A TRADER'S LIFE

Here are my thoughts on reframing your mindset as a trader. Hardly definitive, but nice and short and, with any luck, more than a couple of useful takeways for you.

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Don't trade with your own Money

I don't know why it took me so long - confidence, perhaps, i.e., lack thereof - to realize I would be so much better off trading someone else's money, not my own.  Mid February 2023 I started the 'audition' at Surge Trader on a virtual account of 100K. If I pass - that means hitting a profit of 10K - I get to trade 100K, again, not my money.

Surge Trader  get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.

Use my 10% Discount Coupon ATL10off for your 'audition'. Just click the link to get started:
https://www.surgetrader.com/?afmc=vd

Once you pass the audition, you have access to funded accounts from $25,000 and upwards.

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This short episode is a compilation of clips from various episodes with traders talking to me about how they got started in trading. 

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Don't Trade with your own Money

I don't know why it took me so long - confidence, perhaps, i.e., lack thereof - to realize I would be so much better off trading someone else's money, not my own.  

Mid February 2023 I started the 'audition' at Surge Trader on a virtual account of 100K. If I pass - that means hitting a profit of 10K - I get to trade 100K, again, not my money.

Surge Trader  get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.I don't know why it took me so long - confidence, perhaps, i.e., lack thereof - to realize I would be so much better off trading someone else's money, not my own.  Mid February 2023 I started the 'audition' at Surge Trader on a virtual account of 100K. If I pass - that means hitting a profit of 10K - I get to trade 100K, again, not my money.

Surge Trader  get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.

Use my 10% Discount Coupon ATL10off for your 'audition'. Just click the link to get started:
https://www.surgetrader.com/?afmc=vd

Once you pass the audition, you have access to funded accounts from $25,000 and upwards.

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Discipline in life is hard. Discipline in trading is harder still. Here are 8 'don'ts' to help keep you on course to a slow steady climb in your equity. 

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I don't know why it took me so long - confidence, perhaps, i.e., lack thereof - to realize I would be so much better off trading someone else's money, not my own.  Mid February 2023 I started the 'audition' at Surge Trader on a virtual account of 100K. If I pass - that means hitting a profit of 10K - I get to trade 100K, again, not my money.

Surge Trader  get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.

Use my 10% Discount Coupon ATL10off for your 'audition'. Just click the link to get started:
https://www.surgetrader.com/?afmc=vd

Once you pass the audition, you have access to funded accounts from $25,000 and upwards.

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Ben Sparham began his career at 19 as a Personal Trainer. A few short years later he got bitten by the trading bug and today he trades US equities for himself, friends and family. 

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I don't know why it took me so long - confidence, perhaps, i.e., lack thereof - to realize I would be so much better off trading someone else's money, not my own.  Mid February 2023 I started the 'audition' at Surge Trader on a virtual account of 100K. If I pass - that means hitting a profit of 10K - I get to trade 100K, again, not my money.

Surge Trader  get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.

Use my 10% Discount Coupon ATL10off for your 'audition'. Just click the link to get started:
https://www.surgetrader.com/?afmc=vd

Once you pass the audition, you have access to funded accounts from $25,000 and upwards.

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Ben Sparham began his career at 19 as a Personal Trainer. A few short years later he got bitten by the trading bug and today he trades US equities for himself, friends and family. 

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If you want to give prop trading a go, I highly recommend SurgeTrader.

They get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.

Use my 10% Discount Coupon ATL10off for your 'audition'. Just click the link to get started:
https://www.surgetrader.com/?afmc=vd

Once you pass the audition, you have access to funded accounts from $25,000 and upwards.

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This is a clip from episode 70 with Saul Lokier, Chief Product manager at The5%ers prop firm. 

Besides his own personal accounts, Saul also manages funds for International Proprietary Forex Funds. We talk about how he got started and how fatherhood contributed to a change in the way he trades and where he ended up working. 

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If you’ve looked into prop trading, you may well have heard of The5ers. My next guest, Saul Lokier, is part of the firm, which has its HQ in Tel Aviv. 

Besides his own personal accounts, he also manages funds for International Proprietary Forex Funds. 

Among other things, we talk about how he got started and how fatherhood contributed to a change in the way he trades and where he ended up working. 

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I don't know why it took me so long - confidence, perhaps, i.e., lack thereof - to realize I would be so much better off trading someone else's money, not my own.  Mid February 2023 I started the 'audition' at Surge Trader on a virtual account of 100K. If I pass - that means hitting a profit of 10K - I get to trade 100K, again, not my money.

Surge Trader  get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.

Use my 10% Discount Coupon ATL10off for your 'audition'. Just click the link to get started:
https://www.surgetrader.com/?afmc=vd

Once you pass the audition, you have access to funded accounts from $25,000 and upwards. 

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Having done nearly 70 episodes now since I started this podcast, I’ve noticed all the traders I get to chat to have this in common: they’re grounded, humble and self-aware, not at all flashy and loud. In fact, the vast majority don’t even talk about making money, their focus is on the mental and physical qualities they work on in order to improve their edge.  

For episode 69 I got together with Alistair Todd, a trader still in his early twenties, who started trading in his teens. He taught himself, blew up a few accounts, found a mentor and never looked back. I think you’ll find he has plenty of useful insights to share with you. Let’s get to it.

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Having done nearly 70 episodes now since I started this podcast, I’ve noticed:all the traders I get to chat to have this in common: they’re grounded, humble and self-aware, not at all flashy and loud. In fact, the vast majority don’t even talk about making money, their focus is on the mental and physical qualities they work on in order to improve their edge. 

For episode 69 I got together with Alistair Todd, a trader still in his early twenties, who started trading in his teens. He taught himself, blew up a few accounts, found a mentor and never looked back. I think you’ll find he has plenty of useful insights to share with you. Let’s get to it.

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I don't know why it took me so long - confidence, perhaps, i.e., lack thereof - to realize I would be so much better off trading someone else's money, not my own.  

Mid February 2023 I started the 'audition' at Surge Trader on a virtual account of 100K. If I pass - that means hitting a profit of 10K - I get to trade 100K, again, not my money.

Surge Trader  get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.

Use my 10% Discount Coupon ATL10off for your 'audition'. Just click the link to get started:
https://www.surgetrader.com/?afmc=vd

Once you pass the audition, you have access to funded accounts from $25,000 and upwards. 

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This is my first podcast episode of 2023. It was recorded back in November of last year, but my MacBook Pro had a meltdown just before Christmas and what with ordering spare parts from China and Post Office strikes here in the UK, that’s set me back a bit. Anyway, here we are, and we start with a good one 

My guest for episode 68 is Gary Langley, aka the Scruffy Trader. I particularly warmed to Gary’s wise and humble approach to what he does. I can’t say I always manage to get a good portrait of a person with every session I do, but I think with this one we do get that in full.

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Don't Trade with your own Money

I don't know why it took me so long - confidence, perhaps, i.e., lack thereof - to realize I would be so much better off trading someone else's money, not my own.  

Mid February 2023 I started the 'audition' at Surge Trader on a virtual account of 100K. If I pass - that means hitting a profit of 10K - I get to trade 100K, again, not my money.

Surge Trader  get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.I don't know why it took me so long - confidence, perhaps, i.e., lack thereof - to realize I would be so much better off trading someone else's money, not my own.  Mid February 2023 I started the 'audition' at Surge Trader on a virtual account of 100K. If I pass - that means hitting a profit of 10K - I get to trade 100K, again, not my money.

Surge Trader  get great reviews online and you can get 90% Profit Split once you're trading one of the their funds.

Use my 10% Discount Coupon ATL10off for your 'audition'. Just click the link to get started:
https://www.surgetrader.com/?afmc=vd

Once you pass the audition, you have access to funded accounts from $25,000 and upwards. 

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