One of the biggest misconceptions in trading is believing that one day you’ll finally have everything figured out. The perfect strategy. The perfect entries. The perfect mindset. No more mistakes. That day doesn’t exist. Trading is an ongoing journey of learning, adapting, and growing. The market changes. Conditions change. And most importantly, we change. Even experienced traders make mistakes. They take losses. They misread setups. They have moments where emotions get the better of them. The difference is what happens next. 👉 A mistake becomes something to study. 👉 A loss becomes something to learn from. 👉 A difficult stretch becomes an opportunity to grow stronger. 👉 Experience becomes wisdom when you actually reflect on it. Don’t chase perfection. Chase improvement. Try to become a little more patient. A little more disciplined. A little better at managing risk. A little more aware of your emotions than you were yesterday. Those small improvements compound. And remember, never become so experienced that you think you have nothing left to learn. The moment we stop being students of the market is usually the moment the market decides to hand us another lesson. 😅 🚀 You will never be a perfect trader, and you don’t need to be. Keep learning. Keep growing. Keep making adjustments. Every lesson, including the painful ones, is helping shape the trader you’re becoming. — Coach Stephen

If your losing days always seem to wipe out all of your winning days…you don’t have a strategy problem, you have a psychology problem. You need to fix that before you’ll ever make consistent money.

Every trader loves the sunshine. The winning streaks. The clean setups. The payouts. The days when everything seems to click. But trading isn’t always sunshine. There will be storms. Days when nothing works. Stretches where confidence gets tested. Moments when frustration makes you question your strategy, your progress, and sometimes even yourself. Those moments aren’t when you abandon the journey. They’re when you learn how to weather it. 👉 Reduce risk when necessary. 👉 Step away when emotions are taking over. 👉 Go back to your rules and fundamentals. 👉 Protect your capital so you can fight another day. You don’t have to conquer every storm. Sometimes your job is simply to survive it without making things worse. Because storms pass. And when conditions eventually clear, the trader who remained patient, disciplined, and mentally strong will still be standing while others exhausted themselves fighting something they couldn’t control. 🚀 Anyone can feel confident when everything is going right. Real strength is staying grounded when it isn’t. Protect yourself, trust your process, and keep moving forward. The sun always comes back out. — Coach Stephen

This week may not have gone exactly how you wanted. Maybe you missed the best setup. Maybe you broke a rule. Maybe you took a loss you shouldn't have taken. Maybe you watched someone else have a great week while you struggled. But here's something I'm learning: Progress isn't perfection. Progress is returning. Returning after the loss. Returning after the mistake. Returning after the emotional trade. Returning after doubt creeps in. Returning after a week that makes you question whether you're actually improving. Because anybody can feel confident when they're winning. The real test comes when quitting starts sounding reasonable. That's where discipline is built. Nobody sees the hours studying charts. Nobody applauds the trades you correctly pass on. Nobody celebrates you closing the platform instead of revenge trading. Nobody knows how many times you've had to confront your own emotions and start again. But those repetitions matter. Repetition builds everything. Every time you follow your rules, you're building the trader you want to become. Every time you take a professional loss instead of forcing another trade, you're building him. Every time you come back to the charts humbled instead of defeated, you're building him. And one thing from the video really hit me: Don't compare your Chapter 1 to somebody else's Chapter 20. Their path isn't yours. Their timing isn't yours. Their struggles aren't yours. Run your race. Some days you'll execute beautifully. Some days you'll barely hold your discipline together. Both days count if you keep learning and keep returning. So as we close another trading week, don't obsess over whether you were perfect. Ask yourself: Did I learn? Did I grow? Am I willing to come back better? If the answer is yes, keep going. One more disciplined decision. One more patient setup. One more week of data. One more opportunity to become better than you were yesterday. And for me, ultimately, my confidence isn't that I'm strong enough to do this alone.

Hey I’m Garret 👋 excited to be here! A little about me… I’m based out of Southern California with my wife and our 4 kids. I came from the fitness industry. Built and grew my business to mid 6 figures for a little over 10 years. It did really well for us and opened a lot of doors, but over time I realized a few things: any time I stepped away for too long, things would go backwards and I’d have to jump back in and work even harder to turn things around, and my kids weren’t gonna take over the business eventually so it would have ended with me. That just wasn’t the freedom I was after nor the legacy I wanted to leave behind. I went back to working a regular job, but about a year in, I got laid off with a bunch of others from a job that I thought was stable. Good news is that led me to a real estate investing firm that I wound up working at for 3 years or so. CoGP’d on my first 114 unit deal in June 2025, formed my own company with two experienced guys, left the company I was working for beginning of 2026, did a couple more deals as a lead sponsor and currently at 423 units. When I’m not hanging out with my family or working on real estate activities, I enjoy being active, backpacking, playing poker, programming, and being around good people. Always open to connecting with growth minded and motivated people!