Chapter 12
FX Family Values
Marcelino Livian
When we asked Marcelino, Livian—who simply goes by his last
name—how he approaches FX trading. His response was, “I never
lose.” Most of us would like to approach the market with the same
attitude and results. With a return of 80 percent over the past four
years, Livian seems to have come very close to his mark. Having
traded the Forex markets since the early 1990s, almost a decade
before it went electronic, he can tell you all about the headaches of
exchanging one currency for another physically and opening up a
local bank account to earn the interest. Nowadays, he has gone fully
electronic and has still managed to maintain an average return of
20 percent a year. However, the most interesting aspect of his story
is not his trading, but how trading has improved the bond within
his family. He has been married to his wife for 29 years, with whom
he has three beautiful children. This couple looks far younger than
their years. Livian has used finance to teach his now grown children
the importance of making their money work for them rather than
sit idle in a bank account. Now, trading currencies not only has
become the talk of the dinner table, it has also been the source of
multiple calls from his children on a weekly basis. His success in the