The Lone Stock Trader’s Blog
The Truth About Trading For a Living
I did a one-hour presentation online a while back at Traders Fest, a yearly event organized by Rayner Teo, a trader from Singapore. I talked about a subject not often often talked about. Yet I know a lot of traders are interested in this topic, which is trading...
2019 Review
Timeline 2009I lost $700,000, or 70% of all the money I had in a trade gone seriously wrong.2010I lost another $100,000 in a failed start-up business. I then decided to go back to trading.2013I reached a low point of $35,000 left in my trading account.But after taking...
My First Half of 2019 Trading Review
It's this period of the year. The period when I reflect about my first half of the year, both on a personal level, and of course on a trading level. This is the period when I dare facing the harsh reality of what happened in my life, how I performed trading-wise. It's...
How I Shifted My Focus From Money to Trading
10 years ago, I lost a whopping $700k in the market. That was 70% of all the money I had at the time.The details are not that important, but it is something 99% of traders went through, or will go through: a mentally devastating loss. To add pain to injury, as you...
My Trading Journal – New Features
I've just spent the last 2 months creating myself a new trading journal on Google Sheets. The reason it took me that long was that I've added new personalized tools to it in order to: 1- help me reduce my trading mistakes2- make it easy to check what would...
My 2018 Trading Results – Another Turning Point
My 2018 Trading Results Alright. I'm not going to lie. 2018 was brutal. Savage.I was up 40%+ at some point this year. And here's how I ended the year: Yup. Brutal.Anyways. I could blame the market, the algos, Trump, China, and just throw myself a pity party.... but...
