Thursday, July 19, 2007

Busy, Busy Busy....

I finished up with a One-on-One training two days ago in Ibadan, and i immediately rushed down to Osogbo. I had earlier planned a meeting up with my siblings for a family night dinner that excludes my Mum and my Dad. Typical of me, i was 20 minutes late and my younger sister could not but accuse me of it. I apologised and got on with my meal. I guess i was quite hungry as i seem to masticate every single piece of rice in my plate.
Emails and Phone calls were coming in flocks, even while at the family dinner. I literarily switched off my Cellphone to accomodate time.

Now that i am done with resting for a whole day, i got myself back to work. I have been experimenting with a trading system that automates trade for the past two months, and i seem to be nearing positivity in result. Quite every client has been on my neck on when the system will be out, and i have kept on assuring them that it will reach its implementation stage in another 1 week.I guess i care so much about my reputation that i'd prefer to be sure of what i am going to sell than having to apologise later on for bad customer services.

Its rather unfortunate that my Multilinks box does not work in Osogbo. I am therefore forced to use the cybercafe's connection. The cafe near me is quite worse, as most people that plow this venue with their laptops are "Yahoo Yahoo Boyz". Can you imagine one of them peeping into my laptop screen this morning, and i had to tell him off when i noticed that he was getting out of hand. I guess he was surprised that i only come to the cafe alone, never speak to anyone, and i seem to be spending so many hours browsing. Probably, he wonder what i spend so much time doing....
His inquisitiveness actually caused him more embarrassment anyway. That serves him right...

There has been quite a lot of arguments among my peers on the ethics of cherrypopping. While this is not in relation to what this blog is all about, i guess i have a right to exposing the human part of me. I personally believe that we all have different levels of ethics. While i consider a lot of things unethical, couple of my mates see nothing wrong in them.
To extinguish all arguments earlier last night, i have had to agree with my friends that there was nothing wrong with guys popping as much cherries as they want, so far they did not do it forcefully, but instead only if the opposite sex is willing.
Personally, i still believe strongly that it is unethical, as i regard it as taking advantage of the weak spot of the female nature to satisfy one's sexual gain. Newayz, irrespective of ethics or no ethics, i have concluded that my mates can go on to pop cherries, and i will continue to make more money, and at thesame time affect people's life positively. i guess the reality always comes out in the end.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

So Far so Good...

The week has been pretty busy for me. First of all, my sore throat is already gone. After days of digesting Septrin tablets and consistently licking throat lozenges, it finally relieved me yesterday. I became a year older this week. I don't really feel different about it, as i went about my daily job without mincing feelings. Couple of people did ring me up to wish me a happy birthday. Its quite surprising that these set of people do remember that there is still one Gbenga that exist. I thank you all sha....

From the Ibadan Forex Seminar mid week, to the on-going one in Lagos this weekend. I am in my hotel room at Ostra Halls and Hotels as i type this out. I have not had a good sleep in three days and i am beginning to review my life, if i had set out on the right path... My dream has always been to empower Nigerians towards sustainable living, and i seem to be achieving this through Forex. Even tho its been very daunting, i still have a urge and feeling to press on. Gbenga Sesan's post on ICT and Youths Enterpreneurship did geared me towards pressing on, as trading forex, although risky is a online way of making money.

I am enjoying the metatrader platforms on interbankFX, Northfinance and FXDD. WHile the brokers are quite different, there trading platforms are quite similar as they use the metaquotes software for their clients. I am also testing a new trading strategy that i found out from a more experienced mentor that guarantees a 8 win out of 10. I pray and hope that it will work out well, and i'll make this available for virtually everyone.

My eyes are closing up now........Am off to bed.

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Monday, July 09, 2007

UI, Sore Throat and Malaria

And so i rushed down from Lagos last saturday to make sure i do not dissapoint the organisers of a Forex Seminar that i have earlier being invited for. With the speed of the chartered peugeot 504 and the smartness of the driver for not taking the Lagos Ibadan express way, i got to Ibadan approximately 3 hours 20 minutes after we took off. The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was already jampacked with worshippers attending the MFM and RCCG programmes. For the first time in many years, i travelled through Ijebu Ode, via ajah and somehow noticed that we got to Ibadan. I must have slept off in the vehicle as i woke up at a police checkpoint. I was quite exhausted from the previous night presentation at Ostra halls and Hotels. I could'nt sleep early enough at the hotel as i had to prepare my presentation for the following day.
I was lucky enough to get into the hall at the faculty of law 5 minutes before the start of my preentation. I heaved a sigh of relieve as the moderator invited me up stage to start my presentation on how to start trading using fundamental analysis.

After gisting with the seminar attendees for about 5 minutes to put them into a relaxed atmosphere, i noticed that most of them were not quite interested in various terms of forex or detailed analysis of news and other concepts. I swept my night-prepared presentation under the carpets and start to teach without using the presentation. I explained the concept of Hedging, Pending orders and how to place a trade during news times. I also offer them couple of my trading signals for free( and of course, they need to demotrade it) and entered and exit positions on a metatrader platform so as to simulate the concept of trading.

In the end, i motivated by telling them the tools needed to trade. Personally, apart from a computer with an internet connection, i told them that they need couple of other things like:
1. The desire to learn
2.the determination to succeed
3. The patience to get use to the trading platform
4. The ability to stomach risks

I also explain the concept of forex market taboos, which are GREED, FEAR and EMOTIONS.

I left the programme later on after i had zealously fulfilled my course.

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Today is the second day after the seminar, and i am already feeling the pains of not resting. Right now, i have a sore throat and heavy malaria. I guess i got malaria for sleeping in an area infested with stagnant pools. Hard-life you call it, but at least, one must experience this to know how it feels to live in a disadvantage area.

A staff was kind enough to take some pictures of me while teaching during the seminar on my Nokia 3220. I promise to upload the nice ones as soon as i get to download them on my PC. But right now......i got to rest

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

And i went Hungry...

The last two weeks has been very exciting for me. From managing seminars to being a guest speaker, I have been able to meet new exciting people. While some people have been grateful at the streams of financial empowerment, some others have been unappreciative of the service delivered.
I have made mistakes, and learnt a lot of lessons and gained more experience. I seem to be more experienced than I was two weeks ago. For once again, I have discovered that you always need to dare yourself to be able to move to another level.
As I write this, my fingers are dancing on my laptop keyboard in Room 102 at premier Hotel in Ibadan. Over the past couple of days, I have been forced to sleep in hotels due to my schedules and itineraries that I am already getting sick of it all. From the bad customer services I get, to the low quality of the hotels, I notice that the reputable ones are not left out. As I won’t like to mention names, I guess Gbenga Sesan’s experience was detailed enough.

Its 8.am in the morning, and I feel so extra hungry. I have had to go hungry overnight when the hotel restaurant could not provide beef with my order( dawwggggg…….i throw up at the sight of fish and chicken). I am just going to grab the intercom immediately after this piece and order for a big plate of breakfast(I need something heavy).

I was unhappy that I missed Deolu’s presentation in Ibadan on the 30th of June. to be at a Christian gathering themed “Becoming a successful Enterpreneur”. I guess some other time will come my way on that.

The erratic internet service that Multilinks dial-up offers me has stopped me from trading with my live account. I have been doing demo trading of new strategies and reading so many online articles relating to forex and small business start-up.

Naijacuteeis sweeping me off my feet with an array of business articles she places. I have no doubt in me that she is going to be a business whiz kid on the block soon.

For now, I am just going to stop right here and order my mouth-watering breakfast……….i wish I could get some pounded yam….lol

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