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Desire To Trade : Creating Your Own Profitable Strategy
The Truth about trading strategies
If you look at the most successful traders out there, you’ll start to realize that they have their own trading style.
No one who is successful in trading has the same strategy as the guy next to him.
This is reality, and you can verify it by asking any full-time trader you trust.
The strategy he got probably wasn’t available for free on the internet.
Nor did he pay a guy/coach to teach him.
And if he did, tons of modifications were made to make the strategy work for him.
That’s because a strategy doesn’t perform the same for 2 people.
The concept has been made popular through the Turtle Trader experiment in the 1980s.
Those guys gave the same strategy with clear rules to a bunch of traders.
But they soon realize that almost all traders got very different results.
Some were in big losses and even quit. Others were very profitable and went on to become great traders!
So this leaves us with a reflection I had this past week.
Forget copying other traders’ strategies…
The only way you’ll ever become a successful trader is if you create your own strategy.
If you want to go a step further, create your own trading playbook from scratch.
All the other ways of learning strategies don’t work.
In fact, they haven’t work for me either. I had to create/tweak until my strategy was profitable.
Unfortunately, it’s not a topic as sexy as “here’s my strategy, it’ll make you millions in 3 days!”
So practically no one talks about how to create your own strategy & make it profitable.
I decided it was time for me to step up because no one else will do it.
Creating your own trading strategy in 2023
Learning to trade & go full-time in 2023 has never been easier…and more difficult.
It’s a very strange thing because you’d think with all these mentors, blogs, podcasts, channels available…
…that it would be pretty easy to learn to trade.
But the truth is, we’ve become lazy.
Not in a bad way though, we’ve become used to shortcuts and automation.
That’s what life in 2023 is about…
The same habitual lazyness we are used to applies a lot here.
You hear about traders (especially on my podcast) that backtested strategies on paper 30 years ago.
It took them long hours.
All by hand, and at the end they had to compile all their stats manually.
No one would ever attempt that today…because we’re used to everything being fairly easy.
Based on the responses I received yesterday, I know you want to create your own strategy.
Maybe you think “yeah, I need my own profitable system”, but your mind wants to do 1,000 other things except that hard part of trading.
It convinces you that “one day” you’ll be ready to do it, but not right now.
Again, this is not your fault.
It’s simply the result of evolution in technology and the way we work now compared to the way people worked 50 years ago.
But let say you finally trick your mind into doing the hard work.
You’ll finally put your own strategy together, right?
Well it’s not that simple.
For one, you’ll probably want someone to help you (paid or on YouTube).
As I mentioned yesterday, no one teaches that because it’s not sexy.
It’s not a marketing-friendly topic and it doesn’t attract most people who learn to trade.
So you’re basically left on your own.
Understand I’m not saying this to complain. I’m ranting a bit cause I’ve been there before and it sucks…
But there’s something we haven’t talked about yet, and it is why becoming a successful trader in 2023 is so hard. It’s the number of choices we have in everything we do.
Back when computers & the internet weren’t mainstream, you had ONE way to backtest.
“Take out your 100 printed charts, let’s do it by hand.”
You also had ONE or TWO choices of timeframes to trade.
Forget day trading and scalping…you didn’t have a high-performing platform.
Today you can trade each increment from 1-minute to weekly charts.
But there’s one more thing.
With no trading coaches that owned lambos for marketing, no brokers trying to get your deposit, and no knowledge of 100+ technical analysis tools, you only had ONE choice.
It was to figure out what works and do the work.
I know this might seem tough looking back, but I’d argue it made things easier for those wanting to trade for a living.
So that’s why if you are here today (in 2023), you can count on my support.
I sympathize with you for wanting to create a lifestyle where you successfully trade your own strategy.
Learn To Create & Validate Your Own Trading Strategy
- Without knowing all technical analysis tools
- Without spending hours brainstorming strategy ideas
- Without relying on other people strategies that might not work for you
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