How To Make your First 10k Trading [No BS Guide]

It took me more than 3 years of burning prop from challenges, burning accounts, and being a breakeven trader before I could make my first $10K with trading. Then I've had the luck to trade side by side with some of the best traders in the world, like world trading champions, hedge fund managers, and bank floor traders, up to the point where now I'm able to do $10,000 even in a few hours because I have more capital, I have more knowledge and experience. And if I would go back with the knowledge I have now, I'm pretty sure I would be able to make my first $10K trading within the first 6 months. And in this video, I want to show you exactly what I would do if I were broke again on my own and wanted to make my first $10K trading. The exact roadmap, no bullshit. From how to gather the first money to start trading, to which exact strategy I would use that is extremely easy, scientifically proven to work over the last decades, all the way to which platform, prop firm, or broker I would personally use. Not only how to pierce the wall of the first $10K, but go all the way up to the first $100K trading. This is what I would do. This is not financial advice. I'm not telling you what to do. It's just out of common sense and my experience, what I would genuinely do, knowing that trading is risky and most people just fail. And the very first thing I would do is locking the fuck in. I mean, seriously, I'd get rid of all distractions. I would panic. I would stop sleeping, feel nervous, and lock the fuck in, ready to commit every waking hour to my goal. Then I would gather the 3 things you need to start trading. Money, a strategy that works, a PC connected to the markets. Let's start with money because some of you guys are probably broke. If you have a bit of money, you have a roof over your head, you have a family that loves you, skip to the next chapter because we're literally starting from $0. So the number one thing I would do if I were completely broke and I wanted to start trading is to find a fucking job. Sorry, I know you were probably expecting something else, but bro, to trade you need money to start. So I would look for a high-paying job for at least 3 months. I'm Italian, and in Italy the average wage is around €1,500. So I'd probably look for a place where they pay seasonal workers a lot, like during ski season in Switzerland, and bank like 3,000-4,000 francs per month. Or in the French Riviera during summer, possibly in a place where they give me accommodation and food. Or anything like that, just look around your nearby countries where you can enter visa-free, find a high-paying job there for a while, and be the best fucking worker you can possibly be to cash in tons of tips as well. Force myself to save at least 50 to 75% of what I'm earning. This is a concept called forced saving or pay yourself first. As soon as you get the money, you already take that percentage and put it into an account where you don't have a card that you can spend it with, like a savings account. And boom, just like that, in 3 months I got my first $5 to $10K. I can also prolong this for 6 months or do 2 seasons and maybe even reach $20,000. And in the free time, I would study trading. Because I'd likely work 8 hours a day, 2 hours for eating and self-care, 8 hours of sleeping, 1 hour at the gym, 1 hour for travel. Even like that, I still have 4 hours in my day. So no excuses. In those 4 hours, I would devour anything I could find about trading— macroeconomics, fundamentals, technical analysis, data analysis— find free education from reliable sources. And whenever I'm done working at the seasonal job, I would then really lock in to trading. I'd probably move temporarily to a low-cost country like Indonesia, where you can live great life with $500-$600 a month so that if I'm starting with $10-20K budget, I can live there the entire year, not work, and still have money to invest in my trading. Of course, if you don't have the problem of having a little bit of money to start, you can skip this part. But why is this step so crucial to start? Why is my first step to make $10K from trading making $10K from a normal job? Because you need to know the truth, okay? Regardless of what some guru told you on social media, trading is not that type of burn the boats business. It's not something you just go all in with everything you have and hope for the best, because that's just the best recipe for financial disaster, I promise you. And I wish someone told me this before I started trading, it would have saved me so much headache. You need to understand this: trading is nothing more than long-term systematic controlled gambling. You're taking a small bet, the same small bet every single day, you lose some, you win more than you lose, and those wins stack up over time and build your profit. It's an extremely boring process where the only way to make fast money with it is to bite more than you can chew, is to risk way more than you can afford on something that is virtually impossible to happen. So it's a different game than the one you probably think it is. And you're also not here to make your first $10K, use that to pay your bills, and then maybe think about how the fuck am I gonna do the next 10K? Trading isn't a get-rich-quick method. It's a get-rich-slow method. And whoever is telling you differently is probably trying to sell you some course. So they have a conflict of interest with you believing this. But the actual truth is, you're in finance, bro. Okay? Trading isn't this. It's actually this, the good old boring finance. And finance starts from saving and investing and low-risk stuff to protect capital. Trading, actively trading, is the riskiest part of finance. Trading is trying to speculate and have a better ROI than 99% of people that try. It'll take time for you to be able to build the skills and the success and really potentially being able to making a living out of trading alone. A loan. Still financially very risky. Having just one source of cash flow, as risky as trading, but also with any other source of cash flow, if you just have one source, if that stops working, you're done. So if you're struggling financially, the first thing to do isn't burning the boats and all in into trading. The first step is to have a minimum financial cushion, like an emergency fund, because trading is already an extremely emotional game that you're probably not ready for or psychologically or financially. When all of your life depends on the money you're making the next trade, you're never gonna be able to have the soberness necessary to trade rationally and with emotional detachment. First, we get some money to start and then we finally plan our roadmap. We don't just get into it, we plan it thoroughly. So the next thing is to plan my trading journey. How do I take this money I have and turn it into more money putting it into the market of money at the right time so that I can take money from other people betting their own money on the same bet that I am making, but after me. And the truth is there's a thousand ways you could do this, from buying the breakout to freaking programmatic multi-leg option calendar credit spreads, low latency gamma scalping arbitrage. But you're probably just a beginner, so we need something easy, powerful, and that fits your calendar. And people never talk about this for some reason. Like, if you have a 9-to-5 job, you don't wanna just quit your job and go all in to trading because as we discussed, that bears some serious financial irresponsibility, or as my father didn't used to say, financial suicide. So in that case, you might wanna swing trade instead. Not every day in front of the chart, but like 3, 4 hours a week. Long-term, chill. If you're maybe a freelancer or you work part-time, and you have at least 3 hours a day, then you can day trade. And if you have money, you have no work to worry about, you can potentially do both. Now, the next question is which strategy would you use? And your average guru would tell you trade ICT, trade support and resistance, trade trend lines, Bollinger Bands. And if you really dig the source of these suggestions, it will always be somewhere in the lines of trust me, bro, nothing verifiable. And in finance, rule number 1: never trust anyone with an opinion, only trust data. So to establish a healthy relationship, I will not tell you my opinion. I will share with you some scientific data instead that will help you understand how to qualify whether a trading strategy is quote unquote good. Now, please notice something. I want you to think about your last year in the market and what your performance was with your trading. Okay, lock it in. You got it? Great. This is extremely important. Exactly 1 year ago, out of 100 traders that put $5,000 into their trading account, 90% of them lost it all. 7% of them stayed at breakeven. 2% earned a little, and less than 1% was profitable, and even less than that was able to make a lot of money. Okay, which one are you? Let me know in the comments. But the truth is, 100% of them put hours and hours of stress, hard work, frustration, family making fun of them while paying hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in prompt from challenges, brokers' commissions, spread, paying random YouTube gurus money to teach them nothing useful really. 100% of them. Now compare that with this, with 100 investors that just bought and held the Nasdaq 100 index, the American stock market. Well, 0% of them lost money. 100% of them almost doubled it. Okay, 100% of them. 0% of them spent more than 10 hours in front of the charts the whole year. Not per day, not per week, the whole year. 0% of them spent more than $10 in broker commissions. Okay, this is true. Also true, 0% of them outperform the index. Now, I'm not showing this to discourage you. I'm just saying here, in order for trading to mathematically make sense, for it to be worth your time, effort, risk, well, you have to at least be confident that you're gonna outperform passive investors, right? At least. Otherwise, you just invest your money and be done with finance. So the first reference point in what makes a strategy worth it is that it has to statistically outperform passive investors. We agree on this, I hope, right? So a good strategy in finance is anything that systematically outperforms buying and holding the American stock market, either the NASDAQ or the S&P 500. And spoiler alert, there are strategies that do, and I will teach them to you in this video, so keep following. And maybe subscribe if you want to see even more. Because yes, last year in the NASDAQ, it was really profitable. But it was also its best year ever. Because if, for example, you invested in the NASDAQ 100 at the top of the dot-com bubble in the 2000s, you would have to withstand an 83% unrealized loss and not see any money before 20 years. Also, buying and holding stocks, investing, isn't easy or risk-free at all. The only way to kind of avoid all this is, for example, you just buy a 30-year US bond. Guaranteed by the US government, 5% per year on average, almost zero risk. This is what in finance would define as the risk-free rate. Not bad, it's guaranteed. Low risk, low return. But I know 5% in boring, we're here to make money. But still, let's be professional. Let's look at history, let's gather some data, let's crunch some numbers. Only on one year, not only in the best or the worst year of the stock market, but the average return of 100 years. And introducing some numbers you might not be familiar with, but you need to know 'cause they're the bread and butter of finance. And the number you probably mostly care about, the only one you probably care about as a financially illiterate Joe Schmo, is the average return per year, what is also known as the compound annual growth rate, compound annual growth rate. So the average yearly return of the S&P 500 net of inflation, so the real CAGR, avvatena CAGR, little joke for my Italian friends, is 7 to 8% per year. For the NASDAQ 100, it's a little bit higher. It's 10 to 12% per year. Not bad, right? And you might say, well, Andrea, with my $5,000, 12% return is a whopping, unenthusiastic $600. You're not gonna make a living out of that, right? I know it. Wait for it, because it's gonna get way worse. Introducing the max drawdown. The maximum drawdown, or the the worst-case scenario, how much money you would lose? Even if you exclude the 1929 market crash and the 2000 dot-com bubble crash, where we saw upward of 80% drawdowns, so excluding possible tail risk Armageddon, still it could be easily up to 50%, so half of the value of your account. So I have to risk half of my money potentially to make 10% per year? Meh, yuck. Well, yeah, but the stock market tends to keep going up. Is it gonna go up forever? We don't know. As long as they print money, probably yes, if you don't sell within 20 years. I get your frustration. This is why this is not an investment course. But still, what do we do? Now you could understand that, yeah, uh, return is important, but the return compared to the drawdown, to the potential loss, is also very important. See, you're starting to think like a real finance bro. So how do I consider both the return based on the risk? Well, Well, there's a number that does exactly that, and it's called the Sharpe ratio. The Sharpe ratio is the benchmark, the score, together with the Sortino ratio, on the risk-adjusted return. And S&P and NASDAQ, they have around a 0.5 Sharpe ratio. Well, it means shit. To make it easy for you, 0.50 Sharpe means that for every dollar you risk, you only get 50 cents more than just lending it to the US government for 5% interest rate risk-free. So, mm, not much. But guess what? 80% of funds that tries to outperform this shit fail. I'm not sure if that's clear. I'm talking hundreds of thousands of finance professionals, fucking you name it, with billions of dollars of asset under management that can invest in resources and research, blah, blah, blah. They cannot do better than this. And I'm talking about specifically stock market funds, equity funds. So what a lot of investors do instead of being 100% exposed to what the stock market is going to do tomorrow, they know that when the stock underperforms, maybe they take bonds or gold, they diversify their investment portfolio and lower their so-called beta, which is the exposure to the stock market, and maybe have 20% gold, 10% in like alternative investments like crypto, like wines, watches, whatever, a good 40% in bonds, maybe some government ones, some low risk, some higher risk, and the stock market maybe 30%. And this exact allocation, let's call it Diverse, would have yielded an annual return of 6%, which is kind of lower, net of inflation, but with a maximum drawdown of 19%. Well, that already looks like a way better risk-adjusted return. The Sharpe ratio of this, in fact, is around 0.7, 0.8, which is kind of better, but still 6% a year, eh. We need to do better. We need to find something that has a better Sharpe ratio, that better risk-adjusted return than this. And the good news is, as a retail trader, we can. Because here's something you might not know. Yes, all of these finance bros, they have billions, they have resources, they have the best talent, the best technology. So of course they're always gonna win. But hear this, you, my friend, have something. You have an edge just by being you that they don't have and they desperately wish they had. And that's why, my friend, there is a roadmap to success in trading. There is a narrow way through. And it's all based on the fact that you're small. Your tiny little account, that's your edge. Your your trades don't move markets. But their trades, they do. They do. Let's say today you buy those $5,000 worth of Bitcoin, maybe even with a 20x leverage. You buy it now and sell 2 hours later and cash in a small $50 to $100 profit with a small scalp on the market. Well, no one would notice. But if you try and buy $5 billion worth of Bitcoin, Bitcoin, and you try to do the exact same thing, you try to buy it now and then sell it 2 hours later, all at once, you would immediately lose $1.5 billion. Okay, with a B. Because of what we define as liquidity constraints. There's just not people. I mean, you're trying to buy $5 billion, you need to find a $5 billion seller, and it's definitely not the average seller in the book. So the bigger of a fish you are in finance, The more— the real problem isn't really finding an edge, it's the physical constraints of scaling your strategy. You cannot dream of applying the same strategy you're using on a $2 million account with a $2 billion account. So us as retail traders can take advantage of some patterns, some repetitive behaviors that are simply inaccessible to institutional traders, that they have no interest in even thinking of pursuing. And the core of our edge is exactly this. Most of these participants that actually have an impact in the in the market, in the price, like banks and hedge funds and all these big guys, they can't just, just buy a stock. They need to buy it slowly, a little bit at a time, through days, sometimes weeks, or go to places like dark pool to get a better fill. And we will soon make a video on this channel on how exactly they optimize the execution of these orders. But for now, all you need to know is this: they take these huge orders that we call meta orders, and they split it into multiple small orders, and they will split it into two main groups. So they split it and they gradually pour it into the market bit by bit, bit by bit, through some fractioning and best execution algorithms like VWAP, like percentage of volume. So they see how much trading there is and they put the same percentage kind of, or TWAP, so they put a fixed amount every second, every minute. And let's say this is a huge buy order, they will put some buy orders in the form of passive flow. So like they offer these buy orders and they absorb all the demand for selling, the aggressive sell so they absorb all of the hungry sellers, creating a support in price, not allowing price to go down, kind of. Some of it will be an aggressive flow through pure buying pressure that will push price up and accept to pay a small spread, eating through any sell offer. So they will put some passive, some aggressive. And basically what these algorithms do is they decide how much will be aggressive, how much will to be passive based on how much FOMO they have. Yeah, embedded in the formulas that split these orders, they can decide if they want to join the party, join the FOMO or not. That's why, for example, if you see the stock market is pumping, well, it's likely that it will keep pumping the following days because they don't want to miss the chance of getting their hands on the money, but in a controlled, paced way. So this mechanics create a predictable flow of buy orders in the stock market, something that has vast scientific proof and academic literature called order flow autocorrelation, which basically means buy orders will lead to more buy orders. And this order flow autocorrelation creates some predictable behaviors in prices as a consequence called drifts or structural drifts, which means that price will not just do this and embed new information in the market all at once super efficiently and then stay stuck there until a new news comes out, but Instead, because of these liquidity constraints that create this autocorrelation order flow, we have drifts, we have the so-called trends, right? A move doesn't just last for one day and that's it, or one second, but you have these continuous trends. And there are some of these drifts, some of these trends that we can systematically exploit and that are well documented over the last decades. Regardless of what the efficient market hypothesis says, these repetitive patterns have been a structural edge. Over the last decades, they have generated better returns than just buying the stock market, with better risk-adjusted returns as well. So let's meet two famous examples of drifts that will exactly be the two strategies you could start implementing. Again, it's not financial advice. It's not guaranteed that they're gonna work tomorrow as well as they did over the past, but at least you would trade based on science and not opinions. The first one is the post-earnings announcement drift. So if a company, maybe Apple, maybe Tesla, maybe Google, just released earnings, right, and they do so every quarter or so, they basically declare how much money they've made. Well, investors might think that they've done, for example, $1 billion in profits. They come out and they say, hey guys, you know what, we've actually made $3 billion in profit. Well, investors will be definitely happy. So the first thing that would do is there will typically be a gap and the valuation of the asset will move up. All of a sudden. But it's not just gonna stop there. There's vast scientific research supporting the fact— and by the way, you can also check it yourself, you can replay any financial chart and you'll see that this is actually happening— you tend to have a very strong trend, a persistent trend for the following 60 days. So if instead of just buying S&P you were buying this for pretty much any stock, then of course you can optimize, just buy and don't sell until 60 days, this strategy alone would have a win rate of around 60%. With around a 1 to 1.5 average risk to reward, a profit factor of more than 2, an annual rate of return of around 15%, with an average drawdown below 15%, with a potential Sharpe ratio of above 1, which is already better than just buying and holding S&P. And this strategy just requires less than 100 trades per year. And this is just by buying a stock and not selling it for 60 days. There's many other ways you can play around with this, but this is already a swing trading strategy with a very good expectancy. Now that was already a good swing trading strategy. Let's see now, and that's great if you don't have a lot of time to dedicate to trading, you can do it also part-time, not just as a way to make your first $10K but to grow your capital through time. But let's say you have time to day trade. Well, there's an even better strategy that exploits the same type of mechanic and it's called the Opening Range Breakout. This works mostly on the NASDAQ 100, and we're basically trying to do the same thing we did for earnings but for a day, like an intraday type of drift. But instead of basing ourselves on earnings, we just assume that there will be a constant flow of investors in the stock market, which typically happens because, you know, stock markets typically go up, but sometimes they also go down. So we take advantage of the FOMO that is always there in stocks, and during a very directional day, we join the party, we join the crowd of big money. So basically what we do is we just take the first 30-minute candle, we draw out the high, we draw out the low, and we wait. As soon as there is a candle that closes above the high of the opening range, we just buy, and we either place our stop loss below the candle that breaks out with a 1:0.5 risk-to-reward ratio. So we put the take profit basically half of the stop loss. If it goes wrong, we sell here at a loss, at a small loss, and if it goes up, we sell at a profit at the same distance where the stop loss. So it's a 1:1 risk-to-reward ratio. And this, exactly like the Earnings Surprise, is a long-only strategy. We just buy into it. But as we can do it with leverage, of course, we're gonna be able to maybe risk, you know, 1-2% per trade. There's another version of the same strategy that uses the 15-minute opening range instead, and it works both long and short, but it's like a short-term scalp strategy. You place your stop above the candle that breaks out or or below the candle that breaks out, 1:0.5 risk to reward. So you kind of take advantage of the short-term momentum more than the drift, but it's not really part of the strategies we're exploring today, even though it's potentially still profitable. And this has around a 60% win rate, a Sharpe ratio of 1.84, ladies and gentlemen, with an annual rate of return of around 30% and a maximum drawdown of 10%, okay? Now this is the performance over the last 6 years. Of course, past performance doesn't mean future performance. So far from me from guaranteeing this is profitable. It's just, it is well documented. We've done the analysis, we've done the testing, and kind of however you tweak it, this is realistic. This is realistically what you would have got in the past. And it's a very simple strategy that you can begin with. So to recap, if I were to have a swing trading strategy, I would use the Post Earnings Announcement Drift as a base to start. Or if I wanted better returns, and let's say I would like to have a more discretionary approach and analyze macro and kind of be a little bit more professional through time, I would have in my mind to take a look at macroeconomics. So a lot of fundamental-based trades with volume profile and stuff like that. With intraday, I would definitely start with an opening range breakout strategy, and then maybe I would look into some VWAP strategy, something there also mechanical, because there's a lot of cool stuff that can work with that. And then I would aim to go into order flow and option flow to get deeper into the discretionary trading side. So this one over here and this one over here are not so easy and mechanical. They require you to study the markets, spend a lot of time in it, and this is the kind of stuff you want to study a little bit later in your process, in your journey as a trader. So I would start with something simple like a post-earning drift or an orb strategy, and then I would take the time to study the shit, which you can do on this channel for free, by the way, without paying any course. I'm about to release a lot of videos about this. So now that I've selected my strategy, there's one thing I need to decide. Now that I have I have $10,000 in my bank account, or let's say I have— I'm starting from $5,000 in my bank account that I put in my brokerage account or whatever that I set as my budget to trade. Here I have two main options. I would either buy a prop firm account or I would deposit it in a regulated broker, and we're gonna see which one exactly is better mathematically. But the most important thing I would do is I would make sure I would trade with a platform, either prop firm or broker, like this one over here, DeepCharts, that first of all already has orb in it. It's called the IVB model, but that's not the point. The second point is it has an integrated risk manager. So if I look back, a lot of the mistakes I've made were mostly because of over-risking, oversizing, getting emotional about trades and being revengeful, and then fucking it up and exploding my trading account. Well, a professional trader doesn't do that. And professional trading platforms like DeepCharts typically have a risk manager embedded in the software. What does that mean? It means that you can basically trade and you can trade only what you preset your maximum risk for the day is. So there's no, hey, today I feel lucky, I'm going to risk more than expected. Nah, that's your daily risk budget and that's it. So it's a really good asset to have as a beginner because it will keep you from losing more than you can afford. So that you can give time to your edge to unfold itself. And the difference between buying a prop firm account or depositing it in a regulated broker basically is because with $5,000, if I even buy a prop firm account, I can, for example, buy an instant funding account. I would personally not go with a challenge account because it takes so long to pass. So I would probably go for an instant funding one. And with $5,000 on average with a Futures prop firm, I can get up to $200,000 worth of a funded account. The drawdown will probably be around 5%, so you basically get $10,000 worth of risk. So you're basically paying $5,000 to trade with $10,000, and from this you would get around 80% profits. Of course, there's probably gonna be rules, so I have to be very careful about those rules. But as for the Orb strategy, in an average month you can make, I don't know, 2.5% historically. I would make on average $5K the first month, $5K the second one,, and in around 2 to 3 months I would have my first $10K. If I instead deposited into a regulated broker, instead of accessing this leverage, I would just have $5,000 worth of a trading account, but I would have no rules, no trailing drawdowns, and not a lot of these prop firm rules that they could use to make you fail. So I could probably risk a little bit more percentage-wise on the drawdown and basically treat these $5,000 not as my entire capital in trading.. But as my first deposit, my first investment in my trading, maybe throughout the next, you know, 5 years, I'm planning to put at least $50K in my trading account. And this is just what I'm putting this month as a first investment. So I'm like splitting my investment into multiple years. So this is just the beginning. This is just the drawdown for this, you know, the budget for the next few months or for the next year. And how long I make it will depend on my risk profile. Because if on the prop firm, I will risk maybe 0.5% per trade, let's say, or 0.5%, 4% per trade, which is around $800 to $1,000. Well, here going with a $800 to $1,000 risk can be a little too much. So I would need to look at historical data. And if I know that, for example, with a 0.5% risk, I can have a 10% drawdown on this budget, which is 10% of the investment I want to make, I can lose it all, but I still need it for margin. So maybe I don't want to go below 50% or 60%, you know. So I would probably risk a little bit more. I would risk like 5%, which seems like a lot, but considering it's a small percentage of the entire capital I will dedicate to my trading, it's reasonable. And it would probably amount to around $250, which is around a fourth of what I'm able to risk in a prop firm account. So of course it's gonna take 4 times the time, provided that the strategy performs. So with a prop firm, it would probably take me around 3 months on average. With a brokerage account, depending on how much I risk, it could take up to 1 year. So of course prop firms, they have a lot of rules, but they can get you there if you have a profitable system way faster. Which prop firm should you use? Which brokers should you use? Honestly, I've never been really, and I don't really like to publicly promote specific prop firms or brokers, but I'll make a review on my Telegram channel. You can see the link in the description. It's free. In the Telegram, I typically send a lot of free value and I do some comparison between, you know, brokers and deals and prop firms and stuff like that. So what I would do, as soon as I've done my first $10K with prop firms, at that point I would reinvest all of them into trading again, into buying more access to different prop firms. So for example, I would look for taking prop firm A, prop firm B, prop firm C, and my very first $10,000 out of my $5,000-ish investment, I would basically be able right away to double my exposure and then to triple my exposure. Up to the point where I can maybe have half a million in funding on Prop 1, half a million in funding on Prop 2, half a million in funding on Prop 3, lower my risk and make on average, as I said, 1 to 2% per month, really boring stuff. But on $1.5 million, it's $15,000 to $30,000 per month. And all of this money would go straight into my brokerage account because with these prop firm accounts, you know, a prop firm might implode. They might fail, they might ban you when you do too much money. I'd maybe lose one and then just the next two work, or I hit a rule and I lose an account, whatever, you know. So I would use the prop firm as an initial leverage to then fund my trading account, and maybe after a year that I'm able to have this consistent performance from prop firms with a very small profit per month so they don't get angry, they don't see me as a threat to their finances, maybe to make $10K on average every single month up to the point where I can have my trading account at $150K and I start trading this instead, not with a 0.4% risk anymore, but maybe with a 1% risk or a 2% risk. Any risk that is calculated to not burn my account based on statistical data. Of course, you need to do the data analysis. And at this point, I have built my capital and I can diversify and I can trade to stay in the market for the long run, aim at not having big drawdowns, controlled risk, aiming just to making a better risk-adjusted returns on my money than just pouring it into the stock market. Some I would probably still put in the stock market, you know, just to diversify my investments. And at that point I would have, you know, a part of my strategies which is automated. I'd have my trading bots working for me. I would have my discretionary trading. I'd have some investments, some more risky ones, some more controlled risk, and maybe have some options strategy and kind of diversify my trading as well. This is also very important because if one strategy, the strategy I'm using, stops stops working, well, I kind of need something else. So also within the automated strategies, I would have a portfolio of different strategies between discretionary. I'll maybe have a little bit of macro, a little bit of order flow, a little bit of swing trading, a little bit of day trading. Option strategy, I would buy some options and sell some options and have, you know, diversifies exposure there. And for the investment, I can use a Smart DCA and basically optimize my portfolio with ideally the entire portfolio having a Sharpe 2, which is like elite level sharp. And do this, rinse and repeat for 10 years, you're rich. You're like fucking rich. Of course, this is not financial advice. This is just what I would do. This is all hypothetical performances only. It's not guaranteed at all. You're likely going to lose all of your money because you didn't properly listen to anything I said. And tomorrow the Armageddon might come and you'll lose all your money. You know, it's doable, easy. Okay, read the disclaimer in the description. So this is exactly what I would do. If you like this type of video, let me know in the comments. If you want to know anything else, if you want me to go deeper into some of these, let me know. That's all for this video, gentlemen, and I'll see you in the next one.