Ep. 6 Of Transparent Traders: BMAC changed these 3 things to make 703k profits in the last 12 months

0:00 welcome back everybody today we welcome Brandon a year or two ago I might have taken 40 trades a day and now I'm taking 200 who was quickly approaching the $1 million Mar say a majority of my trades fall with you know with the whole time of about 10 to 15 seconds it doesn't make any sense you know if anybody advertises a 90% win rate you better watch out because that loss that they take is going to be absolutely

0:24 ginormous welcome back everybody today we welcome Brandon who is quickly approaching the 1 million Mark with $816,000 in k for verified profits today we're going to jump into his trading strategies a little conversation on industry transparency gurus and furus and we'll talk a little about a little bit about his top tips for new Traders but first a very quick reminder you can get King full pro and pro plus free for your first month just log in click upgrade super easy you'll

0:55 get your Advanced analytics and and reports but first Brandon how are you today nice to meet you we're doing great thanks for having me and where are you trading from We're trading from Denver Colorado so mountain time yeah I was just thinking that sound sounds pretty cool and Brandon your life has must I don't know how much your life has changed or how much it's about to change but in the last 12 months I was checking your Kim

1:25 $73,000 in profits over the last 12 months what the what clicked what click what happened yeah I mean it doesn't really feel real and when I look back at the numbers it I it's hard to even believe them honestly but I think it's just been the result of a lot of hard work over time you know there wasn't too much that changed I I give you three things I think that that were that changed from you know a year prior one was just

1:55 screen time I think anybody in this game if you're doing it for three or four years you're going to notice that you're going to find more and more setups every year you're going to get better at trading more and more setups every single year and so that was a big key for me and if you look at my statistics one thing that's kind of strange is I don't really size up as far as like share size or anything like that

2:18 really I'm just taking more trades so like a like a year or two ago I might have taken 40 trades a day and now I'm taking 200 trades a day so I'm just finding that many more opport unities I say that's the first thing the the second thing was I was able to join a pod of some other traders that I met up with here in Denver and that's just been so so huge you know you you've got

2:43 other ideas other people's strategies and you're able to kind of just you you share your knowledge what you know and then they're sharing what they know and it just ends up both parties end up benefit benefiting from it so that's been hugely successful and I'm on like chat with them all day and you know it's it's a blast trading with those guys and then I say the last thing was I ended up going full-time in January and you

3:10 know I had a I had a job at a startup and the company went under and so I was kind of forced into full-time I was ready for it but yeah and then I had 100% focus on the market and I think that really ended up ending up benefiting my my results no but I mean that's it's as what I discussing earlier what a what a complete blessing what a huge blessing to like it's it's a

3:35 disaster to lose your job right it's it's a nightmare everyone I think everyone's been through it at one point in life but for you to just be thinking okay this is the universe sending a message like now is the time let's go I mean what do you think about it now it's like a blessing no absolutely yeah I mean I I was prepared for it mentally and I didn't know when it was going to happen again it was like a startup

3:57 company so I was for it I didn't think much would change and I mean I was I was wrong thankfully because it is it's really interesting you know when you give a 100% effort to trading and then you have that extra time in the day to to to go back and watch your trades and like you're just putting in that much more time it really makes a difference yeah but I've I've heard this with these groups of successful Traders

4:23 I've seen this a few times with like almost PODS of Traders I've s with I think Jack kogg was living with a couple of guys I think Jack was living with dom if you know these guys and they were trading together and then they just boomed and I've heard of other these other kind of pods existing elsewhere as well so it's definitely a great tip for other people I saw that you described yourself as a a hyper Scala

4:46 now I've known about scalas but I don't know about ha scalas so can you tell us a bit more about like how that how that differs from a scal or what the strategy entails yeah I mean there's so many different definitions for scalpers in general and I just felt like the the trading that I was doing which was on a very short time frame I'm talking I'd say a majority of my trades fall with you know with the whole

5:10 time of about 10 to 15 seconds but those trades could be anywhere from one second to you know 30 seconds and then if if I'm holding tra a trade for longer you know I've got a winter and I'm holding on to it maybe it's like up to five minutes or something like that but majority of my trades are very very quick and these are all like level two based entries exits so I am looking at a

5:31 chart and I'll be looking for you know a chart to coil and we're going to play a breakout either way look for extended dips we'll look for parabolic momentum you know all kinds of like chart setups you can see it on the chart but you can really nail the entries and exits and manage your risk really well by dialing in on the level two and so that's and I yeah I just called it hypers scalping because it's

5:58 just so many trades like I said before you know 200 trades a day it's it's very a very active trading style I could imagine that's going to leave you feeling pretty exhausted and pretty tired at the end of every day no I don't know it's you'd think so but I also think it's kind of fun it's like a video game you're watching all these flashing lights and and you're clicking all these buttons and it just feels very engaging versus like taking a

6:24 trade sitting back and you almost want to like not look at it because if you do you're going to sell it no no 100% understand I mean you're playing the funnest game in the world right it's like you're placing bets but you're the house you're placing the bets but you're the house and you get to place hundreds of these bets every day and if you win you make loads and loads of money like there's no fun game than that yeah who

6:47 wouldn't want to play that game it's amazing but you've got to be winning if you're putting a load of bets on and you're losing this it's a much much less one game but is it do you have indicators that like are you compound are you compounding multiple patterns are you using different indicators are you using python no I don't use I mean vwap is the only indicator that I really keep on my chart or pay attention to but I say

7:09 for the most part it's just going to be price action and and and chart setups you know if something and every this is why screen time's so important because one chart setup might mean something completely different one day to the next in a different environment on a different stock you have to know this the story of the stock and every pattern is telling you a different story so yeah I mean I guess I you know I'm

7:37 trading trading tight charts for breakouts but if I see a chart that just keeps selling off for lastly can't bounce then I might try to like short it short it short it until I notice something in the tape that says okay I think this move is coming to an end maybe it's got a blow off or something like that and now we try to trade it the other way so I'm trying to like once I dial in on a good stock and by a good

7:58 stock I means something that has range it has volume and it has tight spreads and I think you can talk to any Traders but if it has those three things Something's Gonna it's going to be tradable and when a stock has that then I'm just dialed in I'm trying to understand its movement its personality and I'll try to trade it any which way that's that's super interesting I've just got a quick question but we're just going to quickly go to a break from our

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8:53 customize the Perfect Trading package for your needs the more you trade the more point points you can earn to unlock additional trading tools click the link in our YouTube description and sign up to COBRA frame to elevate your trading experience so Brandon what gets me is the way you talk about these things it it it sounds like you've got such intuition you've got such intuition of the patterns of the market through the screen time that you've that you've

9:24 endured but like how can you do this like what separates you from 9 7% of people that lose like how can you do it and no one else can what do you what do you do different yeah that's a great question I I'd love to answer that question but I have no idea honestly you know it's not like I'm some genius you know I was a a very mid-grade student through through grade school and and college and stuff

9:50 like that I think the the only difference was that I was Uber competitive in anything that I did and two I just tried really hard at certain things and like the market was so intriguing to me and the idea of what the market could do for for me and my family and my life that just kept me going you know that was my why and I just dug in you know I was every single day I'm I'm trading I'm looking at the

10:19 the level two the charts I'm trading every single day the full day and then at the end of the day I'm reviewing my trades I'm watching YouTube videos on like other people's content trying to understand what other people are doing what other people are seeing because right if you know what the other side's doing that's going to benefit you even more because you can trade against them so you know I think it just really comes down to to to the work that I put

10:46 in when you say thing I guess how much work is the work yeah so I mean I've been doing it for four years and like I said trade the full day so you got six and a half hours there you're going to review your trade so probably an hour there and then I used to do it a lot more in the past watching the YouTube videos and trying to understand other people's strategies what else is out

11:10 there but I would I would spend another like two or three hours I mean my wife was my girlfriend at the time you know probably hated me but you know it was all for a good cause H see so you're doing like 10 hours consistently every day most days for for a few years right three four years 10 hour days yeah I say yeah for the first three years definitely that's that's what it takes and in terms of of how you found your

11:36 strategy how did that happen because not many people go into like hypers scalping yeah I actually ran into this guy called Eric Green on YouTube and he basically put his whole strategy out there he laid out exactly how he traded his entries his exits and you could just see exactly what was happening and when someone talks about like if I'm talking to you right now on the podcast I'm describing what I do there's a lot of nuance that isn't

12:08 conveyed but when you watch somebody win and lose live you're seeing exactly what's happening and how they're managing their risk because that at the end of the day that's what we're doing we're just we're just placing our bets and managing our risk and so and and just like you would if you wanted to be a professional soccer player or a professional video gamer you're going to go watch the professionals you want to see how the best of the best do it and

12:34 this guy Eric green he was doing amazing he was having really good results and this was right around after covid so like 20 late 2020 early 2021 and I watched this stuff and then and I realized okay like well why don't I just copy exactly what he's doing and so I started doing that but then I realized like well I'm trading on such a small time frame like maybe I should learn the level two and and then I

12:58 started doing that and I just added more pieces more pieces instead of buying dips I started buying breakouts started adding different elements I forget what your initial question was sorry un tangent no no no you answered it perfectly the question was what strategy how did you find the strategy that's to to personality and it's basically by meeting Eric green and then you've adapted from there R Yeah Yeah Yeah final question then I'm just going to ask you some more fun questions on

13:25 furus and gurus but do you have any any dream vacation any plan like now that you've made some money is there anything you want to do just to kick kick back and just enjoy yourself no you know so I've been working full-time saving up then you know grinding the nin to-5 and really just saving all the trading profits and I I've been I've been so blessed I've been able to buy a house just we just closed on it a month ago

13:57 and I got married just a month ago I just went on the honeymoon to to Bali it just got back last week and and now it's just about yeah paying off any debt that's on the house and enjoying life you know I I want to keep my expenses as little as possible because I don't want to I don't want to be a slave to to the amount of money that I have to earn in the markets you know if I

14:21 have a bad month bad year I want to be able to keep doing this and not have to go back and get a a N9 to-5 so so that's really my goal and that would be the the greatest gift of all you know I don't I don't need a vacation I love doing what I do I I don't feel like I need a vacation I'm sure my wife would disagree but yeah we're pretty happy for now no

14:43 no it's I know I think what you're doing is very responsible as well and me B's an amazing place I've been a few times in terms of furus and gurus what made you decide that you wanted it be on kall yeah I I think I just wanted the I wanted to connect with other legitimate Traders and I think that was a big thing early on in in my learning process is how do you decipher between someone

15:08 who's real and someone who's fake and there wasn't a good I I'd say until Kimo came along there wasn't really a good way to do that you had like broker statements and stuff like that but that could also be faked so I don't know it it's just really tough to tell and then right now you can actually just like look at someone's statistics and you could immediately tell if they're fake you know if they've got like an 80% win

15:30 rate and their winners and losers are the same size you know it's like nobody has an 80% win rate with the winners and losers the same size you're probably averaging in or averaging down or something like that but yeah I mean I originally got on KFI because I wanted to just show that I was real and then meet other real Traders I wanted to network with other traders who were legitimate and and then obviously I wanted to see my name on the leader

15:56 boards you know that's pretty cool but I mean I hate it like I've known people have been in trading in the industry for a long time and I've heard people saying like I mean how old are you for now or if you don't mind like how what's how old do you now yeah I just turned 31 31 okay like for me it's like I'm I'm younger I'm a bit older than you so for me it seem like a younger younger guy

16:16 right still and like I've seen people say oh these younger guys like showing these big profits and this 800 Grand like I've had I've heard people say these they're all scammers they're just kids making stuff up on the Internet selling courses and like what does it mean for you you to be on kin for because you have that that validation that many people would think you might be make it at up many people I know many people want I've been I know

16:39 some older people say oh these young kids are scammers so what does it mean to you that you can finally validate and verify yourself yeah it's so important I mean just to give validity to to to who I am and and and help Network and and find these like PODS of other Traders and stuff like that that is so important because at the end of the day like I agree with the older people I mean these

17:01 kids they are scammers because you know if if I'm a if I'm if I don't know trading and I'm finding their videos and that's the problem like they're good marketers that's why they exist because they're really good at marketing they're good at marketing you know fraudulent stuff and and then I'm G to go and follow them and I'm just going to lose a bunch of money so I mean really they're just scamming you they're taking your

17:25 money and then you're you know you're gonna piss away your money trying to copy and emulate what they do which is it's not g to work so now but and the worst thing is like everyone Falls so the thing that's too good to be true Everyone Falls for it like that's the worst worst part yeah everybody wants it to be true everybody wants to make you know $100,000 oh I just made the $15,000 trade today it's like okay yeah of

17:51 course I want that who wouldn't no but and no one's doing anything about it as well like I've seen guys who I won't say the names but I've seen guys scamming I don't know them personally I've spoke to them personally been like why are you doing this but I've spoke to guys personally who I know are lying paper trading making up profits putting videos on YouTube and then trying to get people into a chat room it's absolutely insane

18:11 but hopefully this can stop in the next 5 to 10 years yeah I agree I mean I've I've talked to one guy one kid who I I understand the appeal for them you know they're they're trying to grind and I'm I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here but you know they're trying to grind they're trying to make some money and they realize that there's an opportunity here and and maybe they have the best of intentions maybe they really

18:36 do want to teach people but they just don't have the knowledge or The credibility to do so it's like it's like saying I want to be a college professor and teach economics but you're in high school and you haven't had you haven't you haven't learned you Haven even gone through you know the art stuff you haven't earned your stripes yet so you know how are you going to go it's Noble sure but you got to ear it yeah no

19:03 100% agree and in terms of these other furus and gurus at the likes of Boren Kitty or Zach Morris or this whoever else do you think they help the industry or do you think they hurt the industry are you happy to have them there or not yeah yeah that's an that's an interesting question right because like I said you know they're really good marketers and and I'm not you you know I'm not bringing anybody into the market

19:31 I'm certainly not they are sure it's in a fraudulent way but at the end of the day you know it benefits us because it's added liquidity it's unfortunate to say that you know I don't want to to I don't want these people on the other side of my trades but it is what it is you know these guys are good at getting people into the market and so is it good for is it good for our our industry

19:58 I say that it I don't know it's a tossup you know morally no but financially yes and this is how the world Works in a lot of ways right a lot of things are morally not very good and the things that are morally not the best often do the best we'll have this thing with Bankers every every four or five years Bankers with the financial crisis or what they doing with a supre mortgage crisis was it very

20:21 moral no that didn't make loads of money for Bankers yes and this is just how the world works unfortunately on a higher level do you have a favorite furu or do you have a a a f that you hate the most yeah I hate them all equally to be fair but I did make a a video about one his name's Lander Schlesinger and he's he's a younger kid and you know it was just so I watched

20:51 some of his videos it was just such a shame because he's running like a chat room or what it's not like he's sharing his his full screen every day or what not and what he's doing is he's he's taking a ton of Trades paper trades obviously and then he's only publishing the one trade that works and so he'll say that he made like 14,000 today on spy options and he'll do it every day you know he's he's green

21:18 every single day and when he loses it's like oh I lost I lost small on spy options it's like how could you have like a 90% win rate and then when you lose it's smaller I mean you are a God you're a trading God you know you don't even you don't even belong with us peasants why would you ever share this information on YouTube if if you're that good it doesn't make any sense and and those statistics are completely

21:43 unachievable by the way for anybody listening you know if anybody advertises a 90% win rate you better watch out because that loss that they take is going to be absolutely ginormous so but this is one example of of how these furus work and so I posted a video just just blasting him and showing all the different fake pieces of his videos and how you can identify it because the end of the day I don't want people to get

22:06 scammed but it's just unfortunate you comment on their video and they init they immediately like delete your comment and block you and whatnot it's just like yeah it's not even worth the effort to get mad about it anymore I'm just going to go do my own thing and it's it's sad but it is what it is yeah I know but I mean it's also like I've seen these guys I think they create multiple Google accounts and they just

22:28 comment on their own videos supporting and say oh how do I get in your room like it's just like pretty it's pretty disgusting but and I've also learned from personal experience like I remember when I was trading more actively I I I remember one August like in 2020 had like all green days in a row each for ,000 $2,000 and I thought I'm a I'm a tall God me I'm a crack trading what I didn't realize is that if you average

22:54 up on everything you're down on when you Shen one day you're going to take a massive loss that's what happened and I took like a $30,000 loss one day and it's that's the lesson like some people can be being honest like I was being honest but I just me strategy wasn't sustainable so it's yeah makes sense in terms of trading advice for new Traders how does a new Trader find a strategy that matches their personality and the way that you found a strategy

23:22 that much as yours H yeah it's that's a good question I mean I think you have to be honest about who you are like what your personality traits are what your strengths and weaknesses are you know are you somebody who wants to be sitting in front of the the screen all day clicking buttons like personally I enjoy that I I like that active trading style but a lot of others probably don't you know they want to place their trades they

23:51 want to go trade for the first hour and a half and they want to go enjoy the rest of their day you know are you somebody who after you you buy and you're you're in the money are you somebody who's like it's you to take that profit or are you someone who's pretty chill you're like okay if it comes back on me that's okay I'm gonna let this thing ride right for me personally I want to take that profit

24:14 if I see green I want it in my pocket I want to put it in the bank so you know that's another example of just a personality trait and then what are your what are your what are your triggers you know what what's going to make you angry you know a trade coming back on you and then getting stopped at a break even is that gonna set you off well then you better like take your profits quick and realize that about

24:37 yourself are you one that you can't handle taking a bunch of losses over and over and over again well then maybe you should air towards like a higher win rate strategy yeah so many so many different you know tweaks that you could make to adjust to your personality and at the end of the day like you're first starting out I think it's going to be tough to figure out exactly what your personality is I mean again you can be

25:05 open and a with yourself but until you get in the weeds and you try a bunch of different stuff it's probably going to be difficult so I'd say at least when you're starting out and this gets into like recommendations for for you know traders who are who are just beginning but you know I would trade with very small size because you need to build up that that database of statistics and I would try as much stuff

25:29 as possible like literally just try to lose money but figure out you know you're going to build a database of Trades and you're going to figure out where was I successful where wasn't I successful why wasn't I successful and you'll trim the fat eventually but you need to build that database first and anybody who says okay I've had success after a month and now I'm going to scale up it's like okay it's just too quick you don't have that database of Trades

25:54 yet and you're also going to be combating different Market environments you might have a market environment where it's great for like longing stocks and that's what we've seen in the past month where at with this GameStop and AMC stuff you know this Resurgence through roaring kitty it's been amazing for Longs and it's been horrific for shorts but that has shifted on a dime and now it's the exact opposite so you really have to go through the cycles and and just let it

26:23 play out get record that data and then you can feel really confident about scaling up so I know I went went on a little tangent there but yeah it's it's not easy to find a strategy that matches your personality and it's going to take a while so just be patient with it and I mean in terms of your it was interesting what you said about it depends whether you can handle the loss coming back on yourself and as to what

26:47 strategy you would trade so in terms of your strategy because it's so quick if it doesn't work the minute you go into a Traer you're out or yeah exactly that's exactly right so with I think it's probably similar with all hypers scalpers the signals that you get on the level two you expect to happen to play out right away and me personally I find it easier to predict what's going to happen in the next five seconds than what's going to happen in

27:19 the next five minutes so when I see something on the level two I mean I know in my mind okay I've seen this you know a thousand times I know that when I buy here this should happen it should go right away there should be no you know waiting around or whatnot if not then I'm just going to get out and I'm going to try to get out for like break even or a small loss and that's part of the risk

27:40 management you keep the loser small and then when it does work you know that okay it has it has a series of things it could do it could go you know parabolic momentum up and do a halt you know we could just trade up and kind of stall out you know but there's different rules for taking profits too because the level the exit will be based on level two signals as well yeah I I I a guy

28:02 that likes to to to just to accumulate on the bit or are you a guy that likes to slap the askk with a little bit of size when you oh I'm slapper the ask you're slapping the askk yeah I'm not again because like when I see something it needs to happen right away so it's too much time if I just go sit on the bid you know I'm probably not getting filled I'd say 90% of the time

28:24 it's just going to do the thing without me so I got to be aggressive but I suppose if you're slapping on the ask you kind of supporting your own trade idea because you you expecting the momentum to coming you slapping that ask with some size to try and push that momentum through and carry carry your own trade philosophy through no absolutely and I'm I'm sure that there's a lot of other hyros scopers that are taking the same trade that I am that are

28:46 that are pushing the trade along no and that's what you need to do you need to support your own idea and support it with size right and in terms of is there any advice that you wish that you'd received that you could give to someone else today yeah so this is this is a tough one because I'm a very Brute Force guy it's tough for me to like take advice from somebody or see something and and then

29:16 just immediately take it as fact I need to go through the motions and see it a bunch of times to really believe it and then trust in it and put my money behind it would not the the one thing that changed and I talked about this earlier was when I saw somebody who traded live you know I saw the entries the exits I saw the winners the losers how they manage risk when they traded why they traded it wasn't

29:43 just oh I do this because of this and like a cherry-picked example it was it was just the raw data and that's what I needed and so I don't want to like get on here and like promote a course or anything but I think if you are going to take a course I think the most valuable thing you can get is like the raw trading archives so I know like for hypers scalpers I know there's one called mmu and then

30:10 there's one I think the guy's name's the trading farmer or whatever and they live stream their trades and like again I don't I don't even know why they do this like you're just giving away so much Edge it's unbelievable when you show exactly what you're doing then it's just it's always like you know the the courses are expensive but to be able I mean these guys are making thousands of dollars a day I mean if you can replicate what they do and

30:36 they're showing you exactly how to do it I mean it's it's worth it and I don't have any affiliation with these guys by the way I do know them like I'm in one of their discords or whatnot but I don't have a close relationship with any of these guys but I'd say you know early on finding that would have helped me the most just because that's the way I learn I want to see the raw data and

30:57 make my own decisions and to see someone else who's doing it successfully it just makes me trust them a lot a lot quicker that's that's the one thing I would say I just say one more thing which is I would keep the size the same for for months Andor years because like I said before you're going to go through different Cycles you know and even maybe just your personal life you know you might go through a rough patch in your

31:24 in your personal life where your emotions are taking a heavier toll and you're trading differently and you need to just see how that's going to affect you you need to see how all these things are going to affect you and and be prepared for it that makes 100% sense to me and I think it's very wise words we we're about to close out just with a message a final message from the sponsor but I just wanted to give you a final

31:47 opportunity if there's any shoutouts to anyone you want to give or to any services or rooms or any Golden Nugget of information you'd like to share the space is yours and thanks so much for having you for for coming on sure absolutely yeah I'll say if you want to reach out to me or find me I'm on Twitter not Super Active on there but I do Post every once in a while and that's under dip Traders

32:14 and I also built a a scanner for myself because when I started back in 2021 there it didn't there wasn't a scanner that I could find but outside of trade ideas but that was like $150 a month or something like that that that that really focused on that that super short time frame that I needed so I built a scanner for myself and and on the dip Traders website I also sell a subscription to that so yeah and and

32:40 I've been doing that for three years that's that's what I use every day to find the stocks that I trade and then as far as like just golden nuggets or you know some some words of wisdom to close things out I just say if you're going to do this have a really strong why because it's it's just gonna it's just such a difficult game you know you're gonna you're going to take a lot of L's and

33:02 it's going to take a lot of time you know to dedicate the amount of hours that it that it takes to be successful in this business you have to have a a strong reason to keep going and for me that was I want to be able to support my family I don't want to work a ninetto five for the rest of my life and and when I have kids I want to be around to to hang out with them I want to have

33:28 freedom to work when I want and then and then Financial Freedom as well so like that was my why and every time I got knocked down I'm just coming back to that why like okay we got to keep going we got to pick ourselves up it's gonna happen so that's that's my biggest piece of advice for for anybody who who hasn't quite got there yet but but is on the on the path and that's a beautiful beautiful way to close out

33:53 we'll say thank you so much Brandon for coming on thanks to the sponsors we're going to close out with this message thank you so much for watching and I just do want to remind you one more time about Cobra's ultimate Trader package CRA Prime the link is in the description click it below I'll see you on the next one