My relationship with trading started back in 1997 when I started trading in the Argentine Stock Exchange with local shares. My first experiences with the steps of how to open an account, how to execute it, where to place the entry, where to cut a stop loss, when to place the exit, what actions to take, when and how, all this was a new world.
However, I would say that it was not until 2001, when I started trading in the Forex market and with the Futures, that I took the issue with more conscience. I started researching different methodologies and consulted experts on the subject; whom I learned a lot from.
Because of my full-time job, I started looking for spaces to educate myself about trading during the weekends and from Monday to Friday. Getting up early, and taking advantage and benefiting from that time to study the subject before I go to the office. There were many years and weekends that I spent almost all day studying indicators, looking at statistics, building graphs, evaluating methodologies; all of them perfect from their conception, but not effective for me at the time of practice.
That is why I started to develop a method that would adapt to my times and to my way of operating the markets. So Trading for Relief was created, and it gave me the possibility to understand that trading is a job of emotional control. There are a large number of people who are operating at the same time and in those emotional imbalances of the crowd is that the large losses or increases occur.
If one manages to be disciplined, the chances of success are real and are given by the statistics. Therefore, one must study beforehand the financial instrument that has been selected to make the trading. Analyze it and know that more than 50% of the times in that one makes certain movements, they continue making others. This is the principle of the FisuOne® method and although that statistic is not a foolproof guarantee because it can always change, if it is sustained in 70-80% of the operations, then the success with that financial instrument and the method with which we are measuring must be taken into account.
“Discipline will sooner or later overcome intelligence.”
Discipline will always be the first step to understanding that it is essential to take trading not as a hobby or a diversion, but as a business. A business in which I win and lose, because the loss must also be taken as part of the same trade. A business where I have planned when I retire when I stop operating during the week and how I will plan next week for another trade that offers me what I need during that week to reach my goal.
If I respect a modality and methodology of work and I treat trading like to a business, this activity can be pleasant. It is allowed to be done anywhere that is more comfortable to me, and the only thing that is needed is a computer and connection to Internet. But if I try to carry it out without a modality, without risk management, it can turn into something unpleasant and frustrating to execute.
All this is what we will develop in Trading for Relief