Woman explains how she earned extra £60,000 in just one year
A restaurateur is sharing how she has been able to boost her salary from £18,000 to making an extra £60,000 in just one year.
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Atdhetare Hoxha, 28, first arrived in Britain in 1999 after having fled war in Kosovo at the age of four. Dreaming of having her own restaurant, Ms Hoxha went on to achieve this goal, launching Sorella, an Italian restaurant she owns in her home town of Saddleworth, Greater Manchester. She went on to try her hand at trading, but her success didn't come without setbacks.
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Ms Hoxha shared how her family’s journey and experience moving to the UK instilled the importance of hard work into her.
She explained: “I came here as a refugee aged four during the Kosovan war. We had a great life back home. We had family businesses but they were taken away from us in a heartbeat.
“My dad started as a kitchen porter to improve his English. He always worked in restaurants, that’s where the passion comes from. When we came here, we had nothing.”
Interested in the world of finance, the young entrepreneur started down the path of becoming a trader by herself, with very little success.
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Ms Hoxha said: “When I started out, I was trading currencies, commodities, crypto and all sorts but I blew my account up three times. That’s when your account goes to zero and you basically have to fund the account and start again.
“I just had no idea what I was doing. I remember waking up one day with a closed account. I hadn’t used a stop-loss and was trading recklessly. I thought, ‘This is ridiculous, this can’t keep happening’. Each time it cost me about £10,000.”
Working as a hairdresser, she was only earning around £18,000 which was not enough to bring in the money needed to buy a restaurant.
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The restaurant owner added: “A family friend used to work in banking and he would talk about trading. I had a bit of money saved up and was interested in investing it. I was a hairdresser but it wasn’t giving me enough, just £1,500 a month.
“My friend taught me a little bit about how to trade and I did make a start but I still didn’t really know what to do. He suggested I start learning properly and recommended Financial Markets Online because he knew one of the founders, James Bentley.”
Financial Markets Online is a training centre for those looking to start Forex trading with over 10,000 members enrolled into the organisation's beginners programme around the world.
According to Ms Hoxha, the expertise provided to her by Financial Markets Online was crucial in her now making the tens of thousands she needed to become a business owner.
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She now splits her time managing her restaurant and trading, with the latter raking in £60,000 income in one year.
The entrepreneur said: “It’s crazy to think I’ve achieved something that requires such consistency but I remember how difficult it was to get here. A lot of people I’ve met have lost £10,000 trying to learn and they tell me they’ve been trading currencies, Bitcoin, gold.
“This is what they’re doing wrong. They’re trying to do too much. Trading isn’t for everyone but the most successful traders learn about one thing and perfect it.
“Most people don’t succeed because it’s incredibly difficult but what isn’t? I’ve always compared learning to trade with going to university.
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“You’re learning something from scratch and that could take 10 years. It’s no different to the years it takes to become a doctor or anything else.”
For the former refugee, trading has been a crucial stepping stone into reaching success she has always dreamed about.
The 28-year old urges other young people to stay wary of trading teachers on social media as “you can’t necessarily trust any of the people promoting themselves”.
However, she does advocate for those interested in making money via trading to learn how to do it through proper channels and not as a “get rich quick scheme”.
“That’s how I see trading. That’s my mindset. I live and breathe it. It’s never going to be easy and many people just give up because they’re not disciplined enough. They realise it’s not for them.”
