About

Ben aka FX Robot Man
Allow me to introduce myself….my real name is Ben, but I have created the persona “FX Robot Man” for my involvement in the retail forex trading community. I started FX Robot Man in August of 2008 with the goal of helping my family, friends and online acquaintances to seek out the best opportunities in the world of Automated Forex Trading.
FX Robot Man started out as part of my “forex hobby”, but has since taken on a life of its own.
By profession I am essentially an economist. I am currently in my 5th year of graduate school and working on my dissertation in Economics. I hope to finalize my PhD during the summer of 2009 and ultimately hope to land an assistant professor job at a university. My fields of specialization are Industrial Organization and Financial Economics, but my dissertation studies 1) the impact of environmental regulation on macroeconomic outcomes, 2) CO2 demand for enhanced oil recovery, and 3) bargaining effects of subsidies in the carbon sequestration market.
My interest in forex started as a purely non-academic pursuit, although I am certainly influenced by my training as an economist. I began to study forex trading back in 2005 focused mainly on manual trading systems involving trend trading and Fibonacci retracements. It wasn’t long before I stumbled upon the world of automated forex trading, and I quickly started investigating automated strategies and teaching myself to program my own strategies and indicators in MT4 Metatrader language.
Whether you are new to Forex trading or have been through the trenches for awhile, you will soon come to realize that the world of Forex trading is complicated, and also filled with huge promises of untold wealth. The reality however is that there are plenty of scams out there, and my goal is to sift through the garbage and scams, and let you know what I find out along the way.
As someone who has been burned a couple of times by crappy systems I have learned many hard lessons already. My goal is to apply what I have learned, and keep you from duplicating my mistakes. I always try to independently verify the forex trading results promised by various systems, and then pass the information that I uncover on to the FX Robot Man readers.
May the Pips be with you!
-Ben


