The Founder
twenty years earlier.
Aaron Showers grew up in Brooklyn, holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a concentration in finance from Colorado Technical University, and has spent his working life around markets: first as a student of them, then inside the financial industry, and now as a full-time forex trader building the systems he wished had existed when he started.
Where it started
A seventeen-year-old cousin, and the pink newspaper.
The interest arrived early and from an unlikely place.
I was twenty-one, and my younger cousin, seventeen at the time, was already trading. Watching him made something click. I started reading everything I could find about the world's great traders, and the more I read, the clearer it became how serious a profession this was and how far it could go.
I bought the Financial Times, the pink newspaper, and read it on the train to work. I was a young adult who genuinely enjoyed making financial decisions. There was a sense of purpose in it that nothing else I was doing at the time gave me.
A year later I was working as an apprentice in the sheet-metal construction business, and I met a gentleman there whose name I can no longer recall. He was a stock trader, and he would step away from the job to call his broker and place buy and sell orders. I told him I wanted to learn. He gave me advice that mattered, the kind of practical guidance you cannot get from a book, and that conversation set me on a path I have been on ever since.
Nobody else in my family shared this interest. I talked about markets constantly anyway, and by my early twenties my friends and coworkers all knew exactly where my attention was. I began attending trading seminars, Star Trader, and the annual Expo for Traders in New York, building my education wherever I could find it.
Inside the industry
At twenty-six, I learned how risk is priced and explained.
I moved into the financial industry directly, working for New York Life and MetLife selling annuities, mutual funds, and life insurance. That period taught me the other side of finance: how products are structured, how risk is priced and explained, and how ordinary people actually make decisions about money. It shaped how I think about risk management to this day.
Finding the market
Futures, then forex. Forex was the one that stuck.
It offered the most direct path to profitability because it rests on foundations a committed trader can genuinely master, technical analysis and candlestick structure, rather than on capital scale or derivatives complexity.
In my late thirties I began trading seriously with FX Choice and Osprey FX. The work was demanding, lucrative, and enjoyable in a way nothing else had been. I later moved my trading to Ox Securities, an Australian broker, and today I trade forex full-time from home using MetaTrader 4.
My current practice is collaborative. I work alongside successful traders who have developed market-specific strategies, and with companies building high-quality AI-driven market scanners. My toolbox draws from both major schools.
Smart-money strategies
Structural, institutional-flow driven.
Retail strategies
Technical, pattern and indicator driven.
Advice to newcomers
Start with forex.
Forex is the most forgiving place to build competence. That does not make it easy, and leverage cuts in both directions, but the learning curve rewards persistence rather than punishing a small account for existing.
| Market | Learning curve | Leverage | Capital required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forex | Low | High | Low |
| Futures | Medium | High | Low |
| Stocks | Low | Low | High, for meaningful returns |
| Options | High | High | Moderate, but demands sophisticated risk management |
Why MARS exists
The difference is almost never the entry.
Trading is my passion. It lets me travel, work on my own schedule, and answer to my own judgment. My path was shaped by a great many books, by the market wizards I studied, and by the friends and associates who share this obsession.
It was also shaped by starting with very little. Coming from where I started and arriving at consistent profitability taught me something I could not have learned any other way: that the difference between a trader who survives and one who does not is almost never the entry. It is whether they know, objectively, where they stand.
That is why I built the Montex Alpha Rail System. It is a rigorous, objective framework that tracks your progress against specific financial goals and tells you plainly whether you are behind schedule, on pace, or ahead of it. No guessing. No narrative. Just the number and what it means.
I am glad to be sharing it, and better versions are coming, ones that make trading more measurable, more rewarding, and more accessible than it was when I was reading the pink paper on the train.
Thank you for sharing my passion. I look forward to bringing more value, more resources, and more products to traders around the world, and to connecting with fellow enthusiasts wherever they are.
Aaron Showers
Founder, Montex Alpha Rail System
Put your trading on rails.
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