This article is planned to be revised repeatedly.

While continuing the series, I intended to gradually write about analysis methods and trading tactics (since it isn’t something that can be done in a day or two), so rather than merely reading back numbers by searching for old issues and reading them, I will compile them into one article and update it as needed.

Among my subscribers, many have interacted with me since long ago, and I hope you will read it again as a review as well.

I hope it turns out to be simply an engaging read.

This is a serial article that records the important things in trading while weaving in experience-based rules.

※ I don’t think it makes sense to read it half-heartedly, so there will be no single-item sales until it is finished.

※ This article is written to help you become universally adaptable, so I will use past charts.

What Trading Is

There are various methods and analyses, but I feel that trading, in the end, is a matter of probability.

The act of analyzing itself is meant to increase probability; there is no right or wrong, which is what I have felt after trading for sixteen years.

In a broad sense, it might be akin to gambling.

Poker, played with bankroll management, is probably in a closely related position.

Pachinko and slot machines can be classified similarly if played with an eye on the settings.

There was a time when stock investing and FX were regarded as gambling.

In the early 2000s, the phrase "a housewife evading 400 million yen in taxes" danced across the papers, and the FX boom arrived; it was when I entered the world of trading. Back then, the environment treated savings as virtue and investment as vice, and today it remains more entrenched than it is for those in Pachinko or slots.

At that time I knew nothing, and I entered the trading world and repeatedly deposited and then lost money, with no knowledge whatsoever.

The leverage is hazy in my memory, but I think it was about 200x in domestic accounts.

It felt, in hindsight, like walking in a battlefield where bullets flew with a bare stance and a carefree mind.

Whether in sports or in games, one starts as a beginner.

Typically beginners are categorized at their own stage and advance step by step, but this world is different.

Both beginners and seasoned players, and even government agencies and hedge funds, are put on the same stage and then harvested.

First, before approaching trading, I think you should engrave that in your mind.

Being a beginner does not grant special treatment, and there is no攻略サイト (攻略 sites) or one single correct answer.

In a world where you are surrounded by spirits and demons in trading, without arming yourself with knowledge you will be hunted forever, and worse, you may be deceived.

In short, the idea of "beginners are allowed because they’re beginners" should be discarded as soon as possible, and you should become someone who harvests in trading as soon as possible.

This article, as you embark on your journey, is like the prologue of a role-playing game, providing at least the basics and a guide for where to go next, with the aim of contributing to readers as a guideline.

Before you read further, I want readers to throw away the mindset of “I’m a beginner,” which is a negative attitude.

I intend to write in accessible language, but I am not a professional writer by trade, nor a financial professional, so there will be ambiguous parts.

I apologize for my lack of knowledge there, but one mindset for traders is to take proactive actions, and in today’s net society you can look things up yourself without asking someone, so please look up anything you don’t understand.

If you still don’t understand, it’s probably my fault, so please feel free to ask via Twitter DMs or any other means.

I have wandered quite far off topic, but let me return to the main subject.

Trading is

Decomposition of trading and foundational power