Just watched the account tick over 3 mil this morning. Up 147% YTD (about $1.7M net this year). Btw, this $3M was the exact target I set for myself when I started. Now that I hit it, Iโm officially retiring and done staring at charts all day.
I know people will see the Robinhood UI and the PnL and assume I just yolo'd 0DTEs on tech or caught a meme stock pump. Honestly, the reality is boring as hell. Itโs just math.
When I started, I wanted 100% baggers. Itโs a massive trap. Opportunity cost eats you alive while you wait. You know whatโs way easier than catching a 100% move? Catching a 10% move. If you compound eight 10% wins, thatโs 114%. My entire PnL this year is just stacking small, unsexy swing trades.
My only real rule: if the setup isn't a 3:1 r/R minimum, I sit on my hands. If I'm aiming for a 15% move, the stop is a hard 5%. If you run those numbers, you can literally be wrong 60% of the time and still be green. Those little red dips on my chart? That's just me taking the 5% L and moving on to the next one.
I average maybe 9 or 10 swings a month. Chart on TV, execute on RH. Strictly SMC/ICT concepts. I stay out of the chop, wait for retail liquidity to get swept, wait for a market structure shift, and then bid the retest on an FVG or order block. Patient entries mean tighter stops. Tighter stops mean that 3:1 is effortless.
It really just comes down to risk management and letting probability play out over a large sample size.
Hope you guys make it out of the trenches. Good luck out there.