FX and People｜Vol.3 Mr. Koko Kibori? (鹿子木健さん)

Although we are often drawn to various analyses such as fundamentals and technicals, automated trading, and system trading, the essence of FX is price movements generated by interactions between people. Analysis and trading methods alone do not move the market. Any market is moved by countless people. In this feature, we will focus intently on the "people" in FX. The third guest is Ken Kaneko, who has published many FX-related books. We will discuss topics such as the "winning patterns" and "funds management," which have become a theme of his books and his byword.

Ken Kaneko Profile

Medou Co., Ltd. President and CEO. An individual investor who has been involved in investments in real estate, FX, stocks, and other areas since 2002. He devised the "Kaneko-style 10 Winning Patterns," a simple, universal, and reproducible approach using only Bollinger Bands. To date, thousands of people have learned the 10 winning patterns and achieved results.

Twitter：https://twitter.com/kanakogiken

Signal Delivery：SOPHIA FX® Kaneko Ken's Winning Pattern Signals

● Interviewer: Takeshi Kanai (FX writer)

※This article is a reprint and revised edition of an article from FX Strategy.com, November 2020 issue. The market information written in the text may differ from current market conditions, so please be careful.

It is important to discover your own winning patterns

——Please tell us how Ken Kaneko first encountered FX.

My encounter with FX began through a friend's introduction. I had lived in the interior of China for about ten years up to 2012, and during that time a real estate owner I knew repeatedly visited me and recommended FX. He himself did not trade FX, but I trusted him very much, so I decided to study it out of curiosity and started with a light-hearted approach. It was around 2007, a period when the market was just starting to move.

——What did you work on when you first started FX?

In the beginning, I tried many things. I had no idea how to learn trading, so I tried many things, but I never truly focused on mastering one thing. I had a preconception that FX was for day trading, and I felt like it was a game of predicting whether a moving chart would go up or down. I had no concept of holding positions for long periods.

At the time I lived in China, so books published in Japan were not accessible. Therefore, I used the Internet to research and did things in my own way. Looking back now, I followed the typical early beginner's mistakes.

——What triggered the results to start showing?