My name is David AKA FXDavid. My journey in FOREX started in 2006 and like everyone else, I guess, triggered by the pool of money in this market and continued to solve vague puzzles. By the time, my business was on the rock, and I was looking for a way to get rid of everything. During my search, I went to a stupid meeting that was supposed to show us how to become successful in the Stock Market.
They talked about some rudimentary stuff and gave us a booklet about technical analysis. They also touched on online Forex market trading, which was somehow new at the time, and told us how huge it is, trillions of dollars per day. Isn’t that great! Now, how can I get a small portion of that money? The next day the long journey began.
Looking for Holy Grail
Looking for the Holy Grail was the first step where I tried to find a method, strategy or remedy to answer all of my questions and can read all the chart movements with no mistake.
Every now and then, I thought I found what I was looking for and the level of adrenalin hit the sky. Oh man, even though it was false prophet the feeling was fantastic. Sometimes I wouldn’t even open the chart for one day and would go to celebrate becoming rich — I’ll come back tomorrow and rip the profit.
You know how it goes. You open a position with no stop loss and burn the money to the ground. The next step comes with a little caution. I was still looking for that error-free strategy, but every time the adrenaline would pump to my veins, I’d get back and study the chart more objectively. I’d find I was wrong but at least I wouldn’t lose money.
Playing Poker
It took a year or so that I accepted the mindset was not right for this market, it’s been always in a cognitive part of my mind though. Something that really helped me understand that losing is a part of this game was poker.
I accidentally saw a thread that was about the relation between playing poker and trading and why poker players are potentially good traders. I spent a few months learning poker and then playing for a few months. I made a few thousand bucks from literally nothing, just a few dollars, but most importantly it helped me a lot especially to understand money management.
Learn and Experience
I studied and learned the usual way — technical analysis, money management — and went a little deeper into indicator code to understand what they were actually revealing in the charts. I never became a full-blown indicator developer back then; I wrote one indicator and could read code well enough to follow the logic, but that was about it. [That changed with the emergence of AI-assisted coding tools, which made building indicators and Expert Advisors far more accessible. The combination has been nothing short of magical: you brainstorm the idea, and tools like Claude handle the heavy lifting on the code side at a genuinely professional level. What once required deep programming expertise is now within reach — you just need the domain experience to know what you want to build and how to get the best out of these tools.]
Most of what I’ve learned back then come from self-study including reading books and browsing lots of forex forums. However, instead of sticking to one strategy and trying to backtest, develop and personalize it; I would spend most of my time looking for new strategies or weighing in fruitless arguments happening in forex forums all the time.
Finally, I decided to remove all my accounts from forex forums and stick to what I had learned and try to master at it and it worked. I learned how to trade profitably and how to improve my strategy and I have been doing that since then.
With that said, I rejoin one of those forums a few years later but this time, I knew how to manage things — not too active or argumentative, just reading some threads every now and then, however, I got carried away a few times and wrote some posts.
You can find my profile on that forum, forexfactory, here.
Why I Started Offbeat Forex
After years of navigating every corner of the forex industry, I launched Offbeat Forex in 2018. By that point, I had opened accounts with dozens of brokers, put countless indicators, Expert Advisors, and VPS services through their paces, and accumulated the kind of hands-on knowledge that only comes from real exposure — not theory. I felt confident that what I’d learned could genuinely help both beginners finding their footing and experienced traders looking for reliable, no-nonsense information.
Since establishing Offbeat Forex, I’ve had the opportunity to review even more brokers and tools, which has only deepened that confidence. Everything published here is backed by data — either from the proprietary tools we’ve built in-house at Offbeat Forex, or from reputable third-party sources with a proven track record in the industry. My goal is simple: every review, comparison, and recommendation on this site should be something you can actually rely on.
David (FXDavid)