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on a crazy bull run i will post a thread on my year, since my net worth currently at ath. This thread will hopefully help some people who feel down coming to the end of 2020
on a crazy bull run i will post a thread on my year, since my net worth currently at ath. This thread will hopefully help some people who feel down coming to the end of 2020
1/ a lot of you know i was a minor league professional hockey player, some of you don’t. I stopped playing pro in 2013 (semi pro after), and i was lost mentally
2/ i was always a guy who was self employed. 2017 crypto boom i made big $, stopped working not to trade, but to find a new career. I was an entrepreneur but majored in finance and wanted to use it. Also had my mba
3/ 2018 i worked in VC. I still do and still invest heavily in privates. But i knew this was more a long term play, and i needed something safer
4/ 2019 i went to work for a small hedge fund, co managed book. It was mostly sales and i had pretty much zero say on investment since it wasn’t technically my book. I told them q1/q2 crash, no one listened and i said I’m out (check pinned post). I spent all day trading on mex
5/ i kept applying for jobs, and in the interim taught accounting at a local college. Fucking paid nice, but i would give the students in class assignments and still traded bitmex lol. 1m size positions while teaching journal entries ain’t easy haha. I also consulted on the side
6/ i was depressed. Not clinically as I’m usually a fun guy, but i can literally say i was lost in life at 34 years of age, which most ppl that age are set. All this education and i was doing fuck all cuz after playing hockey so long, you’re not as attractive as new grads in fin
7/ in beginning 2020 my mentor hooked me up with a prop shop locally. They had just opened their crypto desk, and i said fuck it i keep trading mex all day might as well pursue it as best i could
8/ in January i started. i was given a small small size Acct and was told start clicking. I lost 10% on the first day trading #btc
I also traded my personal account over the year, but swing trades. I played august alt run very well, and everything i bought in July was near bottom and i actually held most to top. I then went heavy back in btc then.
9/ the work account was small as we had to find our edge. It has been a full year at the shop, and i can say I’m pretty sure i found my edge. I’ll remain dynamic, but i know what it is. I won’t share it. However i also have weaknesses that set me back
10/ these weaknesses are trading pnl, sizing up at the wrong time, and being impatient. However this is my personality. I’m an outgoing guy. I enter a room everyone knows I’m there. I’m always talking. This is shown in my trading by my aggressive style. I will fix this in ‘21
11/ If i can limit losses to small in these times above and eliminate trading pnl, i will be successful as a trader, as i see the market very well imo, just execution might still be lacking a bit via position sizing/entry. Also losses >3% hurt my confidence. Less so now
12/ it has been 8 years since I’ve been lost in life. Never struggled with substances or shit (ok maybe pre workout), but i smile everyday knowing i get to sit at the office and trade next to the best traders on CT. And i mean the best. They out trade all of you
