{"id":44524,"date":"2016-11-01T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=44524"},"modified":"2016-11-02T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:54:34","slug":"why-this-special-trader-failed-to-hit-his-stride-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/why-this-special-trader-failed-to-hit-his-stride-with-us","title":{"rendered":"Why this special trader failed to hit his stride with us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/McJ9KrFiBuA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of our special developing traders failed to hit his stride with us.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as hard as anyone at the firm.\u00a0 Everyday he sent me his in-depth daily trading review to my inbox.<\/p>\n<p>His reviews set the standard for Junior traders.<\/p>\n<p>He worked on his trading game in college, before he arrived at SMB.\u00a0 I have strongly advocated for aspiring traders to start working on their trading game in college in <em>The PlayBook<\/em> and here.<\/p>\n<p>He was coached by one of the top three NYC traders, during his training with Team Trading.<\/p>\n<p>He learned to us technology to assist his trading with custom filters and scanners.<\/p>\n<p>He even built some automated trading models, which we ran at the firm.<\/p>\n<p>His coach repeatedly mentioned him as the trader he most expected to break out.\u00a0 The trader who most reminded his coach of his journey and him.<\/p>\n<p>He asked to chat with me the other day.\u00a0 During our chat, he shared he was going to accept a job at a Futures trading firm in his home country.\u00a0 I was sorry this trader did not hit his stride with us.\u00a0 We will miss him.<\/p>\n<p>I have known and worked with this trader for many years.\u00a0 I met him first when he was in college working on his trading game.\u00a0 He sent me detailed monthly updates on his trading, while still in college.\u00a0 He hadn&#8217;t been hired or officially connected to the firm at the time.\u00a0 He just sent me his reviews because he wanted to improve.\u00a0 I remember him tracking me down at a trader event in Chicago to make his case to be considered for the desk.\u00a0 I remember our walk and talk in between presentations.\u00a0 He was a First Round draft choice, as that relates to fitting our culture.\u00a0 I remember that phone call from a hospital in Long Island, when I personally invited him to join our desk and his excitement.\u00a0 He is one of my favorite people to have trained.<\/p>\n<p>And I feel bad for his coach, who invested so much time and energy into his trading progress.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the trader, why he felt he did not see the progress he expected at our firm.\u00a0 I had thought a lot about this and was a bit puzzled.\u00a0 His coach had been puzzled.\u00a0 The trader said, &#8220;I am not sure.\u00a0 I had everything, I needed to succeed.\u00a0 I think maybe I just never found my niche. I did a little of everything.\u00a0 But I never found that one niche to consistently make money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We are not a perfect firm.\u00a0 And certainly he did not have &#8220;everything&#8221; he needed to hit his stride.\u00a0 But is fair to say, he had much more than almost all and more than enough.<\/p>\n<p>I will really miss this trader.\u00a0 It reinforces to me the importance of helping and challenging traders to find their trading nice and build their career from it.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, this whole trading thing is a tough business.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to staying in touch with him as he transitions into a new product, firm and country to trade.\u00a0 This futures firm just hired one special young man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/a-formula-for-trading-success-from-my-tradersexpo-presentation\">A formula for trading success<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-failure-rate-of-a-proprietary-trader\">The failure rate of a proprietary trader<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/how-to-bounce-back-from-failure-in-trading-2\">How to bounce back from failure in trading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*no relevant positions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our special developing traders failed to hit his stride with us. 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