NH365 says: November 8, 2010 at 6:47 pm

For five years I tried everything. I lost a lot of money in the market and even more money on useless educators and their expensive materials. I was on the verge of giving up when I took one last shot with BWILC. To say the book spoke to me would be an understatement.

As I read the material, I believed I had found the answers I sought.

In our personal histories, there are three, maybe four
or five teachers, who fundamentally change our lives.

For me, Dirk is one of those people.

FX Street Trader of the Year 2007

Every year FXSTREET.com holds a Trader of the Year Contest. In 2007, out of 50 contestants, only two made positive returns over a four-month period: Colin came second with a 35% return, and Torsten Kruger took first place with a 136%

BOTH OF THESE WINNERS were Bird Watchers!

Says Torsten, “I discovered the strategy in Bird Watching in Lion Country, and I very quickly became aware that this must be the only approach for successful trading for me”.

FX Street Trader of the Year 2009

Maybe so but consider the 2009 FXSTREET.com Trader of the Year Contest. Over a three-month period, only three contestants made positive returns. The winner and 2009 Trader of the Year, Martin, made 65% profits after studying Bird Watching and joining my mentor program.

FX Street Trader of the Year 2010

The winner, Michael Edwards, with a return of 36.2% over only two months of trading became a participant in my FX Challenge Preparation Programme after reading Bird Watching.

Bird Watchers traders also made 4th, 5th and 6th place with returns of 25.85%, 13.90% and 12.75% respectively.

“BWILC lacks ways to
pinpoint exact entry and exits of trades”.

cdc says: June 6, 2010 at 5:50 am

BWILC has certainly shifted my perception of what it takes to be a successful currency trader. I recently looked at my pre-BWILC trading material and I realized how worlds apart they are. Before everything revolved around technical analysis and risk management with stop losses, with a pre-defined and mechanical approach of when to trigger trades. The way the market behaves is everything BUT mechanical or pre-defined. I feel I have a much more sound approach to trading now.

This is why BWILC exists in the first place:

• To explain why so many lose in forex
• Give an actionable solution to the problem

Durdant says: September 10, 2010 at 5:04 pm

BWILC deserves to be always on the list of Best selling books of Fx Trading.

Dirk takes you through the wilderness of the riskiest of the business; and at the same time guides you,counsels you,warns you,and treats you like some VVIP to finally assure that you really, really understand the “business” of Fx trading .
I wish this book be a Treatise in Fx trading.

Bird Watching in Lion Country – Forex Trading Explained” was nominated in the “Best Book” category of FXStreets’ Forex Best Awards 2011

Pierre le Roux says: November 4, 2010 at 7:46 pm

Thanks Dirk. With your approach in BWILC you have given me the confidence I needed. The methodology and logic is such that one does not need to search elsewhere for that map to the treasure. BWILC has given it to me. After reading and rereading BWILC, the fx market is no longer a maze but a zone where one can comfortably walk without fear of an angry lion.

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Systemtrader says: April 25, 2010 at 1:11 am

Hi Dirk I’m a BWILC Trader in Germany. I trade the method three years since
and now I’m profitably and have a website for many German BWILC Traders.

Your work is incredibly good thanks

Ace says: May 22, 2010 at 5:15 am

For me, after 2 years of trying extremely hard to make a go at learning to trade forex in a consistent and profitable manner, the time had arrived to step back and take a good hard look at why I wasn’t being successful.

BWILC has really helped me in this analysis by providing a different perspective to trading forex, and whilst it is early days for me in the BWILC journey – I feel it is providing a solid foundation upon which I am slowly re-building my trading approach.

If like me you have invested in other books, systems, indicators from the internet – investing in BWILC is head and shoulders above anything I have come across – and well worth a look.

Neil S. says: September 15, 2010 at 5:28 am

I really wish that I had found BWILC before I started trading in the Forex market. I could have saved myself a lot of time and MONEY! Dirk explains in great detail of the importance of how we must first have the proper perspective and balance of who we are and how we view the market in order to be a successful trader. His teaching about the true randomness of the market, why it is so important to understand it, to embrace it as being a crucial element to lasting long term in your career, is excellent!
I highly recommend the book and all of Dirk’s teaching if you want to be serious and trade Forex successfully for years to come.

Borut says: June 20, 2010 at 10:20 pm

I started trading in 2006 in I came across BWILC in 2008, reading was real fun and I found there many important information, but although everything in the book seemed right I went on with my old trading style. After I finished reading the book I knew that some day I will trade the BWILC way – perhaps I was not ready then, so in 2010 I’m back, I joined the authors mentoring program.
After many trading strategies and systems I tried (only technical approach) I reviewed my trading results and decided to fully dedicate my trading time to the BWILC strategy.

fariz says: June 22, 2010 at 5:39 pm

I used to trade with high amount of stress, due to unrealistic expectations ie Instant gratification (which usually means instant loses) as well as not really knowing what i am doing.

But by just reading BWILC it sure helped clear things out. It teaches the ‘right’ way to trade, or at least how to survive the dangerous FX markets, and made me realise how to trade with little or no stress, which to me is very valuable.

Ian Stanley says: February 5, 2011 at 11:34 pm

Although I had spent a lot of time trying out the multitude of technical systems and advice available to me on the web I was fortunate enough to not lose too much money before I came across BWILC by Dirk Du Toit. This book has given me a valuable insight as to the reason why the systems that most seem to follow just did not work for me. I was so impressed and intrigued by the book that I signed up for Dirk’s personal mentorship program.

Malcolm Hart says: January 4, 2011 at 2:08 am

This book has been the biggest revelation I have come across in regards to the forex market. Beware, there is NO other system or programme I have come across out there that seems to GET the forex market in quite the same way. Everyone speaks about timing, technical indicators and the such even to the extent of the so called professionals at Daily Forex that at times contradict their own outlooks and will within the space of hours totally change their views and recommendations!!!

I know that unless I change my own brain I will lose my money. This has become very evident to me with the struggles of my own dear friends!
• My Uncle that is a brilliant Mathematician and has wonderful technical indicators yet just can’t make money. In 3 years his account has gone from $10,000 to trying to get back above $500.
• My Cousin that spent 5 years of his life staying up till 3 in the morning only to give up in disgust after making nothing and him also having a close friend that spent 5 years and thousands on Forex and coaching, and also making zero, zilch! (He has really given me the ‘Raspberries’ for daring to try the Forex market and threaten to lose money that my family needs!)

These guys just don’t ‘Get It’ that what they really needed to do was stop doing what the 90% of losers do and do what the 10% do. We really are treading a thin line here and are in dangerous country. This is like my Boy does in going off to Afghanistan and patrolling war country. We MUST tread carefully or risk getting limbs blown off. It is that dangerous!

BWILC has been the best catalyst that I have come across in convincing me that I need to change my thinking if I am to succeed in this. (And succeed I will!!!!!)

Paulo Oliveira says: October 21, 2010 at 12:36 pm

In my short trading career (18 months) I started like most people do, loading up indicators, use of high leverage and tight stops (never risk more than 2% of your account on any trade – I have lost count on how many times I read this sentence on all the forex trading books I came across).

After six months of demo trading with mixed success I decided to open a live account.

In demo you can follow the rules and be very detached from your trades, but when it comes to the real thing you embark on an emotional roller coaster.

Thankfully after two months of live trading I made a wise decision to stop trading. I would finish most days emotionally drained. I came to the conclusion that it would be impossible to make money on a consistent basis trading like this, let alone the toll on my mental health.

I had just about decided to quit when something remarkable happened.

BWILC: Reading the book was like a breath of fresh air.

The entire different approach to the forex market made so much sense to me, it was a new perspective that I had never came across before in all the 20 + trading books I read.

The concept of randomness in the markets, trading only one pair, multiple entries, cost averaging, low leverage, cut your profits short, let your losses run and a median grid working base backed up by fundamentals and relational analysis just won me over.

I would like to thank Dirk for keeping the dream alive.

Andrey Kerbabin says: March 2, 2010 at 7:18 pm

BWILC 2010 is a good book to start forex trading either with or without any practical experience. Dangerous forex jungles hide accidental creatures and meeting with those one should be prepared. The book teaches fundamental view on forex trading, trading edges and market analysis. Going farther the mentoring programme gives practical experience with the market using described principles and owning discretion in decision making.

Bill, Australia says: February 26, 2010 at 12:07 am

Dirk has an excellent progam looking at the whole depth and breadth of forex and the forex markets.

If you have come to forex trading with a traditioal technical analysis approach and have found it doesn’t work, you probably need to change your whole way of thinking about the way you trade.

Dirk’s mentorship will help you do this but be prepared to radically change the way you think about the markets.

I thoroughly recommend BWILC

Helen says: October 25, 2010 at 1:15 pm

The biggest insight that BWILC has given me is the stupidity of trading with tight stops and trying to catch reversals, rather than just going with the trend and making gradual profits.

Seth Berrin says: January 6, 2010 at 3:21 am

Hi Dirk, just received your new version of BWILC. I did enjoy the original version and took a lot of your advice the first time around. Have been trading for almost 5 years (part time) and have been profitable in my 3rd, 4th and 5th years. Learned some hard rules along the way and blew up a few accounts but have been steady since reading your first version. Looking forward to digging in to the new copy. Will keep you posted as I get further into your new e book. regards, Seth

Roland Jacobi says: October 6, 2010 at 5:10 am

BWLIC for me provides a comprehensive approach to trading, It teaches a skill that can be learned and is useful in developing a profitable business through patience and persistence and by using my own brain.
I can trade with a grater degree of confidence and I don’t live in the fear of loosing my account. I learn to accept the fact that some level of loss is acceptable. I can and will live for another day of trading.

Nick Quinn says: July 17, 2010 at 10:51 pm

This is the best book about trading I have read so far. After 2 years demo trading and 6 months of real money, when I started reading BWILC I couldn’t quite believe just how accurately Dirk describes exactly what I have been going through and what it feels like to trade for real and not fully understand why it isn’t working, yet you feel like it should, simply because we are all fully rounded intelligent human beings!

I’ve been through the mill a few times already and this is the first time that I can honestly say I feel like someone is telling me the truth. It is possible, but its just very very hard work!

Hope to study this book some more….

thanks for being honest! It makes a refreshing change.