Firstly lets start off by welcoming you to Fx Learning community. My name is Jamie Palmer, and I have been trading the Forex Market for around 8 years now. I started my trading career back in 2015 after watching videos on ‘getting rich trading Binary Options’ on Youtube. At the time I already owned an Ebay business importing teddy bears into the UK from China, and selling them on Ebay for a profit. Even though I was making a side hustle along side my day job, selling teddy bears didn’t really satisfy my desire to accomplish more. I fancied a new challenge and this is why I decided to give trading ago. Being over confident I jumped straight into it, but it wasn’t long before I realised I was just being scammed by brokers and Signal providers. It took an entire 12 months of going round in circles before realising the only way to master this industry is to actually learn to do it yourself.
I am sure there are many who follow this same path as me and in the end give up and continue to dream. I spent the next 18 months after that going through the darkest of times. Working 10 hours a day and then spending much of the other 14 hours learning and practicing trading, while also trying to run my business. When I look back now, It was probably the hardest time of my life. I split up with two girlfriends over trading, just because of how determined I was to master it. I pretty much stopped seeing my friends and family, and would lock myself in my room for hours of a time. This is why I can relate to people when they reach out to me for guidance and support. Thinking about it now, not even my close family supported my trading. To everyone else it was just gambling, but to me it was starting to become my life. My biggest problem in life is if I decide I want something, I will not stop until I accomplish it. Even sacrificing relationships to achieve it. Even now my partner says I work to much, but when you enjoy something so much, it doesn’t become work, it becomes fun.
What I have discovered with trading is that you have to change as a person to be able to master the charts. You could be academically intelligent with a PHD in maths, and still not be able to make a profit in trading. Being profitable in trading is about understanding your strengths and weaknesses as a person and learning to accept them, and not let them affect your trading judgement on the charts.
For example my weakness was always trading with emotions and chasing trades. It probably took around 30 blown accounts before I realised I needed to change as a person. This is why I say, you have to be ready to change as person to master the charts. You could follow the rules of a strategy perfectly and still not make money, because you let your emotions take over when making decisions on the charts.
My trading in journey is still continuing now as I improve every day on the charts. If you focus your energy on becoming a better trader every day, then the money will come. Money is just a result of your trading, so learn to focus on that first. If you just focus on the money side, then you will not go anywhere.
Image above: This was me in 2016 learning to trade Price Action while in my flat from a laptop my dad lent me. The caption at the time read ‘Getting some late night practice in before bed’
2017 was a big year for me because that was the year that I became a fulltime trader, and decided to setup the Binary Destroyer too. The main reason behind the Binary Destroyer was simply to build a community to trade with other traders. The downside to trading is it can be very lonely, so I wanted to trade with other traders and build friendships. At the time the Binary Destroyer Indicator was nothing more than a lot of crude dots and lines that needed a lot of interpretation. I used this way of trading to build my trading account up, but knew it needed to be refined. So I took the plunge and invested in a programmer to help build me the Binary Destroyer indicator we see today.
It wasn’t long before the BD Family started to grow. With more members joining, became more responsibilities. I started to offer online training, webinars and also courses to help other traders succeed. With both my parents being teachers, I realised I actually enjoyed teaching people to trade, and still to this day I find it very rewarding.
In 2023 we have 19,000 members, and everyone of them is helping ‘would be’ traders all around the world to succeed in Forex trading. We hold weekly Webinars, and even training days around the United Kingdom and soon into Europe. The Binary Destroyer has grown to a point where we have changed our name to FX Learning to compete with the big players in the industry. In 2021 and 2022 we actually won the ‘Prestige Award for Best Forex Trading School of the Year’ for two years in a row. This is something we are extremely proud of.
Image above: Jamie Palmer collecting the Prestige Award for Best Forex trading School of the year 2022/2023