005 - Interview with Reid Hicks and Glenn Nabua of Hawai'i Trading Academy

Reid and Glenn trade Forex and Futures while living in Hawai'i. They have a few unique perspectives, being younger than many traders, yet having solid experience as traders and entrepreneurs. They focus on community and helping others develop into capable, profitable traders.

Show Notes

·        Glenn Nabua  and Reid Hicks, the founders of the Hawai’i Trading Academy, focusing on forming both an online community and in-person with the Charts & Coffee meetups. 

·        How Glenn and Reid have 17 years of trading experience, and yet are pretty young compared to most traders of similar experience. 

·        How Glenn went from having a business with his wife in wedding media to being interested in trading, How Reid also went from having a business with his wife in a non-trading related field to becoming a trader.

·        How Glenn and Reid connected and started the Hawaii Trading Academy

·        Their journey as funded traders and how it’s different from trading one’s own money, plus how they’re vetting the different prop firms

·        What’s it like trading and living in the Hawaiian time zone and how the schedule reminded them that they’re trading to have a life, not spend all their time in front of the charts

·        With your Hawaii Trading Academy, how they focus on the 3 pillars of Psychology, Risk and Edge.  How they bring this to other traders to help them with their trading

·        Who their heroes have been and how they’ve been impacted

·        One of Brian’s heroes (they turned the question back to me!)