{"id":17846,"date":"2021-10-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/01\/malaysian-traders-share-their-success-stories-inspired-by-octafx\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T02:00:00","slug":"malaysian-traders-share-their-success-stories-inspired-by-octafx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/01\/malaysian-traders-share-their-success-stories-inspired-by-octafx\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian traders share their success stories inspired by OctaFX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR,&#13;<br \/>\nMALAYSIA &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0-&#13;<br \/>\n1 October 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Global broker OctaFX released the final episode of their&#13;<br \/>\nYouTube interview project &#8216;Honest Stories of&#13;<br \/>\nSuccess&#8217;. The interviews showcased the success stories of Malaysia&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nprominent people as they actually happen, unfiltered. However, the project had&#13;<br \/>\nmore to it than famous people revealing the ups and downs of their career&#13;<br \/>\njourneys. It provoked a unique dialogue between Malaysian traders who shared&#13;<br \/>\ntheir own stories in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/182022\/OctaFX-Honest-Stories-3.jpeg#image-182022\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In&#13;<br \/>\nthe global broker&#8217;s interview series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLwi9xUIQFHIz_CZmtm5cao1JSxcnZmsxT\">&#8216;OctaFX: Honest Stories of Success&#8217;<\/a>,&#13;<br \/>\nMalaysian celebrities reflected on the difficult paths that brought them to&#13;<br \/>\nprosperity. The viewers heard from businessman Datuk Aliff Syukri, actor Dato&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\nAaron Aziz, actress Janna Nick, comedian Harith Iskander, musician Altimet, and&#13;<br \/>\nfashion entrepreneur Wak Doyok. Popular actor Fizo Omar interviewed the guests.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The project&#13;<br \/>\nsparked genuine interest\u2014its six episodes have been viewed over one million&#13;<br \/>\ntimes. What makes it even more valuable, the interviews received a strong&#13;<br \/>\nresponse from the audience. The viewers flooded the comments section under each&#13;<br \/>\nvideo with their own stories of struggles and triumphs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Overcoming work-related obstacles<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The commenters&#13;<br \/>\ntold each other about the obstacles on their career paths\u2014lack of support from&#13;<br \/>\nfamily and colleagues and changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as&#13;<br \/>\nlosing a job and finding new ways to make a living.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the&#13;<br \/>\ndifficulties, these people applied different strategies to stay afloat. Some&#13;<br \/>\nchanged jobs in search of better conditions, and others kept <i>&#8216;pushing themselves to the limit&#8217; <\/i>while&#13;<br \/>\nalso dealing with the uncertainty of their personal lives. Besides that, many&#13;<br \/>\nshared that they became Forex traders in pursuit of additional income or to&#13;<br \/>\nimprove their pandemic-stricken financial situation. One of them who became the&#13;<br \/>\nOctaFX client observed that <i>&#8216;trading&#13;<br \/>\nhelps generate income with any initial investment&#8217;<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many felt inspired&#13;<br \/>\nand motivated by the interview project and said that such initiatives help stay&#13;<br \/>\nfocused and persistent when guided by the example of financially successful&#13;<br \/>\npeople.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Financial management: what should&#8217;ve been done&#13;<br \/>\ndifferently?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;If I could step back in time, I would focus on&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial management,<\/i>&#8216; a viewer said. Other&#13;<br \/>\ncommenters shared their personal rules of financial planning they developed by&#13;<br \/>\ntrial and error. They included getting a stable job and not being afraid of&#13;<br \/>\nstarting from the bottom, segmenting the income and <i>&#8216;putting needs ahead of wants&#8217;<\/i>, learning about investments from the&#13;<br \/>\nexperts and allocating a portion of income to it, avoiding debts, and finding&#13;<br \/>\nextra sources of income such as side businesses, unit trusts, and Forex&#13;<br \/>\ntrading. The viewers also emphasised the importance of investing with trusted&#13;<br \/>\nbrokers and named OctaFX as one of them: <i>&#8216;Save&#13;<br \/>\nand deposit money to a trusted platform like OctaFX&#8217;, &#8216;OctaFX is the best to&#13;<br \/>\nstart investing&#8217;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Saving money and using the income from investments<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those who shared their financial&#13;<br \/>\nstrategies found discipline and precision essential for financial planning.&#13;<br \/>\nMany recommended putting a fixed amount, 10 to 20 percent of income, to&#13;<br \/>\nsavings, distinguishing <i>&#8216;needs&#8217;<\/i> from <i>&#8216;wants&#8217;<\/i> to avoid <i>&#8216;financial waste&#8217;<\/i>, and fighting the urge to spend money on&#13;<br \/>\nnon-essential things. As for the next step, they recommended reinvesting the&#13;<br \/>\nincome from Forex or other investments in real estate or small businesses: <i>&#8216;I always think: let the money work for me,&#13;<br \/>\nand not I work for money to achieve freedom&#8217;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Monetising a hobby<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the guest&#13;<br \/>\ncelebrities of &#8216;OctaFX: Honest Stories of Success&#8217; talked about all the work&#13;<br \/>\nexperiences they&#8217;ve had before becoming prosperous and famous, the viewers got&#13;<br \/>\ninspired to reflect on their own hobbies and things they tried to do. Many&#13;<br \/>\ncommenters confessed that they were seriously thinking about turning these&#13;<br \/>\nactivities into prospective jobs. They mentioned spheres like graphic&#13;<br \/>\ndesigning, coding, drone flying, photography, video editing, and gaming among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Book recommendations<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Last but not&#13;<br \/>\nleast, the viewers shared some good reads that either helped them understand&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial planning or inspired them to work towards their financial goals. They&#13;<br \/>\nrecommended &#8216;The New Market Wizards&#8217; by Jack D. Schwager to &#8216;<i>peek into conversations with America&#8217;s top&#13;<br \/>\ntraders and get to know their thinking&#8217;<\/i>. Someone named &#8216;The Alchemist&#8217; by&#13;<br \/>\nPaulo Coelho: <i>&#8216;It is a fable about&#13;<br \/>\nfollowing your dream. Everyone needs to have big dreams as they cost us nothing&#13;<br \/>\nbut give us hope.&#8217; <\/i>&#8216;Currency Trading for Dummies&#8217;, &#8216;Reminiscences of a&#13;<br \/>\nStock Operator&#8217;, &#8216;The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the&#13;<br \/>\nNew Rich&#8217;, and &#8216;Psychology of Selling&#8217; were also among the recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLwi9xUIQFHIz_CZmtm5cao1JSxcnZmsxT\">&#8216;OctaFX: Honest Stories of Success&#8217;<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\nturned out to be a meeting point for Malaysian celebrities and common people&#13;<br \/>\nstriving for financial freedom. The former talked sincerely about how they&#13;<br \/>\nreached their current status and the real stories of what this path was for&#13;<br \/>\nthem, while the latter realised that even successful people do not always get&#13;<br \/>\nwhat they want and have to work hard and overcome many obstacles to achieve&#13;<br \/>\nsuccess.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OctaFX previously&#13;<br \/>\nshared the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLwi9xUIQFHIzCS_Bnlqj_bEhOiF3SKwuR\">success stories<\/a> of its traders.&#13;<br \/>\nHowever, this project is the first to bring sincere personal stories of famous&#13;<br \/>\npeople to light and make them relatable for common people. The interviews&#13;<br \/>\nreceived passionate feedback from the viewers and provoked them to share and&#13;<br \/>\ndiscuss their own concerns and achievements with others through the comments.&#13;<br \/>\nThrough this mutual dialogue, celebrities and viewers reflected on the&#13;<br \/>\ncomplexity of financial success, learnt valuable financial lessons, and, most&#13;<br \/>\nimportantly, felt less alone on their journeys.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-01\/97021\/malaysian-traders-share-their-success-stories-inspired-by-octafx\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR,&#13; MALAYSIA &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0-&#13; 1 October 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Global broker OctaFX released the final episode of their&#13; YouTube interview project &#8216;Honest Stories of&#13; Success&#8217;. The interviews showcased the success stories of Malaysia&#8217;s&#13; prominent people as they actually happen, unfiltered. 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