Feels a bit surreal to be posting this milestone - I started trading in 2021 and as recent as May this year I was still struggling. I was getting by but my growth was inconsistent and the trade-off between what trading was costing me personally and the returns I was getting just wasn't there. I had 15k in the trading account and had to sell my apartment just to get by. Purely from a lifestyle standpoint, I switched things up to focus more on swing trading. What started as an experiment snowballed pretty quickly into a really scalable style of trading for me (while also coinciding with a market conducive to this style). If you're struggling like I was - things can take much longer than you initially expect but can also change in an instant. I'm mindful that guys in the US sneezed and made this much on $BYND so my focus now turns to growth and scale with this strategy.
@BollingerBanter@trade4a_livin@trade4a_livin is just trying to steer newbie traders away from paying for a course from a kid that started trading in a raging bull and thinks heโs Warren buffet. Youโre getting overly defensive..reminds me of how cults respond when theyโre questioned.
@asxbulll Thanks mate! Iโve been lucky recently not to have been hit with any negative news but Iโm only holding for a few days usually - itโs definitely happened in the past and Iโm sure itโll happen again, just have to wear the risk.
It's been a while since I've posted but thought I'd share a bit of a milestone. Last year was tough, I felt like I went backwards and I wasn't sure if I'd make it as a trader, but with some better conditions this year I finally feel like I'm finding some consistency.
I'm mindful too that conditions have been significantly better for commodities this year which has been a huge contributing factor. I'm not expecting this to continue all year and it'll be a test trying to maintain consistency when conditions drop off.
A bit of help from a trading mentor also changed the way I view adds. I used to add small and move my entire stop, but I've started adding big while keeping a tighter separate stop for the add. This helps me swing for the fences when a trade is working without blowing out risk.