it's almost 2025 and you are still not profitable and you want to become a Trader this is either the beginning of your story or the end of your trading Journey if what I'm about to say inside this video makes sense and you like it it's good that means that it's meant for you but if it doesn't and you don't get it you're pretty much [ __ ] so the blueprint on how to become a profitable Trader so I want to give you guys some context on what Prof profitability even is let me make it extremely clear that being a profitable Trader is not having a Lamborghini or having gold chains or grills in your mouth or Gucci shoes that does not mean that you're a profitable Trader that just means that you're honestly a douchebag a profitable Trader is somebody that makes money on top of the money that they started on their trading account the best traders in the world the most legendary Traders known in history someone like waren Buffett make anywhere from 12 to about 19.8% annually now I want you guys to realize what that is monthly because 12 to 19% annually might seem like a decent amount of return but when you look at it in retrospect on a monthly basis he is making anywhere from 1 to 1.6% average a month a Trader that makes 1% to 1.6% a month is a profitable Trader take this from The Legend like somebody like Warren Buffett Warren Buffett is a profitable Trader by simply making 1% a month now if you're a Trader right now and you're making 50% a month and you still don't think you're profitable well you are not only a lunatic but you're making a big mistake it's not about making a [ __ ] ton of percentage or making a [ __ ] ton of money it's about making consistent gains trading is like a Marathon you are here for the long run you're not here for the short-term gains and the quick Sprints that is not how you become a profitable Trader that's just how you make money in the markets making money is going in and out and then you don't ever really come back and you treat it like a hobby if you're ready to make trading your main source of income and even replace your current income it has to be passion it has to be something that you do every single day with love and care and you do it forever you don't do it just for a week a month or even a year when you become a Trader it is literally for life so now that you have some context on what a actual profitable Trader is and that it is basically a percentage game and making as small as 1% on your account monthly or heck even quarterly makes you a profitable Trader I want to get into the first step on what is going to be key for you to be consistently profitable in the markets and make these percentages on top of your account every single month the first one is going to be stop catching a falling knife and stop trying to stop a rocket if a knife is falling and you go and grab it what's going to happen you're going to cut your hand because it's sharp and as soon as you grab it with the momentum it's going to slice your fingers or maybe one of ilam mus SpaceX rockets that is taken off going to the Mars you're not going to stop that that basically makes no sense you don't want to go against the momentum if the market is going up or if the market is going that if you try and predict the bottom of a market you're going to literally lose every single time and if you're going to predict the top of a market you're going to lose every single time what makes more sense if a knife is falling to just continue to push it down and if a rocket is going up to continue to push it up or completely go against the force that it's doing obviously it makes more sense to go with the momentum it's the exact same thing in the markets you do not want to trade against the trend if the market is going down continue to sell with the market going down if the market is going up continue to buy with the market going up this is such a simple concept and once I truly understood this I not only started to make so much more money with my trading but I started to avoid all of the small losses that contined to eat up the profits that I was having I was understanding the markets I was predicting what what they were going to do but I was still taking these little degenerate trades and that I was going to be the person that predicted the top and I got the sniper entry or I predicted the bottom and I got the perfect entry like if that was going to make me profitable being a profitable Trader is not predicting the bottoms or the highs it's about making a logical trading decision that is going to make you money on the long run and me catching these types of Trades actually was doing more negative to my trading than positive because I was losing more times every single time I would take it and every loss that I would take it would affect my psychology for the next trade that I would take so catching a falling knife is never the solution and you guys know Elon you don't want to go against anything that he's doing and catching a falling knife or trying to stop a rocket which is where you're trying to predict the top of the market or predict the bottom of the market it's where you're trying to be right it's like you're trying to prove a point that you can predict that okay it's going to turn around from here and it's going to stop here like that's such an ego move and that is not going to make you profitable making profitable is not on what you think or what you want to happen what is going to happen is the trend is going to continue going in the direction that it's going to go and the trend is your friend you're going to make money by following the trend not going against it and trust me I've been there a million times where I've predicted the bottom or I predicted the top and it feels good you feel like the top G but trading is not about feeling good it's not about what you want it's about the correct thing that you're going to do in the markets to be profitable do you think Warren Buffett does things to feel good for all of his investors around the world [ __ ] no he does the right thing to make money and become and stay a profitable Trader and this takes me to step number two which goes perfectly hand inand which is the Holy Grail trade the trade that I need to make this money I need to make back the losses that I have in the market I need to end off the week in profits because I have a bill to pay at the end of this week or at the end of the month guys I get it everybody goes into trading with a different financial situation everybody goes in by wanting to make money or needing to make money there's people out there that get into trading that really really really really need the money and the money that they invest into trading they are not willing to lose and honestly they can't even afford it and if you're someone out there like that or remotely close to that you should not even start to trade because trading will take every single dollar away from you because it is literally based off of risk and some people just don't know how to calculate that risk and these traders that need that money they're going to constantly look for a trade so they can have that money a holy Grill trade I want to take these 50 bucks into 200 so I can pay the life bill at the the end of the month or just because I want to do it and this is not trading this is gambling this is not the way on how you're going to be a profitable Trader and how you're going to be a consistent Trader now don't get me wrong flipping accounts and growing small amounts of money is fun I've done it before I've turned 100 bucks into a mill I've taken plenty of 10K accounts to six figures and yes I get it it looks cool it looks fun it gets you excited but I do that now because it is something that I do to entertain myself and just challenge myself but I don't rely on this as my income from trade it's just a challenge that I set for myself and entertain the trading Community with but for you to be a profitable Trader do not strive to make this your main source of income from Trading that you're going to look for this holy Grill trade that you're going to go all in right now and you're going to make this trade make back your losses and put you on top ch facing that feeling is going to put you in such a deep hole that is never going to give you the clarity of the mind that you need to have to actually take the right trade that is actually going to make you those profits that type of trade happens when you're trading plan checks out not when you want to go and take that trade and make it happen the market does not care if you're in depth the market does not care if you need the money market does not care how much you've lost how much time you've been in front of it the market doesn't even know you exist so don't take your emotions into something that absolutely has no context on who you are and what you're going through make it strictly about business and about a logical trading decision this holy Grill trade and I need this money is not the way on how you're going to become a profitable Trader trading is to be treated as a business you have to be passionate about it and you have to be ready to give a 100% every single day until you truly understand the craft the Holy Grail the jackpot trade yes it is a possibility it is there you can get that type of trade and it could happen to everybody watching this video but it's not sustainable and I would not go about your trading every single day looking for this trade for this jackpot trade this 10x 20x trade it might be cool it might be fun but I would not rely on this and I will give you my word on this if you stick around in trading long enough plenty of those trades will come and I want to make something very clear on why this is not sustainable personally myself I like to consider myself U I'm a very Advanced Trader I don't want to consider myself an expert yet I want to have a decade into the market and then I'll call myself an expert but even myself when I tried to turn the 100 bucks into the mill it took me about a year and a half to complete it I blew plenty of challenges with it and even when I'm turning these 10K into six figures I am blowing these accounts all of the time because again this is something that I do because I accept the risk behind it and I okay with the outcome if I lose cool if I win cool it's just a certain amount of money that I am okay with losing and this is something that is going to happen to every single Trader even if it's the Warr and buffets of the world because there's no such thing as 100% win rate 90% win rate 70% win rate I am a profitable Trader and I successfully have turned the 100 bucks into a million with a 65 to 60% win rate you do not need anything more than that and it is not going to change anything you're trading if you have a higher win rate because the risk reward is key more about that later in the video so you know now not to rely on this holy Grill trade but what you do need to rely on is my third step and it's going to be a profitable and a winning strategy this is going to be key for you to know exactly what you're going to do every single day when you go to the markets and this goes with the third point which is do not get distracted with the shiny object syndrome I am a victim of it all of my Trader friends are victim of it plenty of Traders inside of my community are a victim of it many of us get click baited into following a certain strategy because that mentor on that given day has made x amount of money and if you want to learn from them go and join their program immediately so you can have the same type of results what ends up happening is you either join the program and it's not good or you just don't give it enough time for it to work see somebody else posting great results have the same message you join the program and now you have to completely switch your narrative from one to another and then you're just constantly hopping from different programs different strategies just because on a specific day where the other strategy made no money this new strategy now made money and you think this is going to be the solution to your problem losing is going to be part of trading you're putting something at risk every single time you go into into the market it is a risk to reward business you give something to potentially get something in return now what you put at risk is very pre-calculated and you know exactly how much you're going to lose and now the reward when you come back you measure it before you take the risk there is no strategy out there that is going to take that risk away so whenever you lose with a specific strategy or things aren't going as you planned don't switch to a different strategy like if that's going to be the solution to your problem that is literally going to change nothing if anything that's actually going to put you deeper into the hole simply because you have not given the actual strategy that you're learning at that very moment enough time for it to play out and you even fully understand it you also have to be very aware the market moves in Cycles how the market moved in the first 3 months of the year is not the same way it's going to move in the last 3 months of the year q1 Q2 Q3 and Q4 are all very much different and if you have a specific specific strategy in q1 and then another strategy in Q2 and another strategy in Q3 and another strategy in Q4 you're basically back at square zero because when the market goes back to then January back in q1 you haven't done anything you have no history you have no practice you have no knowledge do not get the shiny object syndrome and whenever you're going through whatever in your trading Journey Don't Look for ways to add something or remove something losing is part of the game the most important thing is that you pre-calculate that risk very strategically and you are okay with it don't constantly try and cover up a loss with an excuse or with a potential different solution it is not the solution to your case now when you find that strategy and you start coming back from those losses you're going to obviously win because when you get involved into the market two things are going to happen Market's either going to go up or it's going to go down it's a 50/50 it's pretty [ __ ] damn hard to not even see some type of profit at one given point at a time right you're going to see some blues at some point even if you don't know anything about trading you click the right or wrong button sometimes you're going to see some blues for sure Reds but you will see some blues now when you do see those Blues this takes me to the next point it's going to be don't get obsessed with the blues don't think that now because you got it you can't let it go or you let it go too soon so the next next point that I want to talk about is not set and forgetting enough or set and forgetting too much because this is going to be the actual Secret Sauce of you becoming a profitable Trader and I really did not realize this until about 2 and a half years into my trading journey I was predicting the market all the time I knew exactly if it was going to go up or go down I knew when to enter I knew where to place my take profit I knew where to put my stop loss but my issue was when I enter a trade I would wait 3 days if it's in draw down because I did never ever wanteded to close the trade in a loss even if it was floating inside of my stop loss for 3 days I would hold it no issue because all I wanted to do was for it to go back into profit or break even and I would get out immediately and guess what would happen after I would do that the trade would fly to my takeprofit what was I doing I wasn't set and forgetting enough okay I crossed over that hurdle I let the trades play out I let the trade either hit my stop loss or get to my takeprofit and when trades started getting to my takeprofit I was like you know what I'm the [ __ ] I want to make more money and I was continue to hold trades past my takeprofit and guess what ended up happening the trade would reverse all the way back into my entry level or even go to my stop loss so I let a winning trade turn into a losing trade so now at this point I had extreme frustration because I am predicting the market and now I am sometimes holding too much in the stop- loss or holding too much in the takeprofit OR holding not enough inside of the takeprofit for me to actually close out and make some profits now at this point I know it's not me analyzing the markets I know it's not the strategy it's me I'm not set and forgetting enough or I'm set and forgetting too much and this is what held me back from becoming a profitable Trader for the course of 6 months me realizing that when the trade gets to my take profit you close it and that is it you do not [ __ ] with the trade in between if the trade is in draw down you let it to be if your trade is on the way to take profit you let it be if your trade hits stop loss you move on if your trade hits take profit you move on there's only four different scenarios that are going to happen and those are them now you don't do anything in between you're only going to do two things with your trade one close out of your stop loss or two close out of your take profit don't go to break even you don't tra your stop losses you don't do any of that [ __ ] all that does is mess with your risk to reward on the trade that you're taking you take a trade you accept the risk you win or you lose period and where you truly truly truly become a hyper successful Trader and you start having results like mine is where you find the perfect balance in between both closing out at your take profit and strategically setting and forgetting through your take profit now this is something that I don't recommend beginner traders to do right off the bat this is something that takes time and this something that I recommend people to test on a different account aside from your main one this is something that you have to get used to doing first and you have to really understand how to do it technically wise because if you start to practice it on your main account where you're actually making money you're basically messing with your emotions and with the potential profits you're going to have at that very point I don't recommend you do it with demo because I don't think anything in demo is real and I don't think that the emotions and the type of way you're going to react in demo is ever the same I think you should just do it on a smaller account so for example let's say you have a $10,000 personal account that's where you're making your majority of your income from Trading and you want to test out new things on holding trades past your takeprofit or closing them at certain point you do that with a $100 account so it's live money it's real and you get to see the outcome happen with real money that is yours and you have access to it immediately if you were to want to but if it's not going good or you're kind of learning it and you haven't figured it out yet well it's only with a small account and it's not messing with the actual profits that you have in your personal account this is key to scaling your trading to the next level set and forgetting too much is not good and not set and forgetting is also not good finding the perfect balance is where your deep deep success lies and that basically lays it up for my next topic which is going to be be real with yourself guys when I was working at Dunkin Donuts do you think I was telling myself tomorrow we are making $100,000 well yes I'm not going to lie I said that to myself and guess what happened that did not happen I never made $100,000 on the next day or the next week or the next month because I was not meant for that I was not built for that at that that very moment I was not being real with myself I wanted that money because I'm a young 18 19 20 year old in Miami seeing all this crazy lavish lifestyle and I want it but I am barely making $2 $3,000 a month what lets me think that I am qualified to have access to six figures at that very moment absolutely nothing I am not qualified to have six figures either in my savings in my checkings in credit I don't have I I I'm not qualified for that I have not built the resume I don't have the character I don't have the experience at that point in time you would have gave me that money I would have blown it because I would have not known what to do with it I was not being real with myself and that's what happens with a lot of you guys right now you start seeing all of these other Traders online making a [ __ ] ton of money supposedly and you want to have the same thing but you want to have the same thing without doing what they did to get to that point you're jealous of the results but not of the journey that they had to go through to get to those results and that's exactly what happened to me and I only had to go through about a, losses for me to realize that hey you know what let me just start off with making my first $10 let me start off with making my first hundred then my first th000 then my first 5,000 10,000 20 to then where I eventually got to the point where I made 100,000 but it took me a lot of losses for me to realize that you know what Alex let's just be real with yourself let's do what you're ready to do if I make $10 today or if I lose them today it probably won't affect me it's not a big deal and I am going to build that character with time where then I'm going to continuously raise that bar higher and higher and higher to where then I am able to do that but you have to create the foundation by being real with yourself don't set unrealistic take profits and because you don't get to them you start to beat yourself up that I think is a bit low and honestly it just shuts down your self-esteem and it's not going to help you beating yourself up for something that you know deep deep deep deep down that you won't be able to achieve it in a certain timeline I think it's a bit douchy honestly like it's going to be an excuse that you're going to use to not continue continue to go forward set a realistic goal be real with yourself and just because you don't reach it don't let it be an excuse to quit and I've heard this many times before from a lot of traders that they say if I don't become profitable by January of next year I'm going to quit and I'm like well dude you just might as well quit right now because you're not being real with yourself why should you be profitable by January of next year are you going to put in the 10,000 hours are you going to watch all of the videos you should watch are you going to put in the Thousand trades are you going to put in your own real like there's so many things that have to get done in order for you to become profitable you can't just make a wish and then it magically happened you have to put in the work first and I would put the goal that you want to achieve and then let time do its thing and something to just add or maybe even sprinkle on top of all of this is when you want to get these tangible things right the cars the watches the lifestyle the luxury it's all cool but again it's all just a materialistic thing at the end of the day I'm sure you guys have seen I could care less about any of my super cars I have a a Lamborghini that just caught fire I have a Porsche that I've blown the transmission three times I have a drift car that I have destroyed at 10 times like none of these materialistic things mean anything or I going to Define who you are it's the journey that you're going to go go through that is going to Define who you are and then normalize all of these materialistic things that you want what is going to get you these materialistic things is not the urge for wanting them it's for the journey that you go through that is going to give you the success to just make these things fall in your lap I at one point I really wanted to have a fleet of supercars and even when I became a profitable Trader that I was making money over and over and over every single month and I'm constantly having profits and flipping accounts and scaling I didn't really have a fleet of supercars until about 5 years into my trading Journey until I was a whole 2 and 1/2 years now profitable I'm talking about 2 and 1/2 Years Learning and 2 and 1/2 years profitable now is when all of these cars are just falling on my lap and I'm buying them like if they were a pair of shoes and I kind of had a reality check the other day and it was like wow I remember when I was making money as I started trading I really wanted all these cars but I just wasn't making enough money trading to afford all of them and now it's at the point where I don't even care about them I'm getting them all by accident I'm buying them just adding them to the car and they just get shipped to my house and when they get here I'm like ah I liked more when I was actually working to get to that point and enjoying the journey so you will get those materialistic things that you want but you're not going to get it by just wanting them you're going to get it by going through the Journey to actually get them and believe me when I say this at the end of the day when you're sitting in the lambo in traffic at a red light with a bunch of NPCs you're going to enjoy more the journey that got you to that Lambo and actually driving the lambo but not right away probably a year after you have it but you'll get there soon don't even worry about it and lastly and most definitely not least probably one of my favorite topics in order for things in your life to change you have to change things in your life and truthfully this kind of quote that I personally think I am the founder of it I believe or I could be totally [ __ ] wrong I really put it into test about a couple weeks ago where I bumped into one of my high school colleagues that I had a couple years ago at a gas station and I open the door to this gas station and I am a gentleman and I let the person that's going to walk out walk out and then I walk in get my snack put gas and then leave and as I open the door the person that is standing right in front of me is all dirty and a mechanic gear and basically looks really bad and fat and I'm like sir like are you going to get out and he's like Alex and I'm like oh [ __ ] I I I don't know who the [ __ ] this is and I look up and I'm like holy [ __ ] I'm not going to say his name but I'm like dude I Remember You from High School what's up bro start talking for a couple of minutes and he like in his eyes he had like these like tears right like he he didn't want to cry but like I saw his eyes get watery and he's like look bro I'm just very happy for you bro I see so many things that have changed in your life and I just wanted to say I wish I did what you did I am a mechanic right now I have two kids with two different baby mamas I am working two jobs mechanic and ubering and I could barely make it and I wish I would have changed my habits early on than what I decided to just be comfortable and continue to stay how I was he was still smoking weed he was still hanging around with the same people and he was literally not doing anything productive and it got him to a point where now he is basically stuck he feels like he cannot get out of that and he definitely can but in his mind he feels like he [ __ ] up for life and he's done but he got to that point because the foundation that he created in high school when he was smoking weed and being with the people that he wasn't supposed to be he is now still in there because he never changed things in his life so his results never changed I wasn't around the best people in high school but I wasn't around the worst either and I was skipping school I was smoking weed I was doing dumb stuff and when I left High School I realized that hey things in my life have to change and in order for that I have to change things in my life I cut out the bad friends I cut out doing irresponsible things stop smoking weed stop drinking stopped doing nothing that didn't do me any better and guess what happened things in my life changed because I changed things in my life and after I had a 5minute conversation with this guy I basically gave him some tips and stuff but what I really really embedded into his head was like look bro if you want things in your life to change stop doing the same [ __ ] and I saw him walking out of the gas station with these Rock papers which are things where you're going to break up the weed and smoke it and I'm like dude like you're still doing the same [ __ ] like is it worth getting high for 30 minutes and just watching Netflix and getting hungry and he looks at me he's like bro you know what it's not and he got it and he threw it away now I don't know if tomorrow is going to go and buy it again or do whatever but at least he did a small start to get started and that's I feel like off somebody needs to really get that fire in them fueled up so they can start having this Compound Effect for positivity and start changing things in your life when people start going downhill they go downhill really fast like they start getting into one thing and that leads to another and another and another but that also happens uphill and the momentum uphill is actually a lot better because you start not only changing yourself but your surroundings and the people around from you so you know something that's small like that I I realize it it could have changed his whole entire day maybe his whole entire week and month and I hope to bump into him soon and he's doing something different but the foundation is built by if you want for things in your life to change you have to change things in your life and truthfully if you can have one takeaway from all of these different tips that I gave you inside of this I would say this last one is by far the most important and I hate to mention this right now because really I'm not the type of guy that's like yo my program is the bad or my it's it's really not like I I really hate to say this but like I have literally taking people that know absolutely nothing from Trading and have nowhere to start to going to making the first 5 10 15K in a month in the first year of trading inside of my program I have a psychology series and I just say this because I've never talked about it I have a psychology series that I created when I was in my upcoming years as a Trader like literally when you see the videos you see alexg in 2020 2021 and you see this kid that he is literally having that breakthrough like you can see it in his eyes that he has he just figured this [ __ ] out he knows what to do he just knows he has to do it for a little bit more time and he's going to start having results and I've tried to recreate these videos before and make them you know a lot more higher production in a better scenario but it's just not authentic it's not real like I cannot even if I were to just write down everything I said in those videos and replicate it it won't come out the same because I just am in a different head space right now like I can take you from from level 100 to 1,000 right now with my psychology but the videos inside of my program literally will take you from 0 to 100 because I am inside of this beginner Trader that is cracking out of a shell and I just happen to be very fortunate to have documented all of those different videos showcasing what I'm learning practicing and teaching to people all around the world so if you guys want to know more about my psychology series or the actual seven forget program that you know takes Traders all around the world to get the first thousand to $1,500 a week make sure you guys check out the link in the description below it is there for you guys a video that explains absolutely everything and I hope to see you guys inside or in another one of my videos make sure to hit that like And subscribe button if you guys like these type of videos let me know as well in the comments below because it keeps me motivated keeps me going to doing them and truthfully if you like it I'll even do another one even deeper taking guys from 100 to 1,000 thank you guys very much and I'll see you guys in the next one