The inner motivation

We have been thinking about removing this page from the “Why”-pages. Everybody’s path is different and our concern was that the page might be deemed unprofessional by the more advanced traders. Nevertheless, we have decided to leave it on. Some of these points were the reasons how OrderFlowViz.com came to existence after all. We are convinced that these fundamental “Why”-statements find resonance with most of our potential customers – we all started somewhere.

At the very beginning, there are personal questions that everyone who engages in the financial markets needs to answer for themselves. This is essentially what drives us - the inner motivation.

 If one's motivation is to “get rich quick”, failure is extremely likely.

 Maybe and hopefully, you have other reasoning that brought you here - and drive you forward. It is very individual, but lets try to uncover some of these motivators:

  • I start to loose trust in our central banks and politicians. If it's not the taxes, it will be inflation that will slowly erode away my buying power.
  • The leading economies in this world are so much indepted, how will this end? Who will pay for the failures? 
  • The pension system in my country is struggling. What will be left once it’s my turn to retire? Will I be able to maintain my standard of living?
  • Buy and hold was a great investment strategy for decades. Thinking about this strategy for the years to come just doesn't feel right. It's more convincing to take an active role when participating in the financial markets.
  • I get the impression that my trusted banker of choice is nothing but a good sales guy. An absolute success if the fund made 4% profit p.a. on my investments – really? If it went down 10% - it was just a tough year, right? I believe I can get away better than that.
  • I might have come to the realization; if I want higher returns, I need to go into riskier assets. But I just get beaten up all the time. It usually goes against me until I take it off. Right at this moment of course it would have gone in my favor. I need to get rid of this intuitive buying and selling.
  • I keep diversifying as they say. And my portfolio is just stuck at break even or keeps going slightly down. And you bet, I keep overweighing the wrong assets. It seems the markets take it from everyone, it just takes longer with my well diversified portfolio.

Other reasons might be that we want to create a side income. Maybe we even want to be a full-time trader seeking financial independence. Or we want to become a digital nomad traveling the world while trading. As already mentioned; reasons and motivations are multi-faceted. Important is that they are strong enough to keep us going. The learning curve is steep and continuous. The markets will uncover all our weaknesses. We must keep pushing to find ways not to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

 

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