Become an Investor, Not a Follower

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#428: Become an Investor, Not a Follower

In this video:
00:26 – Rich Dad Poor Dad email
02:24 – Unrealistic expectations
03:28 – Live webinar with Ryo Chong – come and learn
05:30 – Where to invest your funds?
06:50 – Register for the webinar on 25th September

I’m going to talk about why you should focus on becoming an investor for yourself and not a follower. Let’s talk about that and more, right now.

Hey traders, it’s Andrew Mitchem here at the Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 428.

Rich Dad Poor Dad email

And I have received an email this week from a guy I’ve been following for years. You probably heard of him, Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I’ve been following him, read all his books and think that he just offers some really good, sound, sensible, common sense advice. I’d like to think that I do the same. But I’d like to read an email and a quote from him that I think relates to so many Forex traders out there, and it’s all about investing and why you should learn to invest for yourself. But he asks the questions, do you really want to invest? And what he means by that is, he says that every day he receives emails from people, he talks to people and he says, basically, a lot of people are just too lazy to invest.

And instead, they want him to tell them what to do. And he said, “That’s not investing at all, that’s just simply following instructions.” He goes on to say, “That when people want to invest in something, what they really mean is they want someone else to tell them what to do.” And he says, “Do not follow that path, instead, focus on becoming an investor.” And it’s what I tell people to do all the time. It’s what I’ve been saying on these last 428 videos and podcasts, just like this. And it’s great that he says exactly the same thing. Because like he says, he finishes up by saying, “When you are an investor, you know how to choose your own,” he’s talking about the stock market, but same thing with currencies, “