KENYA’s BEST TRADERS EXPOSE THE TOP TRADING LESSONS FOR PROFITABILITY IN 2026

We have three dimensions of making money. But the bottom line is that my dreams are so big that only Forex seems to fit. I had no other choice. I withdrew from university. I had no other business. So for me, it was either Forex or Forex. The Mind of a Trader podcast, where we outthink the market. If you're in a trade right now, take a pause. If you haven't analyzed the markets, don't move. This might be what you need. This is the Mind of a Trader podcast. Where we cut through the noise, focus on execution, and break down the mindset behind every single move. Of course, this is where real traders sharpen their edge. I am your host, presenter Ali, and this is where discipline meets strategy. It's been a while since I last had a roundtable discussion with profitable traders. And today I've decided to do one so that we can talk to many of you who are always following us. And I truly appreciate each and every one of you who are always tuning in, leaving comments, and subscribing to our podcast. And from my far left, perhaps we can start with the introduction so you all know who we are. Professor, please introduce yourself. Thank you. My name is Prof, and I've been in the business for the past seven years. I'm glad to be here. OK. My name is Odipo Kevin. I have been a trader for the last [time period]. Now this is the fifth year. Yes. I am also the head of training at NFTH, a school we co-founded with presenter Ali. And I'm also always in the background of podcasts. He's always behind the scenes of everything we're doing here at the Mind of a Trader. I'm sure that if you're a trader, one day someone might call you and tell you they're Odipo. That's him. Yeah. Guys, my name is Zito FX. And by the grace of God, I have also been in this field since 2018. This is my ninth year. And I have some advice for you. And that is why we are here today. Amazing. It seems I'm the only one with less than five years of experience. We have nine. We have seven and nine. Seven, five, and nine. That's amazing. So, guys, you're about to experience nine. Let's just say, at most, at least five years of trading experience from the people I have actually brought on board. And these are people whose track records I have verified. And I can tell you all for a fact that they are profitable traders. So I want us to begin this conversation from a standpoint of profitability. At what point do you know that I am now a profitable trader? I'll take that from Odipo. As a trader who's, you know, trading, there are days you're making money. There are days when you're not making money. And that is absolutely normal. At what point in your journey do you realize that you are now a profitable trader? Okay, that's a good question, especially for someone like me who interacts with many mentees and learners. The point at which I start seeing, including myself, that someone is beginning to become profitable is when your losing trades are fewer in number compared to... No, when your winners are larger than your losers. If you've been doing that for some time, then your journey to profitability is gaining momentum. So in short, if your wins exceed your losses over time, that is called profitability. Otherwise, if you keep losing more and more and continue depositing while losing, it means you're still not profitable and there are still things you need to work on. Yes, but when you see your winning trades starting to grow more than your losing ones, you're becoming profitable. Do you have anything else to add on that? Yes, I can also add that a person can reach the point of becoming a profitable trader when they have mastered these three key areas of trading. Having a strategy that you have been consistently applying over a period of time without deviating from it. Number two, you have a proper, well-structured risk management system that you have been consistently adhering to for a period of time. And number three, you've trained your mind, which is the hardest part of the business. At that point, it means you are no longer affected by victories, you are no longer affected by defeats. Just as you operate at a state we call emotional neutrality, where you've grasped that the forex market is a pool of probabilities. So this pool is such that everything that happens is random. So I think, based on larger samples. So your profitability—perhaps a truly profitable trader will tell you, maybe only after thousands of trades executed repeatedly over a longer period using a particular model. That means you're executing fewer than five trades per day, yet you've consistently followed this approach for the past six months without deviating from your plan, adhering to the same risk management strategy. And your mind has also reached a point where losses and wins no longer affect you. That is extremely critical. Yes, I do agree with that. I just kind of feel like I experience it differently. And of course, even with many traders we trade with in our community, it is on the books—that is what it would say. But now, looking at us from a biological perspective, we are emotional beings. We are born with emotions. We cannot operate in isolation, nor can we isolate our emotions from ourselves. We cannot work like robots. There would be days when you wouldn't care about this trade, because in any case, it might hit the stop loss or take profit. But how do you work on it as someone who is naturally emotional? You're simply born with these emotions naturally. You can never act like a robot. How do you get to that point? You know, it's easier to tell someone, see, put your emotions aside when you're trading. It's just like telling someone, be disciplined. But you're not telling them, exactly how do you become disciplined? I don't know anyone who can tell us how to do it now; how do you make sure you set emotions aside? Telling someone to set their emotions aside is easy. But now the how part. I don't know. Professor, can you take that? Yeah. Basically, what we're trying to say is how can you manage your emotions? So for me, what I did was specify it in a certain instrument. Then I established my rules and specific goals. So when I reach my goal, I'm done. So when I take my stop loss, I'm done. Because every person has what we call capacity. And each and every one of us has a different capacity. There is an amount I am willing to lose, and there is a certain amount I am not willing to lose. So, based on my capacity, I will understand that I will range from this to this. There's a certain amount that, if I lose, I can't sleep. So I work within my capabilities and at the level I am at this moment. Moreover, to add to what was said earlier, the first point is that emotions can be controlled. And to control emotions, you have to identify where I get emotional. That is where it begins. If your problem is possibly closing small profits, you first recognize that this is my problem. If my issue is adjusting the stop loss, identify the problem. It is easier to deal with a problem that you have identified. than a problem that you have not deliberately chosen to recognize in the first place. Perhaps in my early stages, I used to find that whenever I hit a stop loss, I tend to get back into the market right away. When I hit my stop loss, I immediately engage in revenge trading because I want to recover my money. So I had to write that problem down and now I'm working on it with a deliberate decision. Every morning as a trader, I always do what we call affirmations. That I will write down and tell myself, Zito, I am going to follow my rules. Because you cannot trade without a plan. So I am going to follow my rules. What are my problems? My problem at that time was, I still do it to this day. For nine years now, I have had to do my affirmations every day. I will not adjust the stop loss. I tell myself and I write it down. I will evaluate myself at the end of the day. Sometimes at the initial stages, you have promised yourself that you will not adjust the stop loss. But eventually you find yourself adjusting it. But the more you do it, the next day I'll tell myself, Yesterday I told myself this and I repeated it. Tomorrow I will do my best not to repeat it. So in the morning when I am writing my affirmations, I said yesterday that I was tempted, and I was tempted to do this again. But today I promised myself I wouldn't do it. How am I going to do that? Whenever I trigger a stop loss, I will step away from the charts for 10 to 15 minutes. before returning to the screens. Again, it is a pure and deliberate decision to train yourself. Amazing. I think one thing that has worked for me would be what he has said. Just look at what you're willing to lose. Because you will always find yourself every time you overreach, You're always on the empty five. But every time you don't, It's as if you've even forgotten that you set a trend. Actually, I wanted to address it from the root cause of the emotion. You see, if you address the root cause, You shall have solved the entire effect. So the main underlying cause of people experiencing unnecessary emotions in the market, It directly depends on the amount of money you are risking per trade. If you risk more than you can afford to lose, Technically, you will be checking your empty five every five seconds. to find out how it is doing. Why? Because you've accomplished more than you could possibly achieve. So what you need to do is You need to risk a very small amount. that you can afford to lose. Yes, if you risk, for example, 0.5% as you do, I always tell people that Ali He is one of the most conservative traders I know. If you risk, for example, 0.5% of your account, I can assure you, You can go on a losing streak. But you won't have emotions interfering. But if you start risking 5%, 20%, in the second trade, You are already 10% approaching 20% in your account, Emotions start to take over. So the major root cause of the emotional rollercoaster in trading is the inherent uncertainty and unpredictability of market movements, combined with the psychological impact of real-time gains and losses, which trigger strong emotional responses such as fear, greed, and anxiety, often leading to impulsive decisions that undermine disciplined trading strategies. is over-risking. That is number one. Number two is trading under financial distress. If you know you are trading yet you have bills to pay, You're bringing rent money. You're introducing school fees into the market, You're bringing the money for your children's maintenance, Just know that now you're playing with fire. Because you will have to be checking the empty 5 after every 5 seconds to check whether you have not lost your money. So to me, The only solution to that is if you want to operate from It's called MacDougal's; the call is in the zone. If you are trading in the zone, It means that you are trading. when you can afford to lose And then you focus on the long term. For example, I always advocate for 30 trading days with at least 10 trades that you have not changed. If you approach it from that perspective, You will have fewer emotions. So fix on the amount you want to risk, Let it be so small and then Do not bring money that is truly intended for critical operations of your daily life And then focus on the long term. If you operate that way, Trading becomes just like any other business. A stop loss becomes an expense. That is how we attempt to address emotions. Otherwise, emotions you cannot address if you don't approach it from that angle. When it comes to the emotional side of the market, Apart from that, perhaps another emotion that we have not addressed feeling good after a victory stake Also, all those things do affect us. You will find that It's not necessarily fear and greed. but sometimes you win and you are so happy that It affects the next trade. Is there a way you can Handle that? I think it's overconfidence. that comes in especially if you hit some winning streak. You begin to develop that overconfidence in the market. Of course there is excitement. The human brain is not wired to lose. We are wired to always be aiming to win. That's why you see trading is one of the emotionally intense a kind of career. So when we win, it spikes the dopamine in the brain, and therefore we begin to get excited and from that excitement We get off the track. So you're talking about How do we focus on that? How do you control that? You've been on a 20 days, 10, 15, 5 days winning streak and you do I don't want it to have an effect on your next trade. Stick to your plans. Let Winners will be a celebration of the day. If I make a 10-profit like today I was telling you it took 10 hours. trade I got excited at that moment and we got into the story and I forgot about it because now I'm focused on tomorrow. Because today might be exciting Tomorrow I take stop losses. It doesn't I need to influence the people around me. So stick to your plan, and if it is celebration, celebrate today. Tomorrow move On because this is just like any other business. If you get a client in other businesses You're excited, and then you aim for the next. client. Maybe to add on that one of the dangerous things in forex is on a winning streak. A winning streak is more dangerous than even a losing streak because winning streak as you have mentioned, sir your brain releases what we call dopamine. Dopamine creates expectation. Sometimes we become discouraged when we lose because we had an expectation. Guys, when you are expecting to get something and missing it You will always feel bad. It's not because you have hit the loss, but now after having first win, second win, third win by the time you reach the fourth trade as much as you are following the plan you have What has already been generated? An expectation. What will an expectation tell you? The next trade This feeling feels good. I want to See more of this happening to me. So immediately the next trade fails, you will feel like Something negative has happened to you. What I did personally to Ali, apart from now having the affirmations, which is very key knowing, and you tell yourself that I am not affected by wins or losses. I think in probabilities and in larger samples because that is What I did in forex Something's funny. I decided to open An account called Cent Account. I opened a 2,000-cent account. So to me, that's like 2,000 dollars and I was risking 40 shillings Those who know it's 0.4 dollars making 0.8 dollars. So literally if you tell Here I am in Kenya; if I lose 40 How much do I feel anything? Pressured to adjust top loss? I will not. feel anything. And if I win 80 Will I feel any excitement? No. I literally did that for two months. By the time I was reaching the third month, I was not attached to the outcome anymore because what literally affects a lot of traders is that Most traders trade their account balance. As your seeds are. They don't trade the market. There is a difference between trading your account balance and trading the market. So you have to train yourself with an amount the way you Trade your seed. The amount you lose is one you don't feel. anything. So you have to start with Take an account like a cent account. When You are using a cent account, so you will not be affected at any given time. point because you know very well if I'm making Forty shillings cannot pay my rent. It cannot pay my bill. So I will accept the probability. to play out when I win The way we're talking about wins. How will it help me when I win 80 shillings? Me? It's easy for me to handle. My emotions when winning and losses don't affect me at All. And it's something to be trained. Once you do That's for, I did it for the first month but as I was approaching the second month, I realized that even if you gave me ten million right now One million dollars, I will still apply the same set of It's a skill. You have learned it using this. a small amount that you don't have an attachment to it. Over time, it becomes something that is already built in You. So it becomes so easy for you. to manoeuvre in the market without being attached again to either wins or losses because now your mind has trapped this idea This thing is long-term. I think in larger samples. Imagine I've been doing this for the past month, the last Two months ago, I took 50 trades and I have 25 wins, 25 losses. So I'm not affected at any given moment. In other words, it's looking at trading from a compounding perspective Like, say you do not look at today's trade, you Look at how many trades I have won in the last three months over the trades that I've lost. That's why I think many people would say that One good trade does not make you a good trader. trader. One bad trade does not make you a failure. A bad trader. Now let's talk about something else. that many beginners always Ask me every time. We have many people who You guys have been in the industry for a minute now. They ask me any worse? Easier? You know, like right now I'm in my Ninth year 7th year, 5th year Does it get any better where someone says Guys, don't worry Does it get any Easier? That's just very simple. Question. Does it ever get any easier? Because I think for my first year It was a roller coaster. I would spend 15 hours a day in the chat sleep the remaining hours, get up and do the same and I don't do that anymore, but I Don't feel like it does any easier. There are always new things you are learning You are still refining your strategies. you are always, unless you Have a very simple system that works for you and you decide Now this is the system I'm going to use. like Mzito the one you showed us in our previous video Yeah, but Does it ever get any easier emotionally? I know financially it will eventually, but just for the for the psychology part Does it ever get any easier? Let me start. I don't think it gets easier. what happens is when you get into In trading, you have a lot of expectations. and the expectation is what is what is going to be tamed eventually over the years because When I got in, I didn't know that At this time in the fifth year, I will not be having a Lamborghini. so when that reality check sets in You start accepting your reality and then you realize that forex is just like Any other business that if I join I have to know the ins and outs You start getting comfortable, so it is that. comfort that people think that It's easy, no, it's that you've Accepted the reality, you've known You are now You know the business, how it works So you stop using social media the pressure you thought What is trading, in the true sense? They are not trading, so I think generally is that you come to understand and accept the reality of trading so that way you start seeing it as easy but not necessarily just like any other business, it has the ups and downs Let's talk about something else. when you Start trading, I think You've highlighted it a little bit. you realize that there are aspects of trading that many people do believe they are true until you get into the industry, can you guys talk about some of the things like you guys believed really existed in the industry until you got into it and you're like oh this is not even a thing in this industry personally one of the things that I was convinced of the person who introduced me to the game One day we were working with a guy. along Kenya Tavern and this guy showed me an account he had deposited with Temple FX $200 at that time he had 20,000 Kenyan shillings so when I saw his account, he had taken Two mini trades, and all of them were blues. so from 20,000 this guy is at 80,000 Kenyan shillings profit so I was convinced that it is So easy to make money, this guy had 20,000 few minutes just we are Maybe 100 meters This guy has already made over $600 on top I believed I was convinced that when I get into this space I will Open an account for my mother for my siblings and stark poverty completely because if it's this easy I don't want to See this poverty again, because if it's this easy That is one of the things that motivated me. but when I realized I had never known that This game is always the the other side of the market when you have wins, you can also have The loss occurs with a probability that is always 50-50. the market can either buy or I used to believe that Profitable traders are those who take too many trades. and most people even now are convinced by when they see people on social media are showing early when you post one trade you have Post and it is a win—you may have won. $500 and another person Post a trade 20 trades or 30 trades and the same results Do you know that most people tend to believe this person who has taken too many trades forgetting that these too many trades are Big risk even if it's 0.01 100 trades, you are trading one full lot But me, I've just taken one trade of 0.05 You are receiving the same amount. So one of the things that I really really believed is that when I get into this market and I'm taking too many trades At the same time, I'm going to buy a car very easily. and I was following South African young men, and they were telling us early that time that If you are in my trading group and you are taking a lot size of 0.01 Please leave us alone; we are here to change lives. and we are here to make people better so trade 0.1 lot and Above, we never knew what it was. so that is one of the things that really really ate deep in me when I got into The market where I deposited my $40 before I realized It went up to around $180. I traded a lot size of 0.5 I don't forget that day when I did a large amount of Half a guy once I did half a The market went well; I saw around $300–$400, so I went to close, you see, at that point we are Close with the profit off, so I had to hold. There was waiting to close, so I was seeing it go. Hi, I said let me wait for $600. You know, I was still holding on until it came down. to 0.0 briefly, you are saying that You thought the market was easy. That is one of the things I thought. Very easy For me, I thought that Strategy was everything. So I went in six months. I was waking up in the morning. By six I was in town. so I did that for Six good months I was coming to class Yeah, I was coming for classes to learn a new strategy to learn a new strategy So by now we were conducting backtesting. I did backtesting for Five good years ago for each and every pair so I thought that now with I am good at this skill. because in the market there is something that unfolds during a backtest You always end up finding that you win. I went back home. I sold my piece of land. I came unfunded Now the market showed me something. I placed one lot in the amount of $100 That was it. I didn't know how to calculate the lot. by that time With one lot, I didn't know that One lot means $10 per pip So right away I took that trade. It was GPPSD. The market moved 8 pips. away from my site I was buying when the market went 8 pips down. my account was negative 80 dollars in the blink of an eye By the time I realized that I had placed lot 1 It came back. And I closed lot 2 for $20. I was very happy at that time. But now I didn't know that It is not strategy that makes you profitable. but now it is Actually, your psychology Wow, amazing story Okay So you asked that some of the One thing maybe you used to believe is really a thing in trading and then you really later learned that There are several things I believed from the very beginning. that people are flashing their lives Online, they are trading. Oh, an interesting perspective. Those people are not trading. You will hang. around traders You will realize 1 in 10 traders You could be the only trader. People aren't trading out here. Disclaimer I'm not mentioning names, but people aren't trading. out here Actually, let me tell them Ali and I hang around. All these people you see online Most of them are flashing. but this is the result We leave that place thinking, are we the only people? producing products all the time when we leave with Ali after meeting these traders we ask ourselves Are we the only ones trading? what the hell So that is one thing. that I used to believe that they They are traders, but they are not traders. The next thing I used to believe is that most people simply have The capital problem that most people have You have a strategy. You have risk management issues. You have psychology to fix so if you sit there thinking that you are It's very profitable; it's only capital that you are. lacking, please go and Double-check that, because that's something I used to believe. In another thing is I really underestimated how long This thing can take because the expectation was so high and so is The disappointment I didn't know that this thing could take me a year before I could start seeing some small results And forex will break you. I will push you to your absolute limit. and then eventually if you stick Of course it will pay, but it doesn't. mean that if you have 4 years of Now you are a trader Fools also grow old. That is another disclaimer Yes, yes, yes That is quite interesting. and I love the fact that you brought about the flashy aspect of life, and I mean I have nothing against it and I do believe that there are people who Don't show that side, and they still trade. There are people who completely do not show their personal lives but They also trade. and I want to understand a point if that's what attracted you guys to trading once you realize that it is not The truth: why didn't you guys leave? Why didn't you leave? one of the things that really made me stay put Is that it? For me, I had no choice. I dropped out of university. So for me, it was either forex or forex. Everyone was learning together. We decided to look for jobs. They realized they had degrees. Let me look for work. but now for me and a cousin of mine called We had no choice. I remember we went to the house and googled. I have even fasted for 21 days to ask God Is this real? I googled whether people really make money in forex because we were blowing You have money in the morning, and by evening you've lost everything. And this is where I'm going to buy a car. Is this possible? but what kept me in the game now is after googling Do people really make money in forex? I saw, yes Now I was referred to Mark Douglas. Adam Koo When I researched Adam Koo, I realized Adam Koo is talking more about psychology. Mark Douglas is talking more about psychology. They are saying to take fewer than three trades per day. as a beginner Risk what you are willing to lose. At least your risks will be small. That time I was doing 20 trades I realized this is the problem I am overtrading. I am closing with small profits Train yourself to hold on to profits. Let your wins be bigger When you win, win big. When you lose, lose small There is also one thing I have learned. those small lot sizes or when you risk more Small sizes tend to grow a count faster. than large sizes And I have started practicing it now It took me another six months due to emotional mastery. until I reached a certain point where I am neutral the question you asked at the beginning when you grow to a point where losses no longer affect you It's true, get to a point where real forex is boring. You are no longer trading to see profit or loss. in a day, once it reaches profit or loss You don't mind it anymore either You are focusing on larger samples. You've done it so many times. Until now, when you do something for a long time It becomes a habit. It is automatically becoming part of you. That is one of the things. I had no choice. I know there are people online today either forex or forex Find the right way. There was no other option. It was only forex, and it was supposed to work for me. the reason why I stayed You had a job. You used to be a teacher. Did you go back to work? First of all, I don't want to throw jabs at teachers but the truth is My dreams were so much bigger. than what that profession could offer me so anyone who is teaching and their dreams It's okay if they fit within teaching. Keep going. For me, my dreams were much bigger. then when I was on campus I began to realize that there is money online One of the ways was through forex. So while I was on campus I had already started figuring it out How to make more money than I wanted So technically, I stayed around. because the money Forex is promising me I haven't even reached a quarter of what I want. or even a third So the future is bright in forex than anywhere else and then if I remember correctly, in Kenya Unemployment is a crisis. So there is no option. but to be in forex but the general thing is that my dreams are too large to be handled by forex Can you help me out? That is a very good question. For me, I figured it out I did my research. ways to get rich You know that there are very few ways to get rich. You either become a thief a politician That one I'm not very good at. or now Even as a thief, you're not good at it. or now Now try going with a scheme. so when I first started and I made my first profit Then I knew this was the way to go. Wow, interesting. Now another key thing that many people talk about and I would love for you all to address it but we will do it briefly I will briefly address it. because of Mzito Mzito has a man named Mazito. Yeah, but Let's just do it briefly. due to time If forex is working for you guys This is a question many people ask. Why are you selling the dream to us? Can't you just trade in peace and leave us alone? I will answer it Briefly and directly. If it weren't for Adam Ku offering free online trainings Maybe today I won't be profitable. So many people are being scammed. because they fall into the wrong hands There must be people. Who will come forward and show others? The way, and that is the truth. Some of us are profitable today. because we landed on people who are doing it right, and that's why you can't outdo the sense that there are people who are also created to do that in this field and to assist most of those who are losing track of the game So that's perhaps what I can say about it. see in Kenya forex is when forex is picking up compared to others countries, so there are people who will create awareness now it doesn't hurt to create awareness because if it were not for this awareness I wouldn't have known forex and I wouldn't have known people who do it so that We can have our own group of forex traders. because this thing needs a community Otherwise, if you're alone, you'll cry alone. Yes, so. The reason why maybe I still proclaim the gospel though not that much because we have a school with Ali and we don't even advertise It's here in the podcast Yeah, so the goal is to create awareness for others to join as well, and most importantly for people who ask why you also sell now mentoring, for example, the The question is whether you people want to learn. How do you cook, you guys? Go and look for chefs. if you want to fly planes people go to pilots If you want to be a teacher, you go to teaching school if we don't create awareness so that we are known among people who are interested means that we are not Going to provide the same avenue as a career to these people who are interested so if you want to be a trader you go to a foreign exchange trader and how can you recognize them only if we spread the message wow and there's Another important thing I did I think in my previous video I said that when you I want you can never watch 5 or even 100 videos on Boxing, okay and you go to fight the number one champion you cannot read two books at once how to perform surgery or two YouTube videos watch and then you Go and perform a surgery, then. It's the same with trading. you just treat it with the respect according to the respect it deserves It's not a career, it's not like that. anything else that you just Watch a video because I see many people saying that why are you charging us and we have free YouTube videos I mean if it had been that Easy for everyone Yes, there are also surgeons doing videos showing How to perform surgery and you cannot just watch them and then go perform surgery, so I think Your point is clear now. There's one comment that I saw on my TikTok that said Actually, on our live Today on TikTok it says when you hear Link in bio run Let's address this. why do traders say Link in bio Let me approach it from the beginning. perspective on why there is Link in bio First of all, link in the bio Let me dismiss. This notion link in the bio is nothing wrong because First of all, nobody is forced to click those. Links are the first thing but then the reason why we put it there is because There are duplicate scams. of accounts that we people own so if we don't Providing you with the links in the bio and you want to associate yourself with the product that we use for example the broker we use like in this case, Zealand's here if you want to associate yourself with Zealand's what if you get a clone version of Zealand somewhere else and then You say presenter Ali and Dipo are championing Zealand, which is a scam people, so the link in the bio Is that it gives you the correct URL to click so that you can associate with the products or anything that we use, for example, we use software For backtesting, yes we will place a link there so that You can have the right platform. I don't know, it's just that people don't realize how much so many of these websites have been cloned outside here with the pay bills and other things that receive money So we put a link in the bios for people. only for people who are interested in associated with our product not critics For critics, you can just go and search. online and still use our product if you have the ability to decide which one is a fake website from a good website Wow, interesting. now traders make money mainly by buying low and selling high through influencing brokers That is a comment. that people would make For people who would say no, Mzito does not trade. He just makes money. from being a IB or acting as an introducing broker Maybe what's your take? Do traders really make more money? than IBs traders and Is there anything wrong with that? So Aliya will say this and our followers should also listen to this We have three dimensions. making money in forex You can become a forex influencer. so influencers Most people will see the link in bio, link in bio. because when you trade through their links There's some commission they receive through the broker. We call it IB, introducing broker. So we have influencers. in the foreign exchange market They are really making money through forex, but it's forex. influencing, we also have forex Trainers I used to be a trainer there was a year when I was there In 2019 I was training people and myself. I was not trading, so I was making my money through training, that's why nowadays I offer free trainings because now I know True forex, so there are those who are making their money through forex training and now the last category is forex traders who are very few and because now telling people the truth about forex Aliya, you've seen people telling us when you tell people The truth they will not accept, they want something flashy for them to make money So real forex traders are rarely seen. so you are either an influencer You are either a trainer or you are either a real forex trader So those are the three dimensions you want to make money from. Okay, do you have anything to add? Are you okay? Yes, yes, I have something. that I aspect I can say is not wrong because we can make money out of it because they are selling it because If I can't train you for free then now if I am doing as a business then I have to earn because When you go to the market maybe when you go to do something at a the business you earn from it, but now They are not earning as much as they should. but now you have Decide for yourself what you want Do you want to earn to become money out of influence Do you want to earn money out of training or do you want to become a trader so that It's up to you to decide, but now you have to decide what to do Okay, maybe I can add something. which, I think, is very crucial I think I can say this Your network is your network in all aspects of life for example We were having a very An interesting discussion the other day with Eddie Butita, and he was telling me if you wanted to reach Elon Musk right now You have 5 people and you are I told you that you can only contact five people to reach him. What would you do? and I thought about it and I was like Wow, that's crazy. Then he asked me if you wanted to reach the president. What would you do, and I thought about it Maybe I could talk to him; he has links to the State House, and then I could talk to the The president, the one who showed me that my network is literally my network and then on top About that, I'm going to add something else. affiliate marketing is an aspect of marketing that has been around for over 30 years, okay watch brands phone brands all the industries that we know that are In business, they have affiliate marketing. whereby you tell me about this microphone I'll buy it and you get a commission for telling me about it so I don't see why people would think it is bad aspect of business when it comes to forex trading because it is just The same thing when I'm selling Perfumes, I'm telling you, Odipo sells perfumes. and you go by using My code and you make money You don't see it as a problem. then why would you see the same as being a problem In trading, perhaps to Add you to that or cut off a limb Is it true? You have to build a community. You need people to become that. capacity, but what is the information You're selling outside there To bring people on board, what are you telling them? If you're telling them to risk everything You have sold your land, come risk everything so that you can double your account You know you're using a bad language, yes Introducing people to a broker is good, yes. Doing affiliate marketing is good, but What are you doing to bring those? people on board because if this person will be your link, and at the end of the The day you motivated him to sell the land to come and invest in forex and eventually lost everything that is not positive so you can start by first becoming A trader then becomes a trainer. Then become the influencer you are building a network in the correct procedure but now the The younger generation is doing it differently. just someone who ended up becoming an influencer He knows nothing about forex. You say I'm making money in forex. flipping demos flipping accounts maybe test accounts from brokers and show you that they are making money so you're getting into the business with the Wrong intention, yeah so the key point is that Use the right words, use the right messaging. to actually capture the crowd Can I actually let me let me advise traders who are struggling to raise capital and you know what you are telling the truth is In Kenya, here there is no soft loan that is received that's out of your mind, first of all, unless You get it from hair movers. so if there is No soft loan for you and you know how to trade but you are struggling with establishing capital, so you're just in and in and out with the capital This is the advice: there are three ways. of maybe approaching it number one start influencing for brokers I'm being very honest if I've Have you ever trained me and are you struggling? with the capital Look for me so that I can create for you and I be linked with zealots You start influencing there if you are serious and you can attract, you can You can advertise. You will get something from people. Small to fund your account now, I'm being very real. the second option is if you are so good and you have Have been able to trade a small account for the longest time, and we can See your track record, you look for Even if you don't look for me, you're just looking for Anyone you can look for Mzito and tell him Could you offer me an opportunity to help you train people so that You can earn something small. that is still in the same thing that people discredit Oh, why are you guys training people Why are you doing IBs? Why are you doing the others? things, so it's just extra source of money so that we can all aim towards having the capital to trade it's not a thing, and if you feel like it's a bad thing Luckily for you, maybe you have money. For us, that is where we started. That is where we started. so if you have the ability to influence people you like 3K followers or even have 20 people You have 20 people over whom you have influence. Look for me and I'm going to Get you an IB link I can assure you this is a great deal for people you see making noise No one makes noise if it is not sweet. Of course I think even in the entire industry IB Business one of the most creative, so guys We have been having an amazing conversation. with profitable traders that I have personally Noted and known for a while that they are in the business trading and of course We have MFGH. MFGH and we have Professor, and of course we have Odipo the trader has said something very interesting if you feel like You're really good, and you have a network. people you can influence to trade pitch out to him and create for you A link where you'll earn money the same way I earn money through the links I post. in my description and I always put a Disclaimer and let you all know once Sign up for this once you start trading using them. Links, I make money, and it's not a bad thing. and if you feel like it's a bad thing you don't have to click my link just Go to zellandsmarkets.com and Sign up—it's that easy if you feel like you don't want me to make money from it that actually let me give them So if you know you're an influencer You want to become an influencer I am being very categorical here. if you want to be an influencer and you can influence three or four people This is my number, make sure you look for it. so that I can introduce you to Zelland so that you can also start earning a small amount, especially if you have a few followers on TikTok You look for me, we are going to add you to Zellands. so that you can join these people This is where most of us We also get our money back to even deposit. So look for me at 07 95 746 130 You put that number somewhere there. You're looking for me, or if you don't want to look for me Look for Ali, we will add you to Zellands so that you can actually join us, people are supposed to to be taken to Dubai Very soon, so so you could learn yourself there, for example, we have I think 10 of the people we work with Who will we be going with? to Dubai and I think Professor and Mzito is part of the team that will be going. Imagine guys going to Dubai I mean If you look at trading as a business Do not think that making money is right Being a bad thing, I think. It's not One of the best things now Due to time, I think we're just going to Cut it out, I'm gonna cut you guys. Short, but I really enjoyed the conversation. We have a lot, a lot, a lot. of things that we can actually talk about but just before we leave I'd like us to talk to Beginners, okay We start from Professor's talk to anyone. beginner who's watching this, maybe they're feeling like wow it's been a It's been two years, it's been three years. I'm not profitable yet, you've been there for Seven years. What is the greatest advice? that you can ever give them It is possible. it is possible because In this particular field, we are We are on a journey, not running a marathon. We are not running. 100 meters we are journeying Then another thing I'll tell you that Forex is actually a skill. that you will go with it for the rest of your life So I usually tell my students that if perhaps the The lifespan of a person here in Kenya is Seventy years and every skill even when you are in Campus Odipo, you only took Four years to master your skill—is it? right now assuming that Now you want to do this forex full-time lifetime now you are in In your early 20s, you are in your 30s. now assuming the lifespan is 70 years so if the lifespan The person is 70 years old now. You are in your early 30s. You are the biggest. fool in the world Take 10 years How many years do you have left? you can still make an impact with the 30 years that It remains, so it is possible. So with my 7 years, I can see progress. so if you can start today now Picture the bigger picture that it is a skill I would say for beginners Start right away By starting right, is that find the right people, don't just jump from mentor to mentor Don't start with the aim of making money The process is the first thing. start with the process after the process Money follows the process. once you understand what to do and you are doing it the right way—that's why at MFG We have plans before you trade. Never trade without a plan and never trade a plan that you haven't practiced for at least 3 months and above That's why I always tell you as a beginner Start right, follow the right people practice one plan continuously for a period of at least three months to eighteen months You realize that you have mastered the plan. enough, and once you stick to the plan No matter who you are, you will Always be profitable At MFG we always say Out of plan, out of business Thank you so much. Okay, let me talk to beginners. If you know you are a beginner As Zito has said, you are supposed to start right and for that reason All I want you to do is choose. Your mentor, just choose one person. and then discard the rest so if you choose to go with Anyone you know, if you'd like to come to our school We have NFTH, you will find Me there or you will find Ali so after you choose someone Stick to that person and then Avoid any unnecessary distraction. until the goal Why is that? you came to Forex and if that Why is big enough? The how will sort itself out. Wow, amazing, thank you so much, guys! For coming, really appreciate you guys if you want Let's have another round table, just comment the word round table or comment on the word Mzito comment the word Odipu, comment the word Prof if you want to see them in our next round table I truly appreciate you all for always being there supporting the channel interacting with the links I share I'm going to write down their numbers. In the description, I'm going to include their contacts. In the description, you can contact them. and of course do appreciate each and everyone who's made this successful, including the entire team that has been led by Suleiman and one amazing Joffrey, so thank you so much, guys, for watching The Mind of a Trader, this is Presenter Ali, and of course I'll see you guys In the next one. The Mind of a Trader podcast where we outthink the market