Introduce Yourself!

[Leland 1]

Hi everyone,

I'll try to keep this as brief as possible; my name is Leland and I'm a member from a few years ago and have decided to re-start my trading career.  I was first exposed to the market in 2013 and naively made some cash buying stock and, at the time didn't know I was gambling.  PLUG made a run up one night in 2014, as I was trading in Tokyo hours and I made close to $1k.  Since then I've been off and on at various levels of seriousness, culminating in a $13k($10k principle and all gain) loss after going live for one month using DAS, about 2 and a half years ago.  If I'm honest with myself about that and the time period since, I wasn't really a trader.  I was trading on borrowed money, which is doomed to start.

I've done some personal and financial work, gotten out of debt, and put some cash aside.  There's much more to do.  The psychology modules really have opened me up to the mental problems I've had with becoming a trader.  For instance, when I joined BBT and went live, I would post the highest number I could in the chatroom and whatsapp, because of Narcissism and needing to feel important.  I share Mike's sentiment of needing to be right, and would try to win EVERY trade and prove the market wrong.  

So here I am in North Carolina, a brand new scarred up trader in training.  Haven't even bought the DAS sim yet, because I want to go back through all the modules a least a couple time before even starting that.

I'm not great with online relationship but I hope to make some type of connections here, and add value as well instead of just taking from the community like I did before.

 

Leland Watson

[prakashbpatel 1]

Hello Everyone, My name is Prakash and I am from Dallas, TX. I am new to day trading, but do little bit of swing trading. 

I am working full time in my corporate job, but have 1-2 hours available in the morning market hours. I read Andrew's book and felt like I can learn this. I am going over the training material and started the simulator for couple weeks now. I am learning the risk management and trying to find the right strategy. I am still very slow in identifying strategy in live environment. Hope to learn that soon:)

Looking forward to any meetup in Dallas-Fort worth area and connect with some of the experienced day traders.

Edited August 1, 2021 by prakashbpatel

[Abiel 475]

On 8/1/2021 at 6:50 PM, prakashbpatel said:

Hello Everyone, My name is Prakash and I am from Dallas, TX. I am new to day trading, but do little bit of swing trading. 

I am working full time in my corporate job, but have 1-2 hours available in the morning market hours. I read Andrew's book and felt like I can learn this. I am going over the training material and started the simulator for couple weeks now. I am learning the risk management and trying to find the right strategy. I am still very slow in identifying strategy in live environment. Hope to learn that soon:)

Looking forward to any meetup in Dallas-Fort worth area and connect with some of the experienced day traders.

Welcome to BBT Prakash! Stay tuned for Tx meetups! 

[Pedro Pereira 1]

Hello BBT,

My name is Pedro, I'm from Portugal.

I'm new to trading. I practiced for 2 months in SIM (April  and May) and start live since June with small size just to get used. I'm trading in part-time at this moment, but want to do this full-time when i can be consistently profitable. Still looking to get break even...

Hope i can get all the help an knowlege here with this comunity.

Hugs,

Pedro.

[Abiel 475]

On 8/4/2021 at 5:15 PM, Pedro Pereira said:

Hello BBT,

My name is Pedro, I'm from Portugal.

I'm new to trading. I practiced for 2 months in SIM (April  and May) and start live since June with small size just to get used. I'm trading in part-time at this moment, but want to do this full-time when i can be consistently profitable. Still looking to get break even...

Hope i can get all the help an knowlege here with this comunity.

Hugs,

Pedro.

Welcome to BBT Pedro! 

[Saint_K 2]

Hi BBT community. I am new with pretty much everything here and related to trading. I found Andrew's books last year and the BBT books earlier this year. I've begun my journey and I plan to do this full time. I usually keep a low profile, but I plan to come out of hole from time to time.

To Andrew, BBT mentors, and BBT community - thanks for sharing your knowledge, experience, and stories!

Saint_K

[CliffG 31]

1 hour ago, Saint_K said:

Hi BBT community. I am new with pretty much everything here and related to trading. I found Andrew's books last year and the BBT books earlier this year. I've begun my journey and I plan to do this full time. I usually keep a low profile, but I plan to come out of hole from time to time.

To Andrew, BBT mentors, and BBT community - thanks for sharing your knowledge, experience, and stories!

Saint_K

Welcome Saint_K - Really hope you enjoy it here. It truly is the best Trading Community imo. All about the education and experience. 

[Saint_K 2]

@CliffG Thanks!

[Lounatix 0]

Hello BearBull Traders,

My name is Gradey(Gr80 in chatrooms) I am 30 an live in Soldotna AK. After 14 years in the oil and gas industry I walked away from my job and started looking for something new. Found trading and have been hooked ever since. I am still and expect to always been in the learning phase working on getting 1% better everyday. I was part of a few other trading courses and groups for awhile but just felt like it was so difficult to either get questions answered or get to know fellow traders. After listening to Mastering Trading Psychology I started to look into BBT and finally convinced myself to try it out..... so far I'm ecstatic with what all I've gotten  out of the  course just in a short time.

I'm excited to get to know the group better and see how much I improve my trading through the group and hope that I am able to help others learn and improve their trading as well. My trading has been fairly lonely so if anyone is looking for a trading/accountability buddy to bounce ideas off, talk through ideas, or do some post trade reviews with let me know(Still a newbie so any level is appreciated).

[Jaimemeraz 1]

Hola everyone! My name is Jaime (Hi-May) M. I am 35 and live in Phoenix AZ. I have been a full time Realtor (part time real estate investor) for 10 years now and have been interested in day trading since 2017. As of July 2021 I have decided to focus my attention on becoming a full time trader. I found the BBT community after reading one of Andrew's books and as of yesterday I am officially an Elite Member. I have been paper trading in Think or Swim all of August and am starting the DAS simulator on Monday. I am looking forward to learning as much as possible and contributing where I can! 

 

[Abiel 475]

22 hours ago, Jaimemeraz said:

Hola everyone! My name is Jaime (Hi-May) M. I am 35 and live in Phoenix AZ. I have been a full time Realtor (part time real estate investor) for 10 years now and have been interested in day trading since 2017. As of July 2021 I have decided to focus my attention on becoming a full time trader. I found the BBT community after reading one of Andrew's books and as of yesterday I am officially an Elite Member. I have been paper trading in Think or Swim all of August and am starting the DAS simulator on Monday. I am looking forward to learning as much as possible and contributing where I can! 

 

Welcome to BBT Jaime! 

[Abiel 475]

On 8/23/2021 at 8:28 PM, Lounatix said:

Hello BearBull Traders,

My name is Gradey(Gr80 in chatrooms) I am 30 an live in Soldotna AK. After 14 years in the oil and gas industry I walked away from my job and started looking for something new. Found trading and have been hooked ever since. I am still and expect to always been in the learning phase working on getting 1% better everyday. I was part of a few other trading courses and groups for awhile but just felt like it was so difficult to either get questions answered or get to know fellow traders. After listening to Mastering Trading Psychology I started to look into BBT and finally convinced myself to try it out..... so far I'm ecstatic with what all I've gotten  out of the  course just in a short time.

I'm excited to get to know the group better and see how much I improve my trading through the group and hope that I am able to help others learn and improve their trading as well. My trading has been fairly lonely so if anyone is looking for a trading/accountability buddy to bounce ideas off, talk through ideas, or do some post trade reviews with let me know(Still a newbie so any level is appreciated).

Welcome to BBT Gradey! 

[LeeroyJenkins 2]

Hi all. My name is Leon, 41 from the UK. I am a brand new trader, currently swing trading forex in the simulator but I am starting to feel day trading stocks may be more suitable for me. I have read one of Andrews books and that led me to this group.

 

I am looking forward to learning and trading together with you all.

[ansmau 2]

Dear everybody,

My name is Mauro, 36yo. I am Italian working in Germany as engineer in the space industry.

I got very fascinated by the trading so I decided to give a try to this new possible career.

However, since the first I have found difficulties due to my first job, which is based on careful risk assessments for everything and no room for errors.

I decided to join a community, but unfortunately things got even worse: i have learned a lot of things but they were too focused to "don't loose money".. so i have started to trade "not to loose"... that was very painful for my self confidence. I took a short break and changed community looking for a better match with my personality

Now it's been a couple of months that I am part of bearbull and i decided to have a new start 😅 I like this new environment!

See you in chat and in the forum!

[_cameaton 0]

Hello!

My name is Cameron, I'm 32 from Southern California. I work with a Real Estate Investing company by day, and novice day trader by morning ;).

I've been curious about trading for a couple of years, and have been intrigued by the stock market for longer. At some point in the last month I decided to give it a good honest effort. I'm still tentative about things and paying overhead without first seeing if I can really hack it in trading.

I am looking for other individuals that need accountability partners and are willing to answer questions along the way. I work very hard and know that there is a way to succeed here.