Adrian Reid explains his goal: to compress the multi-year trading learning curve into months by providing a structured, holistic approach. He describes having synthesized lessons across markets (US futures, options, Forex) to build a systematic equities-focused method, warns against over-studying before trading, and estimates that following his sequence can make learners substantially more knowledgeable within one to two months.
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So my whole process and goal is to get you up the learning curve really quickly. Typically, people will fumble around for three, five, ten years trying to figure it out and piecing together bits and pieces of information. I've done all that work for you. And because at the beginning of my journey, it was all about read everything I could find, most of it was, okay. There was US Futures traders, there was options traders, there was Forex traders, and no one kind of wrote holistically about systematic equities. And so I had to piece all that together, create an approach, and then lay it out in a way that makes it fast and easy for you to learn. Because there's some things at the beginning that you have to know, and if you don't know them deeply, they're going to bite you later on. And there's a sequence of doing things like you don't want to study for too long before getting in the market. It's going to feel like there's a bit of overwhelm because you get in there and you go, whoa, there's a lot to learn, but you go so fast. And if you remember to just look over your shoulder and see how much you've learned, as opposed to how much you can now see has opened up to you, you'll see that you move really quickly and it doesn't take very long. I would say a month or two before you know way more than the vast majority of people who are actually in the market.
