I've never added anything on here before, but hopefully what I'm going to say will resonate with a few of you and maybe help out. The Vegas conference was my first, but definitely not my last. I arrived, honestly embarrassed of my trading. I'm coming up on 3 years and my numbers are nowhere near where I want them to be. I only trade a couple of hours in the morning and then have to shift my focus to my current business that I own and operate. Finding time to study is difficult, finding time to trade is difficult. It's all damn difficult! lol. After talking with Tim, Matt, Bryce... and listening to everyone, I feel much better about where I am! The best of the best were still struggling at my point and they were putting in 10, 12, 14 hour days... I guess I should feel proud for not (to this point, I sure don't take it for granted) blowing up my account and being on a steady incline on my profit chart. My numbers are nowhere near where I want them, but they're going in the right direction! I'm definitely going to start studying more and reading some of the books that are recommended to us! I've already started reading The Psychology Of Trading, and have Reminiscences Of A Stock Trader, and Beyond Greed And Fear on hand to read next. Meeting Jayray_68 (Jay Racine) really kicked me in the ass too! He also owns his own business, tells me about how he’s still working at 1am, and he’s crushing it with his trades! NO. MORE. EXCUSES! Just effing do it! Learn something every day, put effort in when others won’t, and good things will happen. Hearing Ellis lit a fire under my ass as well! Trade like a pro! Prep like a pro! Just be a pro! Year one, to the day, I broke even. Year two, I made 1k profit. This year I’m coming up on 5K profit while still trading very small. Next year I plan on having some lofty goals and hopefully hiring someone to help run my business so I can put more time into trading. Hopefully the market provides. If it does I want to be ready! Cheers!

Super awesome to put some faces to some names finally, pretty awesome to answer some really in depth questions at the 2023 conference as well. Lots of traders with a desire to become better. That’s a good thing. It takes a ton of trial and error in this industry to find out what works for you my biggest take away from the conference is everyone sitting on stage capitalized on the mania when it presented itself and worked on perfecting their strategies in the slow time. This is important for me and it ties into seasonality. As the market presumes to be bearish. I’ll focus on doing what I’m doing and not feel obligated to necessary push my size as I was beginning to. And wanting to, there’s a time and there’s a place for pushing size and capitalizing on my strategy’s and current market conditions are telling me take what I can get for now and just be prepared to push size when the opportunity finally presents itself. So far I’m staying pretty locked in and comfy with these $300-$400 losses in our current market. It’s not a cookie cutter approach everyone’s strategy , comfort, account etc is totally different so defining what you’re willing to lose in your strategy will be different than mine. My goal for 2023 was to not let my account take any big hits and proud to say I’m only a couple months away from succeeding this goal thanks to 2 golden rules. Rule number 1. Never add to a loser. Number 2. Always have a predetermined dollar loss in mind per setup and size in so I’m not risking more than that dollar amount. This has allowed my winners to almost always outweigh my losers and has been a huge push forward in 2023. If I complete my annual goal for 2023 I can set a new once in 2024 and I already know it’s going to consist of letting my winners run and having more patience. Trading is like stacking blocks. One at a time and in uniform is the best way to build the tallest and strongest wall. Happy to say 2023 has been a great year of profitability especially in such a slow market where other traders have been simply trying to survive. But it’s not luck it was hard work dedication and the thirst for financial freedom. There’s no expiration to become a successful trader just know that, everyone’s pace everyone’s life style is totally different. It’s up to your dedication on how fast you want to speed up that learning curve. I do have to say met some great people at this conference probably the funnies response was “Jayray you’re not at all what I thought you were, you’re a lot more hillbilly than I imagined” literally will be laughing at that comment for years to come. Great meeting you all. Never forget it’s strictly business out here. The second you get comfy is when you get run over. Every day is the chance to learn something new no matter how far along in your career you are. God bless and trade on! If we met at the conference let me know what your favorite thing was would love to hear it🤘🏻