About Me and StraightForex

I’m Raul Lopez, trader & coach at StraightForex. I’ve been trading Forex for more than 10 years and this is my story:

How I became a trader

On my senior year on college (I majored in economics) there was this project on my financial class, our professor set up a demo account for each student, the one with better results at the end of the course would get 10 final points (of course, I blew out my account.)

I didn’t get my 10 points (and based on my performance, it would had been fair to take 10 points away from my final grade), but I got something bigger: I realized about the potential of the Forex market and I knew then that a trader was what I wanted to do for a living.

My first years as a trader

After I graduated from college I got involved on a few investing companies, then I quit and decided to try it on my own. I literally tried hundreds of technical indicators, robots, forecast tools such as Fibonacci, Elliot Waves and other tools but always got the same story:

As soon as I found a new tool, I got excited about it and put a lot of effort in it, tested it, tried to find the right parameters and at the end, they all ended up failing over and over again.

Happier days as a trader

After a few years of unsuccessful attempts to trade consistently, I started to see and trade the market in a different way, started to follow what the market is telling me, instead of trying to forecast what the market is going to do, I allowed it to show me the direction first, then I made my move.

This strategy coupled with good risk and trade management, position sizing and the right state of mind is what allows me to trade with consistent results.

Then I decided to create StraightForex (back in 2005) to help traders approach and trade the market this way.

Forex Trader & Coach

A few things about me:

• I got interested in the Forex market in a senior project back in my college days
• I majored in economics with a specialty on financial derivatives
• I trade a self-developed system based on price action
• Hobbies: play classical guitar and running (I have ran a few marathons)

I also contribute to the following publications:

Raul participates in Fxstreet.com, the most respected Forex portal on the web. He holds educational webinars and analysis. Raul also provides educational content such as articles and regular analysis.

He is also a regular contributor to Forexpros.com, he writes articles, holds live trading webinars and provides analysis about current market conditions.

Raul Lopez writes articles for The Traders Journal, one of the most important trading magazines in the world. Most articles are about trading strategies and how to improve traders’ results.

Raul is a regular contributor to Forexnews.com site, he publishes forex analysis and forecasts, trading ideas, and information about important events related to the forex market.