168: From College To Successful Forex Trading - Jason Sen

From College To Successful Forex Trading

In episode 168 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, I bring back Jason Sen from Day Trade Ideas. We discuss how Jason went from College to working for banks and then into full-time Forex trading. Throughout that process, Jason worked in institutions and set up a highly-recognized technical analysis business among big institutions.

In this interview, we discuss Jason's Forex trader story and more!

Watch the video interview here.

Topics Covered In This Episode

• How Jason Sen transitioned from college to full-time Forex Trading [0:59]
• What made Jason Sen decide to do trading [3:41]
• How Jason Sen did trading and creating reports and at the same time make money from it [5:03]
• Why Jason Sen thinks any trader with experience who has a track record of making good calls could do his trading style [6:32]
• The achievement of a certain level of income or a threshold that Jason thinks is good to teach people or sell something [7:26]
• Why figuring out doing what you love and doing it is much better [10:39]
• How Jason finds the balance between telling people what to trade but letting them trade to what they know [11:23]
• How a bank "trades" and the difference as opposed to being a retail trader [12:33]
• What should people do if they're trading for somebody; and what a trader that wants to trade for somebody else also do [14:40]
• The timeframe for building your track record in trading [17:23]
• How people should learn to really trade for a living and be able to for someone else [18:42]
• The advantages of living abroad as a trader [21:09]
• What the skills that traders should develop are [22:56]
• How trading for someone else instills more discipline in a trader [24:19]
• The trading questions Jason gets a lot by email about technical analysis [24:58]
• Why you're going to have some drawdowns along the way [26:45]
• How Jason finds out if things are changing [27:49]
• Why having a routine is a good idea [28:31]
• Jason's habits or discipline that helps him in trading [29:09]
• Jason's advice or lesson that he passes on to people that they need to have an understanding of [29:51]
• [32:42] The one thing people have to apply to become better traders

DesireToTRADE Top Resources

• Desire To TRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
• Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist (free checklist!)
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• DesireToTRADE Academy (exclusive training program)

How To Find Jason Sen?

• Follow Jason Sen on Youtube
• Jason Sen's website: http://www.daytradeideas.co.uk/
• Twitter: @daytradesignals

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