Archive for category: Student Trading Results

Becoming an STA Samurai: A Student’s First Five Weeks

TH - The Samurai Trader

I've been mostly focusing on Student Updates with the Samurai Trading Academy blog recently but I think this will be one of the last of those posts for a while.  I guess I better make it a good one!  They take a while to put together and I think the point has been made as we've seen some fantastic results from the group and I will be expecting the same from future STA traders as well.

I did want to do something a little different with this post though if we're going to take a small break from student updates, so this post doesn't just cover one day of trading or one week but more than a month with the good days, the great ones, and even the poor ones included.

One thing that really bothers me when it comes to trading forums and websites is that they almost always try to avoid the realities of trading and only focus on the highs at the expense of the lows. Read more

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Student Results – Volatility, Profitability, and Belgian Beer

Belgian Beer Wall

As another week comes to a close in the markets I thought I would fire off a quick update.  I've been receiving a lot of email lately asking for student updates and more articles and I'm happy to oblige.  I'm still waiting on some recent student charts as we just wrapped up the current trading week so the updates below show a number of charts and results for the STA students from last week. Read more

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Student Results – Off to a Running Start

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It's been a while since I last made a post with some Student Updates but now seemed as good a time as any.  The last year has been a whirlwind of activity for myself and for the group of traders within Samurai Trading Academy, to the point that it's been difficult to maintain a consistent update schedule on the public side of the site.

The last year has seen me working with a small selection of highly motivated people and it's been a major effort helping them towards their trading goals, but I've been extremely pleased with the progress I've seen from the students in the program.  I've seen multiple people transition into becoming professional full time traders (see the video with Niv at the end of the post for an example), others have been trading with consistent results and are working towards a full transition out of their current professions, and others are just getting started in their trading journey but are seeing exceptional results early on that open up fantastic possibilities for the future. Read more

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Student Results – A Complete 4 Week Trading Breakdown

4 Week Trading Breakdown Featured

As day traders, it's important to realize that the outcome of a single trade or even a single day doesn't really matter.  We work off probabilities and our tested edge, so what's truly important is the outcome a larger sample of trades over time.

If our expectancy is good due to a decent win rate combined with a high risk to reward ratio, we will be able to achieve excellent profitability.

As I was recording some of the Weekly Reviews for students in the STA Training Program this weekend it got me thinking that I should put together a new post using some prior weeks that really drives home the importance of keeping a longer term focus. Read more

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Student Results – Building Day Trading Consistency, Confidence, and Profitability

Professor's Weekly Trades Featured

Talk about a wild week, both personally and professionally!  The week began normally enough but by the end of it trading was one of the furthest things from my mind.  I'm currently spending time in Calgary with family and friends, so the massive flooding kind of threw a wrench in the gears for what should have been some great late-week trading.   Read more

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