This seminar covers how to approach trading as a skill, common mistakes made by new traders and how to avoid them, the skills needed to be profitable like risk management and technical analysis, how to achieve these skills through practice and learning, how to trade small accounts through options with rules like position sizing, and that the ultimate goal is consistency while protecting capital. The presenter has 5 years experience as a profitable swing trader and will take live questions at the end.

1. - Matrix

2. What is this seminar about ?
 How to approach trading
 What are the most common mistakes new traders
do and why/how to avoid them
 What skills are needed to be profitable
 How to achieve these skills
 How to trade small accounts
 What should be the ultimate goal
 Questions

3. A Little Background
 Five years of experience in trading
 Profitable since three years
 Swing trader
 Software Engineer

4. How to approach trading
 Just as you would approach any other high
skilled job
 Don’t see it as easy money
 Have reasonable expectations
 Understand which type of trading would
make sense for your situation

5. What are the most common mistakes new traders
do and why/how to avoid them
 No risk management
 Not knowing how to position size
 No technical skills
 Not understanding the market trends or macro economics
 Following some one else blindly
 Playing earnings regularly
 Playing into the news
 Selling winners early and holding losers too long
 In a hurry to make money/over trading
 Using unnecessary indicators/tools to trade
 Not enough mental stamina to handle the rough times

6. What skills are needed to be profitable
 Proper technical skills to identify setups
 Risk management
 Position sizing
 Adaptability
 Enough knowledge about trading methods
 Continuous learning of new patterns or strategies
 Economics of the ticker you are trading to form your bias
 More observation than trading

7. Proper technical skills to identify setups
 Why technical skills are important ?
• Lot of institutional trading is based on algorithms. Algorithms use technical
indicators to buy and sell.
• Flying blind
• Consistency
 What technical skills to focus
• Support and resistance
• Candlestick patterns
• Experiment with different technologies (Eg. Fibs, EW, Bollinger, Vwap)
• Use them in practice than theory
• None of the technical indicators are 100% accurate
• I use 9ema, 50ma, 200ma indicators, support & resistance, candlestick patterns

8. Risk Management
 The most underrated but most important
 Select trading strategy based on your risk profile and account size
 Depending on the trading strategy assess the maximum risk you can
afford to take for each position/trade
 My Risk management (for options trading only)
• 50% SL for weeklies/two weeks expiry
• No SL for lottos
• SL for long dated depends on setup
• Depending on the profit cushion and the setup these can vary

9. Position Sizing
 Not every trade is equal size
 Sizing up at a wrong time could lead to account blowup
 Lost opportunity if sized down at a wrong time
 My position sizing
• 30-40% of the port in long dated options (one month)
• 10% in two week expiring options
• 3-5% in lottos
• For a 10k account that would be $3k-$4k, $1k, $300-$500 respectively
• Depending on the profits and market conditions I change them

10. Other Misc
 Adaptability
• Change trading strategies based on market conditions
 Enough knowledge about differences in trading
• Stocks
• Options
• Futures
 Continuous learning of new patterns or strategies
• Market changes, Algos are updated, New Patterns emerge, New strategies might be
better depending on the account situation
 Economics of the ticker you are trading to form your bias
• This is very important if you are a swing trader
 More observation than trading
• Most of the successful traders trade very less. Most profits come from few trades

11. How to achieve these skills
 Most of the technical stuff listed earlier are available on YT
 Join a trading group
 Best way to learn is to actually trade with real capital (this is how I
learned most of the stuff I know today)
 Find which strategy/setups work best for your style
 Train your mind by introspecting every big loss/big gain
 Read/follow financial news
 Takes about 2yrs to gain these skills

12. How to trade small accounts
 Options trading
• The riskiest form of trading
• Can help make large sums of money with small initial investment
• Lot of nuances/strategies compared to stock trading
 Few rules to follow
• Trade with only 60% of the capital at max.
• Five open positions with only one large position
• Don’t trade or stop out when not confident about the market
• Trade less
• Focus on long dated rather than weeklies/0dte
• Don’t FOMO trade
• Scale out of the positions depending on the account situation
• Always have a reason to enter/exit a trade
• Don’t play lottos/earnings often
• Swing trades will have much higher ROI with relatively lower risk in $ amounts
• Make safe trades to build profits and use those profits to make riskier trades or size up on the positions

13. What should be the ultimate goal
• Consistency
• Stress free
• Independent trader
• Never lose initial capital

14. Questions ??