Hi all,

I got interested in trading in 2010 when my coworker told me that he had some shares in gold mining company EGO (Eldorado gold) and they were making lots of money for him. Instead of opening broker account to trade stocks I opened online account for CFDs and I was under capitalized and I was trading gold with no clue about anything just hit buy and sell buttons and mainly X200 leverage. as expected it did not take long before I lost my money. I stayed like this till 2012 I blew out my account three times mainly because did not know anything and I was under capitalized which was good otherwise I will lose all my money.

I decided that trading is not for me.

Mid 2013 I received a tip about NOK (Nokia) that soon they will go huge up, I work in telecom and worked for nokia for over 6 years, the guy that gave me the tip was a big manager so I said he knows what he is talking about but still I did not buy. till one day when the announcement that MSFT bought the mobile business from nokia hit the news and the prices started to fly high. that day I realized that I should have bought before, so I contacted my bank opened account and after few days I put the order to buy Nokia till that time the price was 7.8$ / share so it went up down up down and I was going with it. finally I sold it and it was OK trade, mainly because of the dividend that was paid.NOK experience taught me 2 things first that you can make money trading, second that I do not know how to trade.

I started to read books about trading, I was searching for answers for these questions what to buy, when to buy, how many , and when to sell. every book I read I used to program the idea in it and see the result I did not know about amibroker or any back testing software what I know is excel vba, SQL database visual basic and C# and with these I built my back testing software lots of hours to write and even more to run.

I stayed like this till I came across one video on YouTube for Nick (What Makes a Successful Trader?) then I said to myself this is what I am looking for I saw the video couple of times then I bought the unholy grail after reading it I said to myself now I am on the correct path. so I got amibroker, data and started coding BBO. the results were good I started trading it along the way I found out that I had some mistakes in the code. so I bought the strategy from the Chartist along with second income strategy. based on the BBO I made the WTT strategy and I trade it.

at the moment I trade three strategies one trend following and 2 mean reversion with almost same money allocation between trend following and mean reversion (2:1:1)
this is since mid 2015 and all of us we know how the market was since then till today.

my aim from the course is learning the tricks and the mind set that will change an ordinary system to a better system

wow i talked so much :blush:
Said

Hi everyone,

I have worked in financial markets for the past 10 years, after studying Agricultural Economics at uni. I started off as an assistant broker, which I quickly realised wasn’t for me, not knowing when I started that to be a good broker required good sales skills more than anything.

Since then I have worked as a technical analyst across commodities and equities, and later on in a role that combined providing analysis and also trading. I have always approached markets from a price point of view.

My trading experience to date has been what I would call “rules based discretionary”. I have a trading plan outlining the necessary criteria needed to take a trade, but there is room for judgement. I have several set trade management rules that I follow, but they don’t cover all the trade management decisions that I make. I prefer a more active than passive approach, being in trades for days to a couple of weeks, and have had more success with equities and commodities.

As part of being a discretionary trader, I believe knowing yourself, strengths and weaknesses etc is very important, so I have worked with several psychologists and coaches in the past. As part of this, I believe I have qualities better suited to systems trading than discretionary.

So my journey down this path of systematic trading started about 6 months ago and to date has largely been reading lots of books and articles on quantitative strategies. However, without any coding experience, I have lacked the ability to put that research to good use. Which is where this course comes in. Very timely!

I only downloaded and started to work through Amibroker yesterday, so I have a bit of learning to do on the basics of the platform before getting into the good stuff.

I work full time, am 33, married, with 2 young kids who are 4 and 18 months, so it will be a busy 6 months ahead, but I am really looking forward to it.

Regards

Oliver

Hi everyone,

I am 24 and I have only been involved in the markets for about 2 years, previous to this I was actually an electrician, when I was 21 I had a sporting accident which had left me with a fairly significant physical disability. I soon realised that I was not going to be able to continue with any physical forms of work. I had always had the markets in the back of my mind prior to this but to be honest when I was 20 I better things to do.

So basically I started to do some research on the markets and how to get involved but I was just going around in circles, and then on the off chance while I was speaking to someone I knew and he used to be a client of Nick’s and mentioned that a good place to start would be to get in touch with him. Basically from that point on Nick has been my trading mentor, he then sent me some of his books and I started to gain some knowledge that I felt I could actually use. Originally I started discretionary trading in the US and in Aus but i found myself drifting towards a mechanical approach and this course is a perfect way to fast track that learning process and gain knowledge that otherwise would take years.

So for the past few years I’ve been on a steep learning curve but I feel I am well on the way to where I want to be thanks to Nick and Trish.

Feel free to contact me on skype trent.rothall

Thanks
Trent

Hi All,

My trading experiences have been limited and sporadic. I bought ASX options for approximately a year back in 2006 (I think). I used Metastock to download data after 3pm and tried to trade pullbacks within the overall trend by placing the order just before the close (after first using some system or other to check the pricing of the option) . This was done by phone and then relied on sms messages (seemed high tech at the time) the following day to inform me when price levels (good or bad) were hit. I was working full-time (on teeth…enough said) and often struggled to get to the phone. My stomach would churn as I heard my phone “ding” every few minutes sometimes fearing the worst but unable to stop what I was doing and check the messages. At the end of the year, I had made almost nothing and suspect I was lucky to get away with that…trading with the trend might have saved me.

From there it was, of course, a tilt at day trading (cfd’s this time with IG) but without any real approach other than using Stoch and MAs to again try and re-enter in the direction of the trend following a pullback. My trading was then shelved with the arrival of children (three beautiful girls) and another uni degree (mid-life crisis….should have just bought a convertible) but I continued to derive enjoyment from reading books on trading (the current being “Stocks on the Move” by Andreas Clenow…my limited coding and rusty statistics meant I haven’t been able to test it…I can’t get past the R-squared for stock ranking but that is a post for another time..perhaps at the end of the course). I downloaded Amibroker about six months ago and have written some very basic systems. This is a reflection of my lack of coding ability than any philosophical quest for robustness.

Currently, my trading level is probably best encapsulated by the statement “A little knowledge is dangerous”. I have found many errors in the systems I have designed to date (damn zigzag indicator) and suspect more remain. When I found out about Nick’s Mentor Course the timing seemed too good to pass up even though I am working 5 days full-time and weekends part time. I spend at least an hour a night either writing (crappy) systems or reading trading books simply for enjoyment so I plan to better utilize that time with the Mentor Course…..that is, as soon as I get back from Noosa where I am relaxing (?) with the kids before the school year kicks off again. I am only up to module 6 so I better get cracking.

Regards
Scott

Hi Folks
Live in Brisbane, 48, 3 kids 2 at uni and 1 at high school. My employment is international project management and hence travel far too much, but am hoping to scale that back over the next year or so.
I have been mucking around with Asx shares for about 10 years. Mucking around is probably the best description, more aptly described as the beginners cycle. Read a lot of books and far too many “newsletters”!
My aim for this course is to develop the confidence, mindset and skills to implement sound trading strategies and to block out the noise. I don’t have monetary or performance goals at this stage, they will come once I have the mindset and confidence right. I manage our SMSF and a small personal portfolio. I don’t think I have got to the fully systematic stage yet, or more likely the confidence to trust any systematic system. I appear to be more comfortable with being rules based discretionary, or is that systematically discretional!
I had zero coding experience and very limited IT knowledge, so I think I have been performing the dunce role in that regard so far. Thanks Nick and Craig for your patience!
Cheers Darryn

Good morning everyone

I’m Sue and meant to introduce myself when I first joined 3 weeks ago but got hooked on the course materials…so much to learn and do, and time flies very quickly!

I’ve always “enjoyed” trading, my early exposure had been very positive where IPOs always brought great returns and listening to rumours made money but I realise later that was pure luck, when I got into in blue chips that never sprouted.

It was some 15 years ago that I was first introduced to technical analysis, bought Amibroker straight away, read many books, spent hours on the internet but ended up having developed only one very basic stock scan code in my afl library. Programming is not my forte, in fact I’m a little scared of it, but reckon if a professional like Nick believes the course can equip anyone who is willing to commit with the foundation and knowledge to develop the right skillset for trading then a golden opportunity has come my way. Going through the course now everything seems so familiar yet so foreign, but what’s clear is there are lots of catching up for me to do.

Currently a full time employee, I’m really motivated to leave the rat race. My goal is to develop the knowledge, skills and discipline to trade with confidence and have a proper trading plan in place, and turn my wishful thinking into reality. I’m in Brisbane and would love to connect via email [email protected] or skype jcjcjc2007.

Cheers
Sue