I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited for a football game in my entire life! Tonight the Indiana Hoosiers take on Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish. And this is important to remember not only as an athletic spectacle, but as inspiration for your own trading.
I attended Indiana University from 1997 to 2001. I graduated with an undergrad degree in Finance from the Kelley School of Business and a Minor in Religious Studies. I headed back to New York upon graduation and returned to learning technical trading more in depth from my father, getting my CMT, working on Wall Street, and the rest is history.
While I was in college, I attended maybe two Indiana football games because that’s not exactly the sport we were known for. In fact, until this latest 2024 season, Indiana football has had the greatest number of losses of ANY U.S. college football team in history. That’s a pretty depressing and astounding fact when you look at the success they’ve had this season.
So how did they go from being so terrible and awful all these years and years to having the run they’ve had? Part of it had to do with completely breaking down what was being done and rebuilding from scratch. A strategic overhaul to yield better and more consistent results.
And that’s what happens with a trading plan, when you’re approaching it the right way. It’s only going to get you results that you want consistently if it’s got the right elements.
→ It starts with a Roadmap of clearly defined bullish and bearish setups that you can identify and rely on consistently.
→ Then you apply the setups and get Repetitions in, which helps develop your own trade management tactics to let your profits run and cut your losses.
→ And there’s the all important mindset around it all, more specifically Resolve, which every trader needs to get through the tough times and not get their ego too big during good times.
All of these elements go into a trading plan to make it sing and just WORK.
Yes, there’s reviewing and iterating along the way. Coming back to football, that will apply to this Indiana team. Players will graduate, injuries are inevitable, so this team will never be the exact same every season. But the strategy they deploy is the glue that holds it all together and keeps getting the results.
Now don’t come for me on the fact that they’ve had some easier competition than other schools, I am well aware. But you gotta admit this strategy overhaul is something to marvel at. So Coach Curt Cignetti and the rest of the team leadership is going to have to make sure this new strategy is maintained and iterated and developed in years to come, so that there can continue to be a new story of how Indiana isn’t just for basketball. It’s a football school too.
Today, I’m a proud Hoosier no matter what the outcome is as tonight’s battle. And as your fellow trader and mentor in these very interesting market times, I want you to look back on your 2024 trading and tell yourself this:
“No matter how my trading went this past year, the good, the bad, the ugly → if Hima’s alma mater Indiana can go from being the team with the greatest number of losses in college football history to entering the playoffs for this first time ever, all in one season, *I* can make strategic shifts for my trading to make 2025 my best year yet!”
Keep that motivation in your brain as we wind down 2024 and get ready for your 2025, I am so excited for what’s ahead.
Go Hoosiers, and Go Tribe!!
Hima
About Trading Plans
The Roadmap, Repetitions, and Resolve mentioned above are part of Hima’s training resource bank in her Trading Blueprint mentorship.
Prior to February of 2024, everything about building amazing trading plans was stored in Hima’s brain and shared 1on1 with individual mentees since 2019.
Then, this past year Hima built all of that institutional knowledge that was swirling in her head into easy to digest tutorials with downloads and simple exercise to help her mentees build out AND maintain their own trading plans while she guided them.
In 2024 Hima helped 15+ traders build out their custom Blueprint trading plans, and they’ve been loving it and getting the results they seek!
If you’re interested in working with Hima to create your own optimized trading plan so that you can get more consistent results, email us at [email protected] with “Blueprint” in the subject line and we’ll be happy to provide further info and next steps!
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