Case study · Jackie, Electrician and general contractor
Jackie came in with one strategy and made risk management her first rule
Jackie runs an electrical contracting business. She had taught herself futures with a single strategy that stopped working when the market went sideways. After joining she followed the roadmap for new traders, learned to draw her own levels and sent her charts to Chad for feedback.
Where she started
Jackie is an electrician and general contractor, and her business was doing well. She started with a few spot purchases, then bought a course that taught her one futures strategy. It worked while the market was rising, and stopped working when the market turned sideways.
What changed
She joined, followed the roadmap for new traders step by step and made a point of joining every live call for her first weeks. She learned to draw her own levels and trend lines, sent her first charts to Chad for feedback and built from there.
Risk management became her first rule: protecting capital comes before any single result. She had been afraid of high leverage until she understood that the leverage number is not what determines the loss. The defined risk is. In her words: "everybody can just go and open a trade, but if you don't know how much you're gonna lose, then what are we doing, right?"
That question is the thesis of the whole curriculum, asked by a member in her own words.
Her advice
It is not an overnight thing. Put in the work, follow the roadmap and ask questions.
