While working remotely for Salesforce, I found that I had a lot of downtime during the day and having been previously taught about investing and trading through a previous mentor, I started to get more serious in learning the ins and outs of trading. After making A LOT of mistakes, I began to realize the importance of having a structured trading system in place to create consistency with my trades and to better identify setups I can go after. A big part of being a successful trader is pattern recognition and the more you can identify the same “setups” that have been creating wins for you (e.g. watching for a bounce off the VWAP), the more you can capitalize on win/loss ration generally leading your account size to grow over time.
In my best trading year of 2018, I was able to generate a six figure profit from trading. At that point, I had a lot of friends asking me to teach them how to use Robinhood and to show them the basics around trading. I soon realized that it would be much easier for me to create some sort of “community” in which I could post my knowledge and education so I decided to create an Instagram channel called OptionsSwing. Everyday, I would create my own posts and infographics and in our first month, we got to 1,000 followers and by our second month, we had organically grown to 2,000 followers. From there, I started getting a lot of DMs from people asking about if I had a “Discord Server” or how they could get invited to it.
At this point, I knew I was onto something and if I could just figure out how to create a recurring revenue business from this, I could finally leave the corporate world and work for myself. But therein lies the problem: How do you actually do this?
<aside> 💡 An important part of building anything is perseverance and consistency. I posted every single day, rain or shine, and it was with that determination that I was able to grow a 430,000+ follower blue checked IG account (@optionsswing) that now generates us over $1m in revenue per year.
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