I realized that the moment I stop learning, everything ends there—one month

Nice to see you again. My name is Momoko Gotō, working as a housewife trader. I’m a bit late to join FX-On column series starting from August 15, but I will continue to do my best moving forward, so please stay with me. Until now I had been writing about the basics of trading skills in order, but this time, since it’s been a while, I’d like to share newly discovered things and thoughts I’ve had while living as a trader recently, so that even beginners can easily read the next part.



What kind of feelings did you have when you started trading?“Stocks seem to be able to earn money, right?”I thought, opened an securities company account, deposited money, bought stock of a familiar company, and before I knew it I was in the black.If I did the same thing again, I would be in the red.That’s how it started. I would start FX a little later, but this was the beginning of my trader life. Isn’t it quite random? lol


But now, not only is my monthly income positive, everything I built up mostly by self-study, and even during failures or moments I almost gave up, I kept at it, sat in front of the computer again, and did my best in my own foolish way, and the results started to show. My blog rose in rankings, I received offers to contribute to columns, recently I have even started teaching and received messages from fans, and I must have been on cloud nine, so perhaps—Last month I could only make a few tens of thousands in profit and only a small gain.


To tell you a secret, it wasn’t that I was too busy to do it.“I really couldn’t see it.”What I mean is, I analyzed as usual and watched the charts, but my intuition didn’t move as usual and my reading was too lax“I couldn’t keep up with the market at all.”This is a serious problem for someone who had been doing well for months. Even ending with a positive balance is a big issue.


After thinking about it, the causes were that I had stopped learning and that the sense of ambition had faded because I had accepted “this is enough.”I realized that a trader is really a profound “technical expert.” But ending here (being satisfied) is really easy and something anyone can do. Since I have come this far, I didn’t want to end here, and at just that momentthe “Official Traders School Final” by Tsubasa Doa募 appears, so I joined without hesitation as soon as I saw it. It was the moment I could shed my useless pride built through self-study.