My trade routine [Masato Akikawa]

We spoke with Akigawa Kunihito, a part-time trader who regularly publishes performance records of his repeat-type automated trading, about his trading routines. Most importantly, he emphasizes that verification before starting operations is what he values most.

Kunihito Akigawa Profile

Akigawa Kunihito. A part-time trader living in Tokyo, and a father of two with a mortgage. While working in a certain manufacturing industry, he devotes himself to FX trading. He began FX seriously in 2013. With a technically oriented approach, he has engaged in FX investing with a wide range of ideas, including scalping, day trading, the use of auto-order tools, and swaps on high-interest currencies. Currently, he mainly operates using continuous limit orders (Money Partners).

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Pre-trade verification is very important

The theme this time is trading routines. When considering the overall flow of FX trading, I place a great emphasis on “verification.” In other words, if you don’t verify properly, no method will ultimately win, in my opinion.

This applies not only to discretionary trading like day trading and scalping but also to the repeat-type automated trading that I primarily operate.

If you look up the word verification in a dictionary, several meanings appear. The closest is probably, “to test whether a hypothesis established according to a certain theory actually conforms to reality.” Put simply, “to objectively determine whether this method can really win,” that is verification.

So, what are the benefits of verification? First, and obvious, you can understand the truth. There is surprisingly a lot of strange information circulating. Even if not outright lies, things are sometimes omitted when they are important.