About Sean Hyman
I have an extensive background in the financial markets that goes back more than 17 years, including being a broker at Charles Schwab and an instructor for FXCM (Forex Capital Markets). I now advise a discrete group of international investors on lucrative currency investment opportunities. And, of course, I also advise members of the Money Matrix Insider.
I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth or an Ivy League education. In fact, I came from the small paper-mill town of Camden in rural Arkansas . . . population 16,000 back then. I think today, it’s like 13,000 on a good day.
It’s a great place to grow up but a tough economy to survive in, to say the least. I’m sure some of you can relate at some phase of your life, too.
So I knew that, if I was going to have any kind of “real” life like I’d want (nothing wrong with paper mill work, if you like it), I’d have to forge my own way and dig everything out for myself.
Therefore I started my journey in my early 20s knowing nothing and getting laughed out of a stock brokerage office. That was my financial beginnings.
(By the way, let that be an encouragement to you if you didn’t start off with any edge, either).
Small Beginnings Have NOTHING to do With Your Ending!
I remember scrutinizing the magazine rack in my small town and seeing a magazine called “Money.” I thought, “Well that could be one place to start.”
That is where I first learned about mutual fund investing and the stock market . . . and I soon discovered that this was my passion!
So I decided to apply for a stock market job but had no bachelor’s degree. I applied to literally every firm in the country I could find. I would have started with anyone who would have taken me, because everything was going against me when it came to formalized education.
Fortunately, I found favor with an employee in the HR office of Charles Schwab. I started as a customer service rep, and four years later, I was a lead manager over a team of 19 stockbrokers. I had racked up four financial licenses in that time: Series 7, 63, 9, and 10. I was like a dog with a bone.
I sat in on “lunch and learns” and learned from some of the best in the business about fundamentals, technicals, and macro economics — all while I munched on my lunch through those years.
At night, I’d gobble up book after book. During those four years, I probably read most of the financial books you could find in a Barnes & Noble.
Later on I found some industry experts to mentor me at the financial firms (Schwab & FXCM) where I worked.
All of these factors sped my learning curve exponentially.
To this day, I follow most markets fairly extensively (stocks, commodities, Forex, etc.). It’s been my life-long passion to be one of the best and be among the most well-read in the financial industry.
That love for knowledge brought me to the world’s biggest market: the currency market.
I’ve found that those who work in the Forex market are some of the most knowledgeable I’ve ever met because the market is worldwide and therefore calls for a global knowledge.
Once I got over into the currency market, I couldn’t believe the differences: NO buy or sell commissions, only spreads to pay, less slippage, a 24-hour-a-day market, data from a nation and not just a company. The macro scale of things was refreshing because I didn’t have to rely on the integrity of a CEO or CFO who held 100% of that investment essentially in his hands.
Currency Market Knowledge Will Help You With Your Stock Investing, Too!
From that time, I’ve been hooked. My currency market knowledge has given me edges in my stock and ETF investment too. So it has helped me not only with Forex returns through the years but also with my stock portfolio through the years.
All markets are interconnected and spill over on one another in one way or another. Many traders don’t realize that because they simply don’t follow the other markets. However, those who do realize how stocks and commodities affect currencies and how the outlook for a currency can help or hinder some of the “big money” from flowing into a currency.
After all, if you made money on a foreign stock but lost much of that return to a loss in converting the currency back, what good did it really do? However, a savvy currency investor who is also a stock investor can gain on BOTH the stock and currency investment over time and have a “double blessing” in his foreign investment because of his currency market knowledge.
Today, I wake up every day excited. I am excited because I can share my knowledge and experience of the currency market with members of the Money Matrix Insider. There is always an opportunity to make money in currencies, and each day brings new ventures to be had!
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