The Unfiltered Story

I was lost. No direction. No purpose.

On a whim, I went to a psychic reader. I know how it sounds—but I was desperate for answers.

4x? What the hell is 4x?

I went home and researched. And that's when I found it:

Forex. Foreign Exchange. 4X.

A 24/5 global market. Leverage. The promise of freedom.

25 years ago, someone predicted this journey. I just didn't know it would take THIS long.

I finally dove in.

Forex was terrifying. It looked big. Complicated. I was completely intimidated.

But I was obsessed with understanding it:

• What makes price move?
• What makes candles form?
• How does this whole thing actually work?

For 8 months, I didn't trade. I just watched.

Charts moving. Numbers changing. Trying to make sense of the chaos.

Then I had to learn the platform—MT4. Stop losses. Take profits. Order types.

I was fumbling around, clicking buttons, placing demo trades with no idea what I was doing.

But I refused to risk real money until I understood this.

Eventually, I discovered Expert Advisors (EAs).

The promise: "Automated income while you sleep. 80%+ win rates. Set and forget."

It sounded perfect. Too perfect.

Every EA looked amazing in backtests. Every EA failed in live demos.

I'd buy one. Test it. Watch it blow the demo account. Request a refund. Buy the next one.

Hundreds of EAs. Hundreds of refund requests. Years wasted.

Not one worked.

After about 10 years of demo trading, testing EAs, and learning—I finally funded my first live account.

$2,000.

I tried breakout strategies. Everything I'd learned. Everything I'd tested.

The pain of losing real money was different. It wasn't just numbers on a screen anymore.

It was real.

I built my confidence back up. Saved more money. Decided to try futures.

"Maybe futures are different. Maybe that's where I'll succeed."

I funded an account with $10,000.

And this time, it wasn't just money.

I had two kids depending on me. I was trying to give us a better life.

And I just blew $10,000.

That was rock bottom.

After the futures disaster, I went back to learning.

This time: Price action combined with indicators.

Support. Resistance. Candlestick patterns. Market structure.

Plus: RSI. MACD. Moving averages. Stochastics.

I just couldn't get indicators to work for me.

No matter which ones I used. No matter how I combined them.

Indicators and I were done.

I decided: No more EAs. No more indicators. Just price action.

If I was going to do this, I was going to REALLY learn it. Dedicate myself completely.

This was a business, not a hobby. And I was going to treat it like one.

Support and resistance. Market structure. Candlestick patterns. Institutional footprints.

But I was still losing money.

Because knowing what to see and knowing when to trade it are two completely different things.

After that $10K loss, while trying to raise two kids and build a better life...

I quit.

I was broken. Financially. Emotionally. Completely.

Trading had taken everything from me. And given me nothing back.

Or so I thought.

Here's what most people don't understand:

I did ALL of this while working a full-time job.

Every EA tested. Every chart studied. Every lesson learned.

Nights. Weekends. Before work. After the kids went to bed.

So I stayed in the shadows. Learning. Testing. Building.

Waiting for the breakthrough that would make it all worth it.

Let's be honest about what 20+ years of "learning to trade" actually cost:

But the money? That's not even the real cost.

This wasn't just a hobby I dabbled in.

This consumed two decades of my life.

Most people would have quit. Hell, I DID quit—for 5 years.

But something kept calling me back.

After 5 years away, life brought me back to Forex.

Not because I wanted to "get rich."

Because I needed help.

Maybe she was right. Maybe this WAS my path.

But this time, I wasn't going to follow someone else's system.

This time, I was going to BUILD MY OWN.

I looked at every successful trader I'd studied over the years.

They all had one thing in common:

That's when it clicked.

I'd spent 20 years trying to FIND the system.

I needed to BUILD the system.

After 20 years of trying to FORCE the answer—testing hundreds of EAs, studying every indicator, following countless strategies—I finally surrendered.

I stopped asking: "What system should I use?"

And started asking: "What am I meant to build?"

The framework wasn't "discovered" through exhaustive optimization.

It was revealed to me.

Specific parameters. Exact timing windows. Precise momentum thresholds.

Not through trial and error. Through knowing.

Call it intuition. Call it spirit. Call it the universe. Call it divine guidance.

I don't care what you call it.

That psychic 25 years ago said I'd work with computers, teach people, and do something with "4X."

Maybe she was tapping into the same source that guided me to these exact parameters.

Maybe this was always the path I was meant to walk.

Maybe it took 20 years of failure to finally be ready to receive the answer.

Once the guidance came, I still had to DO THE WORK.

Spirit gave me the direction. I had to build the structure.

I took everything I'd learned in 20 years:

• Price action principles
• Institutional order flow
• Session timing patterns
• Multi-timeframe structure
• Risk management lessons (learned the hard way)

And I systematized it around the framework I was shown.

Not discretionary. Not "gut feel." Not emotional.

SQB: Swing Quantitative Breakout

Named after the core principle: catching institutional breakouts with quantifiable, systematic rules—guided by something beyond pure analysis.

For the first time in 20+ years...

I had a system that actually worked.

Because it wasn't just MY system. It was the system I was meant to build.

I tested SQB extensively throughout 2024-2025.

After 20 years, I finally had what I was looking for:

A systematic edge that worked.

But testing in a controlled environment is one thing.

Proving it publicly with real money is another.

I could trade this system quietly. Make my money. Live my life.

But that's not enough.

Here's why I'm going public:

Starting January 5, 2026:

✅ $15,000 live account
✅ Every trade posted publicly
✅ Stats updated weekly
✅ Complete transparency
✅ Zero filters, zero BS

If this works publicly for 12 months, then I'll teach it.

Not before. Proof first. Education after.