I Made $838,589 in Trading Profits in 4 months (with proof)

Kardec Trader shows his brokerage account with $838,589 in year-to-date profits after six years of trading. He holds positions of $20k to $50k, keeps $600k cash on hand, and lost roughly $400,000 on SPY swing trades earlier this year. He plans quarterly updates on his positions and market outlook.
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April 17, 2020
Approximately $838,000
About $1.3–$1.4 million (peak before recent losses)
About $400,000 in losses from SPY swing exposure
About $600,000 in cash currently
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Is $838,000. So basically that's the profit that I have made up until now. Welcome back to another video, everyone. So in this video, I want to focus on being super transparent and I want to show you guys my progress in the past four months that I've made as a trader. Now, obviously I've been trading for six years and over, but I kind of thought about, hey, why not progress? Provide more Transparency in the YouTube space or social media space and actually update you guys on a quarterly basis, right, Every three months on how I'm actually doing in trading and kind of show you the live update from my brokerage account, right? Not a screenshot, not a pre recorded video, the actual brokerage account and show you the breakdown. Because obviously, if you guys are learning from anyone on YouTube, I think it's only right to make sure that whatever person you're learning from in any career, any industry, any marketplace, you see that that person themselves are actually successful. And the only way you can kind of measure that success in trading is to see if the person actually has made money, right? So basically what I'm gonna do, I'm just gonna block out my account number here a little bit. For anyone that follows me on Instagram, you guys can see this is the same account number that's being used now. I'm going to unshare this and go right here. Now obviously, when I go right here, you guys can take a look. Overall PYL ytd overall profit to loss, year to date, meaning my profit or loss up until today, which is April 17, is $838,000. So basically, that's the profit that I have made up until now. Once again, I'm not showcasing this to brag and say, hey, look at me, look how much money I. No, it's more so to showcase my transparency because obviously if I'm giving advice on trading, you want to make sure what I'm saying makes sense. And the only way you can kind of check if it makes sense or not is if the person is actually doing well in that profession. So $838,000 up until today for people that have been following me on Instagram. That's where I kind of post a lot of my trades. You would see that I was up over 1.3 million at a certain point, 1.4 million. Close to at a huge month in February. I think February closed a little bit over 1.2. And that's what gave me the huge push, right? I got this huge push because of my big month on February Trading Spy and Trading Tesla. Now besides Trading Spy and Tesla, you guys can see right now on my piano open, I'm down close to about 100 grand. I gave away a lot of profits by Trading Spy. Like anyone that has been following that journey as well. You know how I got like destroyed with spy. And once again I'll make an updated video on my current positions, my market outlook, what I think is going to happen. Obviously my last video that I made was not the best scenario. That's not what actually happened. So that that actually caused me to take a big financial hit. But even besides taking that hit, thank God, with proper risk management, proper position sizing, I'm still green for the year, so I can't really complain. But these are my current positions. And once again I'm gonna make a new video in the next few days and I'm gonna update my positions and my outlook and I'm obviously gonna re organize some of my positions as well and give you guys an update. Right? So just once again, you guys can see, real account I'm sitting about on, I'm sitting on about 600k in cash right now, looking to, you know, I use this as a trading account. Sometimes I'm trading with larger amounts, sometimes smaller amounts. So that all depends on the trade situation that's presented. But this is my brokerage account and you guys can see, not a paper trading account, it's a real account for anyone that trades on TOS knows that. You can see I can move around charts, I can do everything, go on a one minute chart, look at futures, just to kind of give you guys a little bit update on what's going on, right? So once again, real account you can see, just to provide transparency. And now I'm just gonna go in a little bit deeper and kind of break things down. Now obviously, you know, great month. $838,000. Phenomenal. Great. Not something to, you know, complain about. But now there's a few things I want you guys to understand. Number one, I have not been trading for three months and I haven't made a million dollars by trading three months ago. And in three months I make a million dollars. No, I have been trading for a little over six years. Like this has been a lot of time and energy put into this effort, right? So it didn't happen overnight. So I don't want you guys to walk away from this video and say, oh, I want to make trading a profession. And hopefully if I make it a profession, I can be like this person and make this much Money in three months or four months. No, no, no, no. I don't want you to walk away with that. In this video, what I want you to walk away is I. This takes time. This takes a lot of dedication. That's number one. Number two for people like, okay, how much money do I need or how much money do you trade with? Obviously, I don't trade with my full account. The reason I haven't funded to this amount is because since the market took a big hit, there's certain positions I'm gonna take, and that position is requiring me to use that cash. And obviously, once the market gets back to normal, to a normal range, I usually typically keep around 300 to maybe 400k cash in my account. And the reason I keep that much is sometimes I take major positions. And taking those major positions requires some heavy cash. Now, for people starting out, the question they have is, do I need 3 to 400,000? No, you don't need 3 to 400,000. Obviously, the more money you have, the more money you can make. Now, that also depends on what are you trading? Are you trading stocks or are you trading options? Right, so it depends on that too. Obviously, with trading options, you'll have a lot more leverage, you'll have a lot more. You'll be in a lot more situations where you can make more money. You'll get a higher return on the money invested or money traded. Right. So you don't need 3 to 400k. That's what I typically have in my account. Just because sometimes I will take certain positions or sometimes I will go into like, let's say trading Amazon stock or Apple stock, and I would buy a bunch of shares. But typically a lot of positions I take are anywhere from 20 to maybe $50,000 a position if I'm trading options. So that kind of varies. So I don't want you to get pushed away by, oh man, I need 3 to $400,000. That's not the case. Right. Next, people are probably wondering, okay, what is your strategy? What are you focusing on? My major strategies. I'm quote, unquote, a day trader, scalper. So my idea is to get in and get out of a trade very quickly. Sometimes I tend to hold longer than a few seconds, a few minutes, sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes 10 minutes. But my whole idea is to get in and get out of certain place and constantly try to make that money over and over and over again. Now, a few things that I kind of picked up on and something that I wanted to share with you guys as well. Is as a trader, you have to. Have to be able to adapt to the current market conditions. You have to be able to adapt to. To whatever the market is showcasing. So let me just put this over here again. So it kind of blocks the account number hopefully. If not, I'll just blur it out myself. Okay, so if you got. If we go right here, right, and we just look at market conditions just to get. Just to give you guys a little rundown, you guys can see in the past, you know, three months or four months since January, you can see we went on a nice market, a little pullback, continuation, huge dump, and now we're kind of rallying back in. So there's a lot of different things that had happened in the past few months. Let me actually just put this back in private and leave that. So there's actually a lot of things that have happened in the past X amount of months. So as a trader, one key thing that I also want you to take away from this video is that you have to make a lot of adjustments. So there's going to be a lot of constant adjustments that have to be made on your end. Now what I messed up in the reason my profit went from about 1.3, 1.4 million to about 800,000 right now is because I took on major Spy position at this point. I started swinging Spy at this position. Spy is the overall market. It's an ETF overall market. And I started playing that on the downside, yes, I was up heavy at a certain point, but getting caught up in this move right here has put me down a little over $400,000 overall. I took major hits and that's what brought my account down. Now the final thing I kind of want to give you guys before I end this video is, you know, I understand people see profits in trading. People see what other people are posting. What not just understand trading is a very, very tough career and I'm here to give it to you guys. Wrong. Straight, right. It's a very, very tough career. It's not an easy. It's something that requires a lot of dedication, a lot of focus, right. If you are starting out, don't think that you're gonna start tomorrow and be successful in one month or two months. It's going to take you a lot of time. For me personally, I didn't get to a consistent point until my second year. Like right. Two and a half years it took me to kind of get consistent and start building from there. So if you're really looking to take trading serious and you want to make X amount of money, that's great. But you have to accept right off the bat that this is not gonna be easy. This is gonna be hard. It's gonna take a lot of time, it's gonna take a lot of effort. And if you're willing to commit, then get started. If not, just know that this is a very, very tough career. Like mentally, it's gonna mess with you on a whole nother mental level. And my whole idea here is not to push people away from trading, but my whole idea with Even this whole YouTube channel, and what I kind of stand for, is to show you the raw truth of trading. And the raw truth of trading is not that you wake up, you click two, three buttons, you make 100 grand, you're done, you walk away and you like, that's it. No, there's a lot more that goes into it, right? And the sooner you accept that and the sooner you kind of face that reality, the sooner you'll be able to, you know, succeed as a trader. So that's it for this video. Once again, my whole idea was just to kind of give you guys a full transparency view of my profits and constant keep updating you. I'm gonna make videos like this on a quarterly basis. So once again, June, I'll make end of June, I'll make one end of September or August, whatever, whenever the quarter ends and then end of the year. So I'll make constant videos just to show you my progress. Maybe in the next video, maybe down, maybe higher, I don't know. But obviously my goal is to keep progressing and once again to show that transparency because obviously if I'm here giving you guys advice.
I mean, that's the least that should be given. And that's once again goes for every industry, E Commerce, consulting, Forex, whatever, you know, just kind of ask for that. So that's it. I'll see you guys in the next video. The next video. I'll make a market update video on my current position and so on. If you guys like the video, please give it a like thumbs up and subscribe to the channel and I will see you guys in the next video.










