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Hello! This is Tanaka from Gogojan.
A highly popular content series featuring the company representative, Mr. Hayakawa, and developers!
This time,shuzois kindly visiting us.
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| A top-tier figure with extensive FX experience and track record |
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shuzo
He runs a construction company with annual sales of about 3 billion yen, and later became an FX trader, engaged in volunteer activities, and now provides insights to investors while trading.
He entered the world of investments starting with futures, but after a major loss, began FX trading during its early days, and his cumulative FX profits amount to several tens of billions of yen.
Currently, he is consistently among the top ranks in Gogojungle's rankings.
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Face of the 2.0 Billion Yen Trader and business history
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Mr. Shuzo, this is your first time appearing in an interview, right?
Nice to meet you! Please tell us about your background first! |
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| Gogojang Hayakawa |
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Nice to meet you.
From a young age, I entered the management of a construction company; at its peak we employed about 300 people, and annual sales were around 3 billion yen. |
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| 300 people is quite a large scale! |
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| shuzo |
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| I ran it as a “construction company” taking orders from general contractors. |
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| I see. The company was handed down to your son around 2005, right? |
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| shuzo |
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| Has management experience influenced your trading as well? |
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| Gogojang Hayakawa |
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| shuzo |
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Yes. At one point, I was running up to five companies.
The reason I never went bankrupt was"never giving up even in the depths"I think. I believe this attitude applies to both management and investing. |
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Lessons learned from the defeat in the futures era
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| Investing started with futures, right? What was it like? |
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| shuzo |
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| In the mid-1990s, on a salesperson's recommendation I started, and eventually I lost about 80 million yen.... |
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| A door-to-door salesperson came and, pointing at the president, said, “Wouldn't you like to increase the funds at hand?” |
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| shuzo |
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| Yes, that's right. At that time there was a system where calls like “buy” or “sell” would come by phone every time. |
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Then, margin calls! It reached a point where I was desperate, and I ended up eroding a lot of capital. I realized that investing by leaving it to others is not good.
…Leave-it-to-others investing is not goodI came to that realization. |
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8,000万円 is quite huge.
You emphasize the importance of not giving up, but when did you quit futures? |
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| shuzo |
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I see (laughs)
After that, the investment shifted from futures to FX, and I continued investing in FX. |
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FX dawn era environment and three years of hardship
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| Back then, the FX market environment was quite different from now, wasn't it? |
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| shuzo |
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It was a completely different thing. The USD/JPY spread was about 25 pips, you know.
Also, orders and settlements were done by phone each time, and fees were charged each time. |
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FX in its infancy—the market and the system were different from today.
How did you perform when you first started? |
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| shuzo |
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| On the first day I earned about 300,000 yen in an instant, but after thatfor three consecutive years I lost about 10,000,000 yen each year. |
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Even so, I didn't give up, and from somewhere I realizedthat it is better to let winners ride while cutting losses quickly for losers.
And then, I managed to reach a state where I was not losing, at least. |
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| What prompted that realization? |
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| shuzo |
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This was online content. I bought a hundred high-priced tools like arrow-based systems and EAs to study the logic.
But in the end, what matters is deciding which arrows to trust in a sign-based approach, which I realizedyou must refine your judgment. |
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Turning point: small loss, big gain and trailing stop
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| From the state of “not losing,” what was the trigger that pushed you into winning? |
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| shuzo |
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Make losses cut, set breakeven stop moving, and use trailing. Design so that you leave profits while riding a rising market. |
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| Was trailing stop particularly effective back then? |
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| shuzo |
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| Yes. There was about three times the current volatility back then. |
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Volunteer work, FX resumption, and current activities
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| By the way, in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, you also used your construction experience to assist, right? |
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| shuzo |
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| Yes. For a while, I funded repairs and relocations of local homes myself. Helping others became a purpose of life. |
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| Wonderful activity. After all, for those who earn well, their inner support often centers on altruism. |
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| shuzo |
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Then, after some time, I returned home and decided to try FX again, but my senses were completely dulled…
So I bought a few resources from Gogojanand relearned candlestick study, which allowed me to regain my“wild intuition.”. |
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| It seems you remembered the feeling of earning a lot from FX, and that led to your current activity as a seller, right? |
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| shuzo |
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| Thank you. Next time, we hope to delve into the currently selling“Shingeki no Ya” Practical Editionin more depth! |
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| Episode 1 |
What a billionaire trader who earns 1 million per day has to say!
How to train the “wild intuition”【shuzo / #1】 |
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