KEN (Zeppy Investment Channel) Special Interview: A current university student trader talks about "What made me start making money in FX"

As an active college student trader and a member of the Zeppy Investment Channel, which has surpassed 30,000 subscribers, this is an interview project with Mr. KEN. For those just starting FX or who haven’t yet seen results in FX, this is a must-read! Get a sense of growth as an investor.

● Interviewer: Takeshi Koonai (FX writer)

KEN’s Profile

As a member of the Zeppy Investment Channel, he has won a student investment contest, spoken at an IR event at an international forum, and contributed to newspaper serialization, making active contributions.

Inheritance from Grandmother Sparks Investment Interest

— Please tell us what sparked KEN to start FX.

KENWhen I was a first-year university student, I read Shōjin Tabata’s book “Smartphone FX Considered by a Tokyo University Graduate Student.” It made me think I could do this myself, so I started FX.

— Where did you find that book?

KENI happened to notice it in a bookstore. I realized you could invest with a smartphone. Still, I had always been interested in investing, which is why I joined the economics department in college.

When my grandmother, who had raised me, passed away, I handled the inheritance procedures. My grandmother didn’t have assets other than a fixed deposit and hadn’t invested. It was during the Abenomics period, so I thought that if I had invested, I could have earned more than a fixed deposit—an amateur thought that sparked my interest in investing itself.

— Please tell us about your impression of FX when you first started.

KENI had studied a bit from books and blogs, but I had no sense of how to become profitable. I wondered how those who were profitable traded, and if charts moved randomly. That was about my understanding.

From there, I studied moving averages. I learned the Grandfish’s Law (Grantham’s? likely intended Granville’s Law) and traded for about six months based on that. I looked for reversals using moving averages.

— Have you read many books about investing?

KENMy university seminar was finance-focused, so I read about 40–50 books on stocks in total. Regarding trading methods and FX-related topics, I focused on well-known ones and gathered information mainly from the web.