TradingLife Podcast with Brad Jelinek

I talk about the importance of knowing your timeframe and then give you a few examples of how I’ve done that recently for the good and for the bad. The second half of this is me talking about running a paid group and how it might look and hopefully getting some feedback from you guys.

My wife’s phone call interrupted the last part, so this is the rest of it.

I discuss where we may be in the cryptocurrency cycle relative to other cryptocurrency cycles and we talk about staying curious and not getting narrow minded in a world full of strong opinions on both sides

I talk about how I’m using an artificial intelligence to build my own tools and I talk about why I think that is important.

The discussion today is about how you can survive all the different market cycles if you ground your process in thinking about risk management. There’s a lot of nuances to that thinking which I cover in the episode.

I discuss a good book I have read recently and the mistake of being busy all the time. We also talk about the pitfalls of over optimizing yourself and what you can do about it.

I discuss adapting over different time periods in your career and managing your sizing increases.

I offer two or three different perspectives on how I handle this and how overtime I’ve gotten better at dealing with it to live a higher quality life.

I discuss these today and how I’m using them.

I go over a book I just finished about the leadership lessons of Nick Saban and how it relates to us as well as adapting to changing market conditions.

I discuss two different paths to success and the price to pay for each.

Today is a fun one for me because this one is timeless. I talk about the cycles you’re going to go through from top to bottom and how to stay on a roll. What happens when you fall off and struggle how do you get back going again?

Some inspiration from a private jujutsu lesson really connected with a similar concept in trading. When you don’t do something a lot, it becomes special to you and when it becomes special to you, you don’t treat it like a process to the extent that you normally would. This can become a problem.

We discuss the fear of missing out, and some potential solutions to ease the burden. The second part is about broadening your perspective which can really improve mental health when things are not going perfect.

I talk about my excitement with the artificial intelligence boom and about how I’m using it to advance my trading.

I discuss my personal situation in 2023, and into 2024 and then talk a lot about handling, losers and handling what is going to be unknown changes in market structure. The ability to do this is more important than pretty much anything else.

I get into a little bit of a history lesson related to my career in the market by talking about different things I have gone through and then we eventually get to the main point about how to handle changing market structures and what you can do about it.

How the emotions that come up in trading can be used to make you happier, more profitable and as a template for your growth as a person. Im not sure anything matters more than this.

I discus the importance of figuring out why other people are in positions and how you can profit from that. This is particularly relevant for short term futures trading.

Like many of you, I was incredibly inspired by the Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary on Netflix. However, I would like to discuss a different angle on how the documentary made me feel and some possible paths forward.

I discuss a project that Brent and I are working on involving back testing and programming using GPT. A big take away is simply the ability to scale that comes from something with structured rules.

I discuss my tumultuous 2022 and how I am establishing alignment with myself through it all.

I talk about my experience with getting away from what I’m good at and finding my way back. I discuss how I am likely to hit my goals through a path that I did not see when I began.

A variety of topics covered about making your trading easier. Also about making your life easier. We get into sizing again as well as understanding yourself at a deeper level. I also use some examples from friends I am working with.

Today is a very important discussion I have with myself about sizing. In the absence of sizing problems, there really aren’t that many problems that cannot be easily fixed in trading. This is because you preserve your personal momentum and mindset which is everything.