Choo Koon Lip

Good evening everyone. Thank you all!

And welcome to the opening party of Forex Asia Academy at The Sail Marina Bay tonight.

Today marks a new milestone in the new chapter of Forex Asia Academy and the new era of Forex Trading. The past 6 to 9 months have been very challenging for traders locally, regionally and internationally.

For whatever you have faced in today’s forex market, the market is getting more and more chaotic. When times are bad, this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control. But it’s precisely because of these tough times, we become stronger and tougher.

To my primary school teachers like Mrs Chong and Mdm Ong, thank you in believing in me. I still remember your guidance even though it had been almost 15 years ago, but just seems like yesterday when I was still a 11/12 years old naughty student. I may not take the typical path of finding a decent job with stable income. I hope I’m a good product of Jin Tai Primary School.

To my business partners and friends, my success, my today are all possible because of you. Nothing less. Because of various business implementation and strategic collaboration, I am where I am and we are where we are!

We are like on a slope. If we don’t move up, we move down! We must go against gravity to scale greater heights.

To friends from Central Offices, I’m incubated by you. Today you see me standing here, I’m a success story of how your business contributes to my growth.

To my first batch of my graduates, you see me evolve. On this day, you see my academy growing at an unbelievable pace. To my recent batch of graduates, you have seen many success stories in front of you.

To those who seek to sow conflict or blame, I trust I’m seen as a worthy competitor to you. But bear in mind, know that people around will judge you on what you can build, not what you can destroy.

In reaffirming the greatness of our academy, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less.

We are still the only academy that enables graduates to easily make more than 300-pips per trade, and we’re still one of the rare one in the entire planet Earth to do so. Furthermore, we had already 4 graduates that hit the 1,000-pips mark and 1 graduate just hit the 2,000-pips mark last Friday! Only us!

Now, there are some who question the scale of my ambitions, who suggest that I’m too young, too inexperienced, unable to execute big plans.

On this day, I stand in front of you as a 26-years old individual, someone with big dreams and great ambitions. I can easily disguise off as the youngest over here.

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the long-years of experience and seniority that have consumed us for so long, no longer apply. The world has really changed, most probably because of the technological advance happening around us.

The question we ask today is not whether I’m too young or old, but whether my trading methodologies works, whether it helps you and your friends to create a secondary income through Forex trading.

And today, I’m stepping into the Sail – a reflection of how I conduct my trading and business. A well blend of lifestyle and seriousness… In other words, we are seriously ‘enjoying’!

On this day, we gathered because of the belief that Forex Trading can bring us to the nest levels. This is the journey we continue today.

To all graduates, you have my assurance that I will continue to upbring the forex education in Asia. You should never be walking alone; this is a journey we are sharing.

Accordingly to jmot, there are already 25 forex trading courses in Singapore and many more in Malaysia… Forex Asia Academy became one of the most recognized forex academy around in Singapore and Malaysia, in just 8 months. Like what I always said, Today is still the beginning, the beginning of better education in the forex trading arena, I promise…

All this we can do. All this we will do.

I appreciate your presence tonight and I look forward to your continued support!

Thank you once again!

Today, I want to write what happened to me and my Malaysia class recently. One of the guys (I won’t name who) has been trying to create trouble to my local reps, shouting at them why the venue ground changed, here and there, all the minor details.

Then, he kept sending me emails scolding and shouting at us with very rude remarks. He claimed that my strategies don’t work, but he did not trade using my strategies and took himself out of my shared email monitoring system. As far as we are concerned, we can just treat him as a difficult customer and treat him as per normal. But apparently, what we are getting from him is far more than this.

He accused us trying to sideline him, saying that we are not transparent and he requested debates… TWICE. In view of these and to be as transparent as possible to all, I opened up 2 gathering sessions and let him spoke in front of all my graduates (the last time was last Saturday). He created a scene and started pointing fingers around. Towards the end, the graduates took a poll and ALL asked him to stop towards the end.

The most interesting thing was that he claimed that he’s not informed about the gathering session and accused me of sidelining him again. I proved to him in front of the entire crowd that he’s bcc-ed in the email blast. Do you what he said? He said I manipulated the email! So, I showed everyone on the screen my email platform and proved my innocence. Then he kept saying I’m not as good as other forex trainers…

As an individual, I was completely pissed off with him (yes, I’m a human being too). He called a couple of my students trying to rally support for himself. Furthermore, he got no intention to get a money-back guarantee. It’s very likely that he’s a spy from another competitor, with the intention just to create trouble. Throughout the entire session, he kept pushing me to admit that my strategies don’t work!

A couple of graduates (like Alex Sim, Tze Ping, Alex Lee, Ding Siew Seong, Herman, Joanna, Jerene, Fu Wah, Chooi Ling) did rebute him for his aggressiveness and his falseful accusations on me. In my own capacity, I have done whatever I could to help him out and all the necessary support. He did not ask me questions on forex trading, but more on scolding me and my local reps from the start. He even spread negative remarks about us during the actual workshop from Day 1.

I gave him and everyone in the gathering a double guarantee: If anyone lose money after a period of time using my strategy, they are entitled to have a 125% money-back-guarantee and 200% of their losses, provided they follow my rules and criteria strictly.

But this morning, he’s back with an insulting email and he even instigated another coursemate to do similar.

As far as I’m concerned, I won’t sideline anyone. But this case is too extreme – I won’t spend any more time if this guy is just trying to demoralize and destroy my reputation. It will the last time I deal with jackass like him. I trust I’m professional enough. I have done nothing against my conscience. I am not in the business for people like this.

Those who value what I do, thank you very much! Those who don’t, please f*** off… I mean it! Keep a distance from me, otherwise when I retailate, I will not give face and I will not let go!

I should stop all these nonsensical thoughts because it’s not going to help the cause at all. I am passionate about forex trading and I am even more passionate about my graduates, traders and business partners. Like my property expert and great pal, KS Low believes, we are the BEST in our business.

Really appreciate those who has given me support – personally, emotionally and professionally. I couldn’t have gone this far without you…

I started the day at 2pm. I drove down to Bukit Gombak and Toa Payoh to pick up my 2 staffs.

Then we hop from Ubi (to get a very unique clock), Kaki Bukit, Tampines Courts (managed to get a nice 3+2 sofa), Toa Payoh (to get my fan and 42″ Panasonic Plasma TV, yeah!), Tampines Ikea (quite a bit a furniture), Tampines Giant (some tissue paper), The Sail new office (to drop everyone) and Balestier (supper, or should I say dinner?). Finally I dropped the 2 of them at Toa Payoh, then Bukit Gombak.

Finally I’m home at 3am! And I’m dead tired already! It’s been a long time since I went to so many places (some of them a couple of times), driving for so long (some route twice), shopping for so long!!!

I just spoke in front of hundreds at Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) under the invitation of Automated Forex Trading Meetup Group yesterday!

Finally at the end of the night, I took a group photos with the organiser!
(L-R: CK Saw, Max Chin, Chris Chan-Jmot, me, Senni & CK Owyong)

Lady Cop and Papa Crook – 7 January, 2.30pm @ TGV Tebrau City, JB

Red Cliff 2 – 10 January, 12.10am @ GV Max

Bedtime Stories – 15 January, 11.20pm @ TGV Suria KLCC

Yes Man – 17 January, 6.30pm @ TGV Suria KLCC

Red Cliff 2 – 23 January, 3.15pm @ Shaw Lido Classic

Bride Wars – 31 January, 9.15pm @ Shaw Balestier 

Out of these 5 movies (yes, not 6 – I watched ‘Red Cliff 2′ twice), ‘Red Cliff 2′ is still the best! I watched ‘Red Cliff 1′ in cinemas 3 times, look like I’m going to watch the sequel again too!