I’ve learned from a lot of traders over the years.
Some of them were the biggest names in the business, like my mentor, Tim Sykes. But the guy who taught me one of my favorite strategies wasn’t famous at all…
This guy was a fellow Millionaire student, someone figuring it out right alongside me, at the same time as me, with the same account size and the same struggles.
He had quietly built an approach that nobody had handed him. He’d developed it through his own experience, his own personality, and his own deep understanding of risk.
What he showed me is something I wish I’d understood years earlier.
P.S. Last year, I generated over $9 million in trading profits.
And right now, I’m making a major change to my approach.
I’m seeing something that most traders aren’t talking about yet. It could send an $8 trillion shock through the entire market.
I’ve gone through my entire system, and not one single Magnificent 7 stock is flashing. No Nvidias, no Googles…
So where is the opportunity?
The Problem With Copying
When I first got interested in short selling, I looked at the best short sellers I could find.
Tim Bohen, Tim Sykes, and even the aggressive traders on Twitter who were posting massive wins shorting penny stocks and OTCs into the ground.
Their results were incredible. So I studied their approach. And their approach was aggressive. Add to the position on the way up. Size up. Hold through the pain. Let it ride all the way down.
And when it worked, it was glorious.
When it didn’t work? It gave me a stomach ulcer. Literally.
I held a short position for two and a half months…
Through Thanksgiving. Through Christmas. Through the New Year. I was barely sleeping. I couldn’t eat. All due to the stress of watching the position grind against me day after day.
The aggressive style wasn’t wrong. For Sykes and Bohem, who trade with massive accounts and have decades of experience reading these setups, it makes perfect sense.
They can absorb the drawdown. They can outlast the squeeze. They have the experience to know when to hold and when to fold.
I didn’t have any of those things yet.
And that’s exactly what fellow student, Kyle Williams, helped me understand.
What Kyle Taught Me
Kyle trades differently from the aggressive short sellers I’d been trying to emulate.
He’s not a gambler. He’s not someone who sizes up recklessly and holds through massive unrealized losses, trying to justify the trade. He’s measured, disciplined, and consistent.
He cuts losses quickly…
No, not as quickly as the moment a trade goes a few cents against him. But fast enough to keep the damage contained. Fast enough to protect his account and his mental state.
And he’s still aggressive when the setup truly calls for it. When the conviction is there, when the pattern is clean, when the risk is defined, he goes in with real size.
But he knows the difference between high-conviction and stubborn hope.
That middle ground is what I’d been missing.
When I watched Kyle trade, talking through setups with him every day, seeing how he approached the decision of when to hold and when to cut, it all started to click for me.
It made sense in a way that watching the aggressive traders never had.
Because Kyle’s style matched my personality, my risk tolerance, and most importantly, my need to sleep at night without a stomach full of anxiety.
Why Your Style Matters More Than Anyone Else’s
No one tells you this clearly enough when you’re starting out in trading.
There is no single right way to do this.
Some of my mentors cut losses ultra-fast. Some hold through deep drawdowns with massive size. Some are aggressive.
Kyle is somewhere in the middle.
All of them have made serious money. All of them do it differently.
If you’re struggling in the long-term, it’s not because you picked the wrong strategy.
But it could be because you picked someone else’s strategy and tried to make it fit your own psychology.
If you’re someone who can’t sleep with an open position, a long-term swing short strategy will eat you alive, no matter how well it works for someone else.
And if you’re someone who cuts too fast and keeps getting shaken out of good trades, an ultra-conservative stop approach is going to slowly bleed your account.
You have to find your version.
That’s the approach that matches not just your technical understanding but your emotional makeup, your account size, and your risk tolerance.
Kyle showed me mine.
Study the traders you admire. Learn from all of them. Take what works and leave what doesn’t.
At the end of the day, the only style that’s going to last is yours.
– Jack Kellogg
