My Story

I’m an experienced professional trader with over 11 years of experience trading the markets. When I first started trading, it was mainly stocks and options until about 4 years ago when I was introduced to the e-mini futures markets and foreign currency exchange or the forex markets. I currently day trade mainly the e-mini markets (emini S&P, Dow, Nasdaq) and I’m not only consistently profitable, but this is something I do on a part time basis (I make more than enough). I’m also an entrepreneur and involved in a few other businesses as well. There are many people who day trade and are unfortunately not profitable and losing money. They need someone to really teach them the fundamentals of what it requires to become a successful trader and help them get there.

My day trading did not start out profitably! During my days of ignorance as a day trader, there was just 1 thing consistent. I was consistently losing money rather than making money. When I first started out, I bought some courses on the web with full promises of how profitable and successful I will be. Some of these things cost me thousands of dollars. The highest one costing me around $6000 to teach me their signals and when to trade/not trade. None of it worked!

I don’t want to reject every course and say none of them work. No, each course put together by anyone has benefits and will teach you something, but overall it is hard to become a consistent profitable trader because almost none of them teach you about the importance of discipline or steps required to become a disciplined trader. None of them tell you about things you need in a trading plan and exact money management you need to follow. This was my problem, I was being told about risk, you decide how much risk you want to take. At that time, I would be like OK, but now thinking back, I had no clue, how in the world would I be able to decide how much to risk when it’s something only the person familiar with the trading method would be able to decide.

All in all, I was losing money no matter what I did and you always search for the next method or the holy grail as they say. It was after having a couple of bad losing days and with the help of a friend that I started to sit and actually think about my trading. I stopped trading for some time and actually developed a complete trading plan that I can follow and use on a regular basis. Anyone can create a plan, but the hard part is the discipline and following that plan.

I started working on my discipline. I realized how bad my discipline was. Absolutely no consistency. I went from taking a huge number of trades per day, sometimes more than 20 to 1 or 2, maybe 3 per day for my e-mini trading. Anyone that is undisciplined and taking a huge number of trades per day knows how hard it is to cut down to just a few per day! I had to! I wanted to make money. I was not doing this for excitement. Slowly my trading turned around and I started having profitable months. The beauty of trading is anytime you want to make more money, you don’t have to take more trades. You add contracts! and this is what I’ve been doing.

Now I consistently make good money and am as happy as I can be about my trading. I truly cannot tell my story in just a few paragraphs and all the hard work and difficulty I went through, but one thing that clearly helped me was a friend who said listen stop jumping around and do this – what was this? It was him guiding me exactly what to do, clear guidance that didn’t leave anything to doubt. I got into positions and exited them with his help and it tremendously helped my confidence and in developing discipline.

Throughout this site, I will post articles on different topics from my trading background and experience that all should be considered my story. Everything that has had a role in me becoming a successful profitable trader. Read, learn and make money!