My first exposure to financial markets dates back to 2007 when the world economy was doing great and I got invested in some mutual funds offered by a local bank. The funds were mostly invested in Eastern Europe and Asia. For some reason, and probably by pure luck I sold all the investments in December 2007, just before markets started going south. I wouldn’t call it gut feeling as I wasn’t sure back then what I was actually doing.
After several years of entrepreneurship in IT and transportation, I got interested in the markets again in early 2017. I read few books and slowly started getting exposure in regional ETFs. I also bought some Bitcoin in the midst of 2017 before it went parabolic later that year. I sold all my Bitcoin in December 2017. Though the date seems magically similar to my 2007 decision to go into cash and in hindsight it saved me again from a deep market decline, I’d still call it more of luck than gut feeling.
After Bitcoin started to tank and volatility picked up in the US stock market in early 2018, I knew I had to learn more to survive in the markets. Since then I have read tens of books on finance and psychology, listened to hundreds of hours of podcasts, studied thousands of stock charts, put in lots of hours online reading blogs and articles, attended tens of webinars and a workshop in NYC, met traders from around the world; I’ve been passionate about the US equity market ever since.
My trading style is low to mid-frequency quant trading. I manage a long-short portfolio of trend, momentum, swing and day-trade strategies. My semi-automated trading system makes over a thousand trades per year. The main idea is to attack risk by diversifying across factors, timeframes and entry-exit techniques. The goal is to limit losses, accumulate and compound risk premium in capital markets over a longer period of time, using a mechanical price-based approach.
There’s a lot of fake information and manipulation about trading. I encourage you to read about compounding to understand how money is made and lost in the markets.
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