Good day everyone! I am excited that you all have come here to read about my very own Forex Safari. Five years ago I would have never dreamt of writing a post about forex trading in order to help other traders. Let me backtrack a bit here and it will all make sense. My name is Ayah and I am originally from Nyahururu in Kenya, but have moved to Nairobi ten years ago in order to obtain my Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Kenyatta University School of Pure and Applied Sciences. It has always been my dream to work at the Nairobi National Park. Being able to work in an environment with wild animals as you see the skyline of Nairobi is something which takes my breath away every single day.
I also assist at the Maasai Mara National Reserve during the Great Migration which occurs every year between July and October. It actually starts between January and March when roughly 260,000 Zebra’s take the journey from the Serengeti in Tanzania. This is also the calving season for the herds. After that roughly 2.0 million wildebeest, 500,000 Gazelles and hundreds of thousands of other plains game migrate nearly 3,000 kilometers from Tanzania to Kenya in a clockwise rotation. The animals are seeking food and water and have to cross the Mara river which usually occurs around July. Over 300,000 animals die every year during this migration.
This is how I stumbled into forex trading. I know that both are entirely unrelated, but let me explain. My second year working at the Nairobi National Park I was asked if I wanted to assist at the Maasai Mara National Reserve at the time of the Great Migration. Being a young and eager employee who loves her job I was more than excited. My superior was great at his career and I learned a lot from him, continue to do so as a matter of fact. He also had a passion for forex trading and was the one who introduced me to it, mentored me on it and helped to unlock another source of income.
The first time we were on patrol I noticed that he carried a second laptop, his personal one. Every three to four hours he would check charts and I was stunned as I thought he created a special software in order to track the Great Migration. Given the size of the animals, this was an amazing accomplishment and my interest peaked. I asked him how long it took to develop this software and how he was able to implement it in the field. There are plenty of great advancements in the field of tracking animal migrations, but I never saw the one he used before.
He was partially amused and I was partially embarrassed. He went on to explain that on his personal laptop, he is following his second passion which is forex trading. I was familiar with the term, but beyond that I had zero knowledge. We started to discuss the topic and he told me that his trading strategy was inspired by the Great Migration. He always points out that the greatest teacher is nature and that we can learn so many things from it, if we decide to listen and pay attention. I was encouraged to learn more about it as the connection to animal migration was like a bridge which I wanted to cross in order to explore something new.
It took me over four years to learn from my mentor. During that time, I learned a lot about forex trading, the strategy which he used and taught me and at the same time a lot more about the Great Migration. Today I want to share the key aspects of this great trading strategy with everyone who wants to learn. I am convinced that you can use this approach to your advantage and start earning money from the forex market. The Great Migration can be compared to trends in the forex market if you look at longer date time-frames. They are very powerful and as long as you can identify them, you will greatly increase your trading results. I recommend the weekly charts for this.
Once a trend has developed, trade in the direction of it. Just as animals migrate in big herds, forex traders like to trade with the trend. The next part of the strategy is to be focused on a few currency pairs only and not try to trade everything which is available. There is a reason professional traders and firms have big teams and technology in place. I like to focus on five currency pairs because the Great Migration is largely made up of five animals. Some may fear that this will create less trading opportunities, but it is better to trade less with a profitable outcome than to trade more with plenty of losses.
Finally, you need to accept that trading losses are part of forex trading. We take the Great Migration as an example for this. While the overall migration is always a success if viewed over the course of the year, over 300,000 animals die during the migration. The same is true for forex trading. You need to stop focusing on short-term targets such as daily, weekly or even monthly profits. Execute this strategy for one year and then judge. There are no technical indicators required to use this strategy, a visual analyses of weekly charts will make the trends visible.
You may use a momentum indicator in order to better price your entries which are great on the H4 chart which is where I identify entry and exit opportunities. It will take some time to get used to seeing the trend, but once you master this you will be on a profitable path in the forex market. I never place more than one trade per day and there may be some days where you don’t trade at all. Never force it, listen to the market and follow it. This forex trading strategy has been created by learning from nature and it has been profitable for over ten years for my mentor and for over five years for me. Open your PaxForex Trading Account today and give this strategy a try. I believe you will profit from it greatly with a stress free trading approach.
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