Built in the
drawdown.
I grew up in a small town, where the day starts before the sun and nobody cares how you feel about it. Nobody handed me a head start or a trust fund, and I definitely wasn't the smartest kid in the room. But that life taught me something no classroom could: you show up, you do the work, and you keep going when it would be easier to quit. That lesson turned out to be the most valuable thing I'd ever bring to the markets.
When I started trading, I lost, got back up, and lost again. There was no secret talent waiting to be discovered, just stubbornness and a refusal to walk away. Over seven years, I treated the charts the way I treated life: patient, disciplined, and honest about what was and wasn't working. Out of that grind came Killshot — the strategy I built from my own wins, losses, and countless hours of screen time. Today I manage a hedge fund and trade for a liquidity provider, roles I didn't earn by being gifted but by being too resilient to stay down.
Somewhere along the way, I realized the hardest part of trading isn't the strategy — it's the person executing it. That's why I've spent years teaching thousands of traders not just how to read a chart, but how to build the mindset that survives the bad days. I'm living proof that you don't need to be special to succeed in this game. You need to be relentless. If a farm kid with nothing but grit can make it here, so can you.
