✍ The Last Candle

In one corner of her small room, Layan sat staring at the computer screen, watching the last candles of the currency pair she had spent three sleepless nights with. She did not have a degree in economics, nor a strong technical background, but she had: determination.

Her journey began when she lost her job at a tourism company after the pandemic. She read a passing article about a girl who made a thousand dollars from trading, so she decided to give it a try. She invested the first hundred dollars of her small savings and lost half of it in the first week. She did not give up.

She joined educational groups, read books on technical analysis, tried paper trading, and began to understand the meaning of "support" and "resistance". She learned how to be patient with "momentary panic" and how to take a small loss to gain in the long run.

In her sixth month, she entered a trade on a currency that was known at the time as "dead", but she saw a pattern that had been repeating in its movements for weeks. She entered with 500 dollars and exited after 3 days with profits exceeding 2200 dollars.

But this was not the real success.

The real success, as she said in a famous podcast interview:

"When I transformed from a trader looking for quick profits to a trader who understands risks and learns from losses more than from profits."

✍️ Today, Layan trains dozens of young women on risk management and always talks about that "last candle" that she waited so long for before the trade turned in her favor. That candle was the beginning of her true story.