Hello everyone, nice to meet you. My name is Simón Arias Serna, I am from Colombia,
specifically, I was born in the city of Cali. I am an environmental manager by
profession and well, what do I do? I really like climbing. I am a climber of
artificial rock and natural rock, it is my hobby today. I started trading in
2016, roughly four years ago.
I have been trading since then, since that time. Since I found out about its existence, well, I liked it,
and I was very interested in the potential that these financial instruments
could have. I was looking for ways to generate income,
you know, through the internet, so we were all at the top, at the
top of internet business, world marketing and everything, then I saw
a forex advertising, with which we all started, I saw a few things about forex in
internet, I went to see, I saw that it was the currency exchange market
and all this, then what I read seemed interesting to me and the assets with
which I started to trade were, mainly, currencies. Then I started with gold
and after a while I also learned about binary options,
I also had a story about them. Obviously there are many people who know them and all
the problems that the binary options have brought. Those
were my assets in the beginning. Already there in 2017-2018,
I met someone from the United States who traded futures and talked about
what were all the possibilities that he did not have in these markets,
so I also started to investigate much more and that's when futures
trading hooked me. Today,
I currently trade with the E-mini S&P, the Standard and Poor's and with the E-mini Nasdaq,
the Nasdaq index.
What opportunity did I see at the Gauntlet? It is like not having to risk your money to
to be able to trade the markets, the possibility that with a
reduced capital, let's say it in that way, the cost of the tests is much lower than the
cost-benefit of trading with a funded account. The risk,
mainly, I think it was the best. I mean, I'm risking the
price of being able to take the challenge compared to the profit that I have,
if I get the funded account. That was what attracted me the most, the risk.
It was honestly the risk-benefit. That is why we operate in the
market, to have reduced risks and higher profits,
so the risk offered by entering one of these opportunities was low
compared to the reward that I could get if I got my
funded account.
I really liked the program, it is
something where you have to be adhering, because you have to
"defer the account to someone". I mean, you have a supervisor
who tells you: "you can't lose so much money every day", "your earnings have to
be more or less in these ranges", "you can't perform this types of actions",
"you have to keep calm and keep control when you are trading",
that was like the rule. When you find yourself in a
"regulated" environment and someone tells you that you can't do something, because
the consequences will make you unable to achieve what you want. I think
that it helps to forge discipline, the fact that you have to carry
a "track record" of what you do, so that part seems very
interesting to me.
You should enjoy the process, it is the most important thing, that is, not to be
feeling something like "I have to achieve it, I have to achieve it, I have to achieve it",
no. It is about enjoying the process of what you are doing, seeing the
challenge as a training area for what you want to achieve and, quite
possibly, in that training area you can achieve your
goals. Zero emotions, be calm and relaxed.
That is the most important thing. It helps you to create much, much more discipline
and to be more controlled. That is my history.