Three Steps for Rags to Riches

From what I read yesterday, I agree with how it takes only three steps to go from being poor to rich. The first step is to increase income. The second step is to eliminate all debts. Lastly, it's to invest money as much as possible. 

It makes a whole lot of sense and is quite a lot of hard work. Fortunately, it doesn't get so hard to stay in the game if you find something that you enjoy working on that pays well and is manageable. I want to keep on mentioning that everyone works at a different pace and goal in mind. 

Cleaning Up Trading Method Again

This time, instead of working with a pairing of 4-hour and Weekly charts, I have decided to also include the Daily chart. For the Weekly charts, I am currently using two lagging indicators of my improvisable system to determine the swing trend. On the Daily, I use just one leading indicator to confirm its price action follows the direction of the trend I have determined on the Weekly. For the 4-hour chart, I am making it my entry point and combining a leading and lagging indicator for confirmation. Let's see how this works out, but I think I have it this time. 

Basically, I'm trying to follow a simple system of consolidation to trade, but it's not been easy to figure out which trading indicators work the best. Because prices in crypto currency can be very volatile, I'm seeing that trading in Forex can be one of my big money making alternatives while holding onto some stocks. 

Trying Very Hard

I think the important thing right now is to stay focused on the tasks at hand and keep on working hard as best as possible. My main goal is really becoming a millionaire with six pack abs, and I'm at $500,000 right now so I'm only halfway there. A few friends like to ask me what I have done to get there. 

Okay, moving on to the topic of working hard again! I want to try very hard to work so really hard. It needs to be combined with some intelligence, so the more the merrier. I'm very positive this is how I want to approach it.  

Getting Around to Satisfaction

I think a lot of it is about the same old hard work with a positive attitude and plenty of confidence. I'm starting to get a lot better at it and I think it's really about putting in the determination even when it feels a little stressful sometimes. Overall, things are just starting to flow better for me, and I think it's really from having learned a lot from the past.

I really had an exciting confrontation with a past loser today. I sent him an email that was related to our scuffle in the past and had a happy revelation on it. He wasn't that happy to read about my progress and started trying to put me down while exhibiting those angry symptoms that I wrote about in the last post.  

I ended up shutting him down for good this time around after bantering him in a reply message and then telling him to move on and shut up! Well, it didn't hurt that I claimed the victory with him from how he failed to get me in trouble.

It Happens

In a very under your nose and atypical fashion, I've been able to uncover that the whole church congregation with that small care group or what would appropriately have been called a young adult co-ed home fellowship at a lady's home without enough foundation based on the Bible never realized for themselves they struggle with humility. They all gave into their anger issues individually and said they didn't want to talk about something that they said they wanted to help me on. They are mad because it didn't quite go in the way of the head hooligan's vision! The turnout of events will already show that they all failed and lost patience with me and just want to run away from me while shouting obscenities.

True humility doesn't mean thinking any less of yourself. Instead, it's thinking less about yourself. This came from Rick Warren and what a great tip from a pastor who wrote one of the best selling Christian books of all time, The Purpose Driven Life!  

They collectively think about running away from their negative emotions in a selfish manner. They can't calm down and not even for a second think about being 100% nice to me because they are so fixated on their past anger and frustration issues. They can't even turn the page enough and add me back on Facebook which doesn't risk any arm and leg. They are seriously grudging about something and I'm just fortunate to have walked out without any serious consequences.

Overall, the issues never dealt with them personally and they were trying to be annoying and controlling pests in the context of being like a religious mob. They should have just told me to work on my self-confidence while providing me support, which I was struggling with at the time. This will have been like one of the best things a group of friends could have done for me. With them all having been out of it, it happens and I accept it now as I have gained this self-confidence that I've always wanted. My confidence comes from believing upon Christ and worshipping him with every breath of my soul. 

Getting Around to Doing Good Tasks

I think it's pretty hard to forget about doing a lot of things for me, so I have been working with To Do Lists. What's difficult is knowing that I have a big plate to work on digesting and never getting it done from being sidetracked with wanting to enjoy doing something else. 

The way I see it is that it's just going to take a lot of commitment and self-discipline while being as consistent about it as possible. What's really been of assistance all this time is keeping a positive attitude, being self-confident, and patience. It's mainly a lot of hard work, but it's not impossible to do from working at it as often as possible. 

Right now, I'm still in the building stages and letting myself get carried away with other things before getting all caught up. This is something I'm going to have to work on so that I can start accepting more balance in my life. 

Another Trading Adjustment

I spent another hour in the morning analyzing my indicators that I'm currently with while recalling some tips the sources gave away. I'm also trying to create something that's unique and very convenient for me. It may not be to everyone's catering style because all of us will have different risk preferences. 

I have now simplified my system, after reasoning how I could go about it, into a single Daily chart and a 4-hour chart pairing. I want to only have to trade once a day at most and I think I have now worked into something that's very flexible and caters to what I have been looking for all this time with what I have. 

The 4-hour chart is going to mainly be my confirmation window for entering and closing out trades after reading the Daily chart as giving me a possible entry or exit. This should help limit some unnecessary drawdowns or exiting prematurely that would occur from ignoring or emphasizing the lower timeframes. 

Making More Trading Adjustments

For doing Forex trades, I think it's getting a little too excessive with monitoring trades as frequently as possible for me daily. I am currently revising my main strategy for trading off the Daily chart. Something that I mentioned last time was going from the Monthly and now to the Weekly. It seems like the Monthly is the bigger scheme but the Weekly relates more closely to the Daily, so I'll be checking up on it instead every time I trade now. 

What I've done now is set my trend finding indicators on the Weekly and have set myself open for trading either direction on the Daily whenever both sides are indicated. For the Daily, I am going with a crossover moving average indicator and an oscillator that tracks price action movement. For the purposes of honoring all of the main systems I have purchased and decided to keep without asking for a refund, I am combining some part of each one and forming my own unique system. 

Changing Up Trading System Again

I'm getting pretty fed up with checking my trades on the 4-hour charts so I want to limit it to only one time per day with the Daily chart. I just want to keep this system simple and easy to maintain for myself. This is about gaining something effective, convenient, and consistent for me and I'm on hot pursuit with getting there.    

I've decided to apply a simple indicator on the Weekly chart to give me my overall direction to look for trading each day and then look for an entry on the Daily. 

This will allow me to focus on other important things and as long as I'm averaging profit in the long run, I don't really mind not earning more than I could have from micromanaging because it will still build up my wealth while giving me freedom to enjoy doing other things. 

Doing Best Way Possible for Me to Make Money ASAP

For myself, I've learned to accept that I want to become rich without making it too much of a hassle. It took a while to find my ground and purpose in getting to it and even used to think it was impossible from feeling like I didn't have enough resources and already missed several opportunities. 

It's now taken a totally new direction and what it really took was just connecting with patience, some diligence, and a positive attitude. I don't really mind hanging in there anymore and will keep on trying hard to get to my main goals in life. 

I know everyone is different and some can even do it better than me but for myself, I'm happy with just achieving an average life that's based on my personal definition. I want to make money while doing something that's low maintenance and only needs to be checked up on once a day at most. In general, I want to live a very efficient life and utilize my time for the maximum gain possible while enjoying all of it at the same time. 

Putting in Tons of Focus and Hard Work with a Positive Attitude

I think what I put as a title relates a lot to self-discipline and mainly being able to keep yourself up late sometimes to get important tasks finished. Then, the next day it's about waking up early to repeat this cycle. Being human beings, it is hard to stay focused and happy with our jobs. It's just the nature of the beast, and what I think a lot of us don't do enough is really take the time to self-analyze ourselves. I think it's brilliant if you are able to put in a little time to do this for yourself daily and connect with something that resonates with you. 

It really is a lot of hard work and just staying patient about it while doing your best to be efficient about anything you are accomplishing. It does require a lot of self-confidence to really push yourself through those uncomfortable moments. This is something that I'm noticing for myself and how being short really doesn't matter anymore because I don't really need to make my height a disadvantage for making a lot of money. 

I'm also thinking that girls who want to be with only a tall guy are being too narrow-minded and close-minded for me so they wouldn't be fitting for me to date anyways. Even if there aren't any physically attractive models out there for me to date and I find them to be very desirable to just stare at like eye candy and even while getting intimate, I don't really care so much about appearances anymore and want to pursue after a compatible lady in general now. What's crazy is that I have had a few chances in the past to hang out with a couple models individually, but I didn't want to pay them for anything. I guess I could easily do that now anyways by just paying them a large amount upfront, but it's not worth it enough to me. 

Overall, I think my point is really about being self-confident and discerning things while realizing that a few things can become really stupid and maybe not that worth concerning yourself so much over.

Working on Self-discipline

From hanging out with a good lady friend, it's been influencing me to focus on being more balanced and better prepared for the ongoing present. We aren't officially dating each other either, but we both do notice a small possibility of getting together. I'm really taking my time on that and in no rush even if there are moments I feel really attracted to her. Her reasoning is that I might find another girl who I want to be with, so considering how I do like another girl around me already, I can't really argue with her. I haven't told her about that person yet, of course, since it hasn't gone anywhere yet. I guess it feels so good already to have a relationship with my lady friend. It's also a lot of fun to communicate about anything whenever we're both comfortable with it and do stuff with her. 

It seems like I'm just motivated to keep on doing my best to improve whenever she likes to poke fun at me sometimes in a serious way! I even make a decent amount of progress from putting in the effort while knowing she's a pretty impatient person. She does enjoy platonic relationships for the most part and dishes out nice hugs with mostly people who don't keep in touch with her that regularly like her family. We don't really hug each other that often either anymore because we see each other so often, but it can feel pretty good whenever we do.  

For one of my friends I'm not talking to currently, man he's dumb so literally by nature. He likes to think that he's right most of the time and tries to ignore other concerns when he's already set his mind upon something. He sees it as an attack or negativity no matter how legitimate it can sound. He can't map out things that well in a logical way either and will just go by the passion he's driven by. He is never that dangerous though because he never wants to risk his life being put in jeopardy. 

I'm going to have to conclude that he's a lost cause, and I have wasted enough time on him already to try to convince him to take a straight path that leads to good things. He has just bought into too much nonsense for himself and will refuse to let others point him in the right direction that is perceived to be very difficult for him. Maybe it's just too boring for him from having withdrawn himself after feeling so much negativity. He is definitely someone who should go see a well-trained therapist because he does struggle with interpersonal relationships and is a narcissist but too dumb at trying to fully take advantage of others. 

He's pretty much a family member who will get pitied upon by mainly his parents and siblings while being a black sheep from just not being nice and bright enough, even if he can pose as a good looking person sometimes. He can't even utilize his good looks and charm to get what he fully wants!  He is really that dumb and mostly made himself that way. 

Adjusting Again Trading Strategy

It looks like I've decided to go after a simple and conservative overview of the market direction from looking at the higher timeframe and then going for an aggressive entry that matches the same direction on the lower one. I only have a moving average and stochastic indicator for determining the main trend. It works the majority of the time and is mathematically based while being simple so I'll just stick to making it one of my key principles. 

I have decided to bring back the monthly and daily chart from expecting to filter out my trades more often and indulging in less trading for exchange of high quality entries. This is starting to make sense and hopefully in due time, I'll start averaging profitable trades and become a rich man soon enough! 

Pressing Onward

I think I'm not quite so bugged about people having been so stupid in my past. I'm pretty weird in that I don't mind talking about these incidents with them. It's like they are more bothered about it than I am because they are the ones complaining about me bringing it up with them. I find it to be funny with how they are acting, so I might as well just keep on calling them stupid in person until they accept what I'm doing to them and next just avoid me or go along with my schemes that I will be forcing them into! 

It took a while to gain enough self-confidence, and what I think it took was just having an ongoing positive and diligent attitude. It feels hard sometimes and is quite easy to forget about what you are trying to accomplish and succumb to some fun mind-numbing activities that won't make you progress much further in life. I guess it also takes some self-realization with what you are doing to continue improving yourself. 

Just Really Inspired Today

Whenever we're going through a rough patch in life and decide to put our trust in God and call out to Him, He can calm our heart, mind and spirit. God can keep us from worrying about the people and circumstances that surround us. He wants to help us live in His confidence and be renewed with hope and joy!

Be anxious for nothing,
but in everything by prayer and supplication,
with thanksgiving,
let your requests be made known to God;
and the peace of God,
which surpasses all understanding,
will guard your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7

We should strive to replace any fears and anger with the Peace of God.

Let's stay encouraged to keep our focus on Jesus, who is the author and finisher of our faith.

...and let us run with endurance
the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith,
who for the joy that was set before Him
endured the cross, despising the shame,
and has sat down at the right hand
of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2

Let's cast our gaze upon Jesus and rediscover all that he wants us to do daily. He will lovingly put away all wrong thoughts and keep us from doing wrong actions. Through the love of Christ, we can always have a relationship with him and once again desire to be a steady, strong and godly person who is a pleasure to be around and a loving witness of God's love, mercy and glory.

May we be an instrument of God's peace today. In Jesus' hopeful name I pray, Amen.

John 3:2 states
This man (Nicodemus) came to Jesus by night
and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You are
a teacher come from God;
for no one can do these signs
that You do unless God is with him.

Nicodemus called Jesus a "Teacher come from God'' while Jesus would end up referring to Nicodemus as "the teacher of Israel" (John 3:10). Using today's terminology, Nicodemus could have been on par to being the teacher of the year in Israel. Nicodemus noticed that Jesus was superior to him and complimented him. Jesus was often called Teacher.

Like how a teacher gives us information we don't know yet, Jesus will teach us things we don't know yet about the Father. Like how a teacher can help us solve some classroom problems and become more effective in life, Jesus can lead us out of our troubles and make us into effective people. Christ is the way, truth, and life! 

Jesus loves you and will come to help you in your hour of need and can meet your deepest need because he is a Teacher come from God!  

Swing Trades Showing Some Promise

What's really quite odd is that the algorithms I purchased come with targets and stop losses which I'm blatantly disregarding for my own purposes. I'm only using it for the direction of the trade that I want to go in. From how I have my indicators set up so far, it's really guiding my trades in a manner that I should be going about it. It has both an entry and exit strategy. This is really exciting stuff to me because I can see so much profit rolling around from having made a few simple adjustments. It only took me about five years of paper trading to get to this point anyway! 

I just want something simple that I find to be simple, so all that time I put into it has helped, and will make me a lot of money. Honestly, I'm really afraid of letting this thing out in the open if it does turn into some sort of cash cow. I prefer just managing it on my own without really conducting business with clients so I could enjoy my life without being stressed out having to meet someone else's objectives for money when I could be my own boss and live the average life which is being a millionaire, healthy, and married to a good wife with a child or several, nice home, and content. 

New Approach to Trading

Yesterday, I spoke about making a breakthrough with pairing the 4-hour/Weekly and Daily/Monthly together. I have decided to ditch doing the latter and only keep the first one, so initially I thought it was a cool idea but it's turning out to not be that pragmatic for me. I have made another great adjustment to my trading system. 

It looks like I'll be continually making adjustments while spending time on analyzing future trades for a while. This is what Forex traders are supposed to do anyway, so it's just a realization. Right now, I'm tracking both of the up and down movement using some proprietary algorithms I purchased on the 4-hour charts. I'm trying to get my money's worth with it, so it's an incentive to do well at it even though I'm still losing money for the last two months while trading! It's so little though that I don't even care and since I'm doing well and making money on my stocks and cryptocurrency coins anyway. It's good to diversify the portfolios. 

Getting Better at Things

I think the important thing is to have most of the objectives fulfilled with whatever you are pursuing after. To get to where I am now, I have put in the work to achieve some baby steps for progressing higher. Honestly, I feel like my faith in Jesus really does power me up and light the path of my conscience that I should be heading in. Sometimes, I don't listen to it but my faith still remains!

It's been cool to periodically write to a past acquaintance who turned stupid with me and just have her not text me back with annoying know-it-all statements!  I'm getting on with my masculinity these days and it feels so good. Even my mom who can start complaining and tear up my insides after she asks a general question and gets an honest reply from me doesn't try to act that way anymore. 

Knowledge is definitely power and experience helps so much with developing it. I think a lot of it has come from within, and it's like I've always had this sense of intuition in dealing with people. My past with some people is really insane and I know I wasn't that bad with others when I had my moments. It's great that all of this is coming together and that I'm no longer afraid to embrace who I am and what already transpired. 

Live Trading Update

Well I'm currently losing this month again with my Forex trades. Lost month I lost $150 and right now I'm losing another $50. Honestly, it doesn't really pain me to lose this much. Most of my money is in stocks and I'm up about $2500 right now anyway, so I don't really care. Also my cryptocoins have doubled in value to now around $800, so I still have plenty of profit to work with right now. 

Overall, it's not bad for me and will keep on learning to trade my personal system profitably. For my Forex trades, I've been constantly making adjustments to my trading style.

I finally realized off of the trading platform I'm using Metatrader 4, the 4 Hour chart is the largest time frame to be spread apart weekly and the Daily chart is spread apart monthly. 

These two time frames are the ones I prefer trading the most for swing trading. I can get active, but not too crazy about constantly monitoring my trades which is just the way I want it. I now have two methods of trading which are pairing the Daily with the Monthly and the 4-hour with the Weekly charts. The larger time frames are for gauging the direction I will be trading. I will see how successful I get with this, but to me, this is like a breakthrough so I want to share it here right now. 

Follow Up on Declaring Civil War

I wrote OH YEAH, it feels good to see this message delivered. 

I then followed up with this paragraph.

Also what I'm fighting for with you guys doesn't really mean it only has to be Facebook. It's a virtual connection on something that's important to you and others can see. I'm open minded so if you need people on something you are leading I'll count that too. Just need one. See? I'm not really that bad like you guys are but me feeling good right now about gloating how I'm better than you isn't really the point here.