Trading Patterns: Recent Episodes
Trading Patterns
Overwhelmed by our daily routines and desires to model ourselves after successful people, we don't realize there's more to trading and investing than meets the eye. Trading Patterns aims to explore the hidden aspects of the hurdles that prevent people from unlocking their full potential. Armed with experience from Wall Street and curiosity in its purest form, Nikolay and Dimitar would be looking through the lens of various professionals.
You can spend thousands of dollars on seminars and take notes from successful trading gurus who teach you how to handle losses. Join the herd.
But in this episode, Mr. Stoykov teaches us how to handle wins. Wins are capable of setting us off much easier than losses, without us even realizing it, until it's too late. Stay tuned for the entire episode to find out more.
From tracking your sleep, fasting, exercising, starting your day with appropriate music, Mr. Stoykov tells us why these little habits can stack up together and make a difference in our lives. You cannot have a sustainable trading (or any) career if you go against your body and soul. A brain surgeon shouldn't get drunk the night before a surgery, so why should a trader do that? Food for thought.
"I never lose if I have a good excel spreadsheet" - N. StoykovWe might not like it, but a lot of things boil down to simple statistics. Sleep IS important, but how can we possibly know whether we sleep good or not? It's not something we "feel" on a weekly basis. Mr. Stoykov is here to explain the importance of healthy habits and why we need to track our sleep.
What number comes after 5-10-20? If you answered 40, that's a fair presumption, but in reality there's 0% chance of that being the case. In this episode Mr. Stoykov tells us why trading is the most difficult thing he's done in his life and why a successful trader needs to be an adult first.
We're surrounded by motivational speakers who highlight the importance of adding healthy habits in our lives. In this episode, Mr. Stoykov tells us why it's just as important to SUBTRACT unhealthy habits from our every day life.
A slight change in format offers our listeners to find out more about the podcast’s story. Mr. Stoykov is here to ask the questions, and Mr. Kirchev will be answering them. Let us know if you like these out-of-pattern episodes so we can include them every once in a while.
Mr. Stoykov is here to share his point of view on professional day/swing trading. Listen to the episode in order to find out the importance of back testing, technical vs. fundamental analysis, keeping a neat trading journal and so much more.
What is the party scene in Manhattan like? Is money enough to get your foot through the door? While we can all agree that The Wolf of Wall Street is a pretty iconic movie, Mr. Stoykov is here to tell us about the aspects which were both overstated and understated. The episode has a slightly different format that consists of many real life stories and we hope you're going to enjoy it.
How can we possibly be certain about things we don't have deep knowledge of? Preference of illusion over reality is a mistake many of us repeat on a daily basis. Flipping a fake coin 20 times, being visited by a blonde girl at the bar and jumping from a stock to stock will most likely end up in one particular way... Mr. Stoykov is here to tell us all about it.
People new to trading and investing often fall prey to dubious gurus and strategies. Are the traders you're following for real or are they the next Madoff? Are the returns they are promising too good to be true? Mr. Stoykov shares his opinion on Mark Minervini, Jim Simons and Jesse Livermore.
What constitutes a good investment? Does it help to know your investors personally? Mr. Stoykov shares his personal experience on the topics with a career in investing spanning over 25 years while working for two multi-billion hedge funds.
What would YOU do if you earned $6 million in a day? In this episode Mr. Stoykov shares with us his life experiences through the prism of working on Wall Street for over 20 years. Dreaming of girls in bikinis and a Lamborghini? Well, your role model is clearly Rasputin - even if you don't realize it. Can you be Warren Buffet and Rasputin at the same time? Stay with us to find out.