B The Trader

I like to stay in my own trading lane, in fact, most of the people I interview are so kind to offer me assistance in learning what they are good at and I respectfully decline because I know what works for me and want to become better at that. Somewhere along the way I got off track for a bit and started to branch out into other different trading styles...now this did help me learn more about who I am as a trader and I also picked up some valuable skills along the way of trying something new. Now I am doing well again because I am back to what I am good at, and so I wanted to share the ideas or steps I am taking to stay on track.

Phil Goedeker is a full-time day trader who is also well known in twitter and the trading community as OzarkTrades, however, his old account got hacked and is no longer active. Phil has been trading for 15 years and when he started he was completely on his own, no classes or courses were available at the time. He started out longing stocks for 2 years with no consistency and eventually, he learned he can short stocks. Today Phil Soley focuses on shorting stocks and in this interview he shares some of his thoughts around finding success in day trading. 

As a day trader you will find many days where you go "AHA now I get it!" and this happens often, in fact, I believe it will always happen no matter where you are in your day trading career. You can sometimes forget what the "Aha" moments were when we have found success. Success is such a loaded word too, I mean consistently profitable. I don't care how much money that is for you or john doe, but consistency is the goal. Anyway, I wanted to share with you the top "Aha" moments that helped me become consistently profitable

Mike Huddie is a day trader who started out with Tim Sykes and once he found his niche, "overextended plays" he stuck with it and became a profitable trader. He has had his fair share of mess-ups and he even shares some of the new ideas he is starting to implement into his trading today to help him get better. He has found it hard to size up recently due to a bigger than normal loss that he took after getting over-confident. Now it is difficult for him to get back to the size he was once at. This episode will have you thinking of how you can overcome some of your fears of sizing in a different way. I hope you enjoy and please let me know what you learned from this episode.

After interviewing Seven Points Capital Krishna Joshi and Stan Gluzman, I asked Stan who he felt would be a good guest for the show and he recommended I reach out to up and comer Peter Skalon, a fairly newer member of the Seven Points Capital Team and a consistently profitable trader. His story and how he become profitable is one you want to listen to because I feel you will be able to relate. Especially when he talks about sizing when your just getting started. 

Mike Spinosa is a full-time day trader and mentor. He started out in the corporate world, analyzing small caps and then eventually becoming an analyst for bigger cap companies. After realizing this was not for him he decided to jump ship cold turkey and pursue day trading full-time. He shares how his background didn't really help him with his trading now and how he doesn't even use fundamentals in his everyday trading. Mike focuses solely on price action and momentum and he shares some insight on how he has been able to find his success.

Learning to trust your gut as a trader is something I am starting to learn more and more. I mean trusting your gut in life is something I have learned from as well and I guess I shouldn't be surprised it is the same in trading. In this episode I share with you all how my progress has been in May since I decided to trust my gut and pursue this new style of trading...Price action/momentum. I am happy to say there has been great progress so far. I have found myself making most of my return on longing trade setups on occasion which is something I have never done before and some days where I both short and long the same ticker. I will discuss with you the feeling I have been having while trading this new way and how it has created a sense of openness. 

Dr. Brett Steenbarger is the author of one of my favorite books "The Daily Trading Coach". He coaches/mentors top traders in several different prop firms including SMB Capital. He is a trader himself, and a clinical psychology professor. You will have plenty of takeaways in this episode so be sure to get a pen and paper. 

My trading has been improving week by week, month by month and when you're doing well you want to push it, grow your account even more, and size up. This is exactly what I was doing for a while now and then May hit me...I started to realize that the patterns I was using were not working well. In this episode, I will share with you the mental battle I had during this time and also how I have decided to handle it.

Stan Gluzman is a professional trader from Seven Points Capital and was more than happy to share with me his story of how he became a successful trader and some solid tips around his sizing strategy. We discuss some challenges he has faced in the past and his current challenges along with what he plans to do to improve.