"The Samurai must never relax his guard. Even when alone with just his wife, he should not forget to have his sword at hand."
Before starting this post, I would like to thank you for respecting my privacy and not reaching out to me over the last couple of weeks. It means a lot and it helped me deal with my stress/anxiety. I’ll do my best to answer in the coming 10 days, but yes, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been without Twitter and Discord messages. It was hard to write the last letter, but as always, I promised myself transparency when I started this online journey.
I had 2 incredible weeks back to back. Not a single red day.
It’s funny because it literally never happened to me in 10 years.
But wait, the really funny part is that I did a good chunk of that by pure scalping, which I haven’t practiced since last year. It all started because some members of Hamptons wanted to see me scalp, which I was fine with because the volatility wasn’t the best two weeks ago anyway.
So I bought a couple of evals and scalped them using a trade copier through my main account.
We passed the evals in 5 days trading 4 micros on the prop accounts and the usual 2NQ on my main.
Here are the results of the last 2 weeks:
+4k and
+ $10k.
Ok, it’s mostly on the short side. I don’t even decide that. Things happen. I do try my best to stay as much as I can on the long side.
For the market regime Price Discovery, I usually do 75/25 between longs and shorts. I failed here overall, so I need to do better with it.
I don’t adhere to ‘but green is green bs’. Excellence & repetition.
The thing that struck me the most is that my scalping game is SO much better than 1 year ago, even though I barely practiced it.
My understanding and knowledge rotations and ranges have made a drastic impact on my execution. I’m also working with two amazing guys who are teaching me a lot about programming and it’s having a direct positive impact on my manual trading too. Folks, you know who you are, thank you.
I’m also much more calm and in control. I can’t even describe that feeling. Even 2 weeks ago after my large loss, I was calm. Something I could never have imagined 5 years ago.
Besides that, 10 of the 11 people renewed their membership to HamptonTraders so far, so I guess we can call it a success. I’m very blessed and happy about how it’s going. To keep it transparent as always, here’s what I made out of it in the last 30 days:
Gross = 12 * 150 = $1,800
Commission & fees = $250
Net = $1,650
Net of taxes = c. $1,000
So roughly $1k for streaming c. 40h during the month and 25h of 1:1.
That’s less than $15/hour (and I don’t even keep that money, but that’s a story for another time).
But I love it, it’s a lot of fun, and I don’t need Twitter/Substack anymore to share my stuff as I have this place that is home now. The atmosphere is friendly and everyone is working toward the same goal. It’s kind of crazy that there are people from California, the East Coast, and Europe. The Internet is magic. What I love the most is seeing the energy that everyone is bringing to the table. One goal. One passion. We’re all the same, and few people indeed understand us in “real life”. In Hampton, it’s different.
I also have absolutely no remorse for doing this. I believe I provide the best value you can find out there between the 30 hours of video lesson/live trading on the App, my weekly plan, unlimited 1:1 with me, and most importantly my live-streamed execution.
Here is a part of the video library with more than 30 hours of video on the app/desktop.
Join us if you’re interested.
I hope this will continue for a long time because I’m all in on this adventure. My dream is that one day next year we all meet somewhere cool.
See you soon (or not).
Here’s a little gift for you:
Cheers
RC
the rotation chart super helpful — thanks g
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