Positive Equity

I still sometimes pay the high or sell the low in a move. Sometimes my stop is exactly where the market turns. That happens to everybody. The goal is not perfecion, its survival. Keep losses small. Stay in the game. Long career.

I remember when I “made it” with trading I was making good money and was living in a nice apartment with my wife We went on holiday to Malaysia and went to a big food market that was famous over there Everyone around me was having fun, yet I felt nothing I thought that my life would be great after succeeding at trading - yet I had no emotions, it was almost like I was depressed All of those hours I had put in to learning trading, and when I had finally done it, it didn’t make me happy at all I realised that trading is a great vehicle to make money, but at the end of the day: •You’re not working / collaborating with other people •You’re not having a positive impact on other people’s lives •It’s the same boring process every single day Figuring out the markets was the fun part, but now that I had done that I became extremely bored in life and didn’t know what to do So I started doing other things on the side - teaching trading, building softwares businesses, investing in other businesses This is when I got my passion back for life I realised that I didn’t enjoy trading - I enjoyed CREATING But I was lucky enough that trading providing both money and time, which allowed me to pursue what I was actually passionate about Just be warned - becoming a profitable trader isn’t going to make your life much better In fact, if trading is all that you have, it’s easy to become bored and depressed Use trading as a vehicle to pursue hard / creative things that you’re passionate about THIS is how trading should be done, not just used as something where you work for 1-3 hours a day and spend the rest of it gaming, watching netflix and scrolling on your phone