About Azeez Mustapha:
Starting out like everyone else, Azeez Mustapha was a novice, vulnerable to all the typical mistakes and fallacies practiced by new traders. By 2007, however, the thoughts of some great traders like Ed Seykota, Van K. Tharp, Emilio Tomasini, Sam Seiden, and others, have shaped his trading style and market outlook, bringing the breakthrough he needed need to trade professionally. Today, Mr. Mustapha feels a profound need to help new and advanced traders duplicate the kind of trading success he has experienced.
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A HEART-TO-HEART TALK
“You can’t change what you can’t face and you can’t face what you don’t know.” — Dr. Woody Johnson
Hello:
Whether I win or lose a trade, trading is my profession and it’s what I like to do. Great people have always faced challenges and failures – yet they become great. The past failures and challenges on the markets are never a deterrent to me. Markets wizards today were novices in the past. The road to success is bumpy indeed. Nevertheless, the resplendent reward of consistent success makes the pain of the past pale into insignificance. Whenever I visualize the joy of success, the glory of breakthrough, the pleasure of financial freedom, the luxury of attainment of goals – The benefits in trading are worth the sacrifices inherent in it. I’ll continue to move on.
Whether I win or I lose a trade, I’m still a trader and I’ll be a trader for as long as I live. A balanced trading life doesn’t preclude a normal person from having fun from other aspects of life. Trading is a holistic way of life: it’s a journey to self discovery. A successful trader is someone who’s won one of the life’s most crucial battles. Successful traders worldwide, I salute you! You’re heroes and heroines indeed! You’ve discovered your true self. You’ve conquered your negative personality.
Whether I win or I lose a trade, I’ll never quit. Losers and winners are normal part of the game. I was downtrodden and hopeless on the markets in the past, but I experienced a turnaround once I go to know the tips and tricks for survival on the markets, and I’m disciplined enough to follow them. Yes a trader may say he’s surviving the markets instead of saying that he’s successful. I was lucky to come across those with the right thoughts on the markets. For two real traders, there are ninety trading charlatans. There are too many crooks out there – too many wolves in sheep’s clothing. But I can’t be deceived anymore. I’m free from all their lies and marketing traps. I’m free!
“If you ever find yourself in the middle of a bumpy road in trading or in life, stay encouraged. You will make it to the peak if you realize that the valley is NOT your permanent address. Never forget, to become a butterfly, you must want to fly so badly that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. Growth and change always go hand-in-hand with failure and fear. If you approach failure and challenges with a positive attitude, you will see how quickly you can use failure to achieve success.” — Sam Seiden
Whether I win or lose a trade, I’m on my journey to trading mastery. Why won’t a warrior constantly pray for opportunities to show her or his prowess? I’m glad to be an experienced soldier on the battlefield of the financial markets. A soldier I am, yet I’m still learning. I’ll be a learning soldier forever, for the market is a complex thing. Trading being the second most stress-related job in the world, second only to disarming live nuclear weapons, can be approached with stress-reducing tactics. There are normal reactions to stress and these I know. Stress, just like risk, can be managed successfully.
Whether I win or lose a trade, I won’t show any childish reactions. I can be encouraged buy a good trade, but I won’t be discouraged by a bad trade. Some others may abandon this way of life, but I won’t. People’s negative thoughts and comments on trading aren’t a headache to me. The outside world is very hard – harder than we may think. I’ll let go of the past and look forward to a brighter tomorrow. Trading is my niche; I’m comfortable with it. If you invest the time in becoming an expert then the financial reward can be huge. I’ll continue following the simple time-tested winning strategies. What good is the best system if in reality you’re incapable of ultimately trading it on a regular basis?
Whether I win or I lose a trade, I’ll be a successful trader. I just need to want it badly enough for me to be successful or it might be put differently, that those who fail as traders just didn’t want to be successful badly enough. I know it’s a fact that there’s no guaranteed method of being profitable in the markets. It should be clear, though; that the chances of success will increase if a chosen strategy is pursued consistently in a disciplined manner.
Whether I win or lose a trade, trading is an exciting world – a world of unlimited opportunities. Believe it or not, I’m moving up gradually higher and so you can. The me I see is the me I’ll be. Welcome to the world of financial freedom.
“(When it comes to trading mastery) You already have the mastery within you, waiting to be called forth… Mastery is walking the path, not the destination. Should you choose to walk it each and every day, what will you find?” – Ken Long (Italics mine)
Your questions and opinions are highly welcome.
Thank you.
With best regards,
Azeez Mustapha
Forex Signals Strategist, Funds Manager &Coach
Email: amustapha@fxinstructor.com
NB: There is risk of loss in trading, but it is possible to be a successful trader.
