 What's up guys wanting to put together another video for you this week And I want to talk about the evolution of a trader or at least the evolution of my journey And I think that a lot of people are gonna be able to resonate with this I want to talk about five steps that most traders not everybody some people just go immediately to mentorship They humble their ego they go. I don't even know what I don't know. I don't even know the questions asked So let me go Learn from professionals, but most people do this and I did this too And this is why it took me three years to get any form of real Consistency or profitability and it was a it was a mind job dude. It was it was very hard and it's exhausting So if this sounds like you Let's corral this a little bit. Let's reshape it, but check this out most traders Try to do it themselves. I tried to do it myself I the first trader I ever took in the stock market was a stock trade account like eight years ago I bought a five cent stock. I thought I was gonna be rich if it goes to 20 cents or two dollars I thought I you know invented the next Amazon by buying this stock for a hundred dollar position It goes down to like two to three cents in the same day. I'm freaking out I have no idea what I got myself into a little bit of money, but it wasn't about the money. It was the fear of No control and it was the fear of like Dude, I don't know what I don't know like why is my money going down? So number one is most traders try to do it themselves. No, no, no big caveat number two is This is the stage where you have Bad habits and what I mean by that is I'm trying to think of my journey This is where you just don't even know what you're learning and there's such bad habits Like you don't even know you're forming such bad habits You don't know that you're like building these neural pathways of like in your brain of these stems of memory of revenge trading or Oversizing or getting too excited getting too horny for a trade or I'm trying to think of all the you know the memories that I went through and it's you you're not even really learning and you're developing these bad Habits, this is the stage where it's just you really don't even know it's really terrible And it's kind of like the stage of one But it's just a progression in a little bit of momentum of one going into stage stage two number three is what most traders kind of a Lot of experience in the beginning and it's big loss stage or if not big losses Just constant losing those bad habits and step one and two You don't know how to make money and not only do you not know how to make money the momentum in the mental state That is so exhausting. I'm trying to figure this out. It's like I just keep losing money. What the hell I just keep losing money like okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah when loss loss loss Step forward step back back back like that's kind of step three Step four is what I like to say that you tow the line enough and you'll get paid for it Right like in the real world. It's kind of like a dose of reality. Well, that's trading you put in two to three years You may have bad habits. They might be ingrained like narrow pathways, but you're going to be learning at least something I'm assuming at least if you watch screens a lot and and put in a couple years This is the treading water phase. This is your your your break even so four is not necessarily bad But it can all be Mitigated from one to three so I'll explain so step four you're you're not consistent. You're not profitable yet But you're seeing light at the end of the tunnel because you put in enough hours Draining exhausting step one through three yikes What I mean is is traders literally can bypass step one step two and step three and go straight to step four Which even if they're not making money, they're not big losses. They're not You know building all these bad habits if they get the right mentorship They're not in a state of like survival mode and and just mental exhaustion. That's what I'm trying to say So step four is okay. You're not necessarily making a ton of money yet But you're not like way behind mentally and also in your P&L curve You're not like having to make back tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars Depending on how long you've been in this game and how much size you put on Step five is exactly what anybody can guess you finally however you did it Mentorship or no mentorship. You got profitable. You got consistent. It took me three years man three years of Ego and sizing too much in revenge trading and not asking for the right help in the beginning I asked for help within the first year and I joined a community Well, boy was I chasing alerts wasn't the right community built these bad habits. They were basically fraudsters things like that So that's not going to help anybody. So what I'm saying is if I'm saying anything is Traders can save years on their life Years so much mental anguish that you go through and a journey of not even needing to go through step one two and three And go straight to the right mentorship Basically break even in the beginning, which is a huge win if that's where you start But your understanding and your learning and your build a momentum and habits that are going to get you to five Profitable consistent and you know why you're doing it so that every day forward you go to you you wake up and you go to the markets And you expect to paycheck of some form obviously when you lose It's calculated you take a loss every now and then welcome to trading. You're not gonna be a winner a hundred percent of time. I'm sorry It's like dating. It's a numbers game, right? But when you have an edge when you have a process the numbers are really in your favor when you have that Maybe ninety percent nine times out of ten nine trades out of ten Maybe you lose one and then you have risk management to mitigate it quickly so That's kind of the full scope journey of a trader and I swear to God man I swear to you step one through three is unnecessary but that road is taken by a lot of people the road less traveled is I Don't know anything. I need help. Let me start with help. Let me build good habits and then let then let me Evolve into a good trader because I don't have to unlearn all this BS That's going to make it a very hard journey. Then you're just gonna overthink everything This is a personal issue to me guys because this was my job. I went from step. I went from step zero. I Tried to do it. I tried to do it myself And then it was just a lot harder of a road then sucking up the ego and just saying you know what dude I'm learning a new craft. This is a language. Let me let me get the help I need So if you guys got any help from this man, I just want to help people I wish I could go back in time eight years and talk to someone like me or get help from something like MIC and Text my line at two one three four five eight five nine nine seven. I'd love to hear what's kind of like hindering your trading hindering your mental state Keeping you from what you want and we can help that and then also multi seven figure your trader Alex to miss put together the most wonderful webinar on all of this and You can find that at my investing club comm slash webinar come check us out