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"Quitters Never Wins, Winners Never Quits".

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Levels of Trader

Level #1. Unconscious Incompetent
This is the first step you take when starting to look into trading. you know that its a good way of making money cos you've heard so many things about it and heard of so many millionaires.Unfortunately, just like when you first desire to drive a car you think it will be easy - after all, how hard can it be?? - price either moves up or down - what's the big secret to that then - lets get cracking!

unfortunately, just as when you first take your place in front of a steering wheel you find very quickly that you haven't got the first clue about what you're trying to do. you take lots of trades and lots of risks. when you enter a trade it turns against you so you reverse and it turns again .. and again, and again.

you try to turn around your losses by doubling up every time you trade - sometimes you'll get away with it but more often than not you will come away scathed and bruised

Well this is stage one - you are totally oblivious to your incompetence at trading.Stage one can last for a week or two of trading but the market is usually swift and you move onto level #2.

Level #2. Conscious Incompetence

Level two is where you realise that there is more work involved in this and that you might actually have to work a few things out.

you consciously realise that you are an incompetent trader - you don't have the skills or the insight to turn a regular profit.

During this phase you will buy systems and e-books galore, read websites based everywhere from Russia to the Ukraine. and begin your search for the holy grail.

During this time you will be a system whore - you will flick from method to method day by day and week by week never sticking with one long enough to actually see if it does work. every time you came upon a new indicator you'll be ecstatic that this is the one that will make all the difference.

you will test out automated systems on Meta-trader, you'll play with moving averages, Fibonacci lines, support & resistance, Pivots, Fractals, Divergence, DMI, ADX, and a hundred other things all in the vein hope that your 'magic system' starts today.

you'll be a top and bottom picker, trying to find the exact point of reversal with your indicators and you'll find yourself chasing losing trades and even adding to them cos you are so sure you are right.

You'll go into the live chat room and see other traders making pips and you want to know why it's not you - you'll ask a million questions, some of which are so dumb that looking back you feel a bit silly. You'll then reach the point where you think all the ones who are calling pips after pips are liars - they cant be making that amount cos you've studied and you don't make that, you know as much as they do and they must be lying. but they're in there day after day and their account just grows whilst yours falls.

You will be like a teenager - the traders that make money will freely give you advice but you're stubborn and think that you know best - you take no notice and over leverage your account even though everyone says you are mad to - but you know better.

you'll consider following the calls that others make but even then it wont work so you try paying for signals from someone else - they don't work for you either.

This phase can last ages and ages - in fact in reality it can last well over a year - My own period lasted about 18 months.

Eventually you do begin to come out of this phase. You've probably committed more time and money than you ever thought you would, lost 2 or 3 loaded accounts and all but given up maybe 3 or 4 times.

Then comes level 3

Level #3. The EUREKA Moment

Towards the end of stage two you begin to realise that it's not the system that is making the difference.

you realise that its actually possible to make money with a simple moving average and nothing else IF you can get your head and money management right

You start to read books on the psychology of trading and identify with the characters portrayed in those books.

Finally comes the eureka moment.

The eureka moment causes a new connection to be made in your brain.

you suddenly realise that neither you, nor anyone else can accurately predict what the market will do in the next ten seconds, never mind the next 20 mins.

You start to work just one system that you mould to your own way of trading, you're starting to get happy and you define your risk threshold.

You start to take every trade that your 'edge' shows has a good probability of winning with.

when the trade turns bad you don't get angry or even because you know in your head that as you couldn't possibly predict it it isn't your fault - as soon as you realise that the trade is bad you close it . The next trade will have higher odds of success cos you know your simple system works.

You have realised in an instant that the trading game is about one thing - consistency of your 'edge' and your discipline to take all the trades no matter what.

You learn about proper money management and leverage - risk of account etc etc - and this time it actually soaks in and you think back to those who advised the same thing a year ago with a smile

you weren't ready then, but you are now.

The eureka moment came the moment that you truly accepted that you cannot predict the market.

Then comes level four

Level #4. Conscious Competence

Ok, now you are making trades whenever your system tells you to. you take losses just as easily as you take wins. you now let your winners run to their conclusion fully accepting the risk and knowing that your system makes more money than it loses and when you're on a loser you close it swiftly with little pain to your account

You are now at a point where you break even most of the time - day in day out, you will have weeks where you make 100 pips and weeks where you lose 100 pips - generally you are breaking even and not losing money.

you are now conscious of the fact that you are making calls that are generally good and you are getting respect from other traders as you chat the day away.

You still have to work at it and think about your trades but as this continues you begin to make more money than you lose consistently.

you'll start the day on a 20 pip win, take a 35 pip loss and have no feelings that you've given those pips back because you know that it will come back again.

you will now begin to make consistent pips week in and week out 25 pips one week, 50 the next and so on.

this lasts about 6 months

then comes level Five


Level #5. Unconscious Competence

Now were cooking - just like driving a car, every day you get in your seat and trade - you do everything now on an unconscious level.

you are running on autopilot. You start to pick the really big trades and getting 100 pips in a day is becoming quite normal to you.

This is trading utopia - you have mastered your emotions and you are now a trader with a rapidly growing account.

you're a star in the trading chat room and people listen to what you say. you recognise yourself in their questions from about two years ago.

you pass on your advice but you know most of it is futile cos they're teenagers - some of them will get to where you are - some will do it fast and others will be slower - literally dozens and dozens will never get past stage two but a few will.

Trading is no longer exciting - in fact it's probably boring you to bits - like everything in life when you get good at it or do it for your job - it gets boring - you're doing your job and that's that.

You can now say with your head held high "I'm a currency trader"



I hope you've enjoyed this text and can recognise yourself in some stage or another - personally I'm at stage four now and am constantly making good amounts of pips - I've been trading in total for about 3 years and the first two were hell on earth.

for those of you reading this who stick with it, ill look forward to the banter we have together in the future when we are both bored to death during the trading day

source : http://forex-plaza.blogspot.com

P/s: I'm still at level 2.. when will level 3 appear?

Risiko

--> Tiada yang tidak berisiko di dalam hidup ini. Kehidupan itu sendiri adalah satu risiko. Sesuailah dengan pepatah "jika takut bermain ombak jangan berumah di tepi pantai."

--> Not risking is the surest way of losing. If you do not risk, risk eventually comes to you. There is simply no way to avoid taking a risk. If a person postpones taking risks, the time eventually comes when he will either be forced to accept a situation that he does not like or to take a risk unprepared.

--> Seseorang yang takut melakukan kesilapan tidak akan menemui suatu keajaiban. Yang penting belajar dari kesilapan. TO ERR IS HUMAN.

PAHLAWAN SEJATI BUKANLAH PEJUANG YANG TIDAK PERNAH REBAH. TETAPI ADALAH PEJUANG YANG PERNAH REBAH TETAPI BANGKIT KEMBALI UNTUK MENERUSKAN PERJUANGANNYA ITU DENGAN TEKAD DAN USAHA YANG LEBIH JITU.

Tetapkan matlamat dan deadline

Dah lama betul tak update blog ni. Bukannya tak ada kesempatan tapi kekurangan mood dan feel untuk berkongsi cerita.

Semua orang mempunyai impian dan cita - cita. Tak salah berangan -angan. Tapi yang salah adalah angan-angan kosong yang tidak disertai dengan perancangan dan tindakan. Tak ubah seperti angan-angan mat Jenin; kosong dan sudahnya melopong bila kelapa menghempap kepala.

Hidup ini perlu ada matlamat. Matlamat tidak akan bermakna tanpa deadline iaitu tarikh akhir yang kita tetapkan sendiri. Dengan menetapkan deadline, ia memberikan kita sasaran yang jitu. Jika matlamat tidak tercapai sedangkan deadline sudah tiba, berikan diri kita deadline yang baru. Ia akan mengajar kita untuk lebih berusaha dan lebih realistik dalam mencapai matlamat.

Matlamat utamaku adalah untuk menjadi hamba Allah dalam erti kata yang sebenarnya. Hamba yang sedaya upaya untuk menunaikan segala perintahNya. Untuk mencapai matlamat ini, ilmu agama perlu dicari dan dipelajari. Apalah gunanya ilmu tanpa amal. Ibarat pohon tanpa buah. Inilah sepatutnya yang kita utamakan kerana dunia ini adalah sementara sahaja. Akhirat itu adalah negeri yang kekal selama2nya. Tentu kita semua inginkan tempat kembali yang bahagia kan?. Allah telah mengingatkan kita bahawa, jika kita mengejar dunia, akhirat akan meningalkan kita tetapi jika kita mengejar akhirat, dunia pun akan kita dapat juga.

Sekarang, matlamatku adalah untuk mencapai kebebasan kewangan dan deadlinenya adalah satu tahun dari sekarang ; dari tarikh hari ini 06/11/2008. Berikan ibu setahun ye anak2 ibu. Ibu akan berusaha bersungguh-sungguh demi masa depan anak2 ibu semua. Pada tarikh ini di tahun hadapan, kita akan lihat hasilnya nanti. Mencari rezeki itu adalah salah satu cabang daripada tanggungjawap ibu bapa. Mencari rezeki juga adalah cabang ibadat kepada Allah. Agama jika juga menuntut kita untuk mencari rezeki seolah2 kita akan hidup seribu tahun lagi tetapi hendaklah kita beribadat seolah2 kita akan mati esok hari. Dengan erti kata lain, kedua2nya haruslah seimbang.

"9/10 daripada punca rezeki di dunia ini datangnya dari berniaga." - Nabi Muhammad S.A.W.

"Tanamkan dalam diri kita bahawa untuk berjaya itu lebih mudah daripada untuk gagal - To succeed is easier than to failed." - Dr Fazilah Kamsah.

"Janganlah berfikiran bahawa anda perlu menjadi seorang kaya sebelum boleh menjadi seorang pelabur. Anda perlu belajar untuk menjadi seorang pelabur jika anda ingin menjadi seorang kaya" - Warren Buffett, Pelabur Terkaya Didunia.

Rahsia menjadi seorang pelabur kaya ialah dengan melabur terhadap diri sendiri dahulu melalui pendidikan kewangan sebelum mula melakukan sebarang pelaburan.

Matlamatku bukannya untuk kaya yang sebenarnya. Tetapi untuk mencapai kebebasan kewangan. Dengan erti kata lain, tiada masalah kewangan yang menyesakkan dada. Lebih2 lagi tinggal di kota dengan anak2 yang sedang membesar. Tapi tak salah untuk menjadi kaya asalkan kita pandai berterima kasih dan bersyukur kepada Allah Ta'ala yang memberikan kita kekayaan tersebut dan tidak kedekut untuk berkongsi pula dengan hambaNya yang kurang bernasib baik melalui bersedekah dan berzakat. Amat besar pahalanya jika kita dapat meringankan beban orang lain. Sebab itulah Islam tidak menghalang umatnya untuk menjadi kaya kerana hanya yang kaya dan berkemampuan sahaja yang dapat membantu golongan yang tidak berkemampuan. Kerana tangan yang memberi itu lebih mulia dari tangan yang menerima.

Untuk menunaikan rukum islam yang kelima juga memerlukan umat Islam itu berkemampuan. Di sini jelas sekali Allah mengkehendaki hambanya untuk berusaha mencukupkan keperluan untuk ke tanah suci kerana untuk ke bumi penuh barakah itu bukannya memerlukan perbelanjaan yang sedikit. Dan semoga impianku untuk ke tanah suci di usia yang masih muda dan sihat ini akan tercapai.

Semoga Allah mempermudahkan langkah dan usahaku dalam mencari syurgaNya dan mencari rezeki yang halal untuk anak2 ku. Amin.


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Hari Keluarga Kelab

Pada 7, 8 dan 9 february 2008, hari keluarga selamat diadakan di Mercu Beach Resort, Cherating, Pahang. Bertolak dari rumah jam 7.50 pagi dan sampai di sana pada jam 11.00 pg. Macam tak caya je 3 jam boleh sampai dari KL ke Cherating. Yang paling excited anakku yang sulong, yang kedua pun apa kurangnya.

Sampai2 je terus ambik gambar.










Yea, yea.. afiq dapat hadiah kotak misteri. Apa isi dalamnya tu?

Seronoknya main ombak. Ibu tak boleh join sekali la, kena jaga ct.












The lucky draw gift - pensonic microwave - save duit.

Jiwang jap

A song by Imran Ajma'in
I really love this song and the lyric when the first time I heard it during every Ramadhan night 1428 H. It was a theme song for drama "Keranamu Saerah'. The picture and landscape/scene was very fascinating and nice.

relaku menunggumu
seribu tahun lama lagi
tapi benarkah hidup ku akan selama ini
biar berputar utara selatan
ku tak putus harapan
sedia setia

relaku mengejarmu
seribu batu jauh lagi
tapi benarkah kakiku akan tahan sepanjang jalan ini
biar membisu burung bersiulan
terlelah gelombang lautan
ku masih setia

adakah engkau yakin
Ini cinta
adakah engkau pasti
Ini untuk selama-lamanya

jangan putus harapan
sedia setia

****** Imran Ajma'in - Seribu Tahun ********

Sempena Ma'al Hijrah 1429 ini

Bermulalah satu lembaran baru pada 1 Muharam 1429 H, bersamaan 10 Jan 2008. Satu lagi episod baru untuk dilakonkan, yang mana para pelakon utamanya adalah diri kita sendiri. Bagiku, bukan fizikal yang berubah tetapi semangat di dalam diri yang sewajarnya menuju satu tahap yang lebih baik. Setkan di dalam minda akan perubahan yang kita inginkan. Tidak perlu sesuatu yang drastik, mulakan dengan perancangan yang kecil, cthya: bangun seawal 5.30 pagi setiap pagi untuk menyediakan bekal sarapan pagi untuk anak, suami dan diri sendiri. Untuk berubah, kita perlu

• TAHU : kita TAHU kita perlu berubah ke arah yang lebih baik.


• MAHU : tahu sahaja tak guna jika kita tak MAHU untuk berubah.


• MAMPU : MAMPU dari segi fizikal, wang ringgit dan jangka masa.

Mesej yang bernilai ini diperolehi dari stesen Selangor FM (frekuansi 100.9). Sambil- sambil dengar lagu kat channel lain tu, sambil-sambil layan jammed kat jalanraya tu, sekali sekala tukar la ke channel yang informative ( my personal point of view).

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Adik Sharlinie hilang. Pada ma'al hijrah tahun ini jugalah terjadi satu lagi kes jenayah yang membuatkan kita berasa gerama, marah, kasihan dan simpati. Geram dan marah pada si penjenayah, kasihan dan simpati sungguh pada adik Sharlinie dan keluarga. Negara kita yang kononnya dah 5o tahun merdeka ini sudah tidak seselamat 10 atau 20 tahun dahulu. Kalau dulu kanak- kanak bebas bermain berkejaran ke mana-mana sahaja walaupun tanpa pengawasan ibu bapa. Zaman sekarang ni, orang kata "pantang lepa" atau "pantang terlepas pandang". Sesungguhnya benarlah kata pujangga

"di dalam masyarakat binatang, tiada seorang pun manusia. Tetapi di dalam masyarakat manusia, terlalu banyak binatang.