I crossed $1,000,000 in profits today after 4 years of trading. Epically, it happened beside my brother trading the same tickers, crossing the same milestone. Feels pretty sentimental tbh, how much our lives have changed.
I wanted to post something uplifting about life, but
+100,800 and from one single trade today $EVAX. Record day and record trade for me. Unbelievable. I went from making 35K a year as a music teacher to this. Gonna go cry in my pillow now, have a nice evening
In March 2020 I started trading. By July, I abandoned my prior career as a musician to trade full time.
August 2022, I left the US to backpack Latin America as a digital nomad, experiencing insane several months of adventure including volcano hiking, eating bugs, getting mugged,
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30K today. 100K June so far. So close to the million dollar milestone I can smell it.
23K day at the airport! 🔥 Bought a one way ticket to Mexico spur of the moment for the digital nomad life style. Excited to trade from another country for the first time. Hasta luego babyyy $HSDT
My P/L this year finally surpassed my 2022 loss of 165K. Because of that scary red year, I started 2023 downsized with just a 45K bankroll and am now up 371% (167K).
I still haven't surpassed by career P/L of 750K which peaked around February 2022. I was on track to hitting the
🔥$8K day🔥 and the whole day was spent in my car. I woke up, put my orders in, put my stops in, and hit the road. I’m driving to Mammoth for some skiing. I pulled over in the middle of nowhere to close out end of day, using my phone’s hotspot. I love my job
Having one of the best years of my career. 140K only 2.5 months with a very steady profit curve and very minimal drawdowns.
One of the biggest shifts I’ve done is partial size on multiple entrances. Where I used to risk 15K on a single entrance, I now split the strategy into 3
15K day, closing out at the largest system of waterfalls in the world
#Iguazu
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0 stress $APLM all day fader play. Enter the open, put in stops and alerts, enjoy life, close out.
$8K, literally trading besides Aztec pyramids. Stomping around México with just a laptop and a backpack is probably the best decision I’ve made this year. $NVTA
🔥$364K🔥on the year!! Ups and downs the entire year including my $40K loss on $NTRB today (what a nice New Years present 😍) but so far, the wins beat the losses in a life changing way. Hope everyone had a good year and here’s to an even better 2022 🎉
Lost 35K - BIG RED DAY - November doubled my bankroll and December is now taking the majority of November's profits.
When you risk a large fixed percentage of your bankroll, you can expect heavy volatility. One thing that makes it easier to stomach is profit taking.
Every time
INSANE $MULN 38K - I thought this thing would give back all of yesterday and it paid nicely. Had to use 3 different brokers because of max share size restrictions😪🔥
LIVE TRADING FROM A GLACIER
New office view unlocked. Sorry for the wind 🙃 $TENX
@timothysykes
my new goal is to trade in places I haven’t yet seen you do!
Tips for beginners:
1. Focus on one setup
2. Religiously track every single ticker from that setup
3. When you find an edge, THEN trade. Do exact entrances and exits your data suggests. Do not try to beat it
4. Start with small size, no… smaller… smaller… there, that one
28K this week in Positano! Surreal remembering when my bro first joined Tim’s challenge and I genuinely thought he was being scammed and then after a year he starts making money and I swoop in and ask him to teach me and then we both start making money and now we are trading in
$18K $GDC !! Good day, good year. Officially up 200% after fees on my initial 2023 bankroll and I get to do my favorite thing right now in August... trading and skiing (winter here in Argentina 😌) 🔥🔥🔥🧊🧊🧊
10K today shorting $GNS scam town. Lovely day trading here in Patagonia. 2023 good so far but getting very excited to come back to the US in Feb to trade from my home office for the first time in a while 🥲
#digitalnomad
17K great day today all green trades! Nothing like a big green day by big green body of water! 9 month anniversary when I took off to trade and travel the world. Happy I’m still able to do it $AGBA $LXEH $HOUR
Month 55K
Year 173K
Focusing on variety and frequency with significantly less size than I used to use. Drawdowns are less and I am making more. Healthy changes
$14K 🔥 Great year keeps going. Up 100% on the year. I thought it was because I’ve been trading smarter but I checked by data and it’s actually because I’ve been wearing my hat inside out
#digitalnomad
$AMV
13K $MINM - huge fade by EOD.
November ending as the best month I've had in two years: 86K
Bankroll compounding by year's end is getting insane. This play was half size for me since it was only a 1M float. Below that is 0 size which is one of the reasons I ignored much of the
$16K $AERC - Been a while since I had a 5-fig day. PLEASE MARKET, keep up the action! When every short, including myself, lose on a stock like AERC yesterday, the next day usually has good odds. Don't let your loss scare you from the next set up!
Don’t underestimate the power of ignoring mediocre setups. I’ve been doing that a lot lately and it’s paying off. Way less action, but protecting my account.
What an amazing February - 77K! Celebrating at my favorite trading office… the Patagonian mountains.
I’m 7K from recovering a 2 year drawdown in my career P/L. Feels insane. If I didn’t completely fail getting in $JL today - I would have been there. But that’s trading!
If you don’t track data, START NOW. GOOGLE SHEETS. IT’S FREE. JUST DO IT. When I travel I have a tiny $200 laptop that only fits two charts and two level 2’s. That’s literally all you need. A tiny laptop and data
-16K $BMR
One of the fastest swipes I've seen. Glad I had stop orders in because I wouldn't have been able to react in time. Still had $1 slippage on one of my stops. Insanity
$INDO again $13.5K - glad the market has been giving me some plays recently. I've had fewer plays this year than the last two years, but I'm on track for a record year. Less plays doesn't necessarily mean less money.
I can lose $50K in a trade without caring because I've chosen a bankroll I'm willing to lose all of. When you size up and down based off the size of your bankroll, you're bankroll will never hit $0 (if you cut at your stops). It will just keep getting infinitely closer to 0
7K today on $AGBA and $TIRX. Waited for the squeeze on AGBA and TIRX I was expecting the market open DUMPPPP.
Only 1 little red day for April so far. Smaller size and consistent gains still adding up to 250K YTD.
$10K, beach day, 1 trade, soufflé. Love getting in morning spikes then leaving my computer until later in the day. For me, trading from spreadsheets is much more relaxing than trading with my eyes glued to a screen. $SOBR
14K - New strat continuing to bank. Would never have found it if it wasn’t for months of digging with spikeet. If you aren’t using data to trade, there’s no reason not to.
Since I’ve opened up my strategies to the penny price range, I’ve been trading millions of shares a month
Making 5K while hitting the slopes! Morning entry, set my stops, get some skiing in, come back end of day for a beer and take my exists. Gonna go try my first double black diamond now since I can afford my medical bills
#TraderLife
Here's my total profits since I started. What's terrible about it is how non-exponential it is. That's because I would rarely size up. Now I am sizing up (and down), but with less plays and more profit volatility, the slow monthly growth has continued. Hoping for a breakout 😬
End of Year Results and Thoughts
P/L peak was 405% in November. December was red - ending the year 310% from initial 45K bankroll (after all fees).
I started the year risking 1/3 of my bankroll for my best plays and experienced the volatility that came with it. Doubling my
$6.8K very satisfying day. Huge move on $LXEH. Honestly a bit worried seeing that second halt gap up 55 cents but it behaved cordially after that and sized in a bit more
About time $11K🔥 $COSM Feels good to have a 5-fig day. Good setups are so rare this year for me but patience pays off. (Ignore my baby size speculative longs 🤠)
6.5K today! I think I’ve traded every day for an entire week. Super rare for me this year since I usually like waiting for my best setups, but they keep coming! $BLCM $NBTX $PACW $TRVN
January was the first month of my almost 4 year career I traded every day. I'm up 41K on the year so far after being down almost 20 in the first 2 days 🤡
But the changes I made this year feel good: higher frequency setups with smaller size rather than risking a butt load on
🔥+91k 🔥 New Record Day. LFG!
Alarm didn't go off, luckily brother
@chris_sunk
calls me, wakes me up. Scramble for shares. Forgot to short $HUSA. Max loss on $ENSV, still come out with a record day. Congrats to all who survived yesterday and showed up ready to execute today 🤝
Because DMs are asking… what’s in my excel for gap up shorts:
Prior day close
Day 1 open, high, low, close, float, market cap
Resistance - dates, levels, volume
Date of IPO
I track other factors but this is all I currently consider to take a trade
$6,500 quick trade this morning with some cave swimming. Am I posing and pretending to trade in a life vest next to a cave? Yes. Did I actually trade in a life vest 15 minutes earlier but sitting at a table instead? YES
Rough day. I hope you guys didn't blow up. I used to ignore plays that were involved with sector momentum but ended up deciding they're worth it long term. We'll see...