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Chapter list
0:00 Intro
2:26 A Day in the life of a Day Trader
6:09 When I Got Started Day Trading
8:20 Stick with One Day Trading Strategy
11:42 Giving Back Profit vs Leaving Money on the Table
12:16 Trade in a SIMULATOR before putting real money on the line
17:26 The Curse of Day Trading
22:22 The Stress of being a Day Trader
24:24 Expectations vs Reality - Just Trade the Market You're in
32:19 Becoming a Disciplined Trader
33:50 Trading is a Marathon NOT a Sprint
38:07 Outro
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Warrior Trading // Ross Cameron // Day Trade Warrior
Chapter list
0:00 Intro
2:26 A Day in the life of a Day Trader
6:09 When I Got Started Day Trading
8:20 Stick with One Day Trading Strategy
11:42 Giving Back Profit vs Leaving Money on the Table
12:16 Trade in a SIMULATOR before putting real money on the line
17:26 The Curse of Day Trading
22:22 The Stress of being a Day Trader
24:24 Expectations vs Reality - Just Trade the Market You're in
32:19 Becoming a Disciplined Trader
33:50 Trading is a Marathon NOT a Sprint
38:07 Outro
Before we continue...👀
💰Remember, day trading is risky and most traders lose money. You should never trade with money you can’t afford to lose. Prove profitability in a simulator before trading with real money.
❗❗My results are not typical. We do not track the typical results of past or current customers. As a provider of trading tools and educational courses, we do not have access to the personal trading accounts or brokerage statements of our customers. As a result, we have no reason to believe our customers perform better or worse than traders as a whole.
❌Do not mirror trade me, or anyone else. Mirror trading is extremely risky https://www.warriortrading.com/why-mirror-trading-is-a-bad-idea/.
🍏 All of the content on our channel is for educational purposes only. No data, content, or information provided by Warrior Trading, the Site, or the other products and services of Warrior Trading, is intended, and shall not constitute or be construed as, advice or any recommendation to buy, sell or hold a particular security or pursue any particular investment strategy.
✔️If you don’t agree with those terms and our full disclaimer (https://www.warriortrading.com/disclaimer), you should not continue watching our videos.
Still with me?
Now let’s dig into some helpful information …
What’s my story? ✏️ You can read it here: https://www.warriortrading.com/ross-cameron/
And check out my broker statements here 📝 https://www.warriortrading.com/ross-camerons-verified-day-trading-earnings/
Our website is filled with free info 🔎 Start with this guide, no opt-in required: https://www.warriortrading.com/day-trading/
Learn about my stock selection process, how I determine entries/exits, my strategy, and more in my free class 💻 Register here: https://www.warriortrading.com/free-day-trading-class/
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Warrior Trading // Ross Cameron // Day Trade Warrior
What's up everyone? Alright, welcome to the next episode of Day Trading with 500 bucks. Now during this episode, what I'm gonna do for you guys is I'm gonna share with you the things that I wish I had known when I was getting started trading the tips and tricks that would have saved me tens of thousands of dollars in unnecessary losses and sped up my learning curve by months if not years. One of the things that I'll talk about during this episode is the fact that it took me nearly two years before I discovered a strategy that was consistently profitable and I had this false belief that in order to be a successful day trader, I needed to know a little bit of everything I needed to be able to trade options I need to be able to trade large apps, small caps penny stocks I need to be able to go long and short and that was a false belief. That's simply not true when I started over in 2017 with 583 dollars in my account I set out to prove that you can become a millionaire with one strategy when I turned 583 bucks and over a million dollars in just over two years trading a momentum based strategy.
Now I'll talk about the strategy a little bit during this episode I'm mostly to be talking about the things that I wish I had known when I was getting started. So those of you guys who are scratching your head thinking, all right I want to know more about this strategy, How does he find these stocks? Where does he get in? Where does he get out? How does it work? What I'm gonna do for you guys is: I'm gonna put a link right below in the description where you can register it to my next live seminar. I Host live seminars from time to time. Everyone who attends will get a copy of my book How To Day Trade This is sort of a supplement to it's almost like a guide to the strategy and well do during the seminars.
I'll break down for you to 5 criteria that I use to evaluate whether or not a stock fits within my strategy: I'll walk you through where I get in and where I get out in order to minimize risk and maximize profit potential especially to a small account. and I'll break down a bunch of examples of setups, stocks and patterns that met my criteria and worked and some that didn't work. My accuracy is right around 70 percent. So in out of 100 trades, I'll have 70 winners, third losers, and I break down a handful of both the winners and the losers so you can really get a sense of what works and and when it doesn't work.
So again, those of you guys that want to learn more about my strategy, check out that link below, register to my next live seminar. And now let's get into this episode of breaking down the things that I wish I had known when I was getting started trading And this is a special episode because you're gonna come with me my trip to California So pack your bags, let's go. What's up everyone? All right? Well I don't know about you guys but lately I feel like there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done that I need to get done and I've been kind of operating on this level of like high stress and just burning a candle at both ends and so that means for this video we're gonna have to do it on the go. But that's okay because we're gonna talk about. today is a little bit of the life of being a trader and a few of things that I wish I had known about trading before I got started. We're gonna talk about the ups, we're gonna talk about the downs and I think you guys are gonna get a better sense of what it's like to be a day trader. It's an amazing job, but my job is actually a lot more than just being a trader. My job is being a trader, being a coach, being a boss, father, husband's and all of that.
There's a lot of work. probably not that much different from what a lot of you guys are doing too. So let's get into this episode. Well, it's about 9 o'clock I Was in my office for about about 13 hours today.
Now my watchlist started it about 9 a.m. so a bell rang at 9:30 I was really only focusing on trading for two hours from about 9:00 to 11:00. but then the rest of my day was meetings, following up on emails, doing all the stuff behind the scenes so that you guys who are my students get to have an awesome experience meeting with my tech guys, my developers, meeting with my support staff I try to kind of front-load my work so I have lots of meetings early in the week on Mondays and Tuesdays and then Wednesdays get stuff done Thursday's got stuff done and then if I'm lucky Fridays I might get to leave a little bit early. It's not been the case recently, but this is my typical routine.
So finishing the day here nine o'clock pulling in the driveway, only a couple lights on in the house, put the car in the garage, go inside, grab a quick bite to eat, and got the Christmas lights out right here. That was one of my weekend projects getting those guys set up so can we grab a bite to eat, jump back on the laptop, finish up some YouTube comments, and then try to get to bed before midnight. Hey girl, you happy to see daddy! So I didn't get to bed early as I wanted to last night and this morning I woke up and we've got some snow outside so I'm gonna trade from the house today which is which is okay I don't really mind doing that I've got my traveling trading station ready to go. so I've got my laptop and my two USB monitors so I'm gonna jump on there I Gotta do my watch.
Let's real quick start trading and then I'm gonna be out of here. Hard stop today is at 10:30 So I've got one hour to trade and see how much I can make. We'll see how we can do all right. Well, that's it.
It's just a couple minutes before 11:00 a.m. I'm finished in the morning up two thousand four hundred seven dollars trading a stock that's currently up over a hundred and eighty percent Crazy. We're seeing some pretty awesome momentum. So I just did my recap for the chat room for YouTube and now I got switch gears and go on to the rest of things. I Gotta get done today So you know that's pretty much the dream to be able to make twenty four hundred, twenty five hundred dollars in an hour living in Vermont where I was when I was first getting started trading. that was. that was enough to cover me for an entire month of living expenses. I mean literally I really didn't need that much to get by a hundred dollars a day.
So to have a day where I'd hit twenty five hundred bucks would have been a dream and I was doing pretty much I mean I would have done pretty much anything in those days to be consistently profitable. To give you guys some context, where I was at was I was basically broke I had moved up to Vermont and I was trying to live a little bit of a simpler life cut my cost of living quite a lot. but I was living off of credit cards and you know I had a roof over my head and I was buying groceries but all of those expenses were going onto a credit card and I was accumulating that they had five credit cards they were maxed out. ended up with six total credit cards and about thirty thousand dollars of debt you know, which is a pretty scary thing and I knew I was gonna have this Apex point where my cost of living with you know, paying, paying credit card based living off credit cards and the minimum amounts do on the credit cards was gonna cross to the point where I wasn't able to keep doing that and my hope was that my success as a trader would begin to pick up before the credit card balances ran out.
and that's what I was just kind of racing against and what I wish I had known that I now know is that that added pressure was only making the learning curve more difficult because I was gotten to this place of kind of scrambling to try to find something that was working and it made me much quicker to jump away from a strategy that was sort of working is something that something else and then you know, just kind of like jumping back and forth. I was just making things worse. So one of the things I would tell myself going back is stick with one strategy I appreciate it. So how do you find that one strategy that's a good fit for you that you really resonate with that you like that you understand and that you can trust is actually profitable.
Unfortunately, that's the heart Most of the successful traders out there. they're not sharing their strategy. they're afraid they share bills. most of the educators out there.
those classes are being taught by you. Get start: how'd you find one strategy that's a good fit for you ten years. The advice that I would give myself would be get an internship working at a hedge fund, maybe a bank or something like that. but you know what? and guess what? I think Annette calls back.
So I ended up starting from Square One and spending 18 months developing my own strategy. But even on the red days I became more and more motivated and excited to make it happen because I realized how quickly money could be made if I was on the other side of that trade. So once I finally developed a strategy that was consistently profitable, I decided to do something that no one else was doing I decided to really put my money where my mouth is which is when I started over I started with 583 dollars in my account and traded this one strategy that I had discovered and I turned that 583 dollars into a million dollars and then had all of those broker statements audited by an independent auditor a CPA firm down in New York City called Citrin Cooperman And that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that these games are real, that the strategy works a hundred and eighty three thousand percent return. Think about that for a second. almost a two hundred thousand percent return on my money, which was wild I mean absolutely insane. So unlike a lot of traders out there who were successful, I decided not to keep this strategy for myself, but to share it with my students and I've realized that it hasn't made the strategy any less effective. I've continued to be profitable and and which really does. It's given beginner traders an opportunity to learn something that is a proven way to generate profits in the market.
Alright, another morning. so it's about 6 a.m. right now in California So I'm gonna do my watchlist and start trading as soon as the bell rings at 6:30 local time 9:30 Eastern Time So you guys out here on the west coast, you get the opportunity to trade for two hours before potentially have to go to a nine-to-five job, which is pretty cool. So all right, I'm gonna jump into it and see what stocks I can find this morning.
All right. So it's 10:30 finished. My one hour of trading may hit a thousand bucks and that's it done for the day. One of the things to always kind of remember is that the more times you trade every single day, the more you risk giving back profit.
So every day when you trade you're doing one two, you're either leaving money on the table. in other words, not making as much as you could or giving back profit to the market. I always feel better leaving the day knowing that maybe I left some money on the table. but I walked away with money in my pocket.
So that's what I'm doing again today. So the next piece of advice that I wish I knew 10 years ago when I was getting started the importance of trading in a simulator before trading with real money. but that's not what I did when I got started when I got started I jumped in with real money and guess what happened I lost money and I justified trading real money and not using a simulator by telling myself that well I couldn't afford to spend time trading him simulator I needed to make money today to pay my bills by the end of this month and so that desperation that I needed to make money to pay my bills was what I used to justify trading with with real money And so then what ended up happening. the first few trades I lost money and now I'm in the red and I'm thinking alright, well you know I should probably step back and slow down but now kind of hooked because I feel like I've lost money and need to make back that money and the only way I can make that back is by trading with the real money. and I think one of the things that was really hard for me was having a few early winners that maybe were just pure luck, but there were some big winners. So I got the taste of success and I felt like I was so close even though in reality I was actually really far away. looking back, if I could have started by trading a simulator, that emotional cycle and that emotional spiral would have never happened. Remembering that emotional spiral that ended up resulting in me jumping from strategy to strategy from small caps to large caps penny stocks to you know, options and just being all over the place I wouldn't have felt that need to grasp for straws and if you can almost picture this sliding down Venkman and just grasping for anything you can to hold yourself as you get closer and closer to this darkness which for me was the reality that that apex point was coming where I wasn't gonna be able to keep living off of credit cards and where I was gonna have to get a regular job.
Now the job that I was looking at I was looking at getting a three to eleven job so that I guess that's like third shift or whatever. a second I don't know I've I've never actually worked that time, but that's what I was looking at is okay. Well if I got a three to eleven job, I could work, you know, afternoon into the evening and then I could still trade in the morning. But if I had just given myself that couple months to trade in a simulator I could have started my experience trading on such a positive note.
Instead, it's like I started the race by tripping out of the starting gate and then I spent the whole race the whole first 18 months scrambling to try to catch up and dig myself out of this hole. It was totally totally unnecessary. So once again, it's just about my bedtime. So tomorrow we're gonna talk about some of the stress related to learning how to trade and some of the stress that I still still deal with today as a professional trader.
All right. So another day $708 before 8 a.m. local time at San Francisco over there. Cool thing we're trading on the west coast here is that, you know? Yeah, it's not a lot of fun to get up at 5:30 in the morning, but the market opens at 6:30 local time I trade till 7:30 by 8:00 a.m.
I've already made my money seven hundred bucks today. You know it's It's kind of awesome if you're someone that still works a nine-to-five job because you could actually do this in the morning before you go to work today. We're gonna talk about some of the reasons that trading was stressful for me. One of the reasons that trading was really stressful for me was because my life circumstances when I was starting trading were stressful. I was broke. You know I was living on credit card debt and that essentially would have made anything stressful. Anything that was related to starting a new business or something where you know it, it, it was iffy whether or not I would be successful. obviously.
obviously if I just started a regular job working, you know you that I wanted to go back to working the gas station like I did out of college. But you know, even if I was working in a gas station, that would have just been money coming in. but we're trading, it was stressful because I genuinely didn't know if I was gonna be one of the ones that figured it out or if I'd be one of the ones who you know is telling their friends ten years from now. Yeah, I tried to do this thing day trading and I just lost a ton of money and just embarrassed right? The stress for me as I was getting started was really tied in to the difference between my expectation of what would happen and what was actually happening.
My expectation was that I would start making ten dollars a day small money and then go up to 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and that I would just continue to increase as I got better when I started losing money. The difference between my expectation where I was that was growing and that was creating more stress. I Think that for me is kind of a stressor. it's the difference between my current reality and where I want to be.
You know, whatever. wherever that happens to be, you know, maybe dependent. You know what I'm talking about, but you know, as a beginner trader I think that was the big stressor it was I want to be making $100 a day? He's 500 a week. That's 2,500 a month.
That is enough to pay my bills living in Vermont and so when I was coming up short I just kept feeling more and more frustrated. One of the things that I've said a million times. We'll say it again now is that there's a blessing in the curse of being a day trader. The curse is that you can spend 18 months struggling to make even ten dollars a day.
and that sounds like crazy. Ten dollars a day is nothing you're not asking a driver a Lamborghini or flying a private jet. ten dollars a day I Mean that's you. Know that's $250 of a month.
Like that's a very low expectation. You're not being greedy. So why would it take 18 months to consistently make 10 bucks a day? It would take 18 months because you won't consistently make 10 dollars a day until you have a consistent strategy. It comes back to strategy.
And until you have the discipline to follow your rules and to stick with just one strategy. Because it's so easy. when you feel that emotional impulse to jump to something else, you know where to break a rule and trade something you're not supposed to trade to do it because it alleviates that emotional instinct and that emotional instinct is coming from. Okay I need a grasp for something else? You know. just sticking with this one thing isn't giving me the immediate result that I wanted. So then on the other side, the the blessing of the market is that once you're consistently making 10 dollars a day, the only difference between making 10 dollars a day and $20 a day consistently is increasing your share size. If you're making $10 a day for the last year and a half trading with a thousand shares, you know well if I just do the numbers and I was trading with 2,000 shares, you would've made twice as much. Then if you go to 4,000 you make twice as much.
you go to 8,000 You'd make twice as much. and then you start seeing diminishing returns as you increase to 16,000 or 30,000 or something like that. and that soon as liquidity and slippage in the market. But anywhere from a hundred shares to eight or 10,000 you're gonna be a pretty linear, you know, pretty pretty flat trajectory moving up in profit.
The big stress for me when I was getting started was just that question of is this gonna work for me and a lot of that added pressure was because of my life circumstances. So for you guys who are able to get started right now who can do some of the side hustles that I've talked about driving Uber and I've had a couple students since I posted that video or like yeah Ross I Drive loop around Saturday and Sunday make an extra 200 bucks. You know that helps me pay my bills and stuff like that I would have totally done that if I could have done that 10 years ago. Absolutely driving Uber cuz I want to do stuff that I'm in charge that I decide when I want to work I don't want to go in on someone else's schedule I go in on my own driving Uber.
You're on your own schedule. lyft or Uber eats or any of those types of jobs. You're on your own schedule. Um, you know, if you're doing freelance work that starts to get into a little bit more commitment, a little more responsibility, you can do freelance on up work.
Hire writers. You can. You know your interests in the stock market. There's people there looking for writers who can write about.
you know, stock market news and events. I mean we have writers at Warrior Training MIT that do that type of stuff. So like you know, there's all these things that you guys can do now to kind of help supplement. if you have all those things going to the point where you're let's say breaking even in terms of how much it costs your cost of living and and how much money is coming in, then anything you make as a trader is icing on the cake.
and now the expectation is not that you need to make 200 a day to live to survive. it's that if you make even 50 bucks a day, it's awesome. Now with that pressure off and that stress gone, that cycle, that spiral of you know feeling more stress and I've lost money now I need to make it back. When you cut that suddenly this weight is just lifted off your shoulders and you can focus on trading based on great quality setups. And you might say I don't trade every day because I trade this very specific setup and if I don't see it every day, there's no reason to take risk. anything I make is icing on the cake and there's really no reason to get bent out of shape if I have a couple slow days or a slow week or even a slow month. So I think things you can do to really make learning to trade easier and more fun is by being diversified in the income that you have so that you're not 100% dependent on training. They might think since becoming a profitable trader that now I have no stress in my life and the trading is totally stress-free and totally easy if you thought that if you're wrong I still have stress as a trader but the stress has changed and the stress that I have now really resides around the wall.
kitties reside around expectations I've moved up my expectations I'm no longer satisfied with having today where I make a hundred bucks my daily goals: mm and if I'm not consistently hitting 2,000 a day, that means I'm not going to be tracking for a $500,000 a year and I'm the type of person that I like to set a goal for myself an expectation. and if I come up short: I'm gonna be a little disappointed myself. I Think that a lot of traders are like that I don't want this to sound tone-deaf because I understand it. You should never feel bad if you're making only 400 grand and not 500.
You know that's a very silly thing to be sad about in the grand scheme of things. It's absolutely, absolutely true. But I think that anyone that's in a performance-based type of career, whether it's sports or something like trading that is. So based on your performance from a week to week, month to month, and certainly year to year measurement I Think that we naturally are just constantly benchmarking ourselves against how we did in a previous period of time and how we're doing that.
And if you're an athlete, you start you know, dipping down and your your stats. That's not a good thing. It's not really a good thing as a trainer either. So I think that the stress that I have now resides around that and I want to give you a really interesting example of two different months with completely different levels of stress.
It was August historically one of my worst months of the year and October historically one of my best months of the year. So here's the funny thing in August I was I had the last few August have been terrible for me and so I basically was like I was considering not even trading for the month of August I mean I was like no, I can't do that you know I got a trade so I said you know what if I make even $10,000 it's gonna be an awesome month. I'll be totally happy with that. It's better than nothing. And so I set the bar at 10,000 bucks which is way below my monthly goal to a typical month. But for the month of August set at $10,000 hey, you know what happened I ended up making $40,000 and I was thrilled I mean I was like $40,000 in August $42,000 This is incredible. So I set such a low expectation that even 10,000 I was happy 20,000 I was like this is awesome 30,000 40,000 Best August in my career and is it because I set the expectation Love I don't know but it made me think and in October Typically one of my best months of the year, I was hoping for 40 grand. That was my expectation that I would make $40,000 You know what ended up happening? Well, the first few days of the month I started in the red I started getting all frustrated and then when I started to pick up and go into the green I started to really swing for the fences in five days I made 45,000 I hit my monthly goal but I thought to myself, this is the beginning of the hot season.
This is when things are really starting to pick up. I should put the pedal to the metal and so I did I started to. you know what happened I ended up losing everything I had made in that five-day hot streak and finished in the month down $20,000 I set an expectation that I was gonna have a huge month I started swinging for homeruns I got some really big strikeouts and it all comes back to expectations. So as you can probably imagine, October was a pretty stressful month I had some big ups which were awesome, but then I had some really big downs which were disappointing.
and at the end of the month that came came up way shy of my monthly goal where is the month of August was awesome? No stress just far exceeding what I expected. How can I on the one hand set an expectation for myself and set a goal and allow it to be a motivator? Well at the same time, not allowing that fixation on hitting that number become a negative influence on my trading and on my attitude. It's something that I've actually struggled with from my entire career as a beginner trader I was struggling with it because I needed to make that amount of money each month to pay my bills. and now as a trader who's been doing it for a while, it's hard for me to separate my feeling of needing to continue to have better and better monthly returns.
And you know, I'm just kind of continuing to chase that I need to keep improving and if you're not improving, then you're either going up or going down and going sideways doesn't feel to me like you know a really reasonable thing as a trader I think one of the pieces of advice that I'm just starting to adopt that I wish I had known sooner and have been able to really embrace sooner is that I shouldn't look at my P&L every single day and this is actually the first time that I've stopped doing it and really, my entire career. It's not that I don't look at how much I've made on the day, but I don't look at my account balance because when I would have green days, you know I'm like you know my accounts going up from, you know, whatever. Mm - three - four - five - Six - seven and then that day you have a big loss and you log in. You're like my counseling at 4,500 yesterday was at 7 grand. You just feel this sense of loss and of course you know you had the loss. but when you log in and you see that number there, it just amplifies it. and then for me, I'm always chasing to get back to that 7,500 and that's not trading the market, that's trading your P&L That's trading a number that's something totally independent from what's happening in the market. Now the market may give you opportunities to get right back to seven or it may end up that you took a loss at the beginning of what is gonna be a cold streak and you're just gonna have to be patient and if you try to force it, you're just gonna lose more money.
The piece of advice that I would give myself and and any of you would be to stop looking at your account balance every single morning. So every day when you log in of course you want to know you know you start the day at zero and you want to hit your daily goal but to not be so fixated on where how how it affects your account balance and also where you stand on the month because something that I've been doing for pretty much my whole career is very actively tracking to the penny how much I've made each week or each month because you know I'm thinking about have I made enough to cover my bills and of course that stemmed from the circumstances I was in when I started and it was a habit that I've just maintained I've generally thought that maintaining that data has been valuable, but I think it's more valuable to do it on a monthly basis at the end of the month. Looking back than to do it at the end of each day because what it created for me I feel sort of this television on very short term goals of weekly goals and monthly goals. And the reality is, sometimes you're gonna have a slow week, you're gonna have a slow month and that's okay.
long-term being a successful traders learning to cope with some of these stressors like the difference between your expectation for the month and what actually happens and again it's It's not to say that it's not good to set expectations, it's not to say that it's not good - no, historically, Auguste is not a good month and I should be more conservative than in a month where the market is typically stronger but the same time to be able to come in each day, both with the expectation and also with the ability to simply accept the market for what it is today. That's a real challenge for me even still. One of the other things that I wish I had started doing sooner was to develop a really strong pre trading routine that I do every single day. So my routine of you know I wake up at this time and I do my watchlist and I have a cup of coffee and I you know, have a whatever something for breakfast. The piece in there that I've really encourage you to add would be at the minimum a one-minute meditation and you might think that's crazy. You don't need to do that, but when you're in the moment of watching a stock squeezing up and you're thinking I'm just gonna jump in and give in to FOMO you need that presence of mind to hold you back because if you don't have that natural and most of us don't we'll just impulsively jump into a trade and you know what ends up happening. You take a bad trade, poor risk management, and you take an unnecessary loss. It's not worth it.
Let's get real meditation. Doesn't have to look like that. Meditation can be as simple as taking a breath before you start trading and saying thank you for this opportunity to be able to work from home to potentially make a full-time income right here trading on my laptop. I'm gonna respect the power of the market I'm going to take a quality trades and I'm not going to allow emotional impulses to influence my training today.
Just like craving, meditation requires discipline, it's a muscle. The more you strengthen it, the better you get at it. To be a successful trader long-term you need to have the discipline to follow the rules of your strategy. Take it from me, a habitual rule breaker will save you thousands of dollars if you can learn this early on.
The next piece of advice that I wish I knew when I was getting started. it's to call your broker and set up a max loss on your account. so if you're down more than a certain amount on any given day you're done, you can't keep trading. and also to set a Mac share size on your account so you predetermine what that is and you can't take more than that number of shares.
That just helps prevent a day where emotions may get the better of you. and if you didn't have those max loss and max shares sizes put into place, you would go rogue, get aggressive, and do something you might regret. So the last piece of advice that I wish I could give to myself and that I hope helps you guys is that trading is a marathon. It's not a sprint.
It really isn't It's not about trying to make $10,000 by the end of next week so you can pay this bill. When you start with that mindset, you inherently become more emotionally impulsive. You learn bad habits. It's almost like running a marathon enthusiastically in the wrong direction.
You're not doing yourself any favors, you're running in the wrong direction. And so when you think of it as a marathon and that you need to pace yourself and that means being ok with the fact that you may not make $10,000 at the end of your first week or whatever the case is, and that's alright, you're really, you're really building a strong foundation for long-term success. So during this episode we talked about a lot of different things. We talked about the importance of finding that one strategy that's a good fit for you. That one strategy that really resonates right now for me. My approach was to trade about 15 different strategies for 18 months and lose money. and then when I was basically at rock bottom I was newly divorced with $30,000 of credit card debt and nothing to show for the last nearly two years of trying to learn how to trade. I Said what's been working over the last 18 months has anything been working And of course it's not like I was losing money every day I would would make money lose money make money lose money And so I pored through all my metrics and my stats and I realized that I actually was a profitable trader if I only traded one strategy I had about 14 15 different strategies I was trading but if I only traded the small cap stocks moving up more than 30 percent, guess what? I would have been profitable over those last 18 months.
So that for me was the beginning of finding that one strategy that I would just hold on to and really try to hone in on. We talked about the importance of diversifying your income. This is easier said than done. You guys aren't all going to be in a place where you can diversify your income, but you guys have a lot more option then I had when I was getting started.
Uber Lyft a higher riders up work all of these you know opportunities to potentially earn a little money on the side while you're learning how to trade. We talked about the importance on the one hand of setting an expectation you gotta set expectations, but on the other hand, you don't want to let those expectations cloud your judgment and so being able to meditate, being able to take a breath to stay focus and to be thankful every single day for just the opportunity to give this a try as a career. It's not going to work for everyone, but to be able to be thankful for the opportunity that you have and really try to give it your best. Your best shot to be focused each day on taking a quality set ups.
If you can do that, you've got the marathon mindset. If you're willing to spend a month or maybe two months trading in a simulator, you've got the marathon mindset. your training before you go live. That's exactly what you want to do that creates a strong foundation for long-term success.
It's jumping into the market with real money trading and unproven strategy. or trading a strategy you're just learning, but just about guarantees that you will lose money. And of course, if you're doing that while at the same time dealing with the pressure of knowing you need to make a certain amount of money by, you know, the end of next week or the end of next month, you're digging yourself a hole from the very beginning and it's just not the way to start. Then I Talked about the importance of setting a max loss with your broker, calling up your broker and saying hey, put this max loss on my account because I don't want to ever take a loss more than you know $1,000 or whatever it is and I don't want to ever take share sizing more than 2,000 shares or whatever it is because if I do, there's a really good chance I could end up making big mistake. so you know it's about time for me to start working on my next episode. So that means I gotta let you guys go. But it doesn't mean the learning stops here. If you want to keep learning about the one strategy that I use to turn $583 into over a million bucks just about two years, click that link right there in the description to register to my next live seminar.
Whether you're watching this a week from now a month from now, or even a year from now, I host seminars on a pretty regular basis, so there's a good chance you won't have to wait too long for the next event. and you'll get a copy of my best-selling book titled How To Day Trade. This is sort of a guide that goes hand-in-hand with a strategy and make sure you bring questions to the event because we will do Q&A at the end of the seminar and I will stay until every question has been answered. Now if you have questions on today's episode, leave them down below in the comments: I personally respond to every comment posted on my channel I Take great pride in that and I love hearing your feedback on some of the things that we're talking about as part of this small count challenge.
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Ross..I still watch your old vids man. I am going to watch every video you ever made on YT. Appreciate all youve done.
Thank you. I am where you were. This is very helpful.
🙏🏽 I am 100% certain I will get a hold of this skill. I’m still in the learning / obtaining knowledge process
👋 revisit this video from time to time. Feel like it covers a semi-obvious truth and you are the ONLY trader I've seen mention it
I win more than I lose but my average losers are bigger 😢. I've since learned to cut my losers 10x faster and have really seen more consistency since then.
Outstanding video! Thank you Ross🏆
Hey Ross. Some things are timeless and universal. Congrats on the success.
How do i find a list or get notifications on morning gappers?
I totally understand that day trading doesn't sound stable to a lot of people since most people never knew how to day trade before. But now after watching your videos and courses I felt a different kind of light. I really appreciate bringing this kind of content to the world, to show that there is no one way to make a living, not everything is all about being a blue-collar or white-collar office workers who are basically a modern slaves to corporations.
Youre such a genuinely good person. I feel like i was made for this mentally. Looking forward to learning this strategy and making my way up. Tyvm for this opportunity
Thank u for everything u do. Learning how to trade is super hard, and I have to say u have taught me a lot. Thank u for being helpful and a awesome trader!
I am a little late to the party but I am interested in getting started in day trading without any experience. Simulator in my future is a must! Love your insights, genuine attitude and positive mentality! Will look into your academy.
Nice to see someone make a profit, teach anyone who stumbles by. All in a very humble way. I hope I can learn one day but Ive said it before. If I dont its nice to see you helping out those who do make it through and change their lives dramatically
Bendiciones para todos desde Puebla, México.
How will the introduction of AI into Algo trading affect the retail day trader? Will the cards be completely stacked against you?
I just started day trading and I’ve played some simulation games and can confidently make a profit majority of the time. How much money do you think I should start with to trade?
Did you ever go to college? If so, what did you major in if you don't mind me asking?
Thank you Ross for your insight. I am a Uber driver and realtor who needs a more consistent life changing career. I am blessed to find you and use your knowledge and experience to fulfill my goals!!
1 min. of praying …… and thanks for everything you get that day!
I know this video is older but I enjoyed watching it. You are good for a persons trading phycology sir. My journey is similar to yours but I have a pretty good job that I intend to keep until the end of this year, or at least until I can consistently profit at trading. I am taking my time with the learning process.
Just wondering, how much do you trade with in your account to hit your daily goal of 2000 a day?
First, I want to thank you dearly for your time. You're so dedicated in what you do, you also make no excuses and really show us how possible it is to get far along with many things done once you put your head to it.
Second, I really appreciate your sharing of trading information to help others learn the in depths of trading. It means very much to me, I will continue to follow you along the way and learn from you! Can't wait to see how much I was able to grasp next year lol.
Thank you Ross!
I live in Vermont too and almost same situation but no credit card or debt. I enjoyed your video thanks for the time
How do you feel about throwing a net out over a handful of research pharmaceutical companies just a few hundred on each and seeing what pans out after 6 months? Seems to me when they hit they hit very big