Hello Traders,
When I was 25, I had 2 full-time employees, $80,000 in the bank, and one dream: to reach financial freedom.
What I didn’t know was that the following year Covid 19 would hit, and I’d lose 90% of my contracts, one employee, and every last dollar.
I still remember the day my wife came to visit me at the office and found me with my head on the desk, crying.
We both cried that day…
I told her I was a failure (even my stepfather had told me that).
I told her she could leave me if she wanted.
I was defeated.
Everything was gone. I felt like I had failed as a man and as a partner.
But she looked at me in that heavy silence and said: “It’s just a moment. Don’t give up!”
That year, I sold everything I had left…my car, equipments, and with the remaining money I moved to Switzerland to rebuild my lost capital.
That same year, I decided to take trading seriously and dedicate every free moment after my 8-to-5 job to trading.
I told myself that if I could make $300/day, I could live a decent life and take care of my family. (I had no idea how hard that actually was.)
So I built a trading plan focused on futures and prop firms.
Armed with new weapons, I went into battle.
I lost account after account.
And I quickly realized that my dream of making $300/day was very far away, unless I changed something.
What changed everything for me?
Risk Management.
The greatest epiphany I ever had was this: every strategy is profitable, or at least break-even.
It’s the trader who stops the strategy from being profitable. The trader is the one executing it.
Essentially, YOU are the biggest enemy of your trading account.
I rewrote my plan with a focus on Risk Management and Consistency.
In the first months, I was just a break-even trader.
That was a huge win for me at the time!
A few months later, I received my first funded trader certificate.
I still keep it on my desk today, to remind me how hard I worked for it.
I realized it was possible!
I started opening dozens of accounts with another prop trading firm to scale and build my own capital.
I had 10 accounts trading multiple ES contracts and finally, when I was about to request a payout, I got the news that would change my plan once again:
Payout Denied. All my accounts blocked…
I felt the same pain I did at the beginning of the journey. But this time, I had something new.
A conviction.
A conviction that I could make it.
I knew I couldn’t depend on anyone anymore, I had to build my own capital. So I started trading stocks, only stocks.
Meanwhile, I was also investing in crypto, which I’ve documented here, how I made almost $60,000.
Slowly but surely, my equity started to stabilize.
In less than 2 years, I hit $110,000 in trading capital!
And this is just the trading capital… finally, we have money to do whatever we want.
I made it, momma!!!
But it was never about that…
In the end, I wasn’t the same person anymore…
I realized the ultimate achievement wasn’t about how much money I made.
It was about who I became in the process.
It’s about the death of the person I was 5 years ago, and the rebirth of a new belief system.
A system where I finally understood what it takes to become a profitable and successful trader.
A system where I implemented risk management, and hundreds of other lessons I picked up along the way.
But I had a problem: I had no one to share this with. I had no friends in finance, no one who was trading.
So I decided to build Freedom Trades.
Yes…that was the main reason I created the Freedom Trades Community: to connect with as many traders as possible.
And this is the story of Freedom Trades… a story that continues to be written every day by the extraordinary traders I meet along the way.
You inspire me to keep going and to grow this community even more.
Many of you have asked me to create a Discord server.
So I can only comply and do it.
I want us all to connect, catch opportunities together, share both wins and losses.
So I’ll ask you here:
Do you want to trade, learn, and hang out with us inside our new Discord server?
PS: All of you who are PRO, send me a direct message. I’ll add you to a special role that gives you access to a private channel where we can connect and share daily market opportunities.
Trade Setup of The Week
Ticker : MARA 0.00%↑
I’m already in a position on MARA, with an average price of 15.9.
The setup is still valid, as an accumulation zone has formed around support, and the price continues to respect the trendline.
Looking at the BTC chart, it also seems to have reached a support zone and is trying to retest the previous high. (This could fuel the movement)
Additionally, if we look at MARA’s competitors, we can see all of them: WULF, RIOT, HUT showing increasing volume… it looks like they’re all ready to break from their previous highs.
We might need to be patient with this ticker, but if our thesis is correct, we can expect around a 30% reward.
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Key economic events to watch next week
This week is all about inflation, Thursday’s CPI/ Core CPI will set the tone for markets. A hotter print keeps the Fed hawkish, a cooler one could fuel the next rally.
Earnings to Watch Next Week
Adobe reports Thursday after close, all eyes will be on their AI-driven growth story.
Fear & Greed Index of the week
Financial Meme of the week
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Vladislav
Corona was in paradox ways. Good to wake up.
Great post, 🙏🏽