In episode 555 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with Dr. Brett Steenbarger, a trading psychologist who's worked with top performers for decades. He breaks down why consistency has nothing to do with finding better setups. They walk through how traders unknowingly sabotage themselves—and what actually separates those who stay stuck from those who quietly improve over time.

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:48 Who is Brett Steenbarger?
• 02:13 Do traders come to fix problems or get better?
• 03:23 The first thing Brett looks at when a trader wants to improve
• 04:56 Can traders coach themselves?
• 06:16 Leveraging your strengths: where success really comes from
• 08:26 Why you should figure out your strengths before trading
• 10:30 Psychological wealth as the foundation for financial wealth
• 12:59 The loneliness problem: why trading alone is a bad thing
• 14:37 Why mentoring others makes you better
• 15:39 Adapting to crazy markets (recorded during Middle East conflict)
• 17:30 What Brett tells traders when volatility spikes
• 19:30 Are markets irrational?
• 21:22 Advice for new traders for volatile markets
• 23:26 What's inside Positive Trading Psychology (link below)

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In episode 554 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to veteran traders share what actually made them consistent after years of ups and downs. They walk through the painful patterns—big wins followed by bigger losses—and how shifting their mindset and risk management changed their results.

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• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:00:54 Al Brooks - Traders' Mental Edge
• 00:13:02 Andrew Aziz - Surviving Bad Markets & Preventing Overtrading
• 00:24:36 Brian Pezim - Consistency for the Part‑Time Trader
• 00:31:55 Brian McAboy - Trading as a Business in Unpredictable Markets
• 00:40:45 Peter Varcoe - The Real Path to Consistency (It's Slower Than You Think)
• 00:52:58 Andrew Mitchem - What Long‑Term Trading Success Requires

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In episode 553 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with Kevin Hunt to talk about how he went from losing everything in business to becoming a full-time trader living in Thailand. Kevin shares the terrifying moment he burned his last safety net and how that pressure became the catalyst for mastering the one thing most traders ignore: their own psychology. He dives into his simple, mechanical approach to the London session and why having a set of rules isn't enough—you have to learn how to lose before you can win.

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:52 What's new with Kevin Hunt?
• 03:18 How he started trading
• 06:13 Moving from London to Thailand
• 09:10 Losing his "safety net" and finally trading full-time
• 10:17 Advice on jumping to full-time trading now vs. keeping a day job
• 13:50 Kevin's simple system
• 16:49 Why simple isn't easy
• 21:21 Why constantly changing methods kill consistency
• 25:31 The price of long‑term profitability
• 27:12 Community (Slack) cured loneliness and kept him accountable
• 29:46 Why sharing success with others matters
• 30:54 Where to find Kevin Hunt

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In episode 552 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with Justin Hertzberg of PropAccounts to talk about how prop firms really work — the risks they hide, why many fail, and what separates the ones that actually pay traders. They walk through real numbers (pass rates, average payouts, account lifespans) and share practical signals you can use to avoid getting burned and to find a prop program that supports steady, sustainable trading growth.

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:30 Justin Hertzberg's work with prop firms
• 02:30 What differentiates prop firms
• 04:06 The "printing money" myth
• 07:09 Asymmetric risk explained
• 08:22 Why 95% of prop firms are insolvent
• 09:42 How to spot a firm that will pay you
• 11:09 Live accounts vs. demo accounts
• 15:06 How prop firms hedge risk
• 15:59 Real stats: passing rates, payouts, account lifespan
• 18:05 Why challenge fees have a "floor"
• 19:33 Prop firm rules: what's changing
• 21:59 The MetaQuotes shake-up
• 24:54 Why brokers are getting into prop firms
• 26:42 Standalone firms vs. broker-backed firms
• 29:19 Average lifespan of a funded account
• 30:29 Where to find Justin Hertzberg (links below)

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• DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
• Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist
• One-Page Trading Plan (free template)
• Recommended brokers:
  • EightCap (preferred Crypto and FX Broker)
  • AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus)
• Desire To TRADE Academy
• Get a copy of Prop Trading Secrets (Author: Kathy Lien & Etienne Crete)

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• Justin's email: [email protected]
• fpfxtech.com
• propaccount.com

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In episode 551 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with BlackSheep Academy's César Barriga, a trader who struggled for 10 years to become consistently profitable. César shares the hard lessons from that journey, from losing family money to finally finding peace with a simple, hybrid approach. He breaks down exactly why he now does the opposite of most retail traders and how he keeps his strategy so simple that he can explain it in a few minutes.

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:43 Who is César Barriga and what's his trading style?
• 02:11 How he started trading and his 20-year journey
• 04:16 How forex pulled him in
• 05:25 The brutal 10-year road to profitability
• 08:00 Learning what the top 1% of winning traders were doing
• 09:42 Finding retail sentiment online and building an edge
• 12:09 Retail trading or the opposite?
• 14:05 Finding the balance between simple and complicated strategies
• 16:18 Getting into algo trading through a mentor
• 18:24 Using AI to code strategies and validating them
• 20:49 César's hybrid approach (manual and algo)
• 22:55 How mindset affects your trades
• 26:23 Why beginners must start manual before ever touching automation
• 27:20 Where to find César Barriga (links below)

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• DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
• Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist
• One-Page Trading Plan (free template)
• Recommended brokers:
  • EightCap (preferred Crypto and FX Broker)
  • AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus)
• Desire To TRADE Academy
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• BlackSheep Legacy (English)
• Instagram: @cesktrades

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In episode 550 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with "The Crypto Trader" Glen Goodman, who went from reporting on financial markets to eventually trading for a living. He opens up about losing money early on despite being a financial reporter, why being right about the market isn't enough, and the one rule that saved his trading career (and will save yours too).

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:28 Who is Glen Goodman?
• 02:30 Why people think trading is easy
• 05:35 How it began—trading while working as a financial journalist
• 10:25 The shift from stable income to full-time trading
• 11:27 What markets he started with
• 14:37 Walking through his trading style
• 19:38 Price action vs. indicators—what he actually uses
• 24:13 Why he doesn't short crypto (and the math behind it)
• 26:57 The #1 rule most traders ignore
• 30:44 Where to find Glen's book and connect with him (link below)

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• glengoodman.com
• Glen on X: x.com/glengoodman
• The Crypto Trader book

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In episode 549 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with Dave Mabe, who's been trading for more than 20 years, sharing how nearly quitting during a massive drawdown pushed him to rethink everything about how he trades. What started as one working idea turned into 25 fully automated strategies running every day. He also dives into the hardest lesson of his career—trading through a brutal drawdown—and how it forced him to build a system for creating new strategies.

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:37 Who is Dave Mabe?
• 01:06 Fully automated trading vs manual execution
• 01:40 How Dave started trading
• 04:04 The problem with learning from intuition-based traders
• 05:50 Can you really make money with discretionary trading?
• 06:45 First automated strategy: success or failure?
• 09:28 Do algo traders struggle with emotions too?
• 11:09 Is coding required for automated trading in 2026?
• 12:13 Why backtests look great but live trading fails
• 15:48 How much variance between backtest and live is acceptable?
• 16:45 What separates traders who quit from those who last 20 years
• 19:51 Generating new trading strategies consistently
• 23:30 Is there a limit to how many strategies you can run?
• 24:46 Where to find Dave Mabe and his free backtesting course (link below)

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• DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
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• One-Page Trading Plan (free template)
• Recommended brokers:
  • EightCap (preferred Crypto and FX Broker)
  • AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus)
• Desire To TRADE Academy
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• Dave's free backtesting course

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In episode 548 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with 30-year veteran trader Michael Martin discussing the reality of trading for a living and managing institutional capital. Michael shares his journey from a working-class background to working with legendary traders. He talks about early mistakes, tough lessons, and the mental rewiring that helped him stay in the game long enough to win.

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:58 Michael's current work with Victor Spirandio and systematized models
• 02:50 Early life and his pentrepreneurial grit
• 07:54 How he started as a trader
• 12:28 Michael's trading style
• 17:05 How he found people he can trade for
• 20:16 Results of trading his own money
• 24:38 How he stayed in the game for 30+ years
• 29:20 How does communication affect trading
• 33:16 The core message of Michael's book
• 38:13 Where to find Michael Martin

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In episode 547 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with professor and AI expert Dr. Matloob Khushi, sharing why he stopped believing in universal trading algorithms after spending years trying to build one. He walks through what he actually teaches his PhD students—and why most people claiming to trade with AI are really just feeding screenshots into a black box that's already seen tomorrow's prices. No hype, just the uncomfortable reality of what it takes to build something that actually holds up.

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:01 How he learned algo trading and his background with AI
• 03:22 Teaching trading: from basics to AI integration
• 05:08 Bridging discretionary trading and algorithms
• 08:11 Data utilization in AI trading
• 11:43 The complexity of AI in trading
• 13:11 Backtesting and confidence in algorithms
• 15:32 The hard truth about trading with AI
• 21:07 Continuous monitoring and emotional factors in trading
• 25:45 Algorithm management and broker considerations

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• Dr. Matloob Khushi's publications

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In episode 546 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, we will be listening to six professional traders revealing the hard truths that transformed their careers—from the long-term mindset that actually works, to the systematic rules that finally overcame emotional trading, and how to read markets instead of trying to predict them.

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• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:01:25 Austin Silver - What consistency really means as a trader
• 00:13:19 Adam Grimes - Practical psychology tools for trading discipline
• 00:27:15 TraderNick - The long-term mindset that works
• 00:34:22 Sunny J. Harris - How to adapt and evolve your trading over your career
• 00:41:29 Dave Floyd - Reading markets, not predicting them
• 00:54:50 Paras Jandwani - How systematic rules overcome emotional trading

What did you like best in this podcast episode? Let's talk in the comments below, or join me in the Facebook group!

• DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
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  • AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus)
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