My Story

Ashley Page

My Story

Hello, So many years ago, just like you are now I was looking for that certain “thing” to help me learn how to trade– the “Holy Grail” as they call it. And probably like you I was feeling frustrated and confused, frustrated that I just was not getting it, angry because I just needed some guidance – not another course or videos or book telling me about support and resistance, candlestick patterns and the usual “education material” that was being taught to retail traders. Whilst we are all different and have specific goals that are prevalent to our situation there are similarities and notwithstanding the context, we are all looking for the same thing – to be a successful Forex Trader to help us achieve our financial goals for ourselves and our families.

This is my story

A story of how I began my journey filled with hope and dreams and overcoming failure after failure. My hope is that it resonates with you and Inspires you to push forward and persevere towards what it is you genuinely want in life. Before I tell you how I got into Forex Trading let me first tell you what I am not. I have never worked professionally as a Currency trader in a Bank or otherwise I am not a certified in any country to do so. I also not a certified financial advisor.

I am...

by profession a chef in fact I still am I still have a Job as Chef Manager in a restaurant inside a private International school. I also teach Introductory to Forex Trading as an elective to a certified diploma program in International Trade. I am an active Forex Trader and I also coach and mentor private clients. With my family as well I am a busy person which having my SFT Methodology for my trading has been a blessing although to be honest this is not why I created the methodology in the first place it is just an added bonus I do not need to stare at charts all day to look for trades (Although for me I actually thoroughly enjoy analyzing charts!!)

So how did I get into Forex Trading...

Well, my story is probably much like yours I had a career job paying above-average income but I always wanted to earn extra on the side to create something that would be a source of income for many years and later after I was gone to leave to my 3 kids. I also liked the fact that I am able to have a ‘Homebase Business” and benefit from various tax breaks which would allow me to pay less in taxes at the end of the year. Now I did not go and come up with an idea for a homebased business -hey in the late 90s it was all the rage many forms of network marketing and MLMs became available. I even started selling “information booklets” through local newspaper ads and certainly had my fair shake at network marketing. I then ventured onto AdSense websites and then affiliate marketing where I was first introduced to Forex trading through one of my affiliate programs I was promoting online.

I was instantly hooked

I finally found something that I do not have to sell anything to anybody or recruit anyone for me to make an income in my business. I just had to learn this skill of trading currencies. Sounded easy right? -was I in for a shock LOL! I should point out that this was in November off 2007 so it was a very different arena back then than it is now better information platforms software not to mention the integrity of people that were in this profession that took advantage of people such as myself. Deleted: So fast forward to 2009 and I joined my first live 5 day on location workshop I had tried to learn from different books and mini “courses” but it just was not working for me I had just blown my first account of $3000.00 after 4 months of live trading and came to the conclusion that I needed better help so I threw down a total of 19,000.00 yes you read that right to take a well known course in Forex Trading the first part was the 5 day workshop and then the rest was lifetime access to a membership portal to keep continuing to learn.

Needless to say this

did not go to well and I heard of another course that had a good reputation and decided to join their program for $7500 – yep more money – I would spend a lot more than that over the next few years with this company but you know what the education was pretty good and I started “getting” it. But alas another account blown this time $2000.00 So fast forward to 2013 I remember like it was yesterday I had I thought become a good trader (not even close if I am being honest) and declared to my wife that hey I know how to trade and the reason I am not making lots of money is my account is to small I need more money to trade with! Well I am sure you can figure out what happened. I added approx. 14000.00 dollars to my trading account and actually got it to about 17k – I was on the top of the world – the cock of the walk the king of the world – ah you get what I mean.

Then that fateful day...

I was trading the AUDJPY (Damn that Yen) when, I had a compete psychological meltdown – every mindset trading psychology rule I broke – over leveraged, revenge trading FOMO anger trading no stop loss uugghh – it was ugly as one of my eventual mentors would say get out of the way it’s a barroom brawl! well I initiated this barroom brawl and got my arse thoroughly kicked I had my account totally obliterated in 36 hours all gone 14k down the drain I was devastated and I had not even told my wife yet – It is very humbling and embarrassing to tell a loved one that you had let them down that you made a mistake it was not enjoyable – I decided there and then that I would not live trade for a whole 12 months and I am going to dedicate myself to find a mentor someone that can coach me teach me to become a more profitable trader but the big thing is to really figure out how to actually trade this market. I am going to find a method of trading that is more simplistic and not so overwhelming with so much information and conflicting information – I had a quest – to find the holy grail. no no sorry got carried away there ha ha ha -no such thing right!

I managed to find some mentors...

I managed to find some mentors and coaches to hire that I spent time with to pick their brains and constantly studying charts and price patterns and movements and after 18 months - yes took me longer I had the framework of the SFT Methodology and this became my “holy grail” fast forward 6 more years and it is still a constant today the “guts’ of the method have not changed since its inception the strategies are the same – I have certainly seen lots of different market conditions but this Methodology has pulled me through to the right side of the market time and time again It is not fool proof – nothing is I have losses. You see it is foundational in its nature has an infusion of logic and with the rules and laws placed around the elements that are used it is solid and works in tandem regardless of what strategy you use. The whole premise is to do one thing and that is to protect me from myself- It literally protects my account.

I hope you enjoyed...

my story and it inspires you to pursue you dreams and goals and with hard work and perseverance along with some humility to know when to ask for help you to can achieve your financial goals and dreams whatever they are. I hope you make the commitment to use the currency market to help fulfill those goals and it would be my honor and pleasure if you were to pick my SFT program to get you up your mountain!!

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