Introduce Yourself!

[Jeff 0]

Hi All, my name is Jeff and I signed up for BBT at the end of December.   I live in Calgary with my wife and we love getting to the outdoors including hiking, skiing and mountain biking.   One of my main goals this year was to learn if day trading was for me and if I actually could become a profitable trader, so at some point in the next 2-5 yrs, I could retire from drilling oil and gas wells in Alberta and move somewhere closer to mountains and lakes.  

From Andrew's book BBT seems like a great place to start.  I am working through the education series and will get setup hopefully with sim trading over breakup (April 15 to June 15th) when my rigs will be stuck in mud and I will have more time.  

Take care and looking forward to learning from everyone.

Jeff 

[NigsyP 1]

Hi Everyone, my name's Nigel and I'm based in the UK. I live up in the Lake District (Cumbria) where I've worked as a mountain guide/outdoor instructor for a number of years. Great job, but incredibly seasonal and almost impossible to make a good living, as work dries up in October and doesn't return until April. More of a hobby job. I was also in the military for 6 years (Air Force), have lived in Spain and Denmark during my life and currently work for a parcel delivery company! 

I came across Andrew's books last year and once I read them decided that Day Trading was something for me. I've always had an interest in the markets, so not a massive life changing decision. And better than delivering parcels for 10 hours per day 🙂 

Being UK based it's been tricky to figure a system out that takes in the time difference (I'm 5 hours ahead of the market) and allows me to learn, practice and eventually go live with Day Trading, while I still work my day job, something I need to do, financially.

My plan is to get in the sim by the end of February. I can't trade live in the SIM because I have to work still to pay the bills, but DAS Trader records the market right? Hope I've understood that correctly! Allows me to trade when I get home from my day job, or more likely, the following morning, early, before heading out for my job. 

When I'm ready to think about going live, I'll be changing my day job from full time to part time as I will still need an income and don't want to put pressure on my trading so that I have to earn a living from it straight away - not gonna happen.  So, my plan is to trade Mon - Wed each week live and sim on Thurs/Friday with the recorded market. Does this seem viable? Once I'm consistently making profit 3 days per week, I will then make the decision to trade full time  - hopefully February 2022. 

Sorry to waffle on a bit, looking forward to meeting everyone in the chat when I can.

 

[hd 0]

Hi everyone, sorry for the delayed response; I need to setup email alerts on my favorite topics. I am very happy to join this community.  I have been trading on and off  for the past year. I live in DC and work in IT. I am day trading on the side, mainly during pre-market and when market opens. My goal is to become a full time day trader butI am conscious that it will take years before I become good at it. I have been day trading with real money for the past 8 months however I plan to go back on SIM to build focus more on the techniques and my confidence. The biggest challenge I found so far is understanding when and how to apply all the knowledge I gained. I would be really happy to work with you all so that we can become good at it!

[beefmcqueen 0]

Hi everyone,

I'm brand new to trading, and suspect I had a similar experience to many readers of Andrew's book. I live in Longmont, CO, and work in publishing (rights management). I've been so impressed by the community so far in terms of passion, knowledge, and integrity, and I can't wait to dive headfirst into process-focused trading with each of you.

Cheers,

Stephan

[Tom P 0]

Hello everyone! My name is Tom Platania. I originally started with another trading group, but I am looking for a more friendly community where you don't feel like the stepchild. I have been an investment trader for years and have started Day Trading about 3.5 months ago, still in SIM. I found BBT on YouTube and read one of Alex's books, working on the next. 

I own a Virtual HVAC Design firm which allows me to spend time Day Trading without worrying about the company because I have people running it. The one thing I loved about the BBT videos is the thoroughness of the teachings and not spending so much time showing me how amazing they are. 

I was using TD Ameritrade, then after watching BBT videos, I switched to DAS, and as of today switch to IB. I am really looking forward to meeting all of you and learning from you. Once I have gotten my moneys worth form the other training group, I will be signing up with BBT. 

By the way, I have implemented many of the scripts William has talked about on YouTube for Dastrader; Thank you William!!!

Best Regards,

Tom  

 

Edited February 3, 2021 by Tom P

[denode 0]

Hello All,

My name is Aaron, I live in the D.C. metro area, and am just getting into day trading.

I work on an oil tanker 3 months on/3 months off, a unique schedule that gives me significant income and time off, both things I'm hoping give me an opportunity to eventually profitably day trade on the side.

Excited to keep learning and talking to you all!

[kanderson7789 0]

Hi Everyone, My name is Kyle A. I live In Central PA, about half an hour outside Harrisburg. I'm 31 and work as an operations supervisor for an aerospace company. I've been interested in the stock market for a while now, and have done some swing trading and crypto trading, but never took it too seriously. I was recently laid off and decided to take the free time I have to learn more about day trading. I've spent a bit of time with some other communities but after reading Andrews book and doing a trial, decided that this would be the right community for me. I've also been in the process of completing my degree in finance, so I am hoping to use some of what I learn here to help me in my career. 

I spent the last two weeks or so reading and going through all of the training, Today was my first day of the simulation, and im hoping to do it for another 3 months or so. 

 

 

 

[DanT 4]

Hello all! Feels good to be back in the BBT community.  I was in this community back in the Vancouver Trading days.  It has come a long way!  Congrats to Andrew, Bryan and the team for what they have built.  I look forward to trading with this community again.  I am currently still in the simulator with expectations to be live in the next 2-4 months.  I also find that having a small team of traders is invaluable.  If anyone is interested in being in a small group that shares recaps, etc - send me a DM!  

[statik 0]

Hi,

My name is Lee. I'm from Sydney,  Australia.

Came across BBT on YouTube and decided to join the community here.  Hoping to gain some knowledge and insight on how you all trade the markets. 

Wish you the best in your trading, will see you in the chat room.

[MaxMarch 1]

Good evening everyone!

I got into investing in the stock in December of 2019, and thoroughly enjoyed that rollercoaster of a ride, which fortunately had many more ups than downs. As I was on Amazon looking for books on valuing stocks, I stumbled across Andrew's book, needless to say, he got my f'ing hooked on this potential career path, which I don't know if I should be cursing him or thanking him...time will tell 🙂

A little bit about me, I'm 32 years old and live in Baltimore, MD, where I was born and raised. I have a super dry/sarcastic sense of humor which I'll try to refrain from on message boards because I'd rather not come across as a jerk when I'm just teasing 🙂 Other than that, I'm big into fishing, anything competitive/games, eating, working out (to eat), and going down YT rabbit holes (it's a problem). I'm very much looking forward to getting to know this group and helping out where I can.

Talk soon,

-Max

Edited February 23, 2021 by MaxMarch

[Cees van der Heide 0]

Hello everybody! My name is Cees and I live in Gouda in the Netherlands. I'm 25 years old an I work as an airline pilot for KLM.

I've been daytrading now for about 1,5-2 years and made huge steps already, but I'm still missing an edge I feel to become profitable. Currently I'm trading with about a 25%-30% accuracy going for 2R or nothing, so I'm about 10% short of becoming a successful and profitable daytrader. I'm mainly looking for Pullbacks and 3 Bar plays and recently also for Opening Range Breakouts. Right now I'm mostly trading in the simulator still to protect my capital until I feel I've found what's needed to become profitable. I came across BBT on YouTube and read all Andrew's books by now.

The thing I've been struggling the most with is accepting any losses at all. They're obviously always going to happen, maybe even over 50% of the time shooting for 2R. But to me they always felt as failures and as an airline pilot, not succeeding 50% of the time is of course unacceptable. If anybody has any tips with it or any similar experiences please let me know and I'd love to get in touch with anybody to share experiences or to share trades and insights.

What I expect from the BBT community is just some community feedback and support and also to look at others and maybe give some feedback and support. I hope it'll help me find my edge and become successful and profitable over the next years.

Thanks a lot all anyways and I'm looking forward to talking to you all in the upcoming time!

[jonathanrees 0]

Hello everyone.

My name is Jonathan (JR on the chat) and have been here for almost a month now I think.  I live in the UK in North London.

I worked in ABN AMRO (yes I worked with the credit derivatives desk at the fold!) , RBS and finally UBS many years ago in sales and was looking to transfer over to sales trading. I actually left the banks and have been a property developer ever since. The last few years have been very tough running larger and larger jobs. I finally realised I need to take a step back so I'm intending to shift to pure development by contracting all works out to main contractors and this has opened up time to finally realise my old and constant dream of trading for a living. Working the US markets is perfect as it allows me to do my diligence for the first half of the day in the other business and concentrate on trading in the afternoon.

As per probably everyone here and certainly those lucky enough to stumble across it Andrews book opened up a realisation of day trading without the reports and analysts working for the institutional investors that appears truly viable. Due to my history and constant interest in the markets I feel I have a good base of understanding; unfortunately nothing that applies to technical chart analysis. However the books I have read thanks to BBT have hugely improved that knowledge. 

I have been trading sim on DAS since I set it up and although I know I've only been guessing it has allowed me to put into practice working from the indicators and understanding of candlesticks. Currently putting together a trade book and intend to continue in the sim for another month or 2 dependant on consistency and profitability. 

Very much looking forward to getting involved with the community and learning and helping where I can.

As an aside I just want to say how impressive the systems and education that has been put together by BBT is. As a company owner what I learnt in a few short hours from Mr. Baehr's videos alone was embarrassing. Thank you for what you have created and the vast wealth of information provided. BBT is so much more than I expected when I signed up and I feel you have certainly provided me more than my money's worth.

[gjeret 1]

Greetings!
 

I am Gjeret, from just outside of Milwaukee. Mid 40’s, wife, kids., business owner.

I have been running an IT services Firm since 2007, have a few employees and have been profitable every year (even if it was just profitable)  and....

I am tired of it.  Not the tech, but the clients and the emergency calls at 2am, the Amazon affect decimating any hardware profits, and small business owners taking the advice of they Kid at Best Buy or the neighbors 13yo over the advice of an expert. The HR aspects of the business, the “work when you want” unless a client has an emergency or schedules a move.  So...

 

One of my very very very successful friends owns a software firm, as we were getting drunk at a food crawl, he confided in  me that his money wasn’t from the tech, that just funded him, his money was from the stock market   That has always been in the back of my mind

GME got me interested enough to open a Robinhood account, then a Webull and fidelity account.  Learned the hard way not to chase a meme stock, and found a saying on Reddit...

Bulls make money, Bears make money, Pigs get slaughtered.

I got slaughtered 

but, got back up, picked up a book off Amazon (day trading for a living), 

reading that trading was work, but there was a trainable process and was often boring ...  I need some boring!  That sounds wonderful!

that book led me to this website, so I signed up..

 

 

 

[PeterD 49]

9 hours ago, gjeret said:

Greetings!
 

I am Gjeret, from just outside of Milwaukee. Mid 40’s, wife, kids., business owner.

I have been running an IT services Firm since 2007, have a few employees and have been profitable every year (even if it was just profitable)  and....

I am tired of it.  Not the tech, but the clients and the emergency calls at 2am, the Amazon affect decimating any hardware profits, and small business owners taking the advice of they Kid at Best Buy or the neighbors 13yo over the advice of an expert. The HR aspects of the business, the “work when you want” unless a client has an emergency or schedules a move.  So...

 

One of my very very very successful friends owns a software firm, as we were getting drunk at a food crawl, he confided in  me that his money wasn’t from the tech, that just funded him, his money was from the stock market   That has always been in the back of my mind

GME got me interested enough to open a Robinhood account, then a Webull and fidelity account.  Learned the hard way not to chase a meme stock, and found a saying on Reddit...

Bulls make money, Bears make money, Pigs get slaughtered.

I got slaughtered 

but, got back up, picked up a book off Amazon (day trading for a living), 

reading that trading was work, but there was a trainable process and was often boring ...  I need some boring!  That sounds wonderful!

that book led me to this website, so I signed up..

 

 

 

Welcome, Gjeret! We will strive to be on the interesting edge of boring....keep smiling and I look forward to seeing you in the chatroom!

[Jim Cason 2]

Hello BBT Family!

I am in Tomball Texas (suburb/small town in NW Houston). I am 51 years old and have worked for myself for the past 20 years. I have been an owner/operator of several IT Consulting Companies. These companies have afforded me a lifestyle to do the things I truly love. I have coached high school football and baseball for the past 10 years, my true passion, winning multiple State Championships across both sports. The best was is that I was able to coach both of my sons through Jr High and High School in both sports creating memories that we will have forever. My wife also coached my daughter in cheer during that time, so it was a complete family affair. Even though my kids have graduated, I continue to coach for the love of the coach/player relationship and the impact I can have on these young men. Like my own sons, I maintain relationships with them after graduating, many of who are now getting married and having children of their own.

Professionally, it has always been an up/down market, especially here in Houston where most of my customers are large/medium oil-related companies. My latest companies' services have been focused on Business Intelligence/Reporting and Analytics for the past 10 years. I love the work that we do, because I love bringing a customer's business alive to them on the screen and allowing them to make better decisions.

Since 2018, the daily grind of chasing that next project and that next customer has weared on me and I have begun to lose my passion for the business. I started looking for alternative business ideas that I could really get excited about. I love coaching and sports and looked at some areas there. I love mountain biking and since I was a kid have enjoyed building and customizing my own bicycles, so I looked I explored those areas.

In 2020, my business was almost decimated due to COVID and the oil and gas industry cutting way back. I never thought much about the stock market, except from a data analytics perspective. At times we would use publicly available market data to demo our data aggregation and reporting solutions. I always thought that you needed to be educated in economics/finance to really understand the stock market and be a trader.

Andrews book came across my Kindle recommendations and peaked my interest. While reading his book, I was really drawn to the analytics of the real-time data (it just happened to be stock candlestick charts and level 2 price data). My analytical brain couldn't get enough. I joined BBT and started through the Educational Center, watching everything I could. I got a SIM license to see if I could see the same things in a real-time environment, instead of just looking at historical charts and data. I couldn't believe how much fun I was having just watching stocks and price action (even if I wasn't trading). Reminded me of teaching my sons how to hunt by making them just watch deer for hours and hours, seeing how they interacted with one another and how the environment would change their behavior (cold/hot/raining/windy/etc).

For the first time, since I started my first company, I really felt drawn to something tot he point that I was willing to invest hours and hours in education/training/practicing. Sometimes just watching stocks and how they respond to the environment without trading. I have finally found what I want to do as my next career.

I am finishing my first 3 months in simulator and am opening a small CMEG account to start trading live. I know it will be a long journey, so I am keeping my consulting business alive a little longer until I can trade full time. I love this community and am thrilled to be a part of it.