FULLMETAL CHARTIST

This is my blog.
My diary.
My journal.
Where I will post my ideas.
You don't have to read it if you don't want to.
I don't give recommendations because I'm not a guru.
And I don't have the responsibility of making money for anyone but myself.

I wanted a job where you don't have a boss.
Where you don't have to wake up 5, 6am in the morning to get dressed.
Only to be told to compute how much your boss earned that day.
And realize it would take you 10 years to earn the same amount.
I wanted a job where everything relies solely on you.
I wanted to be a trader.

My journey in trading, as it is with almost everyone else, is rough.
Now I'm not saying that I'm already a profitable trader consistently.
That's the goal.
But before I started, I knew that it will not be a walk in the park.
I knew it will take years.
I knew there will be losses.
I was even convinced that there will come a time that I would lose ALL of my hard-earned money.
I knew that it will take every bit of hardwork, confidence, perseverance, intellect, and cash in order to succeed in this endeavor.
I knew there will be sacrifices.
And I didn't know what they would be..

But I wanted to be a trader. And I'm willing to pay the price.

I knew and I believed, that being a trader is the path for me.
And that I would be a successful one.

I started trading just a little less than 2 years ago. At the height of this great big bull market.
I joined lots of facebook groups each with their own gurus.
I joined Tsupitero.com, Trader's Apprentice Pilipinas, Faceless Trader, and many others.
I learned a lot from these groups. I downloaded every ebook I could find in their "files" section.
I devoured them. I tested the different indicators and systems.
Only to find out that some of them don't make sense to me. Some are pure bullshit.
Some works sometimes. And some makes pure sense to me.

I remember a guru from this certain group that I joined recommended me a book. And because he's a guru and I worship him (during that time), I downloaded it from the group page and started reading it and absorbing every bit of information I can store in my head.

The book says the trading system can detect at what price to buy, what price to sell, when to buy, and when to sell. It's literally saying it's the Holy Grail. And after sometime studying it with actual testing, it never really worked. Yet this guru is saying this book is all I need.

Yes.
This book is all I need to prove that you should not trust anyone in the stock market world.
Including me.

Dissatisfied, I continued my search for the Holy Grail.
The instrument that bypasses the Law of Equivalent Exchange.

Little did I know that I was desiring something that must not be desired.
I was on an endless pursuit of something that no one has ever obtained.
Therefore, I paid the price.

To be continued..