{"id":4444,"date":"2019-12-06T21:19:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2019-12-08T22:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T22:41:37","slug":"trading-learning-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/06\/trading-learning-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading learning year 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2018, I created a Robinhood account and I added 1000$. I had a goal, it was to trade with that money, and learn about how to trade in a systematic way and understand how the environment was going on.<\/p>\n

I started slowly, with few amount of moves, practicing on stocks I knew and using the learning I acquired trading with crypto-currencies (year 1).<\/p>\n

As the money was limited, I divided the trades in 4 units, so every long event should be around 250$. My initial goal was to obtain a 6% growth through 2019.<\/p>\n

I did not want to limit myself to a goal number, as the market would have a direction that I cannot control in 12 months, but I wanted to set a reference and initially it was 6%, then I moved to 10%, then I moved to 25%.<\/p>\n

The math result? I did a 40%<\/h1>\n

This final result was an unexpected result, I started doing individual moves and learning from my previous experience, understanding the SPX behavior and trying to learn from the results. Initially I was psychologically stressed with the situation, but I learned how to handle it and the results started to be positive once I keep the actions aligned to my convictions.<\/p>\n

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The learning result?<\/h1>\n

I have learned a lot of things, as in the middle of the process I had no money to trade, or I had problems to be with time in front of the computer, or there were times where the market was not in the conditions I defined to trade. Some of the things I learned:<\/p>\n