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5 Essential Strategies From My Youngest Millionaire Student

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 11/2/2023 7 min read

I’ve mentored over two dozen millionaire students, but Mariana Hincapie’s journey stands out.

In a trading world where success is elusive, she not only thrived but became a millionaire by 20, breaking stereotypes and outsmarting traditional methods.

Last week, at my trading conference in Las Vegas, Mari, my first female millionaire student, revealed her top five strategies that propelled her to the top, even in a challenging year for traders.

Discover her unique approach that could redefine your trading game.

#1:  Embrace a Consistent Lifestyle and Routine

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Mari stresses the importance of consistency in both trading and daily life. This means aligning your actions with the identity you wish to create for yourself.

Whether it’s about managing family, health, or personal traits such as patience and risk-taking, consistency in these areas is key.

Mari believes that by doing little things like journaling, creating a watchlist, and networking, traders can progressively improve.

Key Takeaways From The Las Vegas Conference:

  • Align your daily actions with your desired identity.
  • Practice small, consistent habits like journaling and preparing watchlists.

#2:  Develop and Stick to a Trading Strategy

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For Mari, the “holy grail” of trading clicked when she found a consistent strategy. She prefers trading ‘Gappers’ – stocks that show a significant price movement compared to their previous close.

Her criteria include a stock price over $1, more than 1 million volume in pre-market, and a history of significant moves.

Key Takeaways From The Las Vegas Conference:

  • Find a strategy that suits your personality and stick to it.
  • Understand the pros and cons of your chosen strategy.

#3 Cultivate Discipline in Risk Management

Risk management is crucial. Mari’s approach involves selling losers quickly and avoiding adding to losing positions.

She emphasizes not fighting the stock trend and taking consistent, smaller gains rather than waiting for big wins. This approach helps detach trading from a fear-based mindset.

Key Takeaways From The Las Vegas Conference:

  • Sell losing positions quickly to manage risks better.
  • Focus on consistent gains and avoid fighting the market trend.

#4: Utilize Tools and Communities for Support

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Mari created a Discord channel for journaling trades, discussing strategies, and supporting clear-minded trading.

This community helps in focusing on details and organizing thoughts, which is crucial for successful trading.

Key Takeaways From The Las Vegas Conference:

  • Use tools like trading journals and communities for support and clarity.
  • Share and learn strategies within a community to enhance your trading skills.

#5:  Set Clear, Achievable Trading Goals

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Setting clear goals helps in maintaining focus. Mari’s goals include taking consistent gains (10-20-30%) in the first 30 minutes to 1 hour of trading, aiming for modest but regular profits, and ensuring she has something to trade every day.

She also emphasizes the importance of not getting biased and being able to cut losses when necessary.

Key Takeaways From The Las Vegas Conference:

  • Set realistic trading goals and stick to them.
  • Focus on small, consistent trades rather than chasing big profits.

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Tim Sykes is a penny stock trader and teacher who became a self-made millionaire by the age of 22 by trading $12,415 of bar mitzvah money. After becoming disenchanted with the hedge fund world, he established the Tim Sykes Trading Challenge to teach aspiring traders how to follow his trading strategies. He’s been featured in a variety of media outlets including CNN, Larry King, Steve Harvey, Forbes, Men’s Journal, and more. He’s also an active philanthropist and environmental activist, a co-founder of Karmagawa, and has donated millions of dollars to charity. Read More

* Results are not typical and will vary from person to person. Making money trading stocks takes time, dedication, and hard work. There are inherent risks involved with investing in the stock market, including the loss of your investment. Past performance in the market is not indicative of future results. Any investment is at your own risk. See Terms of Service here

The available research on day trading suggests that most active traders lose money. Fees and overtrading are major contributors to these losses.

A 2000 study called “Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors” evaluated 66,465 U.S. households that held stocks from 1991 to 1996. The households that traded most averaged an 11.4% annual return during a period where the overall market gained 17.9%. These lower returns were attributed to overconfidence.

A 2014 paper (revised 2019) titled “Learning Fast or Slow?” analyzed the complete transaction history of the Taiwan Stock Exchange between 1992 and 2006. It looked at the ongoing performance of day traders in this sample, and found that 97% of day traders can expect to lose money from trading, and more than 90% of all day trading volume can be traced to investors who predictably lose money. Additionally, it tied the behavior of gamblers and drivers who get more speeding tickets to overtrading, and cited studies showing that legalized gambling has an inverse effect on trading volume.

A 2019 research study (revised 2020) called “Day Trading for a Living?” observed 19,646 Brazilian futures contract traders who started day trading from 2013 to 2015, and recorded two years of their trading activity. The study authors found that 97% of traders with more than 300 days actively trading lost money, and only 1.1% earned more than the Brazilian minimum wage ($16 USD per day). They hypothesized that the greater returns shown in previous studies did not differentiate between frequent day traders and those who traded rarely, and that more frequent trading activity decreases the chance of profitability.

These studies show the wide variance of the available data on day trading profitability. One thing that seems clear from the research is that most day traders lose money .

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Citations for Disclaimer

Barber, Brad M. and Odean, Terrance, Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors. Available at SSRN: “Day Trading for a Living?”

Barber, Brad M. and Lee, Yi-Tsung and Liu, Yu-Jane and Odean, Terrance and Zhang, Ke, Learning Fast or Slow? (May 28, 2019). Forthcoming: Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=2535636”

Chague, Fernando and De-Losso, Rodrigo and Giovannetti, Bruno, Day Trading for a Living? (June 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423101”