Adrian Reid grew his trading account from $7,500 to $34,000 in 2.5 years while working a day job. The real shift wasn't quitting, but the internal confidence that came with proof his system worked. That conviction alone changed how he traded and how he felt about his job.
About 2.5 years.
About $34,000.
About $7,500.
There's a story I want to share, which I think would be helpful. The bus into the city features pretty heavily in my corporate history. Mainly it took me an hour to get into town from where I was living, and it was crowded, and I didn't really particularly enjoy it. But I did use it for my trading time. And I've been trading for a while at this point, about two and a half years, I'd say, after I kind of flipped the switch and went systematic. And I was on the bus on the way into the city super early one morning, and I was doing my analysis for the day because I had a little laptop. I downloaded my data, do my analysis, and then place my trades. When I got to the office, when I left early, which was frequently at that point, and I was doing my analysis, and I had, I think it was $34,000 in my account. And I started with seven and a half. And I was like, had this realization of, oh, my God, it's working. I'm going to make it. And what was great about that moment is, is I felt free.
I wasn't free. Like, I didn't have any right to because I didn't have anywhere near enough capital to trade for a living and support my lifestyle. But I knew I had an approach that worked for me, and I had evidence to support that because I had been following my rules, I'd been making money, my account was growing, and, hell, I even started to pay tax because I was making profits on. I knew at that point that I was going to get there. And what I'd love for people to do is look for the. Look for that confidence as a first step. Because once I. Once I got to that point, I was like, I'm gonna make it. And all of the corporate stress, all of the struggles financially, just, like, calm down a little bit, because, like, I'm not doing this forever, right? I'm gonna get there. And it took years after that because obviously I had to compound the account and put more money in and everything. But that's the pivotal moment. Most people look to handing the boss the resignation letter and doing the, you know, flipping the bird and on the way out as the pivotal moment. It's not.
The pivotal moment is when you know that you're going to get there. And the sooner you can get to that, the free you are and the better you trade.
Sam.
