I, who wandered in the realm of expensive FX academies and indicator swamps, found the four common elements of winning methods
“There must be a method that can truly win next time.”
Believing that, I bought up expensive courses, shady indicators, and automated trading tools. Before I knew it, I had spent 2 million yen. Yet, a winning future never seemed to appear.
That is, until one day I discovered that “there are only four common elements among the methods of people who are winning,” and my life changed.
This is the story of a man who chose FX to escape the hell of being a company employee.
What you will gain from this article
✅ The four common elements necessary to win in FX
✅ The importance not only of knowledge but of a “sustainable environment”
✅ How to turn free information into practical, usable knowledge
Estimated reading time: about 12 minutes
Nice to meet you. My name is Miroku, but you can call me Miroku (369).
If you can relate at least a little, my information might be useful to you.
How I started winning in FX
Let me start with a little history.
I was born in a rural area and spent my high school years there. It wasn’t exactly a carefree childhood; my parents were teachers, and there was a pressure from others around me to be a “good student.”
But my true nature was…
I hate “being like everyone else.”
I’m not good at group activities.
I preferred spending time alone playing games or tinkering with a computer with a friend.
Nevertheless, I was good at reading the room, so I prioritized acting in ways others expected rather than pursuing what I loved, which caused me stress.
I continued to perform as a model student and entered university. (This is self-deprecating.)
I moved to Tokyo when I entered college.
Once I started living alone in Tokyo, I stopped associating with people who didn’t share my interests, and my stress decreased.
In fact, my chronic rhinitis improved, and I felt physically better.
So, when it came time to get a job,
“Will I have to belong to another company and be forced to be ‘like everyone else’ again…?”
I felt vague and depressed.
“I think of company life as the graveyard of my life.”I didn’t have much future expectation, even during college.
Of course, options to start a business or earn independently existed, but at the time, earning online as an individual wasn’t as common as it is now, and only a small number of people did it. For someone who had always tried to be a “good student,” those options didn’t seem visible to me.
If I had realized during student days how many ways there were to earn money, I might have become free sooner.
As a science graduate student, I did eventually land a job at a major IT company. The so‑called big corporation.
But the reason I chose that company wasn’t glamorous; it was because, as I put it, “I could rely on my university knowledge after joining and take it easy.”
I had come to view my post‑employment life as a “graveyard” and a “hell,” so to make that remaining hell easier to bear, I chose a job that would make the most of my knowledge, the university name value, and the fact that I was a new graduate.
For someone who had studied and played as much as I had, employment became a “compromise” and a synonym for a boring life.
The greatest turning point in life
Because of that, I had little hope for work, but since I am the type who wants to do things properly, I gave it my best effort.
Perhaps by luck, I was allowed to go abroad and appointed to a higher position than usual, so from the outside I might have appeared as a young employee who was working hard and being fairly recognized.
I felt that way at that moment as well.
Until I remembered that I was in hell.
Then came the biggest turning point of my life.
There was a period of intense busyness, and I ended up with an abundance of unused paid leave, so I had to take a month off.
Since I finally had a long break, I wanted to do something, but…
I realized there was nothing I could enjoy anymore.
The games I loved in school days,
the drinking parties with colleagues,
the games I planned to play when I had time,
none of it felt enjoyable anymore. I suddenly thought:
“Is this life okay as it is? Does this life have any meaning?”
The harder I tried, the more I was cleaning up other people’s messes,
and I found it hard to plan holidays because work dictated so much,
my days were the same, within the predictable range,
and I wondered if there would be anything left of me after retirement…
I felt hopeless when I realized that reality.
My hell, which I had been dodging with busyness, returned.
And unlike before, I now clearly recognized that I was in hell, and my despair deepened.
“There is no meaning to living.”
Sure, life has its joyful moments, but there would also be hardship.
If I continued as I am, the future would end without joy, but without hardship either.
Between living in Hell for decades and dying now, which would bring more happiness? I became so desperate that I began to doubt my life.
So I began to search.
Unbound by time, place, or relationships
Earn with my own ability
In other words, a way of living that deviates from the “model student” path and truly satisfies me.
“Live freely, without constraints.”
From then on, that became the lifestyle I pursued.
Pursuit of freedom
To change my reality, I started trying various side hustles.
The first one was network marketing, the so‑called multi‑level marketing, that I was invited to join.
But I realized this was completely off and quit.
I understood that no matter how far I went, I wouldn’t be free from troublesome relationships.
After that, the stress and overwork from the company and side jobs hurt my body, leading to surgery and hospitalization.
The surgery carried a risk to life, but the doctor explained the success rate was 90%.
Hearing that, I thought, “There’s a 10% chance I might die.”
And instead of fear, I felt urgency. My life could end in a few months.
In that moment I thought,“There’s no time to worry about others’ expectations or worrying about others’ opinions.”I decided to act more decisively.
After being discharged, I started a retail business.
At first it was trial and error, then I learned from people who were succeeding and learned the know‑how.
Within about a year I automated almost all tasks except purchasing and packing, and I could earn an annual turnover of 36 million yen with a profit of around 3 million yen per year by working about two hours after returning home from work.
I thought about setting up a corporation to borrow purchasing funds and expand the outsourcing, and I began to see a path to scale.
“Is there really anything I want ahead?”
I wondered.
The person I studied under had already incorporated and showed me the troubles of hiring people and running a business, which made me think even more.
You’ll never be free from customer complaints or employee relationships
Not much freedom of location
If the logistics/EC framework changes, you’re done
To survive price competition, you’d need a serious物販 company (but I wasn’t that passionate about物販)
At that time, although the method I had was profitable and had good margins, many competitors vanished due to platform regulations and price competition, and as soon as the system changed, the know‑how no longer worked, and I feared going out of business would leave me as a “man who can do nothing.”“A man who can do nothing at all.”That fear was the main reason I couldn’t take the leap.
Even with economic and time freedom, the future still felt uncertain, and my life could be easily affected by others’ schedules, which didn’t feel like true freedom to me.
In the end, I quit物販.
Back then, I was a bit tired of side gigs, so I decided to focus on being a company employee again.
But in exchange, I switched to a profession that suited my personality.
For the first two years, I devoted myself to it,
and perhaps because the industry was booming or because it was a startup, I reached an annual income of 10 million yen.
Not young, but as an employee I felt a sense of achievement reaching a major milestone.
Nevertheless, I still didn’t have the freedom I longed for.
Although I reduced stress by doing what I was good at, as I gained promotions and subordinates, the stress from relationships increased again.
Even with a decent salary as a company employee, I still yearned for a free life.
Reassessing what I truly want
About three years after dedicating myself to being a company employee, a opportunity arose to revisit what I wanted for myself.
During the New Year holiday, I went back to my hometown and, while wandering into a bookstore, I picked up a planner that said, “What you verbalize becomes reality. There is a result beforehand.”
It was obvious to me now, but at the time it was shocking.
From there, I clarified what I really wanted to become, and what I found was the following.
What I want to become:
Live freely (not necessarily making a fortune)
What I don’t want to do:
Group behavior
A life controlled by others
What I will do to achieve it:
“Obtain the minimum cash flow and confidence to gain freedom.”
→ Confidence (inner freedom) cannot be obtained by relying on others’ evaluations or standards
→ Not from the hottest, trends, but by mastering universal and unchanging principles
Based on these thoughts, the path I chose was
“FX discretionary trader.”
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Why FX trader
The reasons are as follows.
1. It has universality
Market prices are created by market participants’ psychology
Human psychology changes little over time
Therefore it becomes a skill that works long term, not just a temporary trend
2. It does not depend on others’ evaluations
Unlike selling goods or influencers, you can earn without depending on others’ judgments
There are no customer complaints or employee relationship troubles
3. Sufficient profitability
The amount you can earn is enough for an individual to gain financial freedom
You don’t need social status; you just need income to live freely
Also, unlike many businesses, FX does not require differentiation or uniqueness.
What is needed is the right knowledge and the ability to continuously practice it.
(When I started, I didn’t know this at all and imagined only those who knew secret methods could rake in money. Looking back, it’s embarrassing…)
At first I was a typical know‑how collector
Of course, I didn’t start making money right away.
When I started studying, like many others, I was atypical know‑how collector.
Expensive courses
Methods with vague or no basis
Indicators or signals created by former stock brokers without explanations of the underlying principles
Automated trading tools
I bought these one after another and completely wandered.
Back then, there was no clear future where I could earn long term.
No wonder,these were all acts dependent on others for earnings.
In short, I secretly hoped someone would make me money.
This clearly would not lead to the freedom I wanted. But I didn’t know what to do at the time.