Hi there traders. It's been quite a while since I conducted a client interview. So I'm delighted to say that today's video will be doing just that, as you will have no doubt seen with all the live trade videos we have posted over the last six months 2016 has been a hectic time in the Forex markets and a fantastically fruitful one for us as new traders, especially so with the recent huge moves that we've seen, in light of the Brexit. With this, it's been a delight to hear many success stories along the way from students on the course and members of the mentoring service. No more so than the chap I'm about to interview today, Connor, and who has impressively managed to grow his account by huge 35% in the space of a few short months. I therefore want to take this opportunity for Connor himself, to give you an insight into the factors behind the success and how the support he has received from us has helped him to get to where he is today.

Now the interview alongside those earlier ones that I posted with Paul Jean and Gavin is aimed to Celebrate Connors incredible success over the past few months, but to again provide further inspiration and motivation to those watching wherever you may be on your trading journey, but you too can achieve some amazing things when you commit yourself to learning the powerful skill of news based trading. So without further ado, let's get going. But firstly, just let me take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to Connor for taking time out of his weekend to conduct this interview many many thanks. Okay, so firstly, Connor, please can you start off by sharing with listeners, just a little bit of background general background on yourself age job, and a little bit of background on your trading journey prior to working with us? Certainly, Tom, good afternoon. And thanks for inviting me to share my story.

Absolutely. All in my 35 year old Australian and I've been living in the UK for almost 10 years now. I'm a teacher during the day and try it out. Whenever I get a chance, basically I've been trading as a technical trader for about two to three years before I came across the fundamentals. Yeah. And yeah, it was just pure luck that happened to meet yourself doing a trading course.

And I continue to follow you, Tom and, and what's your fundamental trading course came up and I sort of got sick of just floating around breakeven for so many years that the fundamental trading course that you've done and, and it's been, you know, positives ever since. Excellent. I think it's always good to touch upon just your your general background. I know. There's always a concern from people that they go, I've got a full time job, I've got a commitment here. I've got to look after my kids, etc, etc.

But what you're clearly demonstrating is that you can trade around your current commitments until you reach that point where you can say Actually, no, now I'm in the position where I can justify A police say I'm going to leave my current job if that's what I want to do, and trade more often. But would you agree that it's not essential that you have lots of hours to trade and that you don't have a trade? The European session? No. I mean, I, as for myself, you know, most of the time when I'm sitting down to trade, it's, you know, later in the evening, or you know, you don't have to have hours and hours, you don't have to be sitting at your computer all day. And you know, it's just a matter of realizing that there are always opportunities.

If you've done your homework, you've looked at the, you know, the sentiment of the markets, and you know, what central banks are looking for. Awesome. That's good to know. That's good to know. Fantastic. So just give us a high level view of how trading has gone since you did the course and became a member of the mentoring service, just a general view of how you've progressed from your early days, which were no doubt a little bit tricky.

Yeah, to where you are now having clocked up a nice a nice 35% growth on your account. Yeah, I mean, early days, it was, you know, it was it was a whole lot of information and trying to break that down into something that I could understand and, and that I could sort of use to grow. And the mentoring service has been an absolute godsend because it the way that those emails come in it, it says things nice and clean, very easy to understand. And it also gives you that little bit of extra if you want to read on and you want to learn more about the particular subjects that have been talked about, you can do that so and then it's just a matter of now. If you want to pursue a more or if you just want to take it at face value and and use the information that you've been given.

And did you find that you struggled a little bit in the early days just as you were getting used to this this new information? Definitely, um, you know that it's it's, it's learning to walk again. It'd be so much fun, not a fundamental trader and always been told through the technical books and the courses and things like that, that I've been on in the past where they've always sort of said, you know, don't worry about the fundamentals. You don't want to look at that. This is how you trade and, and it was one of those things that I had learned in the process of had to relearn, but they also helped me, you know, design my trade plan and go forward. Awesome.

And I think that's a key. A key thing to point across is that it's gonna take a bit of time to get up and running because there are, from my my experience of trading my experience of the trader education, there are always two types of people, one that comes in and has the opinion that things have to work straightaway, things have to click straightaway. Things have to, they have to see profit straightaway. And you've got the other side that treat it like any skill, any other skill like driving a car, etc. transaction No, I'm gonna work hard at this over the first three to six months. And then I'm going to judge my progress because I need to get on top of these skills and I need to practice them first.

And I think you're a great example of that, because we had conversations from when you first started all the way through to where you are now. And you did have some challenges in the early days. But you had the attitude of saying, How do I overcome these challenges rather than going out? See, it's not quite working for me right now. I'm going to ask Tom, where I'm going wrong, I'm going to be very honest with him and point out where I've made some very obvious beginner mistakes, which we've all made. And I'm going to try and get him to point me in the right direction so I can overcome these obstacles.

And you've done exactly that you've taken on board the feedback. And after a few, a couple of months, you've started to see the progress and now things are starting to click for you. When was the time when did you notice roughly from when you first started to when things started to click for you when you start to go? Actually, all the stuff that I read in his first reports were a foreign language but now It all started to make complete sense. And now I'm utilizing that information going forward in my trade plans, because I think that's important because when people first come on the course, and the mentoring service, some are a little bit overwhelmed. They go, Whoa, all this stuff is, is quite intense.

But I just want to know, when you started to feel it was more understandable and digestible and applicable to your trading. I'd say probably read about that sort of three, three month mark. And yeah, you know, prior to that, I was, you know, trying to just trying to sort of force that, alright, you go this information you need to understand and you need to read through all these articles and things like that to get better because that's, that's generally what everyone tells you, when you start a new job. When you start something else. You've got to work really, really hard and you've got to take everything on board immediately to progress. But I found that around that sort of three month mark where I understood the language, understand, understood like the terms of phrases And, and sitting back and actually watching events unfold, which you, you know, made us aware of and looking at that, when the news was coming out, just simply sitting on the sidelines and watching what was happening.

It all started to sort of just click, and I started to realize why the markets were moving. And if there was a move that I didn't quite understand, that would only take me, you know, a couple of minutes just to sort of see, okay, well, this is what the market was expecting. And this is what it's done. And these are the reasons why it all just unfolded before my eyes. It was it was really, really amazing. So you say the experience really has helped you make better trading decisions going forward.

And and also the, you know, the conversations that I've had with you and the emails that, you know, we swap back and forth about what I was doing, and just me being honest about what was happening in my experience. Yeah, and that's that's quite hard, especially for guys of our age, too. Admit mistakes openly. But without doing that, how can you ever get feedback that can help you overcome those challenges? Exactly. I mean, I'm a very, very competitive fellow, the best of times, you know, and yeah, just sort of the realization, you can't do this on your own.

You do need someone who's been there, and it just it turned my trading around essentially just realizing you can't be the best just walking off the street just doing it. And would you say that learning the fundamentals has been a well, obviously, from you telling us that you are breaking even with your technical approach to now being 35% up on the fundamental approach? What would you now say are the key elements or advantages of news trading over technical training? And would you say now that you couldn't trade going forward without an understanding of the fundamentals? Well, I mean, it's, it's, I would never not take the fundamentals into consideration now. I mean, it is such it's The largest part of my trading plans that I could never ever see myself going back to just pure technical trading, you know, the technical trading does help me but on a very, you know, small level compared to the, the fundamental.

Yeah. So it's just it's completely changed the way that I see the market and I read the market and, and being profitable in the market. And I think the the key or a great advantage if you've got both sides of trading, technical analysis and fundamental analysis is to blend the two because they can work very, very well together as we've seen this week with trading cable. When the market is at a very inefficient level, the technicals can help you with timing your entry into a trade, but the technicals for me, I'm wholeheartedly, always going to tell people make sure you start with the fundamentals because that will give you the directional bias on the currency and then And if you can overlay that with some technicals for efficient entries then all the better. Yeah, definitely, definitely agree that Tom. Fantastic.

So in regards to the course, because you obviously started off on the on the Learn to trade the news course. Well, you said the main benefits and elements of that were which have helped you on your trading journey thus far. I mean, the way that it's written just such a very simple to understand, in a way, and the videos that you post, they're invaluable and just shows what you're thinking and actually what the markets doing whilst, you know, your thinking, and how it changes and how you perceive what's going on. And that definitely, that video element was, you know, priceless. Yeah, you know, it's it's real time. All the things that are going on, you know, are still very current with when you're watching them.

And yeah, I can't thank you enough for doing those. Nice boy pleasure. It's my pleasure. It's so much easier to see visually as well. What's going on? And that you are actually doing these things that you're talking about?

Yeah, of course, of course. Wonderful. And what would you say? Were the one or two most powerful concepts, trading concepts that you were able to obtain from the course was the thing that has really opened your eyes to saying Actually, I use this particular concept, pretty much in every single trade, from a US perspective, being patient and selective and not being afraid to cut losses, even though you might lose out. You know, but you are saving and preserving that capital, you know, preserving capital is, is huge. And, you know, I still, I still to this day, every time where I've had a losing trade, it's, it's come down to pure greed and not willing to, you know, decide to write your own.

Cut your loss now, but just sort of always having Saying that and I can't be wrong I can't be wrong I'm expecting this turn the other way and go the way that I first thought you know and and just knowing that and constantly reminding myself saying look, there are plenty of pips out there to catch and we know I have you know maybe 10 to 20 pips is like a no a daily to daily sort of target for me yeah and just preserving those is why I've been able to you know make such good progress account was amazing just just topping topping those accounts up with small but regular pips and you know that compound interest I've been you know, we're just keeps compounding and it keeps building it's it's it really it's it's the simpler the better. Yeah. Excellent because I think we touched upon that in one of the the daily reports how 20 pips may not sound like much when you look at some of the trades we've taken where there 450 pips on the likes of the pound trades, but Not every single trade, or every single move is going to be that grand.

So if we can pick up some smaller moves along the way from maybe some correlations or the small impact news events 20 pips a day sounds like a small, a small gain. But if you add that up every day over the course of a month, that's 400 pips, which essentially without risk management principles is 4%, which 4% a month by any stretch of the imagination is a fantastic return and then think, in and around or above that is incredible. It's incredible. And as you say, the power of compounding which will obviously exponentially grow that return as well over time from a financial perspective is what's also powerful. You know, it is it is just a fantastic thing to finally realize that and, and to be okay with just small gains, just consistent small gains, and that's, that's one of my biggest learning experiences that that has helped me and it's, it's through that mentor and you know, that the course that you put together that's really made me see that Fantastic.

So you might as well, yeah, no, that's that's exactly why because it's really really hard for me to record the trade videos beforehand because of course having to be in the zone for the actual trade, but try and record 99% of the trades just to give you guys a very up to date and live view of how I'm trading the markets. And what you'll find is that you'll start to see that you're doing very similar things where you've gone, I almost can tell what Tom is going to be trading in terms of a currency pair, because essentially, he's preempted it with the daily reports. But for me learning the knowledge of the course I know that I want to be finding the strongest currencies and pairing them against the weakest ones which Tom's gonna be doing exactly the same. So when I see a video from him having traded CAD yen or pound dollar, and I've done the same thing that's really rewarding, I may not have got a similar return an identical return, but something similar is more than enough and on other occasions, I will take a smaller return and some of my Students do.

And that's just as, as rewarding for me to see, of course, I'm always a bit jealous. But that's just as rewarding when my traders are maybe squeezed out a little bit more on the same currency pair. Because for me, the most important thing, the element that I see is that the trading plans of my students are sound, ie, why did you sell that currency pair? or Why did you buy that currency pair? And if someone can turn around and say, well, there was a fundamental reason for why that one was strong, and a fundamental reason for why that one was weak and fantastic. I know that they're putting the odds, they're stacking the odds in their favor of getting the direction, right.

And then it's just a matter of how much they can squeeze out on that particular trade. Yeah, and then also using like the mentor and service on top of that, you know, like, oftentimes what I've, you know, because I don't get a chance to sort of go through everything throughout the day, you know, an evening when I'm going through and I think, Okay, this is the move that that I would have gone and used and and to see that, you know, backed up by what you've written about and the correlations that you've been talking about and knowing that okay, I've had those same ideas Throughout the day is another, you know, positive and another productive influence on reinforcing my trade plan. Yeah. And it could build that all important confidence, can it come back because as a trader confidence is so, so important, and if you're confident in in your trading plans, then you're going to be confident in in executing them when the trade plans come together.

Yes, we that's absolutely paramount, you know, and it does help you to make those more efficient entries and exits, that being caught out to unawares, which sometimes still happens, but that's the nature of the game. Yeah. Fantastic. So you touched upon a little bit earlier about the mentoring service just just give guys listening that maybe considering it, what you would say are the main benefits from the mentoring service and the elements that have helped you most with your training? Um, I mean, I can't recommend it enough. You know, I think it is, is one of the main reasons that I've got To point where I am today with my trading it just there, you've always got time to answer the question.

You know, and it's nice to have someone who's actually in the market and their trading just like I am. And, you know, you're so open and honest that I feel comfortable enough that I can ask you anything. And I'm not going to feel stupid. You know, there are no stupid questions when I'm, you know, sending you an email and I know that I'm going to get a very honest response that is generally been written to help me because I know I feel that my see that with how you write and the things that you've said to me, and it's just it's helped me become such a confident trader. And I know that I'm still only at the start of my trading journey. And to have someone who's got the experience that you had at home, you know, within a couple of mouse clicks and you know, the press of the keyboard away.

Just makes sure Writing so much more enjoyable, it's got some who I can share my trading with. And I can learn from, you know, any Dad? What basically? Awesome um, would you? Would you say that the the mentoring has helped speed up your development and journey as a trader rather than just concentrating on the course itself because I've got people on the course again Should I do the mentoring and essentially I launched the mentoring service to simply offer more handholding to people that wanted it and to speed up their transition from from the theory to the the practice for you who has been there, done that and got the T shirt and been part of both Would you say that is the case? I definitely would I mean, you know, but the course is is great all the time.

But there was gonna be those questions that are very personal to you. You know, like you can only answer so many questions and and, you know, help so many people on a personal level from that general course you're providing and once you get onto that mentoring system, Because, you know, you can ask those little questions that you just something's quite missing, you need a little bit more, Megan, a slightly different explanation or a different example. And you provide that, you know, very, very well. But the mentor Services has really cemented in everything that I learned from that course. And it's just I'm so happy that I made the decision to go and do that. It's, it's just been paramount in my success.

So clearly, things are starting to really click for you, which is obviously very, very pleasing to see from from both perspectives, obviously seeing that you're taking that information and using it to your advantage and you're starting to see some progress from the investment from a time and a financial perspective that you've put into the service on the course. And fantastic. So, what would you feel now that you've looked back over these last six months and seen such incredible progress? What would you feel are the key trading traits you've developed which have helped you to progress. It's such an impressive rate for other people that are watching or maybe early on in their early on in their trading career or maybe struggling a little bit or are just considering trading as a potential as a potential journey for them as well. Yeah, I mean, for me, I would say that you don't need to have 12 hours a day city computer you know, once once you understand why the markets are moving and why they're doing what they are, which you know, for me is just, you know, watching the news reading about things that are happening in day to day life and and the mentoring service that you provide.

It's, you know, which is basically like having your own bank analyst working beside you. And, you know, it just demolay you just have to be patient and have your trade plan written. It's not always about you know, picking, you know, tops and bottoms because you don't need to take that for me. You Just you just want a chunk of it and, you know, yourself are a big advocate of that. And that's one of the reasons that I think I've done so well is that I'm not upset if I missed the whole move, or I'm not upset if, you know if I don't lose out, you know, as long as it's small. And, I mean, for example, with the Brexit situation, you know, I've been teaching and having to be up early in the morning.

And I was I was able to catch now 90 odd pips. And yes, I missed, you know, the other 400 all of that happened overnight, but it's not a problem because there are always pips to be had. And if you just make small goals and you follow your process, you're always going to benefit you know, if you put in the work, you'll get there. Fantastic. And yeah, that that example of the power moves is a classic example of how the market tries to trap you from an emotional perspective, because you've just taken 90 pips there which in on any normal day You'd feel absolutely delighted about that. But as humans, we'll see what happened afterwards.

And we'll go, we could have made 350 pips more had we left it. But if you take that same approach over the next 1015 trades and leave it and hope you're going to get more when the market conditions have changed, you're probably going to see a decidedly different perspective. So you've got to almost like treat each opportunity as an independent opportunity. And if you're able to squeeze a profit from that, see that as a massive positive. And if you aren't able to get as much out of it, as you maybe should have just saved yourself quickly before greed kicks in or disappointment kicks into quickly save yourself as you have been doing is there will be another opportunity around the corner. The great thing about fundamentals is there's a constant stream of fundamental capitalists every single week, every single month.

And we know that just around the corner, there'll be another high probability trade and that's what makes or breaks the successful from the non successful is being patient enough to wait for the best opportunities and to not let that inner voice that we always Have say, Oh, you should be doing this, you should be doing that when we know, it falls outside of our rules and our trade plans. And, you know, I still, you know, open I still struggle with those, you know, times where you're thinking, maybe I should jump back in here, it's still going, it's still going. But just knowing that and having talked about those feelings and the psychological component of training, it's okay. And it's, it's normal. Absolutely. And that's why I always try and put across my greatest challenges again, to show you guys that may be thinking that it's, it's your problem.

And it's your issue, when really it's not. It's a human one that we all share. And when you realize it's not you, as an individual takes the pressure off you. You can say Actually, no, I just need to be aware of it. So I can respond to it. But I don't have to feel bad about it because it's me, because it's not it's something that we all struggle with.

And to this day, even having traded for 10 years, I still have the same emotions, but I'm able to dump them down enough so they don't influence my trading decisions negatively. Yeah. And so and I think that's one of the things that I struggle with massively and stop mentoring, you speaking these things through us and telling us and us realizing you are actually human Tom, like a super trading? Yeah, no, no, it's important. It's important because I want you guys to relate to me as much as possible. And I've been on the journey that you've all been on.

And so I can look back and say, these are my greatest challenges and be aware of them. And these are some of the solutions I put in place to help me overcome them. So you can just do the same thing and follow in those footsteps. So hopefully, your path is a little bit smoother than mine. I don't mind you making mistakes. I don't mind anyone making mistakes.

The key element is saying, Okay, do we learn from them so that they don't happen again. And that's the key element. And that's the key element. So, as we go forward, we're getting feedback, but we're acting upon that feedback, both constructive and both constructive and Negative feedback which we can act upon and make sure that we're making fewer mistakes as we go forward and you can probably look back over your journey and go actually I made quite a lot of mistakes in my first three months but I'm starting to iron them out I still make occasional mistakes but I'm ironing them out a lot more now. And that's resulting in greater profits definitely, I mean I'm so aware now that like the five minute sort of stuff by the fear of missing out and yeah agreed. You know that you want to get every penny you can out of it.

But realizing you don't have to. And you know, before you move on and you keep you keep Yeah, absolutely. I think you just got to keep keep saying self keep remind yourself that actually no, there will be another opportunity around the corner. I may have missed this opportunity, but there will be more opportunities around the corner and also make it relevant to your situation because sometimes people will look at my my trades because I'm at my charts throughout the majority of the day and go I didn't get as much Many pips is Tom, when really that's not comparing you yourself fairly to your own situation. If you've got to go and do your day job, then you're not going to have as much time to trade as myself. So comparing the two together is only going to lead to disappointment.

But it's actually I've got half the time of what Tom has, but I'm making roughly half the amount of pips This is making. So that's, that's a good sign. That's a good sign. And my job right now is just to get consistency in my returns over the course of six to 12 months, and then we'll see where things take us. But right now I have to fit my trading plan around my current commitments, and absolutely, trading can allow you to do that. But as an individual, you've got to compare yourself to you where you were two months ago, four months ago, six months ago, not comparing yourself to someone else that has a completely different trading situation.

That being said, I mean, just, you know, with me, you know, because I'm working from, you know, sort of like seven In the morning till seven at night. I didn't at one point try to you know, sort of trade any sort of spam and I could throughout the day, and gosh, that that was the worst thing I could have ever done. Yeah. And, you know, but it was because of that mentoring service and talking to you about these things and these challenges that I was going through that I realized and learn from it, but you don't have to, and you can still be very successful without, you know, being charts as long as you have and, you know, it has made a possibility for me to trade full time, you know, in the next couple of years, hopefully. Very, very reasonable idea. Absolutely.

Especially at the the pace you're going at and what's that, so you're you're roughly doing around about 5% per month, which is incredible, absolutely incredible. And that will lead you to some very interesting doors being opened later down the line and your proof in the pudding. But you can still achieve some fantastic returns, even with other commitments. And I think that's a key message I want to get across to people because there's always this misconception that, that they have to trade every single day they have to be at the charts during the European session, when they don't there's opportunities in and around that. And having just a general feel for the fundamental drivers means that you can have your directional bias from a high level perspective, meaning that any one point so long as you're reading and digesting the reports, you know, which roughly direction currency pairs should be heading in so you can take some opportunities in and around, even in and around some of the scheduled events?

Yeah, definitely. Um, so what advice would you give to aspiring traders listening to the video people who are currently in the position you were in before joining us just starting out or struggling to make progress in their trading? I mean, I would suggest, just be brutally honest. Don't be afraid to ask any question because if you don't The question you're not going to know and sometimes you just cannot find the answers to it you know by reading books or going on the internet and things like that you need someone who who's living it day to day like what you bought and it also helps you know just set goals small goals and you know, tick them off as you go go through and I've been doing that for the last nasm I six months now and you know, they're they're small as you know, maybe make 50 pips for the next month and you'll find that even though you've only got a small goals and you've got something to go towards most of the time those those winning trades, you get run so well that you might make that easily in just you know, 10 to 1520 minutes on one tray.

Yeah. And also not to give up. There are going to be ups and downs. You're not, you know, you don't have to take all the pips. You don't have To pick and have the perfect entry and the perfect exit to be profitable. Yeah, just enjoy it.

I mean, there's nothing more that I enjoy than, you know, opening up my emails in the morning and seeing that market review from Tom or you know, the the mentoring emails that are coming through in everything that I do. Now, I know whether I'm reading a newspaper or watching the news or you know, events are happening around the world. And it it all ties in to my trading plan. And that's now that's now really easy upon my life, and it's a really enjoyable part of my life. That's quite funny, actually. Because Yeah, you can become a little bit obsessed with it when you're just watching the news or reading a newspaper and you immediately say this, I've actually that could have a knock on effect on the local currency.

Fundamental perspective, and that's a good thing. And I never used to have that when I was trading technically. Yeah. And my trade plan was when I'd sit down, you know, the start of the week and say, right, this is what I'm going to be doing. These are at these levels. And such as such, and you know it, it just adds another sort of human element to it, I guess.

Yeah, it's a bit more real, isn't it technically, right. But they're very robotic fundamentals. They give you a relevant of the trading side of things. They give you a wonderful view of the world from an economical perspective, which obviously filters into other things as well. So you get to know about the performance of economy, the retail sales, the employment data, which to many may be boring, but when you know that you can tie that into your trading plans. That's where the excitement comes because you go the two and two can come in together.

Yeah, but not it's generally I mean, it is in the fundamental side now he's, I could never ever go back to not using it. It's just it's so powerful. I find it incredibly interesting. And I it's, I think that's also probably a key part of your success, as well as in terms of your passion for what you're doing is naturally infiltrating into other things such as your determination your pre planning your work ethic, The two come together. So I think that's a trait which is obviously very powerful as well, which is not often discussed that much, is a passion for something and a love for something. Well, you know, it's the old saying, you know, if you enjoy your job, you never work a day in your life.

Excellent. Yeah, absolutely. I totally agree. And trading isn't all US, isn't all flowers and sunshine, there can be stressful days, it can be bad days, but generally speaking, it's it's a thoroughly exciting and thoroughly enjoyable industry. And I'm sure, without time, you can get to the point where you can you can do more of it. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's, that's my long term plan is that I would like to be doing that. And, you know, it might take me three years, five years, but you know, that's, that's a long term goal, and I'm going to work for amazing Well, the pace you going at the minute shouldn't be that long. But that covers my final point. My final question was just to ask what your plans were for the future, but you see Wanting to become a full time trader? Yeah, definitely fantastic.

And the absolutely no reason why you, you can't do that. And in due course, I'll be obviously helping support you as you make that transition from your current career to, to full time trading career because that that's a big step to take. But I've personally been through that as well. So hopefully I can provide you the benefit of my experience in that role as well. So that'd be that'd be more than a pleasure to do that in due course. So all I say is Keep up the good work because the right you're going out, I'll just give you my money to trade.

Okay, I'm retired. So I'll go back to Australia. I'll go to Australia and you can stay here and we'll do a role reversal. Oh, we can do that. And I wonder hoping you can help me out so much told me it has been you've been very instrumental from the first day that many those many, many years ago thinking right? And embarrassingly on my emails.

Instead of your name. It's got the guy I want to be very personal. I think I'll stick with the the offer of the great beer. Yeah, I mean, you have been instrumental, you're very, very much a part of my trading career and without your help and just, you know, willing to put up with the countless random questions about trading, I couldn't have asked for a better mental now I really appreciate that and, and it's a two way thing as well because when I decided to become a trader is all about, I'm going to work for myself but the, the, the attraction of that wears off quite quickly. And we're just trading for yourself on your own and you've got no community needs not the most exciting so as part of the education wanting one thing is obviously to help guys and girls like yourself, too, is to get that community to have like minded individuals because you're very similar to me on our conversations on email.

We've talked about a similar common interests and desires and how we we love the markets and it's a two way thing so you're obviously benefiting from From the side, benefiting from a really engaged community that wants to do well in life and in trading and the two coming together is great. And hopefully at some point later down the line, I can have a bit of a get together with the guys on the service now that it's grown quite successfully, it'd be nice to just go and have a few drinks and and catch up with all of the members on service because you'll find that the group will be very share a lot of commonalities in terms of their, their approach and outlook on life. And that's, that's a nice community to be part of. So it's a two way thing. Anyway, amazing stuff. Well, Connor, I don't want to take up any more of your time.

That pretty much concludes our interview for today. So once again, massive thanks for your time and input. No doubt this will be hugely appreciated by those listening as they get strong insight into what it takes to really push ahead in their trading. In summary, the things that I've personally picked up on from afar as your mentor that have made a big contribution to your success are as follows. Firstly, dedication, I see that every weekend you take time out to prepare for the trading week ahead, you plan ahead of time so that you're proactively approaching the markets rather than reactively. And that stems into your confidence because when things happen, as you plan them, you get confidence to then execute your trades off the back of that.

So that's something that's very, very important in your success is your dedication to putting the work in because trading is not easy. You do need to commit a little bit of work. And you can do this around your around your current commitments. But you do need to schedule time in each week to make sure you're cementing on compounding your learnings, which you've exactly done. And that's why you've seen your progress pick up so sharply as the months have gone by. Also, you've developed your own style as we touched upon earlier, you know that you have other commitments, you've got your day job, and these things can't be moved right now.

So instead, you've built your trading plan around your current commitments so that you play to your strengths during the future. things well, rather than everything badly like you touched upon, you're not trying to trade every single movement that happens during the day because that that that bought some some disappointing results by just sticking to your your current. By building your trade plan around your current lifestyle is giving you the ability to become the master of few things rather than the jack of many. So that's another key element I've picked upon. You also have a strong goal to work towards you see yourself as a full time trader doing the thing that you love and that's a really powerful, powerful purpose that is going to drive you forward in your in your progression gives you great purpose and gives you the energy to put the necessary work in to get the results that you want and need to put yourself in that position in one to three years time.

You're also very inquisitive and eager to learn. you're sharing your highs and your lows with me on a regular basis so that I can continue to steer you in the right direction. You're not ashamed to admit when you've made a mistake or you've done something wrong. Because you're always keen to know how to put it right, and to improve over time, that is massively important because every thing that you do right is moving you forward. And everything you do wrong, but learn from is also moving you forward and progressing. And also, finally, is your passion about trading.

You're clearly very, very passionate, and you're passionate about the end goal that you want to achieve from trading. Passion is probably the most underestimated trait of a successful trader. Loving the journey that you're on makes the process of learning to trade that much easier. So that's really important as well. Anyway, it's time to wrap up so that both Connor and I can go and enjoy the remaining part of the weekend and watch the big football match later on. But you're an Australian, so you probably don't watch soccer you may do.

For those watching. I truly hope that this interview is helped provide a healthy dose of social proof, inspiration and motivation for you so that you can crack on with your own journey and follow in the impressive footsteps of Connor, as ever wishing you prosper. frustrating and we'll speak soon on the next video blog.