunities. Competitive salaries with performances bonus + commissions. Now this isn't for everyone but it is a very good deal.

Prop firms normal offer account that range from $10,000 to $200,000 but they do scale up all the way to $1,000,000 to $4,000,000 range. That's only if you are consistent and meet targets. They also have a high profit share rate normally 85% to 100% , that all goes into your pockets.

They are a alot more strict again, you'll be using their capital so it's only fair there's some rules to that.

What's key to notice is your giving a timeframe on when to pass because they want to see if you can meet profit targets within a reason amount of time. One account i opened today, end 6 December so that's enough time.

It's a $50,000 account.
Maximum loss limit: $2,500 (5%)
Profit target One: $4,000 (8%)
Profit target two: $3,000 (6%)
Leverage: 1:100

[Leverage works like this for every 1 unit (whatever it costs/stock price) it will only cost you 100th of that price or 10th of that price if it's 1:10 ... And so forth. This isn't the technical term but it's just the simplest way to look at that ratio]

MY plan of attack here is.
GOLD
USD/JPY
EUR/CHF
EUR/USD
And maybe Solana (crypto) not my focus but that movement hasn't been bad.

I won't be too dependant on Gold it's very volatile at the moment, I do expect it to go down a bit more before it stabilises. The other 3 currencies I'll be timing and watching for the trend to come to my target zones before trading. The idea is to enter where I'm most confident and where the most activity has been ( where support or resistance has been touched the most ) I want to keep it simple and wait for good opportunities. Then I'll leverage the size of the account to open bigger lots and try to close out the first profit target within 4/5 trading days. The second is give alot more time closer to 8 trading days as I don't want to over risk or overly depend on closing as fast as possible. If we are lucky and we do that's great but this is my bare minimum expectations. Anything less then this is a loss in my eyes.

You can try out FTMO or FundedNext most popular ones to use just to get a feel of trading under certain rules.

Prop firm trading will teach you the mentally you need to be profitable. The more consistent traders make

$500 to over $10,000 a week in withdraws on one account. And ideally you have anywhere from 3 - 4 trading accounts.

But it's a full time job. 24/7 around the clock.
You sleep you miss out on making money.

It's completely on you.
 
What people don't understand is trading fall under " Investment" which are all long term processes to incur revenue.

If your looking for a get money fast or rich scheme. I can't help with that.

Whether you start a business or want to sell your service. You want immediately make money.

But if you want to get into something with money. Won't get rich immediately but you'll have enough to enjoy life.

Buying Pre-existing already de-risked business is the way to go.
I am delighted to read this! Trading is just an act of buying or selling and all things take time.
For most businesses the payback period is 6months - 5 years if it ever gets profitable. But for trading the pill sold to people is somehow over a couple of months/years they will be supremely wealthy. Most people around me who were trading to "get rich quickly" lost their hard earned money. They were losing more in a day while working a job than they were being paid for that day.
The problem is Finance like most things in life is boring and repetitive with a lot of study involved studying Financial Statements that the Companies provide.
There is no "Strategy" to get rich quick. No "one secret they have been hiding from us in plain sight" nonsense.
There is the basic common sense of investing in Indices which are reflective of the economy as a whole.
Even a monthly disciplined investment of USD 200 in S&P 500 based ETF has given an annualized return of 12% on average per year for a period of 10 years will give the following returns:

Similar calculations can be made on US 10 years treasuring which has given an annualized return of rough 4.75% over a 10 year period which gives an estimated return of only USD 6599 during the same period compared to having invested in S&P 500. The compounding effect of returns on investment is truly where the magic happens.

I read a quote online which highlights a similar fact : "We grossly over-estimate what we can do in a year and under-estimate what we can do in a decade".
Like meditation, investments also take time to give sustained returns. There are sometimes when you can fall to quick money with certain trades however that is not what is to be expected always.

Assumptions
Monthly InvestmentUSD 200
Rate of Annualized Return %12
Time Period (Years)10

Returns Calculator for Annuity
Total invested Amount24,000
Est Returns20,807
Total Realised Amount44,807
 
I am delighted to read this! Trading is just an act of buying or selling and all things take time.
For most businesses the payback period is 6months - 5 years if it ever gets profitable. But for trading the pill sold to people is somehow over a couple of months/years they will be supremely wealthy. Most people around me who were trading to "get rich quickly" lost their hard earned money. They were losing more in a day while working a job than they were being paid for that day.
The problem is Finance like most things in life is boring and repetitive with a lot of study involved studying Financial Statements that the Companies provide.
There is no "Strategy" to get rich quick. No "one secret they have been hiding from us in plain sight" nonsense.
There is the basic common sense of investing in Indices which are reflective of the economy as a whole.
Even a monthly disciplined investment of USD 200 in S&P 500 based ETF has given an annualized return of 12% on average per year for a period of 10 years will give the following returns:

Similar calculations can be made on US 10 years treasuring which has given an annualized return of rough 4.75% over a 10 year period which gives an estimated return of only USD 6599 during the same period compared to having invested in S&P 500. The compounding effect of returns on investment is truly where the magic happens.

I read a quote online which highlights a similar fact : "We grossly over-estimate what we can do in a year and under-estimate what we can do in a decade".
Like meditation, investments also take time to give sustained returns. There are sometimes when you can fall to quick money with certain trades however that is not what is to be expected always.

Assumptions
Monthly InvestmentUSD 200
Rate of Annualized Return %12
Time Period (Years)10

Returns Calculator for Annuity
Total invested Amount24,000
Est Returns20,807
Total Realised Amount44,807
Exactly it's like VC and investors... They pour millions into companies most that don't even break even. But how they keep making me only is the fee the perform beyond measure and those cover loses and make a decent profit.

Thus getting extremely wealthy quick are extremely lucky. The fact that when you open a broker website they announce that more then 70% of traders lose their capital, and somehow people believe they are better without years of experience.

Consistency a having a higher yield is key.
 

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