In our most recent episode of the Alpha Podcast, we sit down with Tori Trades - a full-time futures trader, educator and one of the most recognisable faces in the trading industry. The markets she trades may be different, but the psychology, the discipline and the lessons are exactly the same.
Tori built her way from zero - no formal education, no trading background, just her uncle teaching her the markets from scratch. Within a year she had crossed $300K in gains. Ego at maximum.
That is when she placed the trade.
Every rule she ever had, thrown out the window. Ego in the driving seat. And a loss she had to wake up and live with every single day.
She held it. For four weeks. Not because the trade was right - because she could not bring herself to close it.
In this episode she walks through the whole thing - the psychology, what actually broke her, how she came back from it, and the one thing she says most traders would not have survived.
There is a lot more worth watching:
- Why she believes trading does not have to be complicated - and how that idea built an audience of millions
- How years of endurance sport built the discipline that trading alone never could
- The moment ego peaks - and why that is exactly when traders make their worst decisions
- What she changed about her approach after the trade - and why she does not regret any of it
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The instruments are different. The psychology is identical.
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