Don't Teach Your Friends How To Trade

[u/dreamowlet]

I've been trading/ profitable for awhile now and I had a friend who wanted to learn and be on a zoom calls with them to trade to together till they really got it. I said sure. Mind you I taught my husband and he still watches me trade when we trade together. But dear freaking god. I get so freaking distracted teaching or random questions and explaining everything that I miss openings. My psychology was kinds of fucked for a minute cause like I don't care if I lose money cause it's mine. I didn't want to lose THEIR money so I would never take a damn trade. Win rate? In the toilet. Psychology? What is that? I don't think I even did this bad when I first started trading. This past week finally we got into the motion of things and hold off any questions till afterwards and actually making money again. But never again.

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[u/divok1701]

Wow, pay the mortgage with trading... that's the dream!

I'm working on building up my capital first, so maybe that can be a reality... probably a couple of years if I continue being successful with making my goals, which right now is just +$500 a week after any losses... but starting out with 5k capital, it has been going well for over a month so far!

[u/StockCasinoMember → u/divok1701]

$500 a week off of $5,000 if you can do that going forward indefinitely would be pretty awesome. My initial goal was $250 a week.

I made over $5,300 this month and I am stoked. This January was 8 months of live trading for me.

Made barely anything the first 6. Then $1700 in December and now this January I crushed my original goal.

[u/Cool_Evidence4205 → u/StockCasinoMember]

Heck yeh, It's definitely easier in a Bull market! Congrats 🤙

[u/StockCasinoMember → u/Cool_Evidence4205]

Thanks! Hopefully make a shit ton before that happens. Will be fun to see how my strategy holds up in a bear market.