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I guess once

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I figured out,

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you know, about Trade The Pool.

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It just makes a lot more sense,

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you know, to take on less risks

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you know, it's

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just it's a lot easier

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to trade someone else's risk,

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I guess.

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You know,

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you minimize your own downside.

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It's easier

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to have conviction

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and feel better

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about your trades.

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Welcome everybody to another

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funded trader of Trade The Pool

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Today, Jared is with me

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a new funded trader

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of the 25K Flex program.

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Thanks for coming, Jared.

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Hey,

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Happy to be here.

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Nice.

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Jared, we're going

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to talk a little bit

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about your trading,

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performance in general

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and also

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obviously, during the process,

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with us at Trade The Pool.

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For those of you

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not familiar,

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we usually do those interviews

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for once you get funded.

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And we actually

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want to understand

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how is it to become funded

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and and the full process.

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So let's, dive into that.

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What are you trading mostly?

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Tell us a little bit

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about that. Yeah.

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So I've tried

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a bunch of different things.

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I kind of started

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with small cap stocks,

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like a lot of people

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do a couple of years ago.

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But,

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eventually I found that

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once that market died down,

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I had to actually learn

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how to trade a lot

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better and understand

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price action and setups.

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And, for that,

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I found that

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large caps

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are really the most predictable

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as far as identifying

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trends and,

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you know, more reliable setups.

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So mainly I've been trading

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tech stocks,

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mainly stuff

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that follow the SPY

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and the QQQ.

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I find it useful

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to have both of those up while

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trading them so I can vary.

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Or sometimes

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I'll trade UPRO or like TQQQ

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to get exposure to the markets

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without taking as much risk on.

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I also like trading Amazon,

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Google, GOG,

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You know, I've traded

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AMD a little bit,

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Apple. Mainly tech stocks.

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Nothing too unfamiliar, I find

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I get in trouble

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if I start trading stuff

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that I'm not familiar with.

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It's interesting

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that you mentioned

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that it's easier

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to predict those large cap,

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comparing to, let's say,

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the penny stock, the small cap.

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And this something that I

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you are exactly the opposite when..

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Really?

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a penny stock trader

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because he said,

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you know,

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there is a classic

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pump and dump.

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You just need to wait

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to the pump to be over.

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And then you're short it, right?

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Yeah.

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That works for some people,

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but I find that that's a little too

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anxiety inducing for me,

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trading those

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because you can really

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get caught

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on the wrong side of those.

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Yeah, definitely that.

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How long are you trading for?

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Since 2019.

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I started, like,

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a lot of people around

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Covid, but,

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Yeah, I've been just practicing

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and learning ever since then.

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Pretty much.

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And are you trading

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also your person on account,

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like with a broker?

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Yeah,

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I was until about

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six months to a year ago,

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I guess once

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I figured out,

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you know, about Trade The Pool.

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It just makes a lot more sense,

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you know, to take on less risks

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and trading,

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you know, it's

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just it's a lot easier

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to trade someone else's risk,

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I guess.

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You know,

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you minimize your own downside.

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It's easier

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to have conviction

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and feel better

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about your trades.

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Amazing.

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That's a great feedback.

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Thank you.

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All right, so,

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talking about your trades,

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you know,

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your trading style, right?

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Are you looking for more of a momentum?

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Reversals?

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Pullbacks?

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Yeah.

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So, I

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mainly like trading breakouts

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and breakdowns

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as far as long and shorts go.

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I like to see stuff

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retest VWAP.

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That's probably

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the most important

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indicator I use.

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I don't really use

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many indicators

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because I like

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having a clean chart

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and not too much noise,

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but VWAP,

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I find to be really useful.

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So I like to see

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a long retest VWAP

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and come back up.

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And I feel a lot better

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about a breakout

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on the second attempt

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once it's already,

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you know, retested the lows,

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put in support,

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and I find that a good entry

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after that pullback.

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And same with breakdowns.

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I like to see it

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come down

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to the low of the day,

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And normally

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if it's under VWAP,

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I'll feel good

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about that short.

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I find that

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the five minute helps a lot,

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but I also like

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having the 15 minute

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and the four hour up,

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just to get a better idea

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of the overall trend

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and have a better idea of,

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you know, where

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I could possibly

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look to take profits or,

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look to scale out.

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So, so exactly

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are you

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because you have those common

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stocks, right?

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The one that you

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already familiar with.

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are you using

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any type of scanner

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or analysis before that?

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Or you always just watching them?

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I’m usually

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watching the same handful

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of stocks.

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I haven't really gotten

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too much into using scanners.

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I find it easier

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just to trade stuff

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I'm familiar with how it moves

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day in and day out.

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So I don’t have

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a second monitor

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with a couple of charts on it,

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and it's usually

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the same ones every day

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as far as like Apple and Nvidia

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AMD. Just all the tech

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stocks basically.

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But yeah.

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And like I'll, I'll check

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like the daily charts

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each morning of each

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to see how they're looking.

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I like to see

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which one is stronger

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than the others are weaker

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than the others.

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So that way if market

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sentiment changes,

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say, if Apple is

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weaker than the market that day

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and suddenly the market starts

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turning down,

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I like to look for that weaker

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stock,

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to find a short opportunity,

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you know?

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But I find it much

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easier to trade stuff

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you're familiar

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with how they move.

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Yeah.

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So you

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don't get caught off guard

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nearly as much for sure.

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For sure.

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This is definitely something

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that I noticed.

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A long time ago.

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You know,

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I used to trade

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many variety of stocks

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depending on the scanners.

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And then I guess over time,

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I just started to focus on

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similar to what you said,

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the Q’s. Yes.

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Nvidia.

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It’s already

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so difficult.

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And you just want to be

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the best version of you

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when you're trading.

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So like

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you don't want to be

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in an unfamiliar territory too

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often or getting uncomfortable.

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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Now, you mentioned

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you're doing,

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you know,

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break ups, breakdowns.

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What about in a choppy

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market? Right?

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What happened in those times

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when it's ranging?

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Yeah.

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So those are probably

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the toughest markets for me.

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Sometimes it's better

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just to not take a trade

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if you can't find something.

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But, Yeah.

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For those

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I definitely like,

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like to temper expectations

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and try to just

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get like a point

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on a scalp for something,

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not look for home runs.

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Just find something

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that looks like a okay entry.

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Set your,

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you know,

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your stop loss, figure

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all that out ahead of time.

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But definitely temper

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expectations

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of the market's choppy

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and you don't have

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a great feeling either way.

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So it's easy to get chopped up.

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And you know suddenly

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you have a pretty big red day

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on your hands.

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Yeah. For sure.

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All right.

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So, let's dive into your hub,

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your dashboard basically.

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Fot those of you who are not familiar,

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every trader gets

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his on dashboard.

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I'm going to share it.

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And let's talk a little bit

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about that.

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A few points

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that are really interesting

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here, I guess.

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So this is how it looks like.

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And basically

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like I said,

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Every trader

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gets his own dashboard

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Flex 25K,

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which is unlimited

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time to pass the evaluation

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you need to reach

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a certain target,

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which you did

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max loss, daily pause, etc..

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Nice solid chart.

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You know, you started

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pushed higher,

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a little bit of a pullback,

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but then, reached the target.

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I guess

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the number one data

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that comes up

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is this one,

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the 81% success rate

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I expect that to definitely

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come back down,

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but also have the risk reward

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to come up a little bit more.

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Something closer to 1 to 2

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maybe not quite there,

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but I expect the success rate

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to come back down to somewhere

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between 40 and 60.

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Yeah.

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a little high.

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I 81%. It's a lot.

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Why do you think

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you reached that

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81% success rate?

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What was different

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than the other times?

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Okay,

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so I think I had a pretty good

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read on what the market

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was going to do.

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On the day

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that a lot of that

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profit came from,

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I don't know if you remember,

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but it was the day

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that basically

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the headline that came out

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was a pause on tariffs.

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And I had been watching

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the market for a while

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prior to that.

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And you could tell the market

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really wanted

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a reason to squeeze

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and push higher.

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But, every time it would try,

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a negative

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headline would come out

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or tweet or something

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would scare the market.

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So once this news came out,

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I really felt 

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that the market

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was going to squeeze

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and continue to squeeze

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for the rest of that day.

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So I felt very comfortable

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holding my long, longer

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than I normally would for,

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say, spy or,

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you know,

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basically I traded UPRO

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I think that day,

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which is, yeah, a smaller,

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more like a 1.5X

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version of the S&P 500.

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But yeah, I just,

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I felt very comfortable

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about long that afternoon

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and just let them go.

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Nice.

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And I mean you did

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pass in one day? Right?

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You started that

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technically too. But yeah.

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So that's also amazing.

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But this is something

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that I guess related

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to also the previous attempts

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that you had. Right?

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Because you did have

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a few attempts before that.

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So, so let's talk

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a little bit about that.

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I mean, a lot of the guys

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obviously are trying to

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and I've been saying that

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through the interviews

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many, many times.

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You need like 2 or 3 times.

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Yeah.

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I'm thinking past

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the evaluation. Right.

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And tell me a little bit

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about your experience here.

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Yeah.

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So, I have ADHD,

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which I just found out

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about about a year ago,

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which makes it even

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harder to trade.

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So you're not just

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battling yourself,

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but also the market.

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So it took a lot of trial

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and error for me

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to figure out

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what works for me.

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What stocks to trade

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to get my sizing appropriate

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and just to, like, lock in

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and really take it seriously.

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And I think a lot of

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it was figuring out what size

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account worked best for me.

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What kind of sizing I needed.

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You know,

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what size stop loss worked

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best for me for a day?

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Like I tried the smaller accounts.

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I tried the larger accounts.

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You just have to find

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what works best for you

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and your risk tolerance.

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I noticed

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with the smaller accounts,

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I just.

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I found myself

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pushing those a bit

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because it's.

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You can only take so much size

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and only trade certain tickers

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with those.

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So I think 25K

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is the sweet spot for that.

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is the sweet spot for that.

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Nice, nice.

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I mean,

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you did great on this one,

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no doubt about it. Great move.

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And you already,

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of course,

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have your funded account.

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You already traded with it.

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So that's, that's a great move.

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Before we'll finish here,

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I wanted to ask you two things.

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One,

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what do you think

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about the market?

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Where where are we heading?

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This is a very difficult market

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to trade.

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I’ve been sideways

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Honestly, most of this year,

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since this new, US

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presidential administration

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started,

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just because the market

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is so ready to,

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it's sensitive

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to move on headlines.

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So you have to

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basically have the words ready

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right to your phone

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or your desktop for any news

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that comes through,

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because any negative

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or positive tariff

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news or trade

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war news

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or anything,

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just changes

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sentiment on a dime.

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So you have to be really ready

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to change,

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you know, direction and bias.

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You can't get too hung up

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one way or the other,

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and it's hard

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to swing anything.

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That's why

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I kind of like the day trading,

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because it's too hard

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to carry risk overnight

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because the market

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moves on these headlines.

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So, it's easier

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to, you know,

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trade smaller size,

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more manageable positions,

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and you just have to be aware,

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you know, things could change.

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For sure.

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So is it up or down for you?

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like for the long

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term, let's say three months?

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It's hard to say. Yeah.

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I could go either way.

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Honestly,

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I feel like it's rather choppy

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right now.

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I do feel like the market

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wants to move higher, but,

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I don't expect us to,

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head to all time

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highs anytime soon.

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I feel like we're more likely

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to pull back further

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by that point,

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but you'll probably see

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a couple

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nice bear rallies in there

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for sure. For sure.

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I’ll be looking at

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the daily charts

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to figure out

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how far that'll push

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these relief balances.

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And, you know, the next level

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that they'll send things down.

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I think you really need to see

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this tariff

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stuff get solved

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and put away before

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the market

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is going to feel comfortable

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pushing higher.

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Yeah, I, I guess so.

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And, totally

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with you on this one

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How is it

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like to pass the evaluation?

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especially after

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a few attempts?

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Yeah, it's,

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definitely a big weight off

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your shoulder, if you like.

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You know, it helps your,

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you know,

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a lot of traders

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have their self-worth

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tied up in their trading,

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so it helps a lot

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to have something

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to show for your,

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you know, your hard work

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and just grinding

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and learning and,

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you know, all that screen time

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at it definitely is rewarding.

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And, you know, it feels

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feels pretty good to finally,

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you know, be able to say, hey,

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I did this.

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Here's proof

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that, you know, I'm

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a profitable trader.

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I passed this,

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it's just a weight off

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your shoulders.

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Yeah. For sure.

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You know,

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all of us have been working

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so hard,

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to accomplish something, right?

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To reach the point

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To reach the point

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where we can say,

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yeah, no,

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I know what I'm doing.

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And this is definitely

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one of those moments when you

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when you get this,

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an achievement.

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So, speaking of achievement,

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of course, you have,

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under this tab of achievements,

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you can definitely share

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your certificate

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with the other guys.

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through our discord

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or other platforms.

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All righty.

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Jared, thanks so much

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for the interview. Yeah.

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And for those of

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you want to check us out,

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go to TradeThePool.com

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and we'll be in touch.

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Take care. Bye. Thank you. Now.