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guys, welcome back to another video.

In this video, I'm going to explain to you exactly what it takes to become a full-time day trader.

To have day trading replace your job and what mental barriers

and what mental strengths it takes in order to do this full-time.

Because it's really not as simple as like you make some money

and then you quit your job and then you're all set, right?

There's a lot of mental stuff that you go through

and I'm going to explain to you guys some of the things

that I went through in the beginning that have led me to do this full-time.

So I've been doing this full-time for almost two years now.

It's been an amazing journey so far and I couldn't be any more grateful for this skill of day trading.

But pretty much in today's video, we're going to explain that.

So what does it take to become a profitable full-time day trader?

So number one, you are going to be very, very tested in the beginning with your patience and how much stress you can intake.

Now, how much stress you can intake determines how successful you are going to be

and if you are able to do this full-time.

You are going to have to become a person

that is willing to intake a lot of stress

and willing to handle a lot of things without having a plan B and having certainty behind it.

So when you day trade, now you can either win money or you lose money.

Those are the two things that are going to happen, right?

If you want to be able to do this full time, you have to become the person that's willing to handle a loss, right?

If you cannot handle a loss and you cannot handle the stress that comes with losing, then this is probably not right for you.

Now, if you can and you're able to maintain your emotions, then this is something that can definitely work out for you.

So for me, when I decided I wanted to do this full time, I was making a commitment and I was making a decision

that I was no longer going to have a plan B

and I was no longer going to have a guaranteed income to back me up if something goes wrong, right?

I was taking that risk to do this full time.

And it took over a year to really develop these skills of being okay to handle a loss

and being okay with not winning all the time, right?

If I was going to take that risk to do this full time, and I was going to have a losing day, I knew that it was very, very important for me not to crash out

and not blow a bunch of accounts and not think that it was the end of the world because it simply wasn't.

I took that risk and I said to myself, okay, I'm going to do this full time, so I have to be willing to take a loss.

I know it's going to happen.

It's inevitable.

It's day trading. So I did that.

I created a habit of when I took a loss, it didn't bother me, and I knew

that more than likely the next day I will catch a win and I will be totally okay.

All right, so you're going to have to be able to handle a loss.

That's super important.

Without that, you have nothing.

Without that, you can't become a full-time day chair

and you can't quit your job because if you can't handle a loss

and you end up revenge trading and blowing 20 accounts after you take a loss and now you're negative two grand,

then there's a problem and then you more than likely need some more conditioning before you can do this full-time.

And the next one is going to be time.

Make sure you have a system and make sure you have time backing up your system, meaning you have lots of data backing up your model

and proving that this stuff actually works and that you weren't just a one-hit wonder, right?

You weren't just an overnight success.

You need to make sure you have lots of data and you are very, very confident in your model that you trade in order to do this full-time because you need something to come back on.

You need something to lean on.

And that for me is my high win rate strategy.

Now, I know it works super well.

I know it can be traded every single day pretty much.

It shows up multiple times throughout the day.

Just depends on what session.

And I know that it works.

I know that it makes me money.

And I know that I have trust in it.

So I have trust in this system

because there's a couple years of data of me trading it and I have tons of payouts to show for it.

And I have a lot of students who are also changing their lives trading this model.

So I know that it works.

So make sure you have a very, very good repeatable system that genuinely works.

And then that'll give you confidence and that'll give you trust in day trading

and then you will ultimately perform a lot better.

And the next one is you need to become comfortable not doing anything.

This is extremely important.

If you always feel the need to take a trade

and you always feel the need to act upon something in day trading, that will ultimately bite you in the butt and then it'll have a reverse effect, right?

It's not really like business where the more you do, the more money you make, the harder you work, the more money you make.

In day trading, it's kind of the opposite.

You do the hard work in the beginning once you understand everything

and you know that you have a repeatable system that works with a lot of historical statistical data, then it is up to you to be very controlling on your setups

and be very specific and picky about what you take and don't take a lot of things, right?

So if you can become comfortable in not doing anything, that is a very, very good habit and that is ultimately something that's going to provide you with a good, good ROI.

For me, I am very comfortable staying hands-off.

Now, last week, there were three days in a row I didn't trade.

It's very unlikely for me, but I was willing to stay hands-off completely those three days.

I simply stopped needing to make money every single day.

And that ultimately made me very, very profitable in the long run, believe it or not.

And me staying hands off those three days last week, I protected my capital significantly because those three days simply showed me absolutely nothing.

They were just bad price action.

It's not something I really wanted to take a trade in.

So that's one of the habits that I've developed

that I now know is extremely imperative for me to trade full time and do this full time.

And obviously I am doing this full time.

I've been doing this full time for a long time

but it was one of those habits in the beginning that I needed to develop.

It was very, very imperative.

It was crucial for me.

And the next one, this is extremely important.

You need to have confidence in yourself.

If you don't have confidence in yourself

and you lack a lot of trust within your executions and your overall way of doing things, then this is not something that's going to be good for you.

Specifically in day trading, you have to have so much confidence

and trust in yourself to make this work in order for it to work.

In the beginning, I made sure I had a lot of consistency under my belt before I even thought about quitting my job

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and doing this full time.

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As you guys know, I don't know if you watched a previous video of mine, but I explained

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that I had at least three to four months of multi-five figure months of consistency proving to myself

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that I can do this full time before quitting my 3k a month job, right?

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So I gained a lot of trust

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and confidence in myself over those couple of months in order to do this full time.

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I think that's extremely important.

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I think everybody needs to do that.

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But ultimately, just have a deep rooted confidence and deeper truth in yourself.

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And this will be very, very possible for you.

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Now, don't have an ego and start over trading because you're overly confident.

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That's not what I'm saying.

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I'm just saying you need to have trust that you can do this

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and that you are willing to stay hands off in bad conditions.

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You are willing to handle a loss.

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You are willing to not revenge trade.

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You are willing to not get FOMO.

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You're willing to do things that you know you should be doing in order to do this full time.

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So have that trust and confidence in yourself.

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That is extremely, extremely important.

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And the next one is going to be about becoming a disciplined person outside of the charts.

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Since day trading allows so much unlocked freedom, meaning you only do it for a couple minutes, I personally only do it for a couple minutes a day, less than 30 minutes a day, I'm day trading because of my model,

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and I have the rest of the day to do whatever I want.

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Now, as you guys can see, you guys can look at my YouTube consistency and overall posting consistency.

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I try to keep myself very busy throughout the day and disciplined, and I make sure I get content out for you guys once a day or once every other day, right?

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So make sure you have good habits and that you have things that keep you disciplined outside of the charts

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because you're going to have so much free time to yourself.

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You need to make sure you are occupying that time with beneficial things.

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That could be hitting the gym, that can be go seeing your family, that can just be overall doing things throughout the day.

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You're not sitting on your couch eating potato chips and watching Netflix all day, right?

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If that's the life that you truly desire, then I guess, but I personally think it's extremely important that you are staying disciplined

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and you have things that are keeping you disciplined throughout the day, because this is ultimately a test from God to see what you do in your free time.

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Do you make good things out of it or do you not make good things out of it?

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Now, when I quit my job, I had all this free time to do things, I made sure I occupied my time with really, really good things, right?

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I was hitting the gym every single day and I'm still trying to do that every single day.

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And overall, just trying to figure out things that ultimately make me a better person, make me 1% better every single day.

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I think it's really, really good to find some hobbies as well.

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Because like I said, day treating is only, it only takes out such a short portion out of your day that if you are not having, if you don't have hobbies and you're not doing things that keep you busy,

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a lot of the times people fall into this bad rabbit hole of laziness

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and they ultimately just stop trading because of it.

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I know people that have done that.

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It's not good.

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It's a blessing and a curse because now you have so much free time, but now you have to figure out what to do with this free time.

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So make sure you have things kind of planned out.

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And I know it might seem good, like, oh, I have all this free time.

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Now I can just sit down, relax, but relaxing is only good for five minutes, 10 minutes maybe.

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I'm telling you from experience, I don't feel the need to relax anymore.

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I feel the need to get things done.

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I'm way more motivated than I was when I was working my job and day trading.

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So I'm way more motivated now because now I have all this free time and it's like a test from God.

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And I have to prove to myself, prove to him that I'm willing to make good things out of it.

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So that's very, very important.

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So guys, if I really had to summarize what it takes to become a profitable day trader, what it takes to day trade full time,

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it's having confidence and trust in yourself having sheer discipline in your day-to-day life being able to

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Handle a lot of stress and being able to handle hard times and persevere out of them And yeah, it's really

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that simple I've learned a lot about myself in the time

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being of me being a profitable day trader me doing this full-time You're you're gonna learn a lot about yourself.

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It's it's inevitable.

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You're you've so much alone time, right?

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I think that's one of the downsides of working a job is you don't have a lot of alone time

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and you don't really get to understand yourself on a deep personal level

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but when you're with yourself all day every day and you have

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so much time to yourself this is

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when you really really start to learn about things

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that you love to do

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and I think that's one of the benefits from day trading

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you know obviously besides you creating how much money you want to make

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and you only working for less than an hour a day

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sometimes you get to learn a lot about yourself that's one of the beauties of this skill

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and it's it really is such an amazing skill

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and this is why I preach it so much

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and why I teach others how to become profitable

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because this can simply change your life it will change your

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life 100 no doubt it's changing all my students lives it changed my life it's it's incredible there's

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so many things you learn about yourself guys you don't even know just wait until you reach

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that profitable stage i promise you you're going to unlock a whole new sector of your life

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but i'm out here in fort lauderdale florida this is where

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i live um it's pretty gloomy outside it's around 7 pm right now I've got my car parked right over there, as you can see.

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But yeah, I really, really, really hope you guys enjoyed this little video.

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I hope it opened up your eyes a little bit.

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More consistent uploads coming.

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If you guys like the content that I've been posting lately, I'd really appreciate a like and subscribe.

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And if you guys want to learn how to day trade, you guys can click the link in my description

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and you can join my Discord where I teach you guys how to day trade.

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I teach you guys exactly what I do and what all my students do and how they change their lives, okay?

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Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you guys in the next video.

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Peace out.

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Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “What It Really Takes to Become a Full-Time Day Trader at 21”. This video has 187 sentences and 2628 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:18. The speaker talks fast, about 232 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
profitable adjective	/ˈpɹɑ.fɪ.tə.bl̩/	Producing a profit.
discipline noun	/ˈdɪsəplɪn/	A controlled behaviour; self-control.
distress noun	/dɪˈstɹɛs/	Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
habit noun	/ˈhæb.ɪt/	An action performed on a regular basis.
trader noun	/ˈtɹeɪdɚ/	One who earns a living by trading goods or securities.
consistency noun	/kənˈsɪs.tən.si/	Local coherence.
intake noun	/ˈɪnteɪk/	The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
relax verb	/ɹɪˈlæks/	To make something loose.
repeatable adjective	/ɹɪˈpiːtəbəl/	Able to be repeated.
motivate verb	/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/	To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate.
imperative adjective	/ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/	Essential; crucial; extremely important.
unlock verb	/ʌnˈlɑk/	To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
occupy verb	/ˈɑkjəpaɪ/	To fill.
hobby noun	/ˈhɑ.bi/	An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
inevitable adjective	/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/	Impossible to avoid or prevent.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
hands off	Refrain from touching; refrain from initiating any physical contact.
back up verb	To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
open up verb	To open.
plan out verb	to plan, organize, make a plan for something
show up verb	To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I know it's going to happen.
You weren't just an overnight success.
I think that's extremely important.
That's not what I'm saying.
You're you've so much alone time, right?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been doing · I've been posting
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have led · It's been · I've developed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 58 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sheer /ʃɪɚ/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/
Long words — get the stress right: consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, repeatable /ɹɪˈpiːtəbəl/, imperative /ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like profitable, discipline, distress.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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