A parallel channel master Subaruya Subaru, whose popularity is booming, 6000-character interview: "I created a method to understand myself and control my emotions by watching recorded trades with commentary every day."
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※ This article is a reprint/edit of an article from FX攻略.com, September 2019 issue. The market information written in the main text may differ from current market conditions, please be aware.
● Interviewer: Takeushi Shikanai (FX writer)
The reason I started FX: taking revenge for a betrayed friend
Kawauchi: Please tell us what prompted you to start FX.
蜂屋I started FX in college, but the trigger was a bit unusual. One of my close friends fell victim to an investment scam. They were told that buying a ~560,000 yen DVD would reveal a leveraged trading method on something like the Nikkei futures. At that time there were many scams targeting college students like that.
Kawauchi: I still hear similar stories, so such tricks may exist in any era.
蜂屋Yes. Nowadays they might try to sell high-priced USB memory sticks, for example.
That friend was forced to take out loans from about three student loan companies. With no money, he used an account opening bonus to trade. If the DVD was introduced to another friend who purchased it, there would be an 80,000-yen referral fee.
This incident made my friend extremely depressed, and I lent him money to repay the student loans.
Kawauchi: 500,000 yen as a university student is a lot of money, isn’t it?
蜂屋Yes. Of course I didn’t have that kind of money, so I lent money I had saved from part-time work.
Through this incident I became furious and studied investing thoroughly. This was my first encounter with FX.
Kawauchi: Indeed, that’s a unique story.
蜂屋Because of this kind of encounter, investing didn’t have a good image in my mind, but I still wanted to reclaim some money in my heart. The friend was scammed, but I was also incredibly frustrated.
As I researched, I found that there were people who win in investing. I wondered what differentiates those people from scammed students, and the answer I came to was a difference in knowledge. Of course the scammers are at fault, but not knowing is also not good.
Kawauchi: Do you invest in anything other than FX?
蜂屋After starting FX, I experimented with cryptocurrency. But I haven’t traded stocks.
Kawauchi: What made you choose FX among them?
蜂屋The big factor was the decreased volatility in cryptocurrencies. If I used the same method now, FX would yield larger profits.
Also, during my beginner days I thought there was little point in trying other investments if FX wasn’t producing results yet. I decided to master at least one thing. FX also suits my method because there aren’t that many instruments to monitor.
Days of endlessly reviewing my own trading commentary
Kawauchi: Please tell us what you worked on when you first started FX.
蜂屋I did scalp trading from 15-minute charts down to 1-minute charts.
Kawauchi: Your current trading style is a bit surprising.
蜂屋When I researched, I found that many profitable traders were scalpers. I admired those prominent individuals and experienced a period of immersion in short-term trading. Looking back now, it was a naive idea.
Kawauchi: How did it feel to try scalping?
蜂屋It was difficult. Even when profits were decent, it was a classic case of small gains and big losses. Even with a high win rate, I couldn’t cut losses. And after small profits, trends would keep running. I felt there was some fundamental issue.
Kawauchi: Do you recall a painful mistake from that period?
蜂屋The trades where I tried to recover losses. I would risk 1 lot and then two lots, like gambling, which is a bad example you'd see in textbooks. Underlying this was my hot-headed personality, which I didn’t understand properly. I didn’t know myself well.
Kawauchi: What training did you do afterward?
蜂屋I continued short-term trading, but I changed indicators, read books to test ideas, followed blogs, bought e-books to try methods, and adopted approaches from famous traders. I tried everything, but automated trading didn’t work well either.
Kawauchi: What led you to settle into your current long-term trading style?
蜂屋I began recording my actions. I started making trading videos.
Kawauchi: Not notes, but videos?
蜂屋Yes. While trading, I would narrate everything with a microphone as I filmed.
Kawauchi: Like a live commentary.
蜂屋Exactly. It was truly a trading commentary. Deliberately, I vocalized everything I was thinking at each moment—like “the price is dropping now,” “a head and shoulders might form,” “if the price breaks the low here, I’ll sell.” Watching the footage the next day revealed my emotions swaying and my narrow field of vision. I was able to observe myself.
Kawauchi: I’ve never heard of video diaries like that.
蜂屋Even if I summarized in Excel or other tools later, I would interpret in my favor. With videos, you can preserve exactly what you thought and felt at the time. Reviewing myself this way made me realize that FX is a battle with myself, and I understood my impatience well.
Kawauchi: That is intense training. Watching your own videos must be emotionally tough, right?
蜂屋It is extremely tough. Watching losing trades is one thing, but seeing yourself celebrating wins is embarrassing. It’s tedious and time-consuming, but I felt it was better than losing in trading. I realized I needed to push myself this hard because I was losing in trading. That was when I finally reached the starting line.
