Shadowing Practice: How I Beat the Mental Game of Trading (After 4 Years of Failure) - Learn English Speaking with Video

I failed four years before I became profitable in trading.

Not only that, I actually failed 20 challenges before I got my first payout.

And one of the things is a lot of you guys

aren't willing to fail for a period of time to learn the lessons to become profitable in the trading craft.

And the maddest thing is, okay, yes, we want to be profitable.

Yes, you want to be profitable as fast as possible.

Yes, you want to make all the money in the world.

But that is not actually the end goal.

The end goal is actually being consistent.

The end goal is actually living the dream of retiring your family members.

The end goal is actually the true meaning of what money can provide.

It's not what money is to do, for example, buy the cars and the watches and all that.

I think, yes, of course, these materialistic things are great.

However, it's more about putting food on the table for our loved ones, letting our kids have a better life than we did when we were younger,

and more importantly, doing it by a trade or a trait

so a trade for trading right a skill set

or a profession where we generally love what we do

and we do what we love

and that's what we call true freedom doing what you want

when you want with who you want and how you want

that is true freedom that is my message from me to you

and in today's video what i want to talk about is

the whole journey of how i failed for four years before becoming profitable

and that each year was very different in failing and

that what did profitability really truly mean

and more importantly what stage are you at

and how can you relate to this and

if you are unprofitable in trading this video is for you to learn learn from my mistakes

and get there quicker and in this day

and age with you know youtube

and the content out there look you don't have to buy

every single course out there look you don't have to actually go

and take every single content out there

but there are videos like this giving you examples and experiences of

that individual for example me of all the things

that happened in those four years

so you can learn from them you can hear our experiences

and it's all for free

so without further ado let's get it what's happening guys Dan Chang here aka champ currently on a flight

and I wanted to make one of these videos

which we called the unfiltered series where we call it like a me to you

and it took me four years to become profitable as the title says

and what we said at the start of the video

but these four years was probably the hardest years of my life mentally to some degree

and I think that you guys can definitely understand this to some degree is

that you do everything in your power absolutely everything in your power

but you can't seem to get it right

and that's where trading is probably one of the most hardest

and most painfulest profession and what does that mean well it can be we can do

everything right but not get rewarded we can take an a plus setup

and still lose the trade which is insane

if you think about it whereas we have been taught from school from sports

and from competitiveness the more we put in

and the more effort we do we will get a result

we will win a game we'll be better we'll perform better ultimately the results will yield

but in trading it's the complete opposite

and it's one of the hardest subconscious things

that we have to train over a period of time is to accept

that we will do the best that we can and still lose money.

Now, let's talk about the first year.

The first year was probably one of the best times in trading

because that's when you make a little bit of money you learn

that oh my gosh like cool like this five pound can be made by just clicking a few buttons

you can literally just sit at home you get all of these buzz something new

and then you learn that was my first year i generally really enjoyed it

and you're learning the markets the fundamentals why they move how they move you make a lot of mistakes

and you learn from them you don't really journal

because I was just literally just trading finding new strategies

and more talking about more than new strategies I actually just tried to find ways

that works more and was more consistent

and more importantly I was actually finding different fundamental factors

that would move the market

that was my first year then I opened an account I

had like 500 pound in it I lost it in

that year but I kind of had a inclined feeling

that I would lose that 500 pound

but I used it as a learning curve you can see as I bought a course

but the course was me to me and I think

that that's probably one of the best investments you can make is to invest in yourself now the second

and third year was a bit rough now the second

and third year was rough

because this is where I generally saw the strategy work I saw my mentor have the strategy work as well

but more importantly I think that it was rough in the sense

that I couldn't make it work and that was so tough

And I find that a lot of people sit within this realm for X amount of time.

For me, it was around two and a bit years, realistically and truly, like being stuck in this rut.

And it would be things like, before prop firms were going about, I had a personal account, right?

So I'd put a £500, £1,000, or even sometimes even just £150 trying to make £5.

Didn't have a lot, but I was just trying to do what I can.

And essentially, doing this led me to not really see the bigger picture.

And I think that's probably one of the biggest problems with having a small account.

you're trying to turn 500 into a living you're trying to turn 500 pound

or a small account into a salary or even multiple figures where realistically even

if you do it's not sustainable now you can turn 500 pound into a hundred thousand

if you're on a win streak and you're lucky and you compound

and you know you get a huge movement but sustainable wise

and consistently you can't do that every day in the market and even if you do what happens is it then

ruins your expectation of trading

so realistically what you really want to be doing is actually

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trading slowly a bit getting a consistent compound of winning on

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that account and then adding money to it so that's probably something

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that i would add to those people who are in

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that you know second

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and third year phase where they're constantly trying to increase the volume of their trade

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and seeing a tiny bit of wins

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but just keep going all over the place

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and this is where i went wrong is

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that i would make all these gains i would do three

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two three months of you know really good five pounds ten pounds

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and then I'd get overconfident and try and risk it all to try

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and flip the account that I've turned 500 into say 2,000

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or something to try and turn that 2,000 into 20,000

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because you think you know it all you have the holy

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grail you're trying to turn the account into something substantial then you start going on auto trader

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and these websites just thinking all the things you can buy

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because you kind of think you kind of figured it all out and I know, we've all been there.

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So if you can shorten it, I'd give you some tips.

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And some of these tips in

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that circ in the third year is to number one journal

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not only journal is to do more of what you're doing right

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and less of what you're doing wrong I journal but on pen

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and paper I wish I did a daily report card earlier I wish I did my to do this earlier

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and I wish I had my playbook now another thing

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that I considered which I did earlier as well was the fact

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that I could compound my account add more money into it weekly

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or I guess right now in one of the best things in the market is you have prop firm accounts.

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Prop firm accounts, you can do 50,000.

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For $500, you could buy a 100K account.

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And if you have the skillset and you can compoundly do it over a period of time, you could literally get like a 10,000 to $20,000 payout, which is exactly where 20 challenges I failed.

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I can't remember how much that costed me, but I did over 100K in payouts the following year after.

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So that paid for all the challenges.

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And even right now, this year, if you're following me, I've been doing this whole challenge of trying to get two, three million funded

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and a million in payouts I spent three thousand to four

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thousand dollars on my first stint I lost a lot of challenges

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but now two payout have already covered all the cost of

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that not only has that covered all the cost of

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that now I'm in the net profit I'm just going to use

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that money and funnel it into the personal account

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and then what I want to do is get

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that personal account audited for you guys to tease to set you guys an example

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so in that second and third year you guys can basically really expedite

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that by using prop firms they give you really

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strict rules as well which I love

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because in the personal account you don't have rules

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if you break them there are no real percussions the only

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repercussions you have is you just lose money whereas the repercussions in a prop firm account is you breach

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and then you lose the sign up fee and all these other things

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that come with it

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and then you end up really thinking oh man I should really take this challenge more seriously

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and that's exactly what happened to me so that's the second

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and third year so the second and third year was the hardest years

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because mentally you're going running in circles you have the strategy

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you just can't make it profitable you're doing everything you think you're doing right

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and you're still losing trades

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but you can't accept losing them you can go until you make all of these psychological mistakes

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and also you make a lot of these really deep mistakes

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like sitting there just blowing the accounts like i remember just

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the worst one was growing the account to three thousand pounds three thousand pound

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that took me three months

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and then in one day i blew it all i don't

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care what anyone has to say on social media oh my

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god he can't trade of course i couldn't trade i was still learning then

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and everyone goes through that like why are we

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so quick to bash on people and bash on people

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when they're down this is part of the journey this is

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part of the course this is part of the content in youtube

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and why i love what i do and do what i love

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and why a team you know it has grown so much

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so we can create content right now to speak to people

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like you who are watching who are really really feeling this message to understand

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that you just need to keep going that is part of the process

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but it's part of your path where God is teaching you to learn the skill that you've asked for.

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Remember, if you ask God for a million pounds or a million dollars, he's not going to give you the money, boom, like that.

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He's going to give you trials and tribulations

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that you can overcome to have the skill set to be able to make that million dollars.

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And listen, once you have that skill, you have it for life.

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And that's one of the biggest things I say.

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So I really generally want to say this as well, like someone today has just got their first funded account on Funded Next, but this is just one of many stories from our course.

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And for £299, I don't care what anyone says, £299, that's less than a 100k challenge,

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that is less than, blow in your account a hundredfold, but for £299, there is a condensed course that I've made, for 30 hours, my strategy,

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everything, that teaches you A to Z, and now I'm not telling you you have to buy mine, but what I'm trying to tell you is you've got to shift your mindset to try and learn from these people, and learn from these mistakes,

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and learn as fast as you can to get to the end goal as fast as you can

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and you've got to be willing to do whatever it takes

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and you've got to ask yourself what are you willing to do for

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that how much are you willing to pay for that

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and I just think it's obscene that nowadays

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that people who's like I don't want to buy a course of course it's a scam

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or something like

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that well hold on the same people who think a course

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is a scam are the people who think university is going to go

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and make them a hundred thousand dollars how does

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that even make sense anyway coming back onto that so the second

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and third year that's where the struggle happened the fourth year was the revelation

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and fourth year was the revelation of what i call the compound effect

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and if you may or may not have seen i love talking about the compound effects

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but i find that everyone has their breakthrough and

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that breakthrough starts with something that just goes aha and clicks

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and what that aha and clicked was was the compound effect

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and what that said to me is

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if i could literally just make five pounds

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or five dollars a day for the whole year that's it five

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and it doesn't matter if i win lose just five just move on five one trade

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if it could be one win or two losses

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and i'll do it in each session now i trade only one session

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but back then i'll trade in two sessions if i can do that realistically

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that is more than enough money another thing i thought to

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myself is every day the market gives an opportunity yes

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or no yes can i make five days in the markets every day

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if i took you know

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if i was lucky enough to take every single trade perfectly could i make five dollars yes or no

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yes so that was the idea I had and I consistently did

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that and yes they were losing days yes they were losing period

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but I did it over a period of time more importantly over three months

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that account grew and it really gave me the confidence

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that was net positive to keep trading the fourth month was a losing month

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but here's the best part

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and this is where I generally constitute myself as profitable is

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the fifth month was then profitable then the seventh month

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and I had one more losing month

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so in the whole year I had two losing months

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and 10 winning months but I was net up overall

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and that's how it's been ever since I've always had around two losing months throughout the whole year

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and that's where profitability comes it's not about being profitable today

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it's not about being profitable just for the week it's about being profitable in your career

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and over in the long run

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and everything you spent in the past you've made more money and

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that is net up it's a business at the end of

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the day it's the same thing how much money have you made how much money are you up by

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and what is the pen cent increase and what is your skill increase

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and what is you as a person as a human as a man increased

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and has become so my final message to you is

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that believe in yourself forget the haters use the haters as fuel

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and i hope that this video really blows up to help a lot of people in

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that struggling phase so they become the trader they said they would be

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so trader to trader i believe in you make it happen

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the struggle is what's going to make you not break you you make decision on

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which one that comes so hope you guys enjoyed the video remember to like share subscribe champ out peace

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