Adam Button wins FXStreet’s Forex Person of the Year 2014
Adam, congratulations on the award!
Thoroughly deserved!
I only got a chance to put a quick comment up yesterday, and wanted to add a bit more. To maybe give the ForexLive community a little more insight into what I know about Adam Button.
I am lucky in that I get to work with Adam, exchanging phone calls, emails and IMs at various times each day – it’s a privilege to work so closely with such a gentleman. So, here’s my story of how I came to work with Adam, and to give an inkling into what he does for the site.
My experience of ForexLive started, as it does for nearly everyone, as a reader, using ForexLive as a source for news and views. I used to have my own blog, with a few readers each day (Hi Mum!). One day I noticed a post had gone nuts with hits. I sniffed out what was going on, discovering that Adam had linked to it from ForexLive. What is this ForexLive, who is this Adam Button? I asked. I am happy I found the site!
A little while later I noticed ForexLive was looking for someone to fill in from time-to-time. Jamie (Coleman) gave me a spot on the bench and I filled in for some Asian shifts. I was taken on to cover the Asian shift full-time soon after that, with some big shoes to fill.
During this time Adam was my main contact. He gave me a lot of help, guiding me through ForexLive, from tips on posting, editing and so forth, to ideas on how to best write posts. Adam spent a lot of time with me and was a constant support. I got a good view of his generous, giving nature. Nothing was, or is, too much trouble for Adam. His most consistent and oft-repeated piece of advice? Have fun!
Within only a few months of starting, though, as old-timers on the site will recall, ForexLive started to go through a major upheaval.
Jamie, Gerry and Pete decided to leave the site, Adam decided to stay on. I was a few months into this thing and faced with a choice of which way to jump … I recall at the time saying to Adam “I didn’t sign up for this!” It wasn’t an easy decision and I have the greatest respect for Jamie, Gerry and Pete (who is looking down on us all and chuckling, I hope), but, well, obviously, I decided to jump into the deep end with Adam.
And what a deep end it was. For weeks it was Adam and I covering ForexLive 24×5 (its actually a bit more than that, but you get the idea), alternating 12 hours shifts to keep the news in front of our readers. We value everyone who visits the site and it was a commitment for us that we were not going to let them down.
Throughout that time Adam was, as always, generous, level-headed, and absolutely dedicated. (Though, just between you and me, towards the end of each week he did start at 4.30am instead of 4am some days
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We soon took on Mike for the UK session and then Ryan to overlap the UK/US sessions (if he isn’t down at the local pub), and things settled.
But not for too long.
As even newer readers to the site will recall, ForexLive was recently cast free by our main support over the years, FXDD. And, let me digress for just a moment to mention what a great support they had been – in all my dealings with the people at FXDD I was impressed by their professionalism and desire to help ForexLive be its best; via their support ForexLive was made freely available to all FX traders, not just their own clients.
Since the decision by us to continue the site, the deep end has deepened. Adam has taken on a leadership role and works long, long hours to get this site towards a position where it will be able to carry on. Adam posts to the site mainly during the US session, but, let me assure everyone who participates on ForexLive, he works, and works, and works long, long hours afterwards on all the other tasks required to build a business. I know, I am posting on the shift immediately following Adam’s and get IMs, emails and phone calls on various subject matters from him deep into the long, cold, Canadian nights! All this while he is trading as well!
It would be remiss of me not to mention the long hours being put in by Mike and Ryan – also attending to site business matters long after finishing posting for the day, and by Greg. The FX world is centred on the northern hemisphere around UK/Europe/US, and Adam, Ryan and Mike all put in big extra efforts long into their evenings to ensure ForexLive’s existence – and while this is going on Greg is constantly updating the technical analysis on the site as price responds to new inputs. And, I know, as I type this on the weekend right now, that Greg is still at it with a great added-value extra to be released to the ForexLive community in coming days. An extra that will be freely available, as all of ForexLive’s output is.
As another insight into the guy … let me relate what happened when I congratulated him. He was still in the elation phase, of course, this is a big honour from the people at FXStreet, but within all of about 5 to 8 seconds he was back to business with a request from me to get working an another idea to improve the site! I can’t wait until the new year when a lot of these ideas will be put into place and then new ones come along. And I’m already starting to get an inkling of who might be FXStreet’s Forex Person of the year in 2015, if he doesn’t slow down a bit!
Once again, congratulations Adam on a well-deserved award, and thanks to the team at Forex Street for their deliberations on the matter (although I’m sure it didn’t take too long).
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And what would ForexLive be without a music video?
This is from a great Canadian singer/songwriter, with writing assistance from an Aussie. Its not the original version, but it is my favourite … and, as is the ForexLive way, its a lot of fun!