Big shout out to @El To Mo who just hit her first profitable paper trade 🎉 What I love most about this isn’t just the profit, but it’s that she took the leap, believed in herself, and committed to the process. She’s paper trading to build her skills and confidence before risking real money, which is exactly the right way to learn. This is where it all starts. Small wins on a simulated account (paper trading), building confidence, consistently showing up for yourself, and trusting the journey. When I tell y’all this lady has pages and pages of notes 📝 El, I just knowwww you will be massively successful trader…… keep going 📊

Family, I want to shout out our very own @Shalethia J , who purchased her first stock today. On Sunday, Shalethia joined class and did not even have a trading brokerage account. On Monday, we had our one to one. She asked great questions and leaned fully into the learning process. And today, she let me know she made her first purchase 👏🏽 This is what the journey to success looks like. You do not have to have it all figured out to start. You just need to start. Shalethia took the first step by opening her brokerage account, funding it, and making her first purchase. That is real progress. Huge congratulations Shalethia. Proud of you for taking action and trusting the process. Keep going. Clarity comes from doing.

Hey everyone! Here’s the link to class at 3:30. We'll be walking through each trade we took from this past week. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83064053310?pwd=Q73umwwwpbAB1LeUZ9S4ndhlHVMfD

After 6 years of trading, the market still tests my confidence. As traders, we study for hours, reading books, reviewing charts, analyzing setups. We put our heart and soul into this skill set. You go into the market feeling prepared and confident. The perfect setup presents itself, everything aligns, and you execute. Then the trade goes against you. You think, “WTF just happened?” You shake it off. Come back the next day ready to go. But then something similar happens. This time, you enter a trade with no confirmation. Or you enter slightly too soon. Those losses start to add up, and you have these moments where you question everything…… your strategy, your skills, whether you should even keep going. Even after 6 years, I still have those moments. Here’s what I’ve learned: You can’t control the triggers. Those moments where you do everything right and still lose? They will happen. Misplacing your stop loss, getting stopped out by a few ticks? It happens. You also can’t avoid the initial emotions, the fear, the frustration, the urge to revenge trade, the FOMO. Those are natural human reactions. But what we can control is how we respond to those emotions. We can choose whether we let those emotions settle in and fester, affecting how we show up the next trading day. Or we can take control and process them in healthy ways: ∙ Go for a walk ∙ Hit the gym ∙ Drink some water ∙ Get fresh air ∙ Do something fun with family and friends ∙ Take your mind off the charts The charts are just a small part of our world, they afford us the ability to do cool things, eat at nice restaurants, live the life we want. But they aren’t our entire life. Remind yourself why you trade in the first place. Then review your journal. Look at how many times you’ve backtested this strategy. Look at how many times it’s won. Trading is a game of probabilities. If you have a 70% win rate, that means out of 10 trades, you’re going to win 7 and lose 3. Those 3 losses are part of the plan, they don’t mean you’re not a good trader.