How to Grow Your SMALL Trading Account FAST in 2025 [Step by Step]
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TLDRThe speaker recounts their evolution from a college student experimenting with trading strategies to successfully managing over seven figures. They share six essential secrets for trading success: 1) Stick to high-probability setups; 2) Focus on risk-reward rather than money; 3) Let trades run and avoid taking profits too soon; 4) Use one strategy at a time for mastery; 5) Preserve capital by setting loss limits; 6) Do not chase daily profits, but instead focus on a systematic approach. These principles aim to help traders develop consistency and avoid common pitfalls in trading.
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- 📈 Focus on high probability setups only.
- 💰 Prioritize risk-reward over money.
- ⏳ Let your trades run for bigger profits.
- 🔍 Use one strategy at a time for mastery.
- 🛡️ Preserve your capital with loss limits.
- 🚫 Don't chase daily profits; focus on process.
Cronología
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The speaker reflects on their journey from a college student experimenting with trading strategies to successfully managing over seven figures in capital. They emphasize the importance of learning from mistakes and share six key secrets for growing a trading account without blowing it up. The first secret is to focus on high probability setups, avoiding the temptation to take numerous trades that can lead to confusion and unnecessary losses.
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The second secret is to shift focus from money to risk-reward and process. By treating trading as a game and using risk factors instead of dollar amounts, traders can minimize emotional reactions and make more systematic decisions. This approach helps maintain a clear head during losing streaks and encourages a focus on long-term growth rather than immediate profits.
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The third secret involves letting trades run and not taking profits too soon. The speaker shares their personal struggle with this aspect of trading, highlighting the psychological tendency to close winning trades prematurely. They stress that allowing trades to develop fully can lead to significant profits, and that successful trading often requires overcoming emotional responses to market fluctuations.
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The fourth secret is to concentrate on one strategy at a time. The speaker advises against jumping between multiple strategies, as this can lead to confusion and superstition. Instead, they recommend mastering one approach to understand its long-term effectiveness, emphasizing the importance of data-driven strategies and consistent execution.
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The fifth secret focuses on capital preservation, especially during losing streaks. The speaker suggests setting daily loss limits to prevent significant drawdowns and maintain the ability to trade effectively in the future. They share a personal anecdote about a costly mistake that underscores the importance of protecting one's capital. The final secret is to avoid chasing daily profits, advocating for a process-oriented approach that naturally leads to achieving financial goals without the stress of daily income targets.
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Vídeo de preguntas y respuestas
What is the first secret to successful trading?
Sticking to high probability setups only.
Why should traders focus on risk-reward instead of money?
Focusing on risk-reward helps eliminate emotional responses to money and encourages a systematic approach.
What is a common mistake traders make regarding profits?
Taking profits too soon instead of letting trades run.
How can traders preserve their capital?
By setting daily loss limits to avoid significant losses during bad trading days.
What does the speaker mean by not chasing daily profits?
Traders should focus on their process and risk management rather than trying to hit daily income goals.
Why is it important to use one strategy at a time?
Focusing on one strategy allows traders to master it and understand its long-term effectiveness.
What is the significance of journaling trades?
Journaling helps traders analyze their performance and refine their strategies.
How can traders avoid emotional trading?
By focusing on process and risk management rather than monetary outcomes.
What is the role of a trading community?
A focused trading community can provide support and education, helping traders stay disciplined.
What should beginners prioritize in their trading journey?
Learning and mastering a proven trading strategy.
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- 00:00:00Eight years ago, I was a college student
- 00:00:01trying random trading strategies to see
- 00:00:04if I could grow a small account. The
- 00:00:05first summer that I really locked in on
- 00:00:07this, I started with $2,500 and was
- 00:00:09actually able to scale this close to
- 00:00:11$15,000. Then, with a few big mistakes,
- 00:00:14I completely blew up that account.
- 00:00:15Luckily, fast forward to now, I'll
- 00:00:17sometimes have $10 to $20,000 trading
- 00:00:19profit weeks, and I'm grateful to now be
- 00:00:21able to manage over seven figures of
- 00:00:22capital. I don't say this to brag. I say
- 00:00:24this because if I had to start growing
- 00:00:26an account in 2025, I'm confident that I
- 00:00:28can give you six secrets that would put
- 00:00:30you on the track to getting there
- 00:00:31without having to blow up accounts. And
- 00:00:33the last secret is probably the most
- 00:00:34critical thing that took my trading from
- 00:00:36inconsistent to where I'm at now, making
- 00:00:38consistent profits, and I want to get
- 00:00:39you there quickly. Okay, so secret
- 00:00:41number one, sticking to high probability
- 00:00:43setups only. When you first start your
- 00:00:45trading journey, there's a concept in
- 00:00:46your mind where you think, if I could
- 00:00:48take more trades in a session, then that
- 00:00:50should automatically equal being able to
- 00:00:52make more money. Okay? I used to do this
- 00:00:53when I first started. I would sit there
- 00:00:54at my charts all day long. I would try
- 00:00:56to find as many trades as possible. What
- 00:00:58ends up happening is you have way too
- 00:01:00many approaches to the market. You start
- 00:01:02forcing trades that aren't there. You
- 00:01:03start making things up. I fell into this
- 00:01:05a lot when I was a beginner. I would sit
- 00:01:07in front of the charts and try to take
- 00:01:08as many trades as possible. Sometimes I
- 00:01:10would take 10, 15 trades in a single
- 00:01:12session. There's a few problems with
- 00:01:14this. The first problem is your quality
- 00:01:16is definitely not going to be there.
- 00:01:18There's only going to be so many setups
- 00:01:19in a day. and I was looking for several
- 00:01:21different patterns, several different
- 00:01:23ideas in the market, and it led me to
- 00:01:25being confused and taking too many
- 00:01:26setups that weren't quality setups.
- 00:01:28Okay, the second thing is you're paying
- 00:01:30execution fees every time you place a
- 00:01:32trade. And those fees can start to add
- 00:01:33up over time. It's really about
- 00:01:35maximizing the setups that are there for
- 00:01:38you that are showing you to take the
- 00:01:39trades and not just trying to take every
- 00:01:41single idea in the market. Everybody has
- 00:01:43the same information in front of them.
- 00:01:44There's only so many moves in a session
- 00:01:46that are going to match your setup. when
- 00:01:48I finally realize that I need to follow
- 00:01:50my specific model and really refine it
- 00:01:52down so that I'm filtering through a lot
- 00:01:54of the bad trades, a lot of the bad
- 00:01:56ideas, and a lot of the bad times to be
- 00:01:58in the market. This is the key element
- 00:01:59that not only allowed me to grow my
- 00:02:01accounts, but it also made trading way
- 00:02:03less stressful because all I was doing
- 00:02:05was waiting for my setups to come to me.
- 00:02:07Okay? And there's one big thing that
- 00:02:08allowed me to sort of follow that
- 00:02:10mindset of only taking my A+ setups.
- 00:02:12Okay? This is a question that I ask
- 00:02:14myself every time I get into a trade.
- 00:02:16And you can start applying this right
- 00:02:17now, whatever phase you're at. Every
- 00:02:18time I look at a chart setup, I'm always
- 00:02:21asking myself every single reason there
- 00:02:23is to not take a trade. Okay? There's
- 00:02:24something called confirmation bias where
- 00:02:26you're trying to make whatever is
- 00:02:27happening in the market fit whatever
- 00:02:29rule set you have so that you can take
- 00:02:31the trade. I flip that on its head.
- 00:02:32Every time I'm analyzing a trade, I'm
- 00:02:34trying to find every single reason to
- 00:02:36not take the trade. Whenever I have that
- 00:02:38feeling where I think I absolutely have
- 00:02:40to take this trade because it is so
- 00:02:42perfect it would be bad to not take the
- 00:02:44trade. These have always been my crazy
- 00:02:46crazy successful setups. Some of my
- 00:02:48biggest trades I've had that key
- 00:02:50feeling. This is going to really help
- 00:02:51you follow those high probability setups
- 00:02:53only and cut out a lot of the noise.
- 00:02:55Secret number two when you're growing a
- 00:02:57small account is to not focus on money
- 00:02:58and to focus on riskreward and process.
- 00:03:01Now obviously the goal of trading is to
- 00:03:03make money. So it seems weird at first
- 00:03:05to not focus on money. That's the entire
- 00:03:07goal. But I'm telling you from
- 00:03:08experience, weirdly at the beginning,
- 00:03:11you want to absolutely 100% not think of
- 00:03:13it as money and you want to think of it
- 00:03:15as a game. So what professional traders
- 00:03:17do is they don't look in terms of dollar
- 00:03:19amounts. They either use percentages or
- 00:03:21what's easier is using something called
- 00:03:23risk factor. So you're effectively now
- 00:03:25playing a game where every time you put
- 00:03:27risk on the table that's negative 1R and
- 00:03:30anytime you have reward that's positive,
- 00:03:32say 3 or 4 R. So if you're risking one R
- 00:03:35to make 4R, now you're just operating in
- 00:03:37terms of these R factors and you're
- 00:03:39eliminating the money completely out of
- 00:03:41the scenario. This is going to help for
- 00:03:43multiple reasons. We're wired as human
- 00:03:45beings to be emotionally reactive to
- 00:03:47money. So if we can get away from having
- 00:03:49any emotional response to our trading,
- 00:03:51we're now going to focus on process and
- 00:03:53we're not going to fall into pitfalls.
- 00:03:54For example, when I first started
- 00:03:56trading, as soon as I would make a
- 00:03:57profit on a day, I would now be really
- 00:04:00defensive trying to hold on to a dollar
- 00:04:01amount of money or hold on to the
- 00:04:03profits. So, I'd start changing my
- 00:04:04behavior around money to sort of try to
- 00:04:06preserve the dollar amount of money that
- 00:04:08I had made on that session. Or if I was
- 00:04:10down a lot of money, I would revenge
- 00:04:11trade or trade with more money to try to
- 00:04:13climb back to what I was before. Once
- 00:04:15again, changing my behavior because I
- 00:04:17was focused on money. or in a session,
- 00:04:19say I had made a lot of money, I would
- 00:04:21take extra risk trying to double it and
- 00:04:24have a massive day to try to combat some
- 00:04:26of the losses that I had previously.
- 00:04:28Once again, changing my behavior around
- 00:04:30this dollar amount. So, let's look at
- 00:04:31this from the perspective of a bad
- 00:04:33trader and a good trader so that you can
- 00:04:34avoid being in the bad trader category
- 00:04:37and effectively put yourself into the
- 00:04:38good category. So, say both traders are
- 00:04:40starting with $1,000 in their account.
- 00:04:42Okay? Now, both traders start trading
- 00:04:44that account. the bad trader putting a
- 00:04:46$100 risk at 10% per trade and the good
- 00:04:48trader only risking $25 per trade. Say
- 00:04:51both traders hit an immediate losing
- 00:04:53streak of three trades, which is going
- 00:04:54to happen a ton. A lot of people don't
- 00:04:56show this online, but anytime I'm making
- 00:04:58a live trade video or I'm explaining
- 00:05:00sort of how I trade, the reality is most
- 00:05:02traders are going to lose a ton. I'm
- 00:05:03going to explain how that works in a
- 00:05:05second and how to sort of get past that.
- 00:05:06But say both traders lose three trades
- 00:05:08in a row. The bad trader who's risking
- 00:05:10$100 on each trade now only has $600
- 00:05:13left in his account. The good trader has
- 00:05:15lost 252525 is down $75. The probability
- 00:05:19of him having a clear head in
- 00:05:21approaching his trading systematically
- 00:05:23is a lot higher than the trader who now
- 00:05:25has lost almost half of their account
- 00:05:27and now has to get a 66% return just to
- 00:05:30break back even. Most likely what's
- 00:05:32going to happen is the bad trader is
- 00:05:33going to start changing their behavior,
- 00:05:35changing their risk, trying to take
- 00:05:36unnecessary risks to climb back. Whereas
- 00:05:38the good trader, say wins the next two
- 00:05:40trades for 150, they're getting a 5 to1
- 00:05:43riskreward and now their account's up
- 00:05:457.5% and they've made $75 in profit.
- 00:05:48Taking it small, focusing on process,
- 00:05:50not worrying about the money. Now, of
- 00:05:52course, you want to make more than $75
- 00:05:54in a day or after a few days. But the
- 00:05:57goal is to not chase the money in the
- 00:05:58beginning. The goal is to actually have
- 00:06:00a proper procedure that you can follow
- 00:06:02that you can then later inject more
- 00:06:04capital into. If you're focused on
- 00:06:06flipping accounts and doing all this
- 00:06:07crazy stuff to try to increase the
- 00:06:09account value, you're going to screw
- 00:06:10yourself up. You have to not focus on
- 00:06:12money first and always focus on process
- 00:06:14and containing your risk with
- 00:06:15riskreward. Okay? Whenever I set up a
- 00:06:17trade and I'm showing to someone who
- 00:06:19doesn't understand trading, they always
- 00:06:20ask me like, how do you know that this
- 00:06:22is going to work? And I'm like, I don't
- 00:06:23know if it's going to work. And then
- 00:06:24they look at me all weird and they're
- 00:06:25like, well then why would you take it?
- 00:06:27What most people don't realize is
- 00:06:28trading has nothing to do with being
- 00:06:30right or wrong. If you still have an
- 00:06:32emotional response to being wrong to a
- 00:06:34trade, it means you don't understand
- 00:06:36your process and you're not focusing on
- 00:06:37the right thing and you're simply
- 00:06:39focusing on money. This is a weird
- 00:06:40phenomenon. I know it might be hard to
- 00:06:42sort of wrap your mind around at first,
- 00:06:44but this is going to change the way you
- 00:06:46think about trading. Which brings us
- 00:06:47into secret number three, which is
- 00:06:49focusing extremely hard on letting your
- 00:06:51trades run and not taking profit too
- 00:06:53soon. This is the hardest thing for me
- 00:06:56as a trader. This is my personal
- 00:06:58kryptonite. I'm good at being selective.
- 00:06:59I'm good at focusing on all the other
- 00:07:01things, but when it comes to locking in
- 00:07:03profits, it's so difficult when a trade
- 00:07:06moves in your direction and then comes
- 00:07:07against you to not be traumatized and
- 00:07:09want to always take profits too soon.
- 00:07:11This is a phenomenon you have to lock in
- 00:07:13on and you have to understand this will
- 00:07:15disrupt your progress and make it so
- 00:07:17that you don't ever succeed in trading
- 00:07:18if you don't figure this out. When I
- 00:07:20first started trading, I would always
- 00:07:21hear people say who didn't know what
- 00:07:23they were talking about. Just regular
- 00:07:24people. You're never going to go broke
- 00:07:26taking profit. And no one's ever going
- 00:07:27to criticize you for taking profit off
- 00:07:29the table if you have it. These words
- 00:07:32will literally screw your entire trading
- 00:07:34career up. And for a while, I would
- 00:07:36follow this mental process. I would be
- 00:07:38in the green. I would want to take the
- 00:07:39money off as soon as it started moving a
- 00:07:41little against me. And this is honestly
- 00:07:42what most people in trading do anyways
- 00:07:44because it's a psychological phenomenon
- 00:07:46that is once again rooted in human
- 00:07:48behavior. Trading is constantly a game
- 00:07:50of trying to sidestep what we're
- 00:07:52oriented and what we're wired to do. And
- 00:07:54if you can figure out how to do that,
- 00:07:56that's sort of what makes you a
- 00:07:57professional. Whereas, you know, if
- 00:07:58you're just trying it out as an average
- 00:08:00person, it's just gambling. You're going
- 00:08:02to get wrecked because you're using your
- 00:08:03regular emotions. That training of your
- 00:08:06mind to think like a trader, to think to
- 00:08:08the opposite of that of how a human
- 00:08:10normally acts is how 5% of people are
- 00:08:12able to extract capital out of the
- 00:08:14markets from the 95% of people. Okay,
- 00:08:16this is the game of trading. This is
- 00:08:18what most people are going to do when
- 00:08:19they manage a trade. Say they want to
- 00:08:21buy in at this level. trade starts to go
- 00:08:23against them and now they're like, "Oh,
- 00:08:24I don't want to realize a loss, so I'm
- 00:08:26just going to hold on to this trade so
- 00:08:27that hopefully I can make some money
- 00:08:29back." Trade starts to reverse around.
- 00:08:30Okay, you go a little bit into profit,
- 00:08:32then the market starts to go back down
- 00:08:34and you're like, "Oh man, it's going
- 00:08:35back down into profit." Okay, so once it
- 00:08:36goes even a little bit into profit,
- 00:08:38you're like, "Okay, I'm finally in
- 00:08:39profit. I'm going to take the trade
- 00:08:40off." Or say whenever they buy into a
- 00:08:42position and then say the market starts
- 00:08:44moving in your favor, then it starts
- 00:08:46moving back down. You don't want to take
- 00:08:47a loss. So you'll close a trade out here
- 00:08:49only to have the trade absolutely
- 00:08:51explode in the direction you're trying
- 00:08:52to trade, which would allow you to
- 00:08:54actually have way bigger winners and
- 00:08:56keeping your risk small. Only takes a
- 00:08:58few really big trades where you allow
- 00:09:00them to run to really really increase
- 00:09:02your bottom line. And that's where the
- 00:09:03money is really made in trading is
- 00:09:05allowing those big positions to run.
- 00:09:07Okay? If you're constantly snuffing them
- 00:09:08out in fear of losing money or trying to
- 00:09:10take profits while it's on the table and
- 00:09:12especially if you're exposing yourself
- 00:09:14to more risk by not wanting to sell when
- 00:09:16you're in a loss, now you're flipping
- 00:09:18the mechanics of successful trading on
- 00:09:20its head. And this is exactly what will
- 00:09:21cause you to fail. Okay? What you have
- 00:09:23to focus on as a trader is keeping your
- 00:09:25risks as small as they can and having
- 00:09:27your wins be as big as they can be.
- 00:09:29Okay? Your overall success is going to
- 00:09:31sometimes rely on having a loss, loss,
- 00:09:34loss, loss. It feels really weird, but
- 00:09:37you can't fall into the temptation of as
- 00:09:39soon as you have a profit to take it off
- 00:09:40the table because you're going to
- 00:09:42minimize the amount of upside, which
- 00:09:44once again is really where the money's
- 00:09:45made in trading. And this is a
- 00:09:46phenomenon that happens with me
- 00:09:48statistically. My biggest trades are
- 00:09:50trades where I'm not even watching the
- 00:09:52charts and I just have everything set up
- 00:09:53to happen automatically or when it's
- 00:09:55overnight. And what can I not do either
- 00:09:58when I'm away from the chart or
- 00:09:59overnight? I can't look at it and have
- 00:10:01an emotional response based on where the
- 00:10:03trade is currently going and try to
- 00:10:05change the behavior or change what I'm
- 00:10:07going to do with the trade. I made a
- 00:10:08decision. I'm going to let the trade
- 00:10:09play out fully. And if you can allow
- 00:10:11these big moves to happen, you know,
- 00:10:12sometimes I wake up in the morning and
- 00:10:14I'm shocked at how big the P&L is. And I
- 00:10:16realized that was because I was never
- 00:10:17able to visually look at a P&L that big
- 00:10:20without being scared of it being taken
- 00:10:22away and just closing while I had decent
- 00:10:24amounts. Okay, this is an example of
- 00:10:25this playing out recently. You can see
- 00:10:26on the chart I was aiming for a large
- 00:10:28profit and I had the risk very
- 00:10:30contained. As soon as I got a push into
- 00:10:32our profit, I would reduce my risk down
- 00:10:34to break even. Even though the trade
- 00:10:35started coming back up closer to my
- 00:10:37entry, I didn't take the trade off the
- 00:10:39table. I didn't try to change the way I
- 00:10:40was going to manage the trade even when
- 00:10:42that happened. And lo and behold, price
- 00:10:44comes back down. Still holding the
- 00:10:45trade. And once I got that big push down
- 00:10:47and I was up nearly $4,000, risking
- 00:10:50$500, once again, letting that trade
- 00:10:52really run. This is where I close the
- 00:10:53trade out. something I still struggle
- 00:10:55with. Although I've been able to achieve
- 00:10:56profitability by letting the trades run
- 00:10:58enough. This is a lifelong game of
- 00:11:00developing yourself and improving. So,
- 00:11:02this is something that I really struggle
- 00:11:03with. Let me know in the comments if
- 00:11:05this is also something for you guys.
- 00:11:06This is one of the biggest for me. Okay,
- 00:11:07secret number four, which is one of the
- 00:11:09biggest things that I feel will help you
- 00:11:11is going to be using one strategy at a
- 00:11:13time. This doesn't mean that you can
- 00:11:15only use one trading strategy, but when
- 00:11:17you're focusing on either a session, so
- 00:11:19you're in the process of taking trades
- 00:11:21or when you're just learning, it's
- 00:11:23almost always better to just have a
- 00:11:25centralized focus to get really, really
- 00:11:27good at one thing. Okay? There was a
- 00:11:28period in time when I first started
- 00:11:30trading that I was completely lost. I
- 00:11:32was researching different patterns
- 00:11:33online and then I was trying to find
- 00:11:35different ways in the market that I
- 00:11:37could apply these patterns. I was trying
- 00:11:38to find opportunities in everything. I
- 00:11:40had a bunch of different ways to trade.
- 00:11:42When it wouldn't work out a few times, I
- 00:11:44would abandon it. If something was
- 00:11:45working for the moment, I would stick on
- 00:11:46it. And then as soon as it stopped
- 00:11:48working for a little bit, I would
- 00:11:49abandon it. And I was on this constant
- 00:11:51loop of trying to learn the next big
- 00:11:53thing that's going to change my trading.
- 00:11:55And I'd be so quick to jump ship, I was
- 00:11:57looking at it completely wrong. When I
- 00:11:58talk to people who are just getting into
- 00:12:00trading, often times they'll say, "Oh,
- 00:12:02well, sometimes I do this or sometimes
- 00:12:03I'll try this." And anytime I approach a
- 00:12:05trader where it's that abstract, I know
- 00:12:08that they're not serious and they're not
- 00:12:09making money consistently. Because if
- 00:12:11you talk to professional traders, the
- 00:12:13biggest thing that they're going to ask
- 00:12:14about is average riskreward, winning
- 00:12:16percentage, and something called
- 00:12:17expectancy, which is a mathematical
- 00:12:20calculation to show you how much money
- 00:12:22you're expected to make per time you
- 00:12:24take a trade, regardless of whether it's
- 00:12:25a win or a loss. These are things that
- 00:12:27real traders talk about. If they're
- 00:12:29talking about ideas or sometimes I do
- 00:12:31this, it's a hobby, not a profession.
- 00:12:33You can use that when you're talking to
- 00:12:34people to know if they're legit or not.
- 00:12:35But anyways, and one of the big reasons
- 00:12:37why you want to stick to one strategy is
- 00:12:39because you have to allow enough trades
- 00:12:41to go by for you to understand whether
- 00:12:43the strategy is going to work over the
- 00:12:45long term, right? Whatever seems to be
- 00:12:47apparent and seems to be intuitive is
- 00:12:49not always the actual answer. There's
- 00:12:51different combinations of strategies,
- 00:12:53win rate and how much you're making
- 00:12:55versus how much you're risking that put
- 00:12:57together is going to put you at an
- 00:12:58either profitable state or a not
- 00:13:00profitable state. And this is really the
- 00:13:02one thing to pay attention to when
- 00:13:03you're focusing on one thing at a time
- 00:13:05is to really understand does this
- 00:13:07trading strategy actually work and is it
- 00:13:09going to work for me? So to understand
- 00:13:10this fully, let's look at two different
- 00:13:12scenarios. Once again, say we have
- 00:13:14strategy number one and say this
- 00:13:15strategy has a 70% win rate. So 70% of
- 00:13:18the time you're making money. And now
- 00:13:20let's say for strategy number two it
- 00:13:22only has a 25% win rate. All right? So
- 00:13:24intuitively you're like I want to go to
- 00:13:26the thing that is going to work more
- 00:13:28often that has an extremely high win
- 00:13:29rate. Why do I want to be wrong 75% of
- 00:13:32the time when I can be right 70% of the
- 00:13:34time? Well, the missing piece of the
- 00:13:35puzzle in this example for the 70% win
- 00:13:38rate, every time you're losing, you're
- 00:13:40actually losing five risk factors, which
- 00:13:42is five more than what you're making
- 00:13:44when you do win. So even if you're
- 00:13:45winning seven trades out of 10 trades,
- 00:13:48at the end of those 10 trades, if you're
- 00:13:49risking $100 per trade, you've lost $800
- 00:13:52in profit. Now, if we look at the
- 00:13:54trading strategy that only works 25% of
- 00:13:56the time, okay, maybe you lose three
- 00:13:58consecutive trades, then you win, and
- 00:13:59then you lose two more trades, and then
- 00:14:01you win, and then you lose three more
- 00:14:02trades. You're hardly taking any winning
- 00:14:04trades, but when you are taking wins,
- 00:14:06the wins are big, and the losses are
- 00:14:08small, which at a 5:1 riskreward, only
- 00:14:10being right 25% of the time. Okay? And
- 00:14:13you just saw the trade that I took,
- 00:14:14which was like a six risk factor trade.
- 00:14:16I'm going to show you some of those a
- 00:14:18little bit later, but that would still
- 00:14:19put you even at a 25% win rate, risking
- 00:14:22$100 per trade at $200 in profit. And
- 00:14:24so, it's really tempting as a beginner
- 00:14:26to follow what feels like it's working.
- 00:14:28I want to be right all the time. It has
- 00:14:30nothing to do with that. It has all to
- 00:14:31do with how much money is actually being
- 00:14:33made at the end of the day once you get
- 00:14:34down to brass tax. So, it's not always
- 00:14:36super obvious. So now if you're
- 00:14:38introducing say four different
- 00:14:40strategies at once or five different
- 00:14:42strategies at once that are all being
- 00:14:43applied based on what you're feeling or
- 00:14:46you know what you think for that
- 00:14:47specific instance. What you're going to
- 00:14:49do is you're going to trigger
- 00:14:50superstition. You're going to trigger
- 00:14:52confusion. There's no way that you're
- 00:14:53actually looking at the empirical data
- 00:14:56to figure out if the strategy is going
- 00:14:58to be profitable or not to allow you to
- 00:15:00grow that account. And what you're going
- 00:15:01to do is just jump through hoops,
- 00:15:03jumping from one thing to the next, not
- 00:15:05focusing any effort on one thing long
- 00:15:07enough to actually get good. There's
- 00:15:08obviously the saying, a jack of all
- 00:15:10trades is a master of none. If you're
- 00:15:12learning everything, you can't ever
- 00:15:13master one thing. Every time I'm
- 00:15:15learning a trading strategy, even when
- 00:15:16we develop ones on the private team, I
- 00:15:18will dedicate 6 months of my life to
- 00:15:20only trade that strategy so that number
- 00:15:22one, I can prove myself as an authority
- 00:15:24to actually give information on YouTube,
- 00:15:26right? But number two, because I
- 00:15:28literally can't focus on that many
- 00:15:30things at once, even with eight years of
- 00:15:32experience as a trader. So the chances
- 00:15:33of you coming in as a beginner or even
- 00:15:35if you have some experience and being
- 00:15:37able to do three different trading
- 00:15:38strategies at one time is probably
- 00:15:40pretty low. So that would be the number
- 00:15:42one thing. Find something that works,
- 00:15:44focus on that one thing. All right. What
- 00:15:45I found is when I really started
- 00:15:47journaling my trades, studying this in
- 00:15:49depth, this is when I was able to really
- 00:15:51scale things up and turn my process into
- 00:15:53an income generating machine rather than
- 00:15:55some voodoo superstitious betting game
- 00:15:58that most people play when they're
- 00:15:59trading. Whenever we have new people
- 00:16:01join our team, we've designed multiple
- 00:16:02strategies to be able to trade. But what
- 00:16:04you'll notice is there's always one
- 00:16:06person who's really good at one strategy
- 00:16:08and is almost never someone who is
- 00:16:09trading all of the strategies at the
- 00:16:11same time and posting all the success at
- 00:16:13the same time. Okay? they're using what
- 00:16:15they've learned and they're focusing on
- 00:16:16one thing at a time to get really really
- 00:16:18good and have these kinds of results. If
- 00:16:20you just keep jumping around from idea
- 00:16:21to idea, you're never going to enter
- 00:16:23that 1% and you're always just going to
- 00:16:24be stuck in the cycle of being a
- 00:16:26beginner. What you should do is keep
- 00:16:27your head down, keep focused, and you
- 00:16:29will see those results start to happen.
- 00:16:30Okay, moving into secret number five,
- 00:16:32which is focusing on preserving your
- 00:16:34capital. Even if you're mastering all of
- 00:16:36the other things that we just discussed,
- 00:16:38you really need to focus on preservation
- 00:16:40in the moments where you're having
- 00:16:42lapses of judgment or when you're on
- 00:16:44losing streaks, what I would do in the
- 00:16:45beginning is I would do really, really
- 00:16:47well following a process. And then on
- 00:16:49one day or three or four sequences of
- 00:16:52trades, even if I wasn't doing anything
- 00:16:54wrong necessarily, I would just take
- 00:16:56loss after loss after loss and it would
- 00:16:57sort of snowball into this really big
- 00:17:00looming issue that would erase all of
- 00:17:02the progress that I had just made. Okay?
- 00:17:04And I think something that's important
- 00:17:05to understand is there's sometimes just
- 00:17:07going to be market conditions that are
- 00:17:09not going to be good for your trading
- 00:17:11strategy. It doesn't mean that the
- 00:17:13trading strategy doesn't work. It
- 00:17:14doesn't mean that you should stop
- 00:17:15trading it or that there's something
- 00:17:17wrong with even the way you're executing
- 00:17:18it. Sometimes the markets in small
- 00:17:21periods of time are going to act
- 00:17:22completely irrationally compared to what
- 00:17:24you're used to or what's going on. And
- 00:17:26this can cause your system to
- 00:17:28temporarily not work. And if you go down
- 00:17:30these rabbit holes and you don't have
- 00:17:31some sort of stop mechanism for
- 00:17:33yourself, right, you can take five, six,
- 00:17:35seven different trades that may be all
- 00:17:37valid that are all going to lose because
- 00:17:39the markets are in a weird condition
- 00:17:41that they're not normally in. So
- 00:17:43something that I do that has really
- 00:17:44helped me that I think will help you as
- 00:17:46well. I set up a daily loss limit for
- 00:17:48myself to make sure that in small
- 00:17:50periods of time where maybe I'm not
- 00:17:52having the best trading day or my
- 00:17:53decision-m is not on par compared to
- 00:17:55what it normally is, I can completely
- 00:17:57take myself out of the game and minimize
- 00:18:00the amount of losses that I'm taking in
- 00:18:01that specific moment and focus on
- 00:18:03preserving the capital to fight another
- 00:18:05day. Okay, half the battle in trading is
- 00:18:07not having these oneoff moments that can
- 00:18:10sort of derail your whole entire
- 00:18:12operation and everything that you've
- 00:18:13worked for. Okay, so for my trading
- 00:18:14process, if I go downg -3R, so I lose
- 00:18:18maximum losses consecutively on the
- 00:18:20trade or overall I'm at any point at
- 00:18:23-3R, right? I will completely stop my
- 00:18:25trading activity. Okay? Because say you
- 00:18:27go into one of these scenarios where you
- 00:18:29lose five or six different trades in a
- 00:18:31day. God forbid the next day you lose
- 00:18:33two or three more trades consecutively,
- 00:18:35there is so much pressure for you to
- 00:18:36perform that next day because if you
- 00:18:38don't, you're going to be so deep in the
- 00:18:40hole. the psychological element of
- 00:18:41fighting out of that big of a deficit is
- 00:18:44going to eventually get to you. Whereas
- 00:18:46each day, if you know your process works
- 00:18:48and you spread it out over enough time,
- 00:18:51the chances of a blowup or a lapse in
- 00:18:54judgment affecting you that dramatically
- 00:18:56in one instant becomes a lot lower. And
- 00:18:58that preservation of capital is going to
- 00:19:00allow you to turn it into an income
- 00:19:02generating machine for yourself, a
- 00:19:04consistently profitable strategy versus
- 00:19:06if you're just trying to gamble it and
- 00:19:07flip quick accounts. Okay? You don't
- 00:19:09want to let one or two bad decisions
- 00:19:11ruin weeks, months, or even years of
- 00:19:13your progress. This is what happened to
- 00:19:15me when I first started trading in the
- 00:19:17summer that I turned 2500 into 15,000. I
- 00:19:20was on top of the world. And then with
- 00:19:21one mistake, I lost all of the money in
- 00:19:24one trade because I did something
- 00:19:25stupid, okay? But that one mistake cost
- 00:19:27me my entire summer's worth of work. It
- 00:19:29was a really expensive lesson, but for
- 00:19:31you, it doesn't have to be as expensive
- 00:19:33if you're sort of following these ideas
- 00:19:34and applying it to your own trading
- 00:19:36journey. Which brings us to the last
- 00:19:37probably most important secret which is
- 00:19:40secret number six. This is once again
- 00:19:41the secret that took my trading to the
- 00:19:43next level and really brought it to a
- 00:19:45point where I started to see miraculous
- 00:19:46account growth and actually was able to
- 00:19:48treat it like an actual income. So
- 00:19:50secret number six is do not chase daily
- 00:19:52profit. This is weird because if you've
- 00:19:54seen my other content like on Instagram
- 00:19:56or even when I do my live trade videos,
- 00:19:58I always have a daily profit goal. And
- 00:20:00so me saying don't follow daily profits,
- 00:20:03all I'm doing is following daily
- 00:20:04profits. Okay. So, how does this make
- 00:20:06sense? Let me explain. The biggest
- 00:20:07mistake that people make when they're
- 00:20:08learning trading is they try to set
- 00:20:10daily income goals for themselves. Even
- 00:20:12the most highlevel thinkers and problem
- 00:20:14solvers, people in academia, anytime
- 00:20:16they have a big problem, the next
- 00:20:18logical step would be to break that
- 00:20:20problem into smaller problems. So, say
- 00:20:22you want to make $10,000 a month, which
- 00:20:24would be approximately $330 a day. And
- 00:20:27then they'll try to hit that trading
- 00:20:28amount each day. Okay. The problem with
- 00:20:30this is when I started trading, I
- 00:20:32followed this exact process. And what
- 00:20:33would happen to me is maybe say the
- 00:20:35first day I would exceed, you know,
- 00:20:36close to my goal or maybe I'd get my
- 00:20:38goal and then the next day, say I had a
- 00:20:40bunch of losses where say my goal was
- 00:20:42$200 a day, I would maybe lose $150 or
- 00:20:46$100 for that day. So then I would trade
- 00:20:47another day, say I'd maybe make $100. So
- 00:20:50now I'm still behind on my goal by like
- 00:20:52$500 because I'm supposed to be making
- 00:20:55$200 per day and I'm on day four and
- 00:20:57I've only made say $100 or even lost
- 00:21:00some money. Once again, rooting back to
- 00:21:02behavioral changes. If you're following
- 00:21:04this daily goal, you're going to
- 00:21:05constantly miss the goal. And then as
- 00:21:07soon as you miss a goal, like in life,
- 00:21:08for example, if you derail off a goal by
- 00:21:11a ton, say it's dieting, where you
- 00:21:12you're trying to get skinny and then you
- 00:21:14eat a bunch of hamburgers and ice cream
- 00:21:15and you're like, "Well, screw it. I'm
- 00:21:16just going to have a bunch of cookies
- 00:21:18and just go off the rails and I'll start
- 00:21:19again on Monday." Anyone who's dieted
- 00:21:21has experienced that. The same thing is
- 00:21:22going to happen with your trading. If
- 00:21:24you're so behind off of your goal,
- 00:21:25you're just going to start doing random
- 00:21:27things again and before you know it,
- 00:21:28you're going to take more risk. you're
- 00:21:29going to be not following your process
- 00:21:31or you're going to be trying to play
- 00:21:32catch-up to get to that daily goal. What
- 00:21:34I have found in my trading is I can
- 00:21:36still have my daily goal, but I need to
- 00:21:38effectively reverse engineer what I want
- 00:21:41to make per day and bake it into my
- 00:21:44process so that I design my process to
- 00:21:46by default get me to my daily goal
- 00:21:49without ever mentally registering or
- 00:21:51thinking about how much I'm actually
- 00:21:53trying to make per day. Okay, so say we
- 00:21:54actually have a daily goal of 333,
- 00:21:57right? So, we want to make $10,000 per
- 00:21:59month. We're not going to try to chase
- 00:22:01after our daily goal and make that every
- 00:22:03single day. What we need to do is
- 00:22:05reverse engineer our daily goal by
- 00:22:08figuring out the result of our strategy
- 00:22:11that we follow each day. Okay? So, this
- 00:22:13is going to make more sense in a second.
- 00:22:14So, what I did when I first started
- 00:22:16trading is I would go into a practice
- 00:22:18environment. You can go onto your
- 00:22:20charting and just use the replay feature
- 00:22:22to practice how you would actually trade
- 00:22:24during the times you're setting yourself
- 00:22:25up to actually start taking trades. And
- 00:22:27then all I would do is I would go
- 00:22:29through the charts for say a month. It's
- 00:22:30not really a month. It takes a few hours
- 00:22:32to do, but you're doing a month worth of
- 00:22:34technical trading. And all you're doing
- 00:22:35is keeping track of those risk factors.
- 00:22:38So those Rs that I was telling you about
- 00:22:40and it's just going back to that game
- 00:22:41that I was explaining to you. So say
- 00:22:43your process in your test environment
- 00:22:44gives you 10R after a month or 30 days.
- 00:22:48So that means in order to hit our daily
- 00:22:50goal and we know we're making 10 risk
- 00:22:52factors over that amount of time on
- 00:22:54average, that means that now we're going
- 00:22:56to take our monthly goal is based off of
- 00:22:58our daily goal, we can find our monthly
- 00:23:00goal and then we're going to take our
- 00:23:01monthly goal and divide it by the amount
- 00:23:03of risk factors that we're expected to
- 00:23:06get over that certain period. So based
- 00:23:08off of our results, not what we want to
- 00:23:10do or hope to do or how much money we're
- 00:23:12hoping to make. how much is our process
- 00:23:14that we follow actually making in terms
- 00:23:17of R and then based off of this terms of
- 00:23:19R is going to give us how much we need
- 00:23:21to risk per trade in order to
- 00:23:23effectively reverse engineer achieving
- 00:23:26our daily goal. So that would put our
- 00:23:28per trade risk at $1,000 per trade if
- 00:23:31we're only making 10R over a month. Now
- 00:23:33this is just an example. Even me
- 00:23:35sometimes I'm making 20 $30,000 in a
- 00:23:37month trading. I'm only risking $500 per
- 00:23:39trade. And you can do this process on a
- 00:23:41lot smaller of a scale. But what it
- 00:23:43focuses on doing is prevents you from
- 00:23:45even caring about how much you made or
- 00:23:48lost in any given day so long as you're
- 00:23:50sticking to your strategy and keeping it
- 00:23:52simple and keeping it focused. Okay?
- 00:23:53You're effectively reverse engineering
- 00:23:55your daily goal based off of what you
- 00:23:57can do, not what you're hoping to do.
- 00:23:59There's a really good saying, you're not
- 00:24:00going to rise to the occasion. You're
- 00:24:02going to fall to the levels of your
- 00:24:04systems. Right? Okay. Whenever something
- 00:24:05gets stressful, you're not going to have
- 00:24:07this miraculous epiphany and be able to
- 00:24:08perform. you're going to fall to your
- 00:24:11mechanisms. You're going to go to your
- 00:24:12default. And if you're basing your goals
- 00:24:14off of your default, off of your
- 00:24:16process, and this is how you're going to
- 00:24:17hit and actually achieve growing your
- 00:24:19account and getting to your goals. And
- 00:24:20this is exactly why on the private side
- 00:24:22of our trading team, we focus on these
- 00:24:24four things. We start with establishing
- 00:24:25a well-rounded education. What I'm
- 00:24:27explaining to you is just the surface
- 00:24:29level, right? There's all sorts of
- 00:24:30details in trading that you have to
- 00:24:32learn and make sure that you understand
- 00:24:34to be able to do any of this stuff.
- 00:24:35Anyways, second thing is focusing on
- 00:24:37process first, right? So once again,
- 00:24:40getting away from the money and focusing
- 00:24:41on the actual process of trading, then
- 00:24:43learning full data proven strategies.
- 00:24:46Now, this is one of the biggest things
- 00:24:48anytime when you're designing a
- 00:24:50strategy. What we've done is we've sent
- 00:24:51these strategies through thousands of
- 00:24:53data points and back tested them with
- 00:24:55full teams to know that they're
- 00:24:56statistically profitable. So, we're no
- 00:24:58longer guessing. Now, it's coming down
- 00:25:00to just learning how to properly execute
- 00:25:02and actually find those trade setups,
- 00:25:04right? So, learning a data proven
- 00:25:05strategy, then implementing and
- 00:25:07practicing them in a focused space.
- 00:25:09Okay, this is really important. Being in
- 00:25:11chat rooms or forums where people are
- 00:25:13not focused can be one of the biggest
- 00:25:15detriments to your trading. I remember
- 00:25:17early in my career, I'd be in chat rooms
- 00:25:18where people like, I got to make my
- 00:25:20rent. I'm going all in on this trade. It
- 00:25:22was horrifying looking back on how that
- 00:25:24would actually affect your mindset. You
- 00:25:25know, who you surround yourself with is
- 00:25:27going to largely affect who you end up
- 00:25:29becoming. And that's why there's a
- 00:25:30barrier to entry and why you need a
- 00:25:32focused environment to actually learn.
- 00:25:34This is why we have these focuses and
- 00:25:36have a private trading team. Okay. In
- 00:25:37talking to a lot of our traders, almost
- 00:25:39all of them have started with these
- 00:25:41issues and going through this proper
- 00:25:42pipeline and having these strategies and
- 00:25:44infrastructure. Okay. We had a member
- 00:25:46recently, Sid. Shout out Sid. He says
- 00:25:48I'm new here by the way, which is crazy.
- 00:25:50$18,000 in a single trade even as a new
- 00:25:52person focusing on proper strategy even
- 00:25:54being new by letting trades fully
- 00:25:56develop and run. or also Mac making
- 00:25:59$94,000 using the education and using
- 00:26:01these processes. You can see he says,
- 00:26:03"Keep your head down with the strat.
- 00:26:04Learn as much as possible with small
- 00:26:06trades." Once again, focusing on these
- 00:26:08elements. He said, "I started here in
- 00:26:10the beginning of 2023, ended up 94K in
- 00:26:132024 from what he's learned from the
- 00:26:14course. Take your time, learn
- 00:26:16everything. Focusing on these details
- 00:26:18effectively allowed him to change the
- 00:26:19trajectory of his entire life." All
- 00:26:20right. And another thing, notice how all
- 00:26:22of these people are talking about these
- 00:26:24riskreward factors. RR 4.2 2 RR 9 RR for
- 00:26:29a 2K profit win $800. We don't have our
- 00:26:31students only focusing on money. They're
- 00:26:33focusing on the proper infrastructure
- 00:26:36behind it that can later lead to these
- 00:26:38larger profits. Okay, you can see
- 00:26:40$2,100 in a single trade from PUS.
- 00:26:42Michael making 40K on one of his
- 00:26:44accounts and 6,000 on the other account.
- 00:26:46It says, "Thank you, team trade." Okay,
- 00:26:48not to mention most days now we're
- 00:26:50getting new funded traders on prop firm.
- 00:26:52So, they're actually able to pass
- 00:26:53qualification metrics using our
- 00:26:55strategies to be able to get funding and
- 00:26:57payouts from prop firms. We're basically
- 00:26:59getting one of these every couple days
- 00:27:00now and they're starting to increase
- 00:27:02faster and faster. Now, all of these
- 00:27:04people have started out without this
- 00:27:05framework and I've come here and been
- 00:27:07able to deploy these things and see the
- 00:27:09results. Okay? I've effectively boiled
- 00:27:10down 8 years of everything that I've
- 00:27:12learned, put it into this one process.
- 00:27:13Okay? So even imagine starting small
- 00:27:15where you learn these processes where
- 00:27:17you're able to start with $100 a day,
- 00:27:19$3,000 a month, $200 a day, average,
- 00:27:21$6,000 a month. What I've aimed to put
- 00:27:23together is basically a streamline
- 00:27:25process for people who are hyper serious
- 00:27:27about learning this as a craft and being
- 00:27:29on a private team. Okay? So if that's
- 00:27:30you and that's what you're aspiring for,
- 00:27:32take advantage of my free content on
- 00:27:34YouTube, okay? We have open enrollment
- 00:27:35to our education and team in the
- 00:27:37description. Also, I'll put a link right
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