How to Make It in Trading & Investing
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Intro
My goal in this article is to advance your success by raising the right questions and answering them in a timeless way that you can revisit as you grow. This is about exploration who you are as a trader, what your possibilities and trading / investing goals are.
We‘ll tie that to what I do, how that can efficiently help you on your way, and what you can learn from my journey in trading, life and financial industry. I‘ll keep updating this Apr 2024 piece as we go – your points over email are most welcome.
You‘ll understand the broad a range of clients I serve – from beginning ones to highly experienced, futures, shares and options traders – and what I am after through serving you. It‘s a personal mission to see you grow and succeed, and it‘s a fact of life that dedication and thorough work invites either massive blocking by much bigger competors, or close following of my service (as both subscribers on my site and Twitter followers).
I prefer being with markets and clients as opposed to doing much marketing (Telegram channels and quality Youtube videos over non-stop Twitter engagement hunting), (shit)posting, or (macro or issues du jour) babling unrelated to success in markets. Gotta make sense of everything without drowning you in words. No mingling with self-serving groups or churning out content, doing interviews, targeted ads, promo offers, exclusivity deals and other ways of growing business for the sake of growing without value delivered. I‘m open to honest professional relations, but these are exceptions and not the rule.
No compromising my independence and quality of direct service to you. My mission is success of existing clients, finest care, and then showing followers what‘s in it to actually be a fluff-fledged client – nd not pursuit of new followers at any cost. You know how people view me, the quality and dedication I‘ve been giving out to the world since Feb 2020. E.g.
„I have found Monica to be a perfect blend of a trader, investor and macro strategist.“
„Monica is simply put the creme de la creme of the trading community and market strategists.“
„Often enough, I found the cost of a monthly payment would be covered in one or two days trading.“
You know my rich, mutlidisciplinary background, and that‘s as much an advantage as the actual trading, analytics and financial industry experience ranging from breaking free to years worth of fintwit stories of various personas protecting their market share to arrogant hedge fund managers that are equally fearful of facing my market analytics.
I‘ll much rather remain a small, reachable and exclusive boutique provider who can directly help you on your journey than to pursue such stars The below will remain always valid – I believe there‘s no need to repeat whole paragraphs from my Bio as to what constitutes my experience, market ways and toolbox so as to pick direction, ride trends and identify turning points (chiefly, it‘s intermarket beyond stocks, bonds and currencies, sectoral analytics, then macroeconomic, fundamental and technical applied also to precious metals, commodities and Bitcoin). Well versed professional experiences with Masters in (macro)economics and almost PhD. in polithology gives me even more of an advantage over competitors.
So essential in the decade of general uncertainty, higher inflation, interest rates and stock market volatility where traditional 60/40 doesn‘t provide a fine service, and drivers of financial asset moves change as much as correlations…
The key hidden ingredient is never resting on laurels and meaningful development, you know that kind of hunger…
I can’t underscore enough how important it is to have real time access to the full scale of what I do, both in swing and intraday terms (that‘s full daily analytics articles, and Telegram channels) if you want to understand the what, why and how – and learn faster and benefit more. Free articles feature less than a third of what I do for clients behind the scenes, and tweets rarely feature my full opinion. While Youtube videos make you think and give out the most substance (it‘s not my fault Twitter algo loves shallow attention-grabbing – for practical depth, make sure to subscribe to the daily Youtube channel with notifications on), only clients have full real-time access to what I think and why (with the ability to raise questions relevant to their situation, at will),
Clients get more than brevity and clarity of analytics and calls however thorough research leads to these – I’m always reachable 1:1 – not just for a couple of hours a days, but as much continuously as humanly feasible.
Success isn‘t about mesmerizing, unrepeatable single trades with outsized risk without downside accounting, making dazzling predictions inducing $$ salivation, about polished marketing and curated (sympho)cacophony view of a hired staff with their own opinions that one reasonably can‘t simultaneously follow / know in depth / that‘s not even presented at all, or invisible number crunchers and marketing output producers driving the umbrella brand ever hungry to keep presenting infallible façade no matter the outside view of integrity.
If these worker bees were well-rounded and could make it, they would have remained independent. If these umbrella brand stars were as strong individually, they would have remained fully working on their own instead of feeding off their worker bees and ghostwriters – being passed off for what it is not. Could the umbrella wield the same reach all on its own really – or is it way better off through allowing the visible and invisible worker bees for as long as they toe the line, some temporary breadcrumbs from the umbrella‘s core function of wielding a megaphone or taking part in softball interviews on absolutely not level playing field? Once you‘re in, you‘re in – and risking losing future access to optically omniscient gurus by holding them accountable for predictions gone very wrong, is a no-no. Dirty bags of tricks, and sometimes the winning move is not to play.
The best simply aren‘t for sale, they value their freedom and time, and would consider only friendly alliances of equals, and not lowball offers. I also take seriously when potential partners keep their word, or do find postponing / reneging easier. That‘s a red flag destroying prior goodwill in a flash. I prefer the company of those who positively stand out instead of the $$ milking moral abyss I met. It‘s also a world of difference, to be „working with“ (like me and dear Ellin do), or „working for“…
Fintwit is no longer what it was in early 2021 – the spirit that me and Ellin would love to succeed, is gone, and just money talks. The sell is getting harder, and so many are trying to force differentiate themselves for what should flow out naturally, and be left to readers and viewers to decide one by one. I’m fed up with the implicit expectation of having to have at least as noisy marketing machine, meaning marketing (team) expenses to charge back to you. No way, I’ll keep prices very affordable – my mission isn’t to milk you, but to see you thrive. No constant flurry of own ready-made quotes – it‘s enough relevant for clients‘ immediate success what the daily articles, videos or Latest Highlights feature already.
I’m marketer, but I hate marketing – I’ve seen it too much, and I hate to say it works. When have you seen me talk my reputation? I‘m here when things go right, and also when they go wrong. I don’t need to make it a “unique selling proposition” when everybody is (should be) the same and strive for the best outcomes. Everyone is fallible and humbled by markets – true adaptability and zero ego win. But the power of marketing distorts that mightily – even creating its own reality if vocal and repeated often enough. Bad calls foremost used to grab attention, aren’t reminded to analyst guests by the hosting networks for fear of losing future access to the analysts, fostering low accountability to the audience. I know how things work, not just from all the articles I’ve written in prior era that are not attributed to me.
Have you seen any of all the aware, big service providers condemn what I had to go through in the Polish saga? Yeah, me neither, not even the relatively closest ones. Or the one that I was talking above about – what was true at the turn of 2023/2024, no longer is, any shadow of my doubt disappearing after daily Youtube channel comeback to serve you more. I see it as a clear failure to discern right from wrong, good from evil – strictly business only logic doesn‘t fly with me and smacks of wrong or zero compass.
Just as in 2020 the only place I was looking forward for, was the community of my readers, I have come full circle on Twitter again. I‘ve seen it all here over and over again – being played around, ingratiations, climbing on my back… few can match Barchart group expertise. Close competitors either follow me even as clients on my site – or block me. I‘ve come to appreciate the indifferent ones. Still, there are quite a few competitors I like and respect for their work.
These blocks are so lowly, so predictable – they’re taking their own flocks for fools who can be prevented from acessing alternative quality and who’ll just suck up everything. Look up their often outrageous prices and everything makes sense… wouldn’t work with me on the feed for them… so, no constructive market discussion reply to me ever from the key account securing fresh subscriptions and wielding the loud megaphone (if not an outright block)…
I‘m not going to be charging you hundreds of dollars per month, or per trade. I‘m not after selling subscriptions left or right using all the tools of doing so, and I don‘t aspire to opening own hedge fund either. I prefer simple honest work every day behind the scenes that you can easily follow – things the way they are, in service of our tight-knitted community so that I either enhance your current success or help you turn yourself around. I’m grateful for so many fine neighborhood people met, who I can call dear friends and more.
I would much rather be with you and the markets than navigating various orbits otherwise called networking on fintwit, or producing more content than I already do, doing podcasts etc. Nothing is free, and I prefer caring for those who trust me. The result is getting messages such as
„You’re absolutely incredible, managed to earn 4x the subscription amount I paid for with like 3 trades“
when focusing just on markets and clients.
The longer you know me before joining, the better. I‘ll stick with my ways and be serving you unrestricted without claiming I‘m the best service money can buy – I don’t need to, and it goes mightily against my grain to hear it elsewhere.
Client Experiences
There are many great stories of long-term clients, but I‘ve also seen horror stories – so hard to tolerate adverse outcomes among you. Especially since the dividing line is so thin – „success is doing things correctly, but failure means doing things almost correctly“. Be sure that markets have the power and will test all your predispositions (strengths and shortcomings) thoroughly.
What do the sad stories have in common? Some kind of overreach, from too aggressive position size to not honoring stop-loss. Underestimating the market, or overestimating oneself, or both.
It‘s not that difficult to get and remain on the right path – first part consists of knowing yourself, your possibilities, and the other is broadly said being in tune with the markets.
The secret is sometimes in just not pushing too hard…
Let‘s dive into how I mean that = the tremendous payout in it for you.
This is a way more colorful article than about the one about getting the most from your trading analyst that I wrote late 2020 – make sure to read it as well please.
Full of market examples, the actionable part – the greatest food for thought – starts now. These are right questions, perspectives and considerations setting up traders for success…
Good trading with confidence,
Monica Kingsley
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