You've completed school. You're well educated. You've gotten a job. You've started building your savings. You have a nice car... maybe even a nice house... And finally, you have enough to stash into the market - so you can get that money working for you. You're excited to get this going, so you open your trading account and put your first deposit in. You're ready to start making trades. And then... whoa. Holy overwhelm. You see all these stocks. Thousands of them. You have no idea where to start. Your beginner jitters kick in. You feel like a fish out of water. So... you decide it's time to get educated. You watch a few tutorials on YouTube... You read some articles in The Wall Street Journal... You're simply looking for any sort of guidance on how to get started. Your brother-in-law has plenty of stock market opinions (mostly bad ones)... And your Uber driver gives out free advice all the time (and it's even worse advice, if that's humanly possible). But all you want is a stock ticker to trade... One that'll make you feel secure about where you're putting your money. Is that so hard to find? Shockingly, the answer is "yes." So finally, you just say "screw it" - and you make your first trade. Some time later, the results are in... and they're bad. You suffer a loss. So you try again... And you take another loss. Then another. Now you feel frustrated - and pissed off. You feel like you're wasting all that hard-earned money you spent years making. And the worst part is... you feel like you'll never grow your wealth and achieve the financial freedom you've been dreaming of. I bet you've heard similar stories before. In fact... this may very well be your own story. And even though this might sound cliché, I can tell you this... You're not alone. I know - because I was once there. When I first started trading stocks in my dorm room at college, I was desperately trying to find that one stock that I could consistently trade to make money. Spoiler alert... I never found it. And so my college dorm room track record was mixed (and that's putting it lightly). But that all changed when I took my first job out of college... When I started trading on the CBOE back in the late 1990s, I was thrown into a trading pit. I felt as naked and exposed as the day I was born... |
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