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00:00 I think how I trade is very simple. My

00:02 questions that I ask are is it done

00:05 going down? That's the first question.

00:07 So, is it done going down means am I

00:10 already seeing pops of buyers? And I saw

00:13 this first pop of buyers here with

00:15 earnings and then it kind of just

00:18 puttered out and then I saw another pop

00:20 of buyers here and then we had this nice

00:22 little flush out. So, in my mind

00:25 anything on this First of all, we're on

00:27 the right side of the base. So, anything

00:29 on the right side of the base as long as

00:31 we're holding over here on that it

00:34 marked 6662.

00:37 Then I'm expecting it to go up from

00:40 here.

00:41 This is Emanuella Elias. Today's guest

00:44 is a North Carolina based technical

00:46 analyst and options trader who brings a

00:49 sharp edge to the US equities price

00:51 action and market structure. She's

00:53 deeply focused on the psychology of

00:55 trading and the systems that create

00:57 consistent decisions under pressure. She

00:59 also writes the trader reset, a weekly

01:02 newsletter where she blends the S&P 500

01:05 analysis with honest insights from her

01:07 personal trading journey. Emanuella,

01:09 thank you so much for joining us today.

01:10 I'm very excited about our conversation.

01:12 I Thank you so much for having me. That

01:15 song was really epic.

01:17 I know, right? It's it's

01:19 >> was just like so ridiculous. It's like

01:20 the opposite of what all of this is.

01:23 But but the funny part about it is the

01:25 the whole Chris chains idea was born out

01:28 of like all the fake gurus who come out

01:30 on on you know, Instagram or YouTube and

01:32 they're like, look at how great I am,

01:33 right? And and we know that that's not

01:36 the reality of trading.

01:37 No, I I mean it's

01:40 it's definitely a wild ride and I find

01:43 that people who are I know that it's a

01:45 mix now, but people who are more to

01:47 themselves tend to be the ones that are

01:49 actually doing it. And anytime someone

01:52 is telling me that they're doing great

01:53 in trading, I'm like, show me your tax

01:56 return or show me your numbers. Like I

01:58 need to see it. Yeah, legit. And

02:01 Emanuela is no slouch. Emanuela, how

02:03 much did you did you earn last year in

02:05 the US Investing Championship? Dollar or

02:08 percent-wise?

02:09 >> Oh, percent-wise. Okay, 260%

02:12 return. Only 260%

02:15 in the 2025 US Investing Championship.

02:17 How close were you from the top? You

02:19 must have been in the top.

02:21 Yes.

02:22 I made it to the I made it to the fourth

02:24 place in my division. So, that was

02:26 pretty cool. Um

02:28 and yeah, it was definitely a ride

02:31 and something totally interesting to

02:34 have a time limit

02:37 to producing. That was

02:40 a different pressure. Yeah, it's it's

02:43 it's like you know, LeBron James in

02:46 basketball, right? He's in the finals,

02:47 he's got this pressure on him,

02:49 everybody's watching and it's like this

02:51 is a performance endeavor versus

02:54 you know, most most jobs out there are

02:55 not performance endeavors like what what

02:57 you're doing. Yeah,

02:59 that I think that that whole thing it's

03:02 there's so many things about trading

03:04 that just don't really

03:07 they take a long time to just click in

03:10 your brain.

03:12 One of them is that it is about money

03:15 and it is about profits and if you have

03:18 any kind of relationship to money that's

03:21 negative, it's really hard to

03:23 um

03:24 reconcile that.

03:26 Then it's the pressure of the

03:28 performance and then it's also like

03:32 um

03:35 it's also

03:37 that you don't earn on a regular basis.

03:41 Sometimes you earn everything in 3

03:43 months for the whole year and that's

03:47 unfathomable to like someone who's been

03:50 in a paycheck kind of situation. like

03:54 you have to understand that sometimes

03:57 if you have big earnings that might be

03:59 it for the year

04:00 for whatever reasons and you know, then

04:03 just to slow down and

04:06 kind of take your time with the rest of

04:08 the year.

04:09 It's so true and I and I like to talk

04:11 about that as well is that we don't get

04:12 to tell the market when we get paid,

04:14 right? The market will pay us whenever

04:16 it's it's good and ready, right? We

04:17 can't do anything about it other than be

04:20 ready when it arrives because there's

04:21 going to be times where the market may

04:23 take off and if you're on vacation, that

04:25 may be the best week or two of the year

04:27 and and you weren't part of it. I know.

04:30 I just had a friend of mine, a colleague

04:32 that

04:33 was on vacation for his I think it was a

04:35 30th anniversary with his wife and came

04:38 back and was like, "What?"

04:41 And I was like, "I'm so sorry." So, I

04:44 don't know, you know, it's hard because

04:46 you know,

04:47 we trade options. So, for him I said,

04:51 "You know, sometimes just maybe think

04:53 about putting on a stock position that's

04:55 easier to manage and easier to set

04:57 limits

04:58 and stop losses

05:00 if you, you know, take a peek at your

05:02 charts and it and you know, you can't

05:04 actively manage it cuz for me, I buy

05:07 options

05:08 and it's a very actively managed kind of

05:11 thing. I don't just like put it on and

05:15 sometimes, you know, a shower cost me

05:18 $1,500.

05:20 >> Right.

05:21 And I don't like that feeling. So, I've

05:23 got my alerts on. I try to stay near my

05:25 screens when I'm

05:27 in something, especially something

05:29 that's a new position

05:31 or I'm getting ready to get out of it.

05:34 So, I I'm I also like to trade options

05:37 and uh by buying them. Tell me tell me

05:39 about your your options

05:41 uh what what kind of options do you buy,

05:43 right? Do you buy deep in the money? Do

05:44 you buy out of the money, at the money?

05:45 what are you looking at? So, I have

05:50 for I have transitioned to I used to buy

05:53 out of the money options like maybe two

05:56 to five strike prices out. Um

06:00 but I went ahead and changed that to

06:02 just buying at the money options

06:05 with one to three weeks of time. Just

06:08 depends on like where we're at in the

06:10 price cycle and just overall in the

06:13 market.

06:14 Uh and

06:17 that's usually that's what I've been

06:18 doing now. So, I find that um you know,

06:22 they're still super volatile. Like you

06:24 can I mean, a few ticks

06:26 it just options like a few ticks in the

06:30 other direction and you're down like

06:32 20%. A few ticks in the direction you

06:36 picked, you're up like 5% and it's like

06:39 doesn't math.

06:41 Yeah, no no no, I get that. And and

06:43 especially those at the money options,

06:45 they can be really volatile, right?

06:46 Especially with the gamma risk that

06:48 surrounds it, right? So, so our traders

06:50 who watch this, they're smart. They know

06:51 exactly what we're talking about here.

06:52 Um

06:53 are you holding those at the money

06:54 options like how how long are you

06:57 holding? Do you know your your stats as

06:58 far as like your average duration,

06:59 anything like that? Yeah, so depends on

07:02 the season, right? So, when we were in

07:05 the

07:06 choppy we were you know, before we had

07:08 the decline in that choppy

07:11 range probably like four I'm I don't

07:14 want to be a day trader, but the

07:17 environment was not suitable. So, about

07:19 four to 12 hours

07:22 and in that kind of range. But if I'm if

07:25 we have something like what we're seeing

07:27 now and what started um

07:31 what when was then?

07:33 So, for context, we are recording this

07:36 mid-April and the market has just

07:38 bottomed and it's starting to to turn

07:39 back up and we're pushing close to

07:41 all-time highs, just out of nowhere, all

07:43 over again.

07:46 I know, and I have some regrets.

07:48 Really? Tell me about it. I I think

07:52 besides that little if you look at the

07:54 chart, especially the S&P,

07:58 um so I

08:00 my time last year had some great ups and

08:03 then some great downs. So I have been in

08:06 time out. Um a smaller position size,

08:10 taking less trades. So that's one part

08:13 of the story. But the second part is

08:15 that when you're like kind of

08:16 emotionally recovering from like a

08:19 drawdown type of, you know, a really big

08:22 uh drawdown or tilt,

08:25 um you're a little bit more jumpy,

08:28 right? Yeah. The regret I have is if you

08:30 look at the S&P, I I follow I like I

08:33 this is a chart that gives me like my

08:35 market. Um when I was looking at this,

08:38 it really just reminded me of what we

08:40 had last year, which was what we had in

08:43 2020 as well, which is just like this

08:46 part, I'm going to say, is your outlier,

08:49 right? So this is where the the panic

08:51 happened, um and we went down much

08:54 further. But something like this,

08:57 and then we found stability around this

08:59 area and we zoomed up. Mhm. I saw that

09:03 this is the same time as last year and

09:06 um

09:07 we went down pretty bee line,

09:10 found a base, and now we have this right

09:12 side of the V, right? Around the same

09:14 time, right? And that was the same thing

09:17 that happened. I was ready for it this

09:19 time because in 2020 I missed it. I was

09:21 too young a trader. I didn't know what

09:23 was going on.

09:25 And

09:26 I was I called this one last year Trump

09:31 2.0.

09:32 Uh

09:33 I didn't know we were going to have a

09:34 3.0. Yeah. I'm saying that it's exact,

09:37 but it's so similar that I it I just

09:40 didn't have it in my head that it could

09:42 have been like, all right, we're going

09:43 to flush out and we're going to just

09:45 pump back up. So, that's my regret cuz I

09:49 between

09:50 uh where I was at mentally, my exposure

09:53 limits that I've set on myself, I was

09:56 just like, okay.

09:58 I mean, what do you think? Do you see

10:00 some that's similar thing?

10:02 I actually started getting

10:04 uh I I got all the way in on Friday,

10:07 last Friday. Yeah.

10:08 >> Um it it uh it was a little bit

10:11 nerve-racking, I'll give you that,

10:12 especially with uh the golden toilet

10:14 tweets at all times, right? When he's

10:16 sitting on the toilet with his two

10:17 thumbs. Yes, I can move the financial

10:20 markets with just these two itty-bitty

10:21 baby thumbs.

10:23 Um you know, anything can happen over

10:24 the weekend and and something did

10:25 happen, right? They announced the

10:27 blockade of Hormuz and everything like

10:28 that. And so, people who are watching

10:30 this in the future, they're going to

10:30 look at this and be like, "Oh, course.

10:33 Of course I would have gone long right

10:35 there." But let's be realistic here.

10:36 With everything that's coming at you,

10:38 right? Staring at you right in the face,

10:40 can you actually sit there

10:42 and say, "Okay, you know what? It's time

10:45 to get busy." In fact, let me share my

10:46 screen real quick. Yes.

10:47 >> Um

10:49 because I got long on this candle right

10:53 here. This candle right here, I got full

10:55 portfolio into I'm at like 12 positions

10:58 right now. And um like for me, it was a

11:01 little bit nerve-racking and I saw a lot

11:03 of people, a lot of chatter in our

11:04 Discord like, "Are you sure you want to

11:05 do that? Are you sure you want to go

11:07 into the weekend with that? That sort of

11:09 risk?" And I'm like, "You know what?

11:10 This is my plan. This is the plan that

11:12 I've been working on, that I've

11:13 back-tested, that I've proven out does

11:15 work." And none of that

11:17 falls into the emotional side of maybe I

11:20 shouldn't take this, right? No.

11:22 >> And

11:23 Oh, please go ahead. No, that's it. I

11:25 also um put my positions on as well at

11:29 the same time. And it just was for me it

11:33 was just a lot less exposure than I had

11:36 wanted to

11:37 well then I wish but then again if we

11:39 just went ahead and rolled over it

11:41 wouldn't have been

11:43 I wouldn't

11:45 I'm either crying because I'm not in

11:48 enough or I'm crying because I'm losing

11:50 money and I just talked about that in my

11:52 newsletter cuz that's like does it ever

11:55 end but I think so I think as you like

11:57 start to grow like you get tired of your

12:00 at least for me I started to get tired

12:02 of my own emotions and I'm like okay

12:05 we're just going to go from here and

12:07 whatever bites I can get just try to

12:09 appreciate those. Yeah that makes sense.

12:12 Well I've got a handful of questions

12:14 here I wanted to ask you and of course

12:15 the first question I like to ask people

12:16 is how did you even get interested in

12:18 trading? Right it's a it's a very

12:19 typical male-dominated industry and of

12:22 course anytime we see a female it's it's

12:24 kind of one of those things like wait a

12:25 minute there's a girl there's a girl

12:26 that's interested in this what what's

12:28 going on here? Right? So

12:31 Yeah no I've always been interested in

12:33 the finance world in general but my I

12:36 just

12:37 when I was younger I just took a lot of

12:39 different paths that were not finance

12:43 but it's always been in the back of my

12:45 head. I mean when I even straight out of

12:48 college I was on the phones with I was a

12:50 phone rep for Fidelity Investments cuz

12:53 that was like I'm going to choose this

12:54 path

12:56 and then

12:57 and then a few years into there I don't

12:59 know if cuz of the corporate environment

13:01 or cuz I was just young and wanted to be

13:03 free and travel who knows.

13:06 I ended up doing a lot of other things

13:07 including like teaching Pilates and

13:11 I love that so much

13:13 but I eventually got back into it

13:16 because I mean there's always something

13:19 about it that draws you to being able to

13:22 create money without overhead without

13:25 employees without bosses and I thought

13:27 it was a very autonomous kind of thing

13:31 to do, and that really attracted me to

13:33 it. So,

13:34 I started to study it on my own with

13:38 free resources from the internet, and I

13:40 had a uh co-worker of mine cuz I was

13:43 working at a Lifetime um

13:46 gym,

13:47 and he was like, "Hey, there's this

13:49 class. I think you should really take

13:50 it." And I started I avoided him cuz I

13:55 was like, "Eh, I want to do this on my

13:56 own." Plus, I was like really I mean, I

13:59 wasn't bringing in a lot of money, so I

14:00 was like, "Eh, you know,

14:02 uh I don't want to spend on a course.

14:04 I'm going to try There's, you know, I

14:05 should be disciplined enough to use all

14:07 the free resources out there." But, I

14:09 ended up signing up for the class

14:10 anyways, and um so, I learned how to

14:13 trade options uh or at least a way of

14:17 trading options from this class, and

14:20 then I never looked back. Okay. So, so

14:23 that was your your gateway drug, right?

14:26 So, you had a gym bro walk up to you,

14:27 and he's like, "Hey, you want to trade

14:29 options? Look at my bicep. Isn't it so

14:31 sick, right?" Is that Is that how it

14:33 went, right? Your gym bro taught you or

14:35 at least got you interested in trading

14:37 options?

14:38 I mean, he was just

14:40 he didn't know

14:41 he we were co-workers, so he was really

14:43 kind about it, you know? He wasn't like

14:46 saying like, "Look at all the money I

14:47 make." He's just like, "If you're going

14:49 to do this, like I think it's a good

14:50 idea to like learn it from this class."

14:53 And what he was definitely right about

14:56 was that class gave me

15:00 I mean, the the instructor was such a

15:02 kick-butt instructor

15:05 that

15:06 aside from what I learned like about

15:09 technical analysis, he whipped us into

15:12 shape because

15:14 he has a way of teaching where

15:18 you

15:20 you know

15:22 I think I don't know if

15:24 I think we all suffer from like victim

15:26 mentality in some

15:27 way, shape, or form. Um, and especially

15:30 when we're younger, like things are

15:32 happening to us and like, "Oh, I can't

15:34 make money." And there was just like a

15:37 lot of brokenness, like just financially

15:41 and just not not being able to like gain

15:42 traction on anything.

15:44 This teacher, he had us studying,

15:47 reading books,

15:49 uh, everything was our fault. And

15:53 which I mean, you know, there's

15:54 spectrums to things, right? So, like if

15:58 if you're losing you're not studying

16:01 enough. If you're doing this, you're not

16:02 reading enough. Like it's on you. It's

16:04 on you. And um, I needed that. And that

16:09 gave me the just

16:13 self-reflection and awareness to

16:15 understand that I can have and do

16:19 anything I want to in this world. And

16:23 it's just a matter of continuing to go

16:26 even when things are hard, but also

16:29 being very honest with what I wanted.

16:32 So, at the time I was teaching Pilates

16:35 and I loved it. And I was also training

16:37 teachers,

16:39 but what I realized is in order to make

16:41 the income that I wanted from that, I'd

16:43 have to do like online studios and cert-

16:46 certifications and like really expand

16:48 myself as the brand. And I was like, "I

16:50 don't want to do any of that. I want to

16:52 make a a lot of money." And so, that's

16:58 kind of what attracted me to this

17:00 without having to like be on the

17:02 internet. And I mean, I'm on there now,

17:05 but it's not my main thing. Like I just

17:08 um, I use it more as an accountability.

17:10 And you know, cuz when you teach

17:12 something, you have to really know it.

17:14 Yeah. So.

17:15 >> And when you compete on the world stage,

17:18 you have to really know it as well.

17:20 Yeah.

17:21 So it's interesting you mentioned about

17:23 the the accountability that was taught

17:25 to you by your mentor. I actually worked

17:26 with a trading psychologist for about

17:27 two years and he kept,

17:29 you know, banging into my head over and

17:31 over and over the personal agency aspect

17:33 of it, which sounds a lot like what

17:35 you're talking about, which is I can

17:36 only control so many things and at the

17:38 end of the day, what can we control? We

17:40 can control where we get in, where we

17:42 get out and what size we get in with.

17:43 The rest of it is the market's job to to

17:46 either reward us or to you know, show us

17:49 that we can move on to the next trade,

17:51 right? And that's I think that's a huge

17:54 thing is having that personal agency is

17:55 to to to understand what you can control

17:58 and what you can't control. Would you

17:59 mind sharing who that instructor was or

18:02 if not, totally cool.

18:03 I mean definitely.

18:05 He's

18:07 His name is Gary Williams and

18:10 I think the website is

18:11 getmarketskills.com.

18:15 His son actually runs it now and um

18:18 I

18:19 I mean I

18:21 I think that

18:23 the discipline that

18:27 I've never had a teacher that was like

18:28 so hard but like

18:31 if unless you are like disciplined and a

18:34 professional and you're coming into this

18:36 and you're very like self-regulated and

18:38 all of that, you can skip that class.

18:41 But most people coming into this space

18:43 are in a place where they're trying to

18:45 leave their jobs or they're trying to

18:47 make money or they're just not there

18:49 mentally and emotionally. You really

18:51 have to build yourself in order to do

18:54 this on a professional level. There's

18:56 just no way around it. So yeah, I really

18:59 enjoyed my time with him. Very cool.

19:01 Thank you for sharing.

19:04 So originally that type of trading you I

19:07 think you mentioned earlier that you

19:08 don't quite trade the same way in the

19:10 anymore. What was that style of trading?

19:12 So, very um it's very technical based.

19:16 Um

19:18 and the biggest difference and one of

19:22 the reasons that I

19:24 I think everyone wants to start with

19:26 someone like take some time to go out on

19:28 your own

19:30 um to really like get things integrated

19:34 for yourself.

19:36 Uh

19:37 the styles don't vary too much. It's

19:40 still very much based on structure and

19:42 where we're at in the price cycle.

19:45 Uh the biggest difference is that I use

19:47 like a quarter of the technicals that he

19:50 was using.

19:51 >> Oh.

19:52 Got you. So, so you've cleaned up your

19:54 charts, it sounds like. I had to

19:56 simplify because it's too much noise. Um

20:00 and

20:01 I don't think you need all that

20:04 for

20:06 the duration that I'm in a trade. Like

20:09 I maybe look to the bigger charts like

20:13 the monthly

20:15 chart is probably the biggest chart I

20:16 look at, but mostly if I'm like looking

20:18 to put on a longer-term stock position.

20:21 But besides that, I look at the weekly

20:24 to set up my levels. And then my four

20:27 time frames that are on my

20:30 screen during the day are just 5-minute,

20:33 15-minute, hourly, and daily. Okay. 5,

20:36 15, hourly, and daily. So,

20:39 do you You you mentioned earlier you

20:41 used to trade when the market was choppy

20:45 around 4 to 12 hours, but you prefer

20:48 longer-term swing trading, right? How

20:49 how long is longer-term Well, I

20:51 shouldn't say longer-term. That's that's

20:52 me putting your words in your mouth.

20:54 Yeah, that's true. Uh how how long does

20:55 the swing trading aspect actually look

20:57 for you on a on a normal market?

21:00 Uh anywhere from

21:03 a few days or three or four Like we say

21:07 normal market. Right now it's a pretty

21:08 strong uptrend but like three to five

21:11 days or

21:14 just under like a

21:16 under two weeks so maybe like a week and

21:18 a half.

21:18 >> Got you. That makes that makes total

21:20 sense especially for the the duration of

21:22 options you're looking at which you said

21:23 was one to three weeks. Yeah. That's

21:25 another difference because I shortened

21:27 my expiration cuz I like to trade one

21:30 leg at a time.

21:32 Okay, what does that mean to you one leg

21:34 at a time?

21:34 >> So for me one leg at a time is you

21:38 I'm in a trade

21:40 I would say like on the daily time frame

21:42 you'll see

21:45 where it starts to sputter out and get

21:46 flat.

21:48 So once once we've got a significant

21:51 move on that I'll come out and then I'll

21:53 wait for a little digestion

21:56 and then see if there's another leg on

21:58 that. So

22:00 >> Oh, I I see what you're saying. I see

22:01 you're not in it for like the the 50-day

22:03 move or something like that. You're in

22:05 it for the pop and then once it starts

22:07 to do with the consolidation you're

22:08 you're getting out and maybe moving to

22:10 something else and you're looking for

22:11 the next pop to to show where that's

22:13 going, right? Yep. Okay, I'm glad I

22:15 asked because generally when people talk

22:17 about options and legs you're talking

22:18 about like an iron condor like a

22:20 four-leg strategy or something like

22:21 that.

22:21 >> no that's so when you're talking to I am

22:26 the least

22:28 I will know nothing. I know of the

22:30 words. I know what an iron condor is. I

22:32 know what gamma theta delta beta

22:34 whatever all those I know what all of

22:37 those are but I don't pay attention to

22:39 them at all. So

22:41 I actually think that's great and I'll

22:43 give you a great story that that goes

22:45 along with exactly what you just said.

22:46 So I worked in finance for 12 years and

22:49 I did consulting on a on a daily basis.

22:52 I was reaching out to credit unions and

22:54 I would show them where they could make

22:55 more money in their portfolios and have

22:57 less risk. That was my thing day in day

22:58 out. And I started picking up options on

23:01 the side. This is what I was doing on my

23:03 own. And you know, I'd be talking around

23:05 the office about it. And one day I was

23:06 talking to my my boss at the time. And

23:09 he's like he was a CFA, which is like

23:11 one of the hardest certifications you

23:13 can get in finance. And super

23:15 intelligent guy, but a dick. And

23:18 so he and I were talking one day and

23:20 he's like, oh yeah, if you're so smart,

23:22 what's the what's the Black-Scholes

23:24 model formula there real real quick,

23:26 buddy? And I'm like,

23:28 well, I don't know off top of my head.

23:30 And I don't have to know it off top of

23:31 my head. I just know how to make money

23:32 using options. Yes.

23:33 >> And that shut him up real good. And I

23:34 love that that is also the type of type

23:37 of trader you are, right? I don't need

23:38 to know all the details. I just need to

23:39 know how to make money. I think that's

23:41 brilliant. That's why I simplified

23:43 everything. There was a lot of things

23:45 that I had to unlearn because when you

23:47 have too much information, it's

23:51 you cannot execute quickly.

23:53 You're in a paralyzed state and you're

23:55 checking like 10 different things and

23:57 it's like no, you for me I look at the

24:00 structure, I look where we're at and I'm

24:02 like, okay, I'm going to put a little

24:03 line here and I'm going to get in. If it

24:06 crosses the line below my line, I'm

24:09 going to get out. And I have rules

24:11 around like how long I you know, I let

24:13 it cuz it'll cross the line sometimes

24:15 and pop back up. So I have rules around

24:17 that. But for the most part, that's what

24:19 it is because I don't know what it's

24:21 going to do. I can just put my best

24:23 prediction forward. So.

24:26 I love that. I mean, first off, talking

24:28 about how

24:29 you don't know what the market's going

24:30 to do. I think embracing the uncertainty

24:32 is the only way to be successful in the

24:34 markets, right? There's

24:36 because I am a quote professional

24:37 YouTuber, I'm doing lots of research on

24:39 all these other channels, right? And I

24:41 found one channel that's way too big for

24:43 his own good. And he talks all the time

24:45 about this is what the market should do

24:47 here. It should go up, it should go

24:49 down. And I like to say should is the

24:51 most dangerous word in finance. And you

24:52 know this too, Emanuela, because like

24:54 anytime you think it should do something

24:56 and you put your money behind it, you're

24:58 about to get monkey hammered, right? The

24:59 market does not care what you think.

25:01 It's going to do what it's going to do.

25:03 No, everything that you read about in

25:06 books like Market Wizards and things

25:08 from top traders who are actually paying

25:12 their bills and making a living and more

25:14 from this is true. The market is just it

25:18 doesn't care about you whatsoever, and

25:21 should isn't should not be part of your

25:23 vocabulary.

25:25 Even Even when I write my newsletter, I

25:28 I make sure to say may do this, and I

25:31 give different scenarios. Like even for

25:33 the newsletter I put out on Sunday, I

25:36 said, "And for those who think we might,

25:39 you know, roll over from here, this is

25:41 what it would look like." I give all the

25:43 scenarios of up, down, sideways because

25:45 you don't know, but you want to be ready

25:47 to

25:48 to see what kind of price action is

25:51 happening

25:52 that might give you clues, but that's

25:54 it. Yeah, exactly.

25:57 So, how long have have you been trading?

25:58 You mentioned earlier that you were

26:00 trading back in 2020. How long have you

26:02 been trading?

26:03 So, 2019 is when I started learning to

26:06 trade options,

26:09 and for the first 2 years I lost tens

26:12 and thousands of dollars.

26:15 But, I had a day job back then, so I was

26:18 transitioning from training,

26:20 doing the Pilates to I also had a role

26:23 as an operations director.

26:26 So, I was director of operations for an

26:28 Amazon consulting firm.

26:30 And so, having lost so much, you know, I

26:34 would just refill, refill, refill.

26:37 And

26:39 Yeah, so that it was those first 2

26:41 years, I mean, when I took that class, I

26:44 thought that by the weekend I was going

26:46 to be a millionaire. I was like, "Oh my

26:48 god, I can see the charts. I know what

26:51 I'm doing. Yeah. It was so wild. It was

26:55 I cried so many times. And I I mean, I

26:58 still cry. Like I will still drop some

27:01 tears. So.

27:03 Yeah, I get that. Yeah, 2021 is when I

27:06 started to see real change and

27:08 profitability.

27:10 And then some somewhere between 2022 and

27:13 2023 when I left the group I was in I

27:17 wanted to just go on my own, keep things

27:19 very simple. Um I realized I needed

27:23 structure. Uh and that's when I created

27:26 I had another mentor. Um I By the way,

27:29 like whoever is listening to this, like

27:31 mentors and um whether you're working

27:34 with a psychologist or therapist, it

27:37 doesn't matter. You need You need I

27:39 always say it takes a village to raise a

27:42 trader because you have to have like a

27:46 bunch of support, especially if you're

27:50 new. When you're new, you need to find

27:52 someone and stick with them until you're

27:54 ready to And you don't have to go on

27:56 your own. I just chose it because I

27:58 needed something different for myself.

28:00 Yeah.

28:01 What changed in 2021 that brought you to

28:04 profitability? Cuz you said the first 2

28:06 years were just very difficult. And And

28:09 there's nothing wrong with that, right?

28:10 I want to preface this and say

28:12 I like to say that uh there's there's a

28:14 90-90-90 rule. You're probably familiar

28:16 with it, where 90% of traders blow up

28:18 90% of their accounts the first 90 days

28:20 of trading. I blew up my account twice.

28:22 I lost over $200,000 thinking I was a

28:24 genius by selling options. Get this,

28:26 Emanuella. I had a 84% I'm the only guy

28:29 in the in the whole world that could

28:31 have had an 84% win rate, yet lost

28:33 $200,000.

28:35 What a genius I was, right? Thinking I

28:37 was so smart the whole whole way down.

28:39 So, the first year of trading, don't

28:41 expect to win, right? If you can not

28:43 blow out your account, you're in the top

28:44 10% of traders. Year two, you want to

28:46 try to get to break even. Year three,

28:48 maybe you can start put posting profits.

28:50 And year four, then if you have survived

28:53 that long, you might actually be

28:54 profitable in the market. What changed

28:56 for you around 2021 where things started

28:59 clicking?

29:00 I think for me it was just like

29:02 so one of the reasons I went on my own

29:05 is because I was so concerned with like

29:08 following someone's strategy that wasn't

29:09 a fit for me. Mhm.

29:12 And

29:15 it

29:17 So I was I was going from like trying

29:21 to, you know, get a gold star for

29:24 someone else's strategies and then I

29:26 started to just like strip out what was

29:29 working for me and what changed was

29:32 probably that

29:34 in my head I was like this is about

29:35 profits. Like I understand that like I

29:39 do understand. I don't want to mix it up

29:41 that, you know, um

29:44 the thing that they say about like it's

29:47 you know, follow the process and it's

29:49 like don't worry about the numbers and

29:51 everything like that. That that is true.

29:54 But for me it's like what is going to

29:56 make me profitable? Because I was like

29:59 that's the whole point of this. So I was

30:00 like what is impacting me

30:04 from like losing I would go from like

30:07 having a winning trade to it going red.

30:10 I had that a lot.

30:11 I would um

30:13 definitely oversize

30:16 and I think probably if I were to give

30:20 you

30:22 the main thing it it was probably just

30:24 taking my profits earlier. I started to

30:26 learn to scale out and I started to

30:29 learn

30:30 what other people on the internet were

30:32 doing. So YouTube I mean you can really

30:35 learn a lot on YouTube.

30:39 But again I I that it's really good to

30:41 have someone that you're working with

30:43 and then as you explore things that are

30:45 suited for your plan but um I learned a

30:49 lot from different people I was watching

30:51 and I was like, "Oh, this person doesn't

30:53 hold their position the whole time." And

30:57 they pay themselves and I was like, "I'm

30:58 going to start paying myself." So little

31:00 things like that um it's never one thing

31:03 it's always an accumulation of things.

31:06 Got you.

31:07 Do you um cuz I want to ask cuz this is

31:10 one of the the the greatest ninja hacks

31:12 that I ever came across.

31:14 Um the

31:15 there was a guy on CNBC one day and he

31:17 and I got into a Twitter argument and I

31:20 was like, "No, what you're doing is so

31:21 dumb." And he's like, "Shut up, you

31:22 don't know what you're talking about."

31:24 And I like, "No, you're wrong." Of

31:25 course as Twitter arguments go, right?

31:27 And he's like, "Why don't you come down

31:28 here to Austin and and tell it to my

31:30 face?" And I said, "I'll meet you 5

31:31 hours from now. Let's go." So I met him

31:34 at a Starbucks Austin. Yeah, no way.

31:36 Yeah, legit. Um so I met him at a

31:39 Starbucks in Austin and we got to

31:40 talking.

31:41 And uh his name is Mike Coe and one of

31:44 the things that that I learned from him,

31:46 like he could understand, you know, my

31:48 my passion in the markets. One of the

31:50 things I learned from him was rolling my

31:51 options. And rolling my options meaning

31:54 like if I'm buying an option and it

31:56 starts to work, I'll then roll it from

31:58 one strike down and when I take the

32:00 credit off of that, I'm taking partial

32:02 profits and um I'm freeing up capital

32:05 that I can put on new trades with and uh

32:07 I'm allowing the trade to stay on pretty

32:09 close to the deltas that I originally

32:11 put on on the original trade. And so

32:14 when you mentioned, you know, taking uh

32:16 you know, partial profits on the way up,

32:18 we recently did a back test and we found

32:20 that the um a lot of people like to uh

32:23 put on their position, maybe their full

32:24 size, maybe for example, maybe it's 10

32:26 contracts and if it moves up 3 5% or so,

32:29 start peeling off and maybe have, you

32:31 know, five contracts as it works all the

32:32 way up. Um we found that the only time

32:35 that that actually made sense by pulling

32:38 off half your position or whatever it

32:39 is, is if the market drops like silver

32:41 did a few weeks ago by 30%. Any other

32:44 time, if it didn't drop by 30%, you're

32:47 actually leaving money on the table

32:48 versus rolling into uh the full position

32:51 size by rolling those uh those trades.

32:53 And so, I wanted to bring that to you as

32:55 a fellow options trader. Maybe that's

32:56 something you could incorporate into

32:57 your plan because it works like

32:59 gangbusters and um definitely something

33:01 I I would highly recommend if you

33:03 haven't done that already. Is that

33:03 something you do? Mhm. I haven't done

33:06 that um

33:07 and you're talking about

33:09 you're saying because if unless it's

33:12 like backing up, more than likely it's

33:15 going up and I'm just pulling

33:17 uh contracts off before it continues

33:20 >> what you're doing? Well, let me rephrase

33:22 that. Are Is that what you're doing in

33:24 these trades as you mentioned paying

33:25 yourself as it goes? Are you taking off

33:27 position a partial position on the way

33:29 up? I set Yeah, I set targets um based

33:32 on the daily and hourly chart time frame

33:36 and there cuz there are there are places

33:39 on the chart where it might pull back or

33:41 it might pause and it's just based off

33:43 of levels. So, I have like two to three

33:45 different targets that I pull take some

33:48 of my position off. But no, I definitely

33:50 I'm I'm open to to uh learning new

33:55 things. I'm just very protective of what

33:58 I do and how I do it. Oh, yeah. I get

34:00 that.

34:01 But I um but I will say that this year

34:04 I've been thinking about

34:06 uh

34:09 this being more than just like

34:11 you know, making a living.

34:13 Um

34:13 I'm wondering how to get to the next

34:16 level. So, you know, I can get to six

34:18 figures, but how do I get to higher six

34:21 figures? How do I break into seven? Can

34:23 I do that, you know? So, since that's

34:26 been on my mind, I do think about are

34:28 there some things that could actually be

34:30 helpful um

34:32 where I've you know, I've been very, you

34:34 know, I'm I stick to what I do and I

34:38 don't want to

34:39 mess up what I'm doing. Yeah.

34:41 >> But I think that there are going to be

34:43 some things to learn

34:46 that can help me

34:48 uh move to the next level.

34:50 Dude, what I mean

34:52 I'm constantly trying to to find new

34:54 ways to improve my edge and I you seem

34:56 like the kind of person who would be

34:57 like that as well. I mean, just this

34:59 year I've made several changes to my

35:01 plan because it's it's new data brought

35:03 to my attention. It's like, wait a

35:04 minute. That actually could prove to be

35:07 something useful. I'm going to start

35:09 implementing that right away. And of

35:10 course, you got to look at it as like,

35:11 you know what? Is there really a flaw in

35:13 my plan?

35:15 If not, then then maybe there's nothing

35:16 to do or is this a way to eke out a

35:18 little bit more edge? Maybe there is

35:20 something here, right? And listen, it's

35:22 from from somebody who who pulled out

35:24 260% last year, I shouldn't be telling

35:26 you anything, right? I should be

35:27 listening, writing down everything that

35:29 you have to say because you have clearly

35:31 know what you're doing, right? You

35:32 clearly know what you're doing. How did

35:34 you Was this your first year in the uh

35:36 the US Investing Championship? I I

35:38 entered with like a $10,000 account the

35:41 year before and didn't even make it out

35:43 the first month.

35:45 Um

35:47 It wasn't It was It was a a singular

35:50 account. Wasn't It was specific for the

35:52 competition. And I was like, I'll just

35:54 allocate 10 grand and I'm going to grow

35:56 it to 100K.

35:58 Uh I didn't make it out and uh so cuz

36:01 you asked if it was my first year. So

36:02 technically, it's my second year, but I

36:04 didn't even finish competing. I didn't

36:06 turn anything in. I uh think I had a few

36:09 grand left in that account and just

36:11 moved it over to my other account. Yeah.

36:14 Yeah. Okay. So so that leads into one of

36:16 my questions which I I

36:18 I love this question to ask champions

36:21 like yourself.

36:22 Because especially in 2024, how did you

36:25 gather the courage to jump into the US

36:28 Investing Championship knowing that the

36:29 whole world would be able to see your

36:31 verified results. How did you know you

36:33 would do well? And then in 2024, right?

36:36 It didn't go to plan.

36:38 How did you know in 2025 that everything

36:41 would be different?

36:42 I didn't.

36:44 Um I didn't, but I am a bit competitive.

36:47 I also like to I mean, as you mentioned,

36:51 this is still very much a boys club.

36:53 Like when I was in high school, uh I

36:57 fought to get into a weightlifting class

36:59 that was during the day and I pointed to

37:01 the smallest guy and I said, "I can lift

37:04 more than he can. Let me in class." And

37:08 I got enrolled as the first woman or

37:10 first girl in my high school uh

37:12 weightlifting class cuz I was running

37:14 track. Like you needed to do strength

37:15 training.

37:16 So,

37:18 when we're we're talking about the

37:19 competition, I didn't know if I was

37:21 going to place or anything.

37:24 Um but it's it was a culmination of

37:27 just my competitive spirit, trying to

37:29 break into the boys club, and then also

37:34 there have been, you know, there's more

37:37 and more traders out there

37:39 nowadays and I think it is very

37:42 important that you enter competitions to

37:45 show like put your money where your

37:48 mouth is because

37:50 as I was saying earlier, people will

37:51 talk about, "Oh, yeah, I'm a trader."

37:54 And "Oh, yeah, I did really well." And

37:56 then you don't hear from them. You don't

37:57 hear about the losses and it's like,

37:59 "No, I want to hear from you." Like So,

38:01 I think it's important, especially if

38:03 you are if you have like a public space,

38:06 like on a you know, YouTube or

38:07 something, you need to enter these

38:09 competitions and show that your strategy

38:11 works. Like I

38:13 I just Yeah, so that's kind of how I got

38:16 to it. No, I'm really glad that you said

38:18 that because in fact, when we talked to

38:20 to Norm, Norm Zada, the the the

38:23 organizer. That's exactly what he said.

38:25 He said years ago, like he wanted to

38:26 make a competition for all these these

38:29 these guys on TV talking about how great

38:30 they are. Well, prove it, right? And I

38:33 love that because that's exactly the

38:35 mentality I took this year, right?

38:36 There's so so many incredible investing

38:40 geniuses on YouTube.

38:42 And yet, none of them compete in the US

38:45 Investing Championship. That's so weird.

38:46 I wonder why they I wonder why they

38:48 don't do that. I mean, it's so And if

38:51 you do have that much money, like you

38:54 can also just enter the division that I

38:57 did, which you only need 20,000. So,

38:59 they can just siphon off 20,000 and

39:01 trade that account. Like you don't even

39:03 have to trade with your whole portfolio.

39:05 But to me, it's just like it I I'm just

39:08 like show me. So.

39:10 Yeah, exactly.

39:12 Very cool, Emmanuelle. I love being able

39:14 to to find ways to to bond with with

39:17 with you on this because you and I have

39:19 a lot of similarities. So,

39:21 you compete in the US Investing

39:22 Championship in 2024, and in 2025, you

39:25 did an amazing result, 260% gains in a

39:28 single year. Are you competing in 2026?

39:31 I am.

39:32 Yeah. How's that going so far?

39:34 Uh

39:35 well, up until this last little boost

39:38 we've gotten, I was pretty flat. So,

39:42 I've been taking a lot less trades.

39:45 Um I'm up about 30% right now.

39:48 So,

39:49 just just looking to

39:53 not make So, I will say that

39:57 I don't have the

40:00 Like I'm recovered. And what I keep

40:02 talking about recovery is like I had a

40:04 much higher percent last year, and then

40:07 I gave back a good chunk of profits.

40:10 So, it that took a toll on me. Um as of

40:13 There was one day

40:15 that one day last week where I was like,

40:18 okay, I feel like myself now. And I it

40:22 was even it was a red day for myself.

40:24 Like my it wasn't even because my

40:26 accounts were in green. I was like, I

40:27 felt the shift that I was ready to go

40:30 again. So, um

40:33 yeah, competing again. I I don't want to

40:36 be like the one-hit wonders, you know?

40:38 Like

40:39 I think that if you're actually a good

40:42 trader, that you can

40:44 do it again. Um

40:46 so, just that's kind of what I'm doing.

40:49 That makes total sense. I forget, there

40:51 was one of the guests we talked to.

40:53 Uh it may have been Morad Azadi. He said

40:55 he's more impressed by somebody who

40:57 repeatedly year after year after year

41:00 puts up, you know, even even somewhat

41:02 modest returns. Like your 30 only 30% so

41:05 far this year. He prefers to see those

41:07 people who have the consistency versus

41:10 somebody who gets 400% one year and then

41:12 is completely out the next year. And I

41:14 think that's really important as well,

41:15 right? How how can you really make

41:17 generational wealth if you blow it up

41:19 one year and then you literally blow out

41:21 the next year? That's just not going to

41:22 happen. Right. It doesn't.

41:26 So, if you could start all over again,

41:29 what would you do differently to find

41:30 success faster in the markets?

41:33 Like from when I first started in 2019?

41:36 >> imagine if you're a completely green,

41:38 you've never traded anything before.

41:40 What would you do? What would you tell

41:41 younger Emanuella who's ready to get in

41:43 the markets and she's like, "I'm going

41:45 to know everything by this weekend."

41:47 What would you tell her to get up to

41:48 speed faster? Oh.

41:50 Um

41:56 you know, when I think back to like who

41:59 I was and

42:03 just my mindset back then,

42:07 I don't know if

42:09 even if I told that person what to do if

42:13 I would have heard it. That's why I

42:15 think a lot of this is just really a

42:19 journey that some people can

42:22 you know, flip the switch in 6 months

42:25 and they're like, okay, I get it. And

42:27 some people are

42:30 years, five, maybe 10 years like till

42:33 they get it or never do. Um

42:38 I think that it really depends where

42:40 you're at mentally.

42:42 And

42:44 that's why I always give credit to my

42:46 first mentor where it's like, if I

42:48 didn't get out of that victim mentality

42:51 and also at that time I like had $40,000

42:55 in consumer debt. I and I

42:59 everything that he was teaching us was

43:02 like work, work hard, you know, have

43:04 three jobs, get out of debt, pay your

43:06 mortgage off. Like he was like on us.

43:09 Um if I didn't have that, I don't think

43:12 that I would have gotten to the place to

43:13 to even absorb like

43:16 to listen to what I, you know, what we

43:20 we all collectively tell new traders.

43:23 Um it's really about building yourself

43:25 up and

43:28 working through

43:32 I don't know if there's another word for

43:34 like the victim mentality.

43:36 But it just kind of is

43:39 it you have to understand that you

43:42 have complete agency over yourself and

43:46 what you want in this life.

43:48 We are also very blessed to be

43:51 I mean, I think we live super privileged

43:53 just a lot of us. We have access to a

43:56 lot, especially through the internet,

43:59 through our communities, and just taking

44:02 advantage of that and just really

44:04 meeting the right people. So.

44:07 Well, I'm really happy that you did meet

44:08 the right people, right? That eventually

44:10 led you to finding that success. That's

44:12 awesome. Yeah. Would you be open to

44:14 sharing some of your trading strategy?

44:16 Maybe some trades that you're looking at

44:18 now, maybe something you've put on maybe

44:19 last year that you're comfortable with

44:21 sharing, right? I want to see what that

44:23 edge looks like, Emanuella.

44:27 Yeah, for sure. Um all right. So, I have

44:30 two two ways I trade.

44:33 One is breakout and one is a retest

44:36 after the breakout. So, super simple.

44:39 Um Hood is one of my

44:42 uh breakout positions and I went ahead

44:46 and took an option and a stock position

44:49 on it.

44:50 And I bought it

44:56 This This corner here is the daily

44:58 chart. So, I bought um my stock position

45:02 here on Thursday uh

45:04 the 9th.

45:06 And then I bought my option position

45:09 here on Friday the 10th.

45:11 Um

45:13 I'm a little looser with my uh stock

45:16 positions. Um

45:18 I mean, not much, but

45:21 I went ahead and the reason I got into

45:24 it is I think how I trade is very

45:26 simple. My questions that I ask are is

45:30 it done going down? That's the first

45:32 question.

45:33 So, is it done going down means am I

45:35 already seeing pops of buyers? And I saw

45:39 this first pop of buyers here with

45:41 earnings. And then it kind of just

45:43 puttered out and then I saw another pop

45:46 of buyers here. And then we had this

45:48 nice little flush out. So, in my mind,

45:50 anything on this First of all, we're on

45:53 the right side of the base. So, anything

45:55 on the right side of the base, as long

45:57 as we're holding over here around that I

45:59 have it marked 66 62,

46:03 then I'm expecting it to go up from

46:05 here. Even I wasn't in it when it tested

46:09 here and pulled back, but it's kind of

46:11 that's just how I look at it. So,

46:14 for my

46:16 um

46:17 for my stock position, if we can make

46:19 our way back up here um around 105,

46:24 between a you know, 100 is going to be

46:26 your psychological level, 105.

46:28 Um

46:29 we make our way back up, I might take

46:31 some off. And um as far as the option

46:34 goes, just here about 95. So, nothing

46:38 major.

46:39 Got you. So, what what was your catalyst

46:42 to say

46:43 that to you it's done going down? I

46:46 mean, it's popped like $10 since since

46:48 that point. So, you're totally right on

46:49 the money right there. Yeah.

46:50 >> What was it that you were looking for?

46:52 I look for I call it pop of buyers. So,

46:55 I see pop of buyers here. I saw some

46:58 more interest. I see levels that are

47:00 holding.

47:01 Um and as you can see this little gray

47:04 uh rectangle I have, I kind of just take

47:07 the structure and I group it and I want

47:10 to buy towards the bottom of the

47:11 structure. So, that's something that I

47:14 learned from day traders. Yeah. That's

47:16 how what they look at cuz I used to buy

47:18 up here when things were already going.

47:21 But for options, buying options, you

47:22 can't do that. So, um I made my box

47:26 based off of this data earlier. I saw

47:28 the interest. I saw everything hold up.

47:31 Um I wasn't too concerned about this

47:33 because I'm like, "Okay, this is just it

47:35 can just be a flush out." And I saw this

47:38 all of this buyers picking up and I was

47:41 like, "Okay, I'm in."

47:43 Have you heard of Nicolas Darvas? Do you

47:44 know who he is?

47:46 The Is that the Darvas box? Yes. It

47:49 sounds a lot like you're popping out of

47:51 a bottom of a Darvas box and popping

47:52 back into it.

47:54 Um I I of the Darvas box. I don't know

47:57 much about him.

47:59 Um

47:59 >> Oh, that is one of my top five trading

48:01 books. Let me give me just a second

48:02 here. I would highly Do you like to

48:04 read?

48:05 I love to read. Ah, well, I got a I got

48:07 a collection for you. Let me I would

48:09 highly recommend uh this one right here,

48:11 How I Made $2 Million in the Stock

48:13 Market. Uh this was written by Nicolas

48:15 Darvas in the 1950s. And a funny story

48:17 about him, he was a dancer. Like it's

48:19 his job was to go out and shake his

48:21 booty on the stage. That was his actual

48:22 job. And he did it from all over the

48:23 world. And um he found that the further

48:26 away he got from Wall Street, the more

48:28 money he made because he could focus in

48:30 on the price action versus the story

48:31 going around all that.

48:33 >> noise

48:33 >> Uh

48:34 yeah, this is a great book. Uh this

48:36 edition was uh updated and amended with

48:38 uh our commentary by Steve Burns. Do you

48:40 know Steve Burns from Twitter?

48:42 No. Oh man, Steve, he's got like

48:45 800,000 something followers. He's huge

48:46 on Twitter. Uh one of my direct mentors.

48:49 Um and so he goes through each chapter

48:51 and he's like, "Okay, here's like a

48:52 modern spin on an on what he's talking

48:54 about in in in this book." So,

48:56 definitely one that I would recommend,

48:57 especially because it fits somewhat

48:58 within your trading style.

49:00 Um I mean, if dudes dudes making $2

49:01 million bucks in 1950, you could

49:03 probably make a couple dollars more than

49:04 that in 2026, right?

49:06 >> into that, I would be just so grateful.

49:08 Uh

49:09 that's what I'm looking for. Um I

49:13 you know,

49:14 what we're talking about is like I just

49:17 do the the most basic of basic things

49:19 and if I can find things that will give

49:21 me a little bit more edge, great. I

49:23 think that working with day traders um

49:26 I work with some last year because I was

49:29 like, "Okay, I need to get my entries a

49:31 little bit better because I just need to

49:33 have more room." Um so, that's how I

49:37 started putting started using the

49:39 5-minute um

49:41 uh chart as well in order to try to get

49:44 a better price. And that's been very,

49:46 very helpful so far cuz you know, even

49:49 just even just me having a lot, I'm only

49:53 allowed to put so much on right now cuz

49:55 I'm still coming out of my time out.

49:58 Um

49:59 it still helped me so much uh

50:02 because the

50:04 the if it does pull back, it's still

50:07 within my risk limit. Um

50:10 so that takes a lot of pressure off um

50:13 if you get a really good entry. Right.

50:16 So

50:17 we talked about what you were looking

50:18 for on the structure of Hood. Yeah.

50:21 >> you get to finding Hood? Right? How did

50:23 you screen down from a thousand stocks,

50:25 10,000 stocks just down to Hood? So

50:29 Okay, here again is, you know, when you

50:32 talk about

50:33 beta and deltas and all that, I I also

50:37 don't really screen because I don't know

50:39 if I really need to because the internet

50:41 tells you what's popular right now. So

50:45 I have a list um of stocks that are on

50:48 my review list and I think it's like

50:51 maybe 20, 25 Yeah, so here we go.

50:55 Um I just go with like

50:58 big name, solid names, things that I'm

51:00 familiar with trading

51:02 um like Net- Netflix. Yeah. I was

51:05 calling this one out um pretty early. Um

51:09 and

51:10 >> right now, the one you're about to click

51:12 on. Yeah, that's awesome.

51:15 Um so just kind of names that are

51:18 floating around um some OGs like I'm

51:22 I've been trying to see if this one will

51:24 break out of here.

51:26 Um it already broke out of its This is

51:28 Apple. It already broke out of its base

51:30 and I'm just like I've got a small

51:32 position on and I'm like, "Why won't you

51:34 move from here?"

51:37 I'm like, "Please, come on." So

51:41 um yeah, names that you've seen and then

51:44 I'll have Uh, I actually have a list

51:47 here too that is

51:50 um

51:53 These are my stock plays. So, these are

51:55 ones where

51:57 the spread is a little too big for my

52:00 taste.

52:01 >> For the options.

52:02 >> Yeah. So, these are ones that I keep on

52:05 um actually I've never traded like

52:07 SanDisk, but I've heard about it. So, I

52:10 I put it on here to to um peep peep it

52:14 out. Um

52:15 but really it's just like

52:18 I just find names that are either OGs

52:23 like American Express and Apple um Meta

52:28 or names that I've never heard of, but

52:30 someone's mentioned them to me and I put

52:32 them on the list and I just look at the

52:34 chart and then I decide if I'm going to

52:36 trade it based if I'm going to trade it

52:39 as a

52:40 uh stock or an option.

52:42 And what I'm looking for in general like

52:45 what allows it to stay on my list is I

52:48 just want some smooth movements. So,

52:50 when it moves I want it to be

52:52 um

52:53 just

52:56 uh smooth for lack of a better word. Um

52:59 that was also what my first teacher

53:01 drilled into us. You

53:04 want to get into something that's I

53:06 think I don't know if Costco

53:09 is not smooth. Yeah. So, like Costco's

53:12 always doing this.

53:14 Um there's no like really clear

53:17 movement, right? And so, a lot of these

53:20 other ones are

53:23 just you get good runs up and then you

53:27 get good runs down just

53:30 a little smoother chart visually. So,

53:33 less gaps um

53:35 you might saw it wicks both ways, but

53:37 I'm looking for something tradeable,

53:39 right? So, like Five

53:41 Five Below is on my radar right now.

53:45 Um it's already in an uptrend. It's

53:48 doing some

53:50 popped up from here. So, we'll see which

53:52 direction it goes, but everything um

53:56 you know, it's retested. This is my 50

53:58 SMA.

53:59 Uh and this was something that was

54:01 introduced by a friend of mine. So, I

54:04 don't know. I really don't don't screen.

54:07 That can be something that maybe will

54:09 help me because what I would like to do

54:12 is get in something like MU

54:17 and be there for the most of the ride.

54:20 So,

54:24 >> Yeah. See, I like all of this. I like

54:26 all of this. Like it gives you just a

54:29 base, somewhere to have, you know,

54:33 just very stable and then you've got a

54:35 lot of room to the upside.

54:37 Yeah, that makes sense.

54:40 I mean, you know, I'm curious. What what

54:41 moving averages do you have in your

54:42 charts there?

54:44 Um so, I've got the 5 10 20 50 and 200.

54:50 Oh, very cool. I use the 10 20 50. So,

54:52 yeah, similar similar ones there.

54:55 Yeah, so I don't know if I'm going to

54:57 I've taken the 200 off on and off. I've

55:01 taken it off

55:02 on and off, yeah.

55:05 But, the 10 and 20 are great, especially

55:07 if a trend's going. They're pretty like

55:09 visual visually easy to see

55:13 when a stock is riding along it. Mhm.

55:16 And the the 50 to me is like, are we

55:19 above or below? So, bullish or bearish,

55:22 you know? I think it's pretty simple.

55:25 Yeah. I use a my trend template is

55:28 probably exactly the same as yours. It's

55:30 10 over the 20 and then price over the

55:32 50. So, it sounds like we're almost in

55:34 the same boat there.

55:36 Yeah, 10 over the 20, price over the 50.

55:39 Um yeah, that sounds like when I was um

55:42 one of the things in 2023 that I was

55:46 like, "Oh my gosh, y'all. Do y'all know

55:48 about stages?" Cuz

55:50 I never learned about that.

55:52 Yeah. And uh so it just sounds like

55:55 that, which is I learned it through Mark

55:57 Minervini, uh his book. I I love

56:01 I love

56:03 people who put really good stuff out

56:06 there, you know? Um

56:08 Who's this Minervini guy? I've I've

56:10 never heard of him. Mark Minervini? No,

56:13 who who is this guy? I've never never

56:15 heard of him before ever.

56:17 He's he's one

56:19 uh I'm messing with you. Okay, I was

56:21 like No, Mark's a friend of mine. He was

56:23 he was on Yeah, he was on uh on the same

56:26 interview series that you were on right

56:28 now just a few weeks ago, yeah. So

56:31 this

56:32 like if you're if you've got new people,

56:35 like everyone has to read this book. I

56:38 think it's so well

56:40 um written. Yeah, this one here, Trade

56:42 Like a Stock Market Wizard. Yeah,

56:43 absolutely. Um it was the first time I

56:47 was introduced to stages, and it's crazy

56:50 that I'd been profitable before then. Um

56:54 so pretty much what you're saying is

56:57 I like to catch the move, you know, the

57:00 breakout from the base, right? So that's

57:02 not a Mark Minervini thing. But after it

57:05 breaks out, then it's what he does is

57:08 you know, you wait for the

57:10 the consolidation, you wait for the

57:12 lower low volume.

57:14 Um

57:16 for me, I think a little bit is ego,

57:18 like I want to be in it first. Yeah. I

57:22 love what like when I saw Hood take off,

57:24 I was like, "Yes, I love it." Yeah, you

57:27 nailed it, absolutely. And and you're

57:29 killing it right now. You're up 30% for

57:31 the year in the US Investing

57:32 Championship. So, you you're doing an

57:34 amazing job. Emanuela, we've got a

57:36 handful of questions I'd love to ask you

57:38 real quick from from those who are who

57:39 are watching live. Did you trade all 12

57:42 12 months last year when you hit your

57:43 260% or did it come in spurts?

57:47 I traded all 12 months, yes. Um and

57:50 actually the first 6 months is where I

57:53 made most of my money. Mhm. Yeah.

57:57 >> sense, yeah. I I had a similar similar

58:00 situation where like after the summer

58:02 all I could do is basically just lose

58:03 money. I couldn't really put anything

58:04 together. So, and that's the thing,

58:06 right? Is that we don't get to control

58:08 when the market pays us. And and our

58:09 trading plan is not going to work 100%

58:11 of the time. A lot of new investors,

58:12 they get in and they're like, "I'll be

58:14 making money every week. This is so

58:15 easy, right?" But that's not really the

58:17 reality.

58:18 >> to like understand that you can

58:21 uh

58:22 I think it's helped me trade a lot less.

58:25 Um after I make big gains, I actually

58:28 have an expansion rule in my trading

58:30 plan where I take a pause and I take

58:33 less positions after I've hit a

58:35 milestone or really strong green streak,

58:38 yeah. Why would you want to take a break

58:40 when you're when everything's working?

58:42 Cuz you think you like you think you you

58:44 figured it out and you can treat the

58:46 market like an ATM and you expand

58:48 position sizes and and

58:51 for me I

58:52 uh you know, it's

58:54 I've had a slow down when I

58:56 it's different than pressing the gas on

58:58 like original ideas and that original

59:00 push. Like right now, like this original

59:03 push from last week, right? But at a

59:05 certain point if I'm pressing uh with

59:08 things starting to get extended, um you

59:12 know, it can wipe me out with especially

59:14 with options trading.

59:16 Right. Do you feel that that's in

59:18 conflict with your trading plan? And and

59:20 why I want to ask is um

59:23 if if you have your trading plan that

59:24 says, "I'm going to enter if XYZ

59:26 happens, right?" And that continues to

59:28 happen and it's working and everything

59:29 is great. But then you reach a point

59:31 where it sounded like there was some

59:33 sort of like emotional like, well, I'm

59:35 untouchable, right? I'm on fire.

59:37 Wouldn't that then violate the trading

59:39 plan to begin with?

59:41 So, I think what you're talking about is

59:43 the mechanical side of the trading plan.

59:46 Right.

59:47 The mechanical side will not work if the

59:49 emotional side isn't isn't in check.

59:52 Absolutely.

59:53 >> So,

59:53 for me it doesn't matter if

59:56 um if I'm not on, if I'm feeling a

59:58 little like I I call it activated, like

1:00:00 my nervous system is like sparky and I'm

1:00:03 just like feeling like I have figured it

1:00:05 out, I have to take a step back. It

1:00:07 doesn't matter what my

1:00:09 uh mechanical side says. Interesting.

1:00:12 But I'm like that, right? So, I get

1:00:14 sparky. Like I am like, oh my gosh, like

1:00:17 I have anxiety and I'm just like

1:00:20 uh oh, or I'm killing it and but some

1:00:23 people are very mechanical. I'm not.

1:00:26 So. Oh, yeah.

1:00:28 My trading plan could absolutely be

1:00:29 automated because like I'm not going to

1:00:31 do anything if it doesn't show up,

1:00:32 right? And then

1:00:34 I'm not going to let my ego take over

1:00:35 either. I'm just going to follow the

1:00:36 plan either way. So, yeah, I think

1:00:38 that's really interesting. You've got to

1:00:39 be self-aware, right? You don't know

1:00:41 unless you've been there what you

1:00:43 actually feel like.

1:00:44 Well, I think too. I think that with

1:00:46 time, like I still consider myself a

1:00:48 very not beginner, but intermediate

1:00:51 level trader. So, I think that over

1:00:54 time, you know, talk to me next year,

1:00:56 maybe my what I'm telling you changes.

1:00:59 But right now I still have to be very

1:01:00 aware of what is going on internally.

1:01:05 Got you.

1:01:06 Do you trade both up and down in the

1:01:09 market? Do you

1:01:11 long and short? Okay. I do.

1:01:13 Um one of my best trades last year was

1:01:16 on Apple

1:01:17 during I think the towards the end of

1:01:20 the flush out in April or so before the

1:01:24 pop on April 9th.

1:01:26 Um

1:01:28 it I get positioned the same way. I'm

1:01:30 just looking for an area on the hourly

1:01:33 chart that I can draw an invalidation

1:01:36 line, so I don't want the price to move

1:01:39 above it. Um and then I hold to a

1:01:41 certain profit target.

1:01:43 Got you.

1:01:45 Do you offer or teach any sort of

1:01:48 course? No, I I don't, but I will

1:01:52 definitely talk through what I do. Um

1:01:56 I have my newsletter where I share what

1:01:58 I do, and then I do

1:01:59 >> Yeah, let's go to that real quick. So,

1:02:01 your newsletter is The Trader Reset, and

1:02:04 she and I were talking ahead of time.

1:02:05 You can subscribe to your newsletter.

1:02:07 How often does your newsletter come out?

1:02:09 Every week. Every week, very cool. I'm

1:02:12 going to make sure I subscribe cuz I

1:02:13 want to hear from you as well. And then

1:02:15 you were mentioning as well it's free

1:02:16 trading plan guide that people should go

1:02:18 pick up. Yep.

1:02:20 Um I also do a couple of live sessions

1:02:23 where like you can do like AMAs, ask me

1:02:26 anything where you know, if you've got

1:02:28 questions on your own strategy, as long

1:02:30 as you're doing technical analysis. I

1:02:32 don't know anything about fundamental

1:02:34 analysis or any of that. But um

1:02:37 technical analysis, especially like how

1:02:39 we described it today,

1:02:41 uh I I love to talk to people,

1:02:44 especially people who are putting in the

1:02:46 work and are uh treating this seriously.

1:02:50 Yeah.

1:02:52 And you've also got a YouTube channel. I

1:02:53 do, yeah.

1:02:54 >> I Do you Do you like making YouTube

1:02:56 videos? Uh you know, so-so. Like I I

1:03:00 think that I go in spurts. Um

1:03:03 actually do I do like to talk through

1:03:07 uh the charts all the time. So, I would

1:03:09 say yes to that. Um

1:03:12 but I don't know about like creating,

1:03:15 you know, going beyond like a couple of

1:03:17 videos here and there. So.

1:03:19 Yeah, no, that's okay. That's okay. And

1:03:21 then um I saw you have a a Twitter

1:03:24 account. How active are you on that?

1:03:26 I'm not. Um actually got off of social

1:03:28 media last year as well.

1:03:30 Um Yeah, I know that feeling. I'm the

1:03:32 same way.

1:03:34 I just it's trading

1:03:37 for everyone that is watching and

1:03:38 listening. It is a very head down thing.

1:03:42 You have to be able to block out the

1:03:45 noise and one person can say something

1:03:48 about a stock that you're in you're in a

1:03:50 position and you don't even know that

1:03:53 it's affecting your decision making. So,

1:03:56 um

1:03:57 I just for now am off of most social

1:04:00 media. Um

1:04:02 but I you know, I write I respond to my

1:04:05 newsletter readers if you write me.

1:04:08 Oh, no.

1:04:09 Oh, no. Now you've opened a can of

1:04:10 worms. Now you're going to get all all

1:04:12 the people who who watch this are going

1:04:13 to be like, "Oh, let me just email

1:04:14 Danielle real quick." Yeah. So, no, but

1:04:18 I I love it. I do love to meet people

1:04:20 who are

1:04:21 uh my my favorite type of

1:04:25 uh trader is one who is still sticking

1:04:28 with it. Um they're at a point where

1:04:30 they haven't like they're kind of done

1:04:33 blowing up accounts like they've just

1:04:34 slowed down. Right? Cuz when you get you

1:04:37 get new new traders like it's every like

1:04:41 they're switching from one strategy to

1:04:43 the next. They're just trying to find

1:04:44 something that works. But when you I

1:04:46 find people who have done it for a while

1:04:48 and like are getting more serious.

1:04:50 They're like, "Okay.

1:04:52 I'm going to slow down.

1:04:54 I'm going to create a plan. I'm going to

1:04:57 trade only during this and this, you

1:04:59 know, sec session and um

1:05:03 I love working with people like that

1:05:04 because

1:05:05 I mean, quite frankly, I just think

1:05:07 they're serious about it and

1:05:09 this is a full-time job.

1:05:12 I think that you can do this to create

1:05:14 some residual income while you have a

1:05:17 day job. I think you can absolutely do

1:05:20 that. But to really make this to make a

1:05:23 living from it, it's a whole 'nother

1:05:25 story. Yeah.

1:05:27 That makes total sense. Well, Manuela,

1:05:29 I'm so

1:05:30 First off, I want to say again,

1:05:32 congratulations for your incredible

1:05:33 results last year. And we're in the same

1:05:36 division, in the enhanced growth

1:05:37 division, right? Well, yeah. Wait, where

1:05:40 are you at? What percent are you at?

1:05:42 >> I'm go to the bottom. I'm like one above

1:05:44 the bottom. That's me right there. So,

1:05:47 um

1:05:48 But we have a lot of outliers actually,

1:05:50 which is fantastic, who are all beating

1:05:52 me. And I'm so proud of them. Um you Did

1:05:55 you see that 80% of the field is

1:05:57 negative for the year so far?

1:05:59 Uh so, I have I'm going to go I I'm

1:06:03 going to skim through this really quick

1:06:04 cuz I don't want to see the top people

1:06:06 cuz it'll Hold on. Champion stock. Not

1:06:10 going to see the top people. Enhanced

1:06:12 growth.

1:06:14 I'm going to scroll down a little bit. I

1:06:15 see all the outliers there.

1:06:18 Um

1:06:20 We're all just trying to chase after you

1:06:22 is what it is.

1:06:23 Well,

1:06:24 well, I actually didn't check the

1:06:26 standings. Um I haven't submitted my um

1:06:30 I was flat, so I didn't submit it. Um

1:06:33 And uh

1:06:35 I

1:06:36 I don't know if I'm going to check the

1:06:37 standings um until it's over.

1:06:41 Well, that's okay. No worries. Hey,

1:06:43 speaking of Mark Minervini, did you know

1:06:45 his assistant Bob won the stock division

1:06:47 last year, and he didn't tell Mark he

1:06:49 competed of the entire year until he

1:06:52 won, and he said, "Hey Mark, guess what?

1:06:54 I won my division." And Mark's like,

1:06:56 "What? You never told me the whole

1:06:57 time?" Yeah, that that actually

1:06:59 happened. So, that's out there out

1:07:00 there.

1:07:01 >> I love that so much. Well, it just sound

1:07:04 like, you know, I'm very hard on myself,

1:07:06 so it sounds like you you know, I that

1:07:10 I'm doing pretty

1:07:12 well.

1:07:14 Um

1:07:15 but it never feels that way.

1:07:18 Yeah.

1:07:19 And I don't know if it's because

1:07:23 like in our division, someone made

1:07:26 2,000%

1:07:28 and I was like, but I don't know if you

1:07:30 watched the Trader Lion interview with

1:07:32 him. Not yet, but I need to. Yeah. I

1:07:35 mean, wicked brilliant. And I love a lot

1:07:39 of the things that he said. That's why I

1:07:41 started to think about again, not I'm

1:07:43 not changing strategy, but what can get

1:07:45 me like I did last year, what can get me

1:07:47 in a little bit better? What maybe what

1:07:50 stocks can I pick that are going to give

1:07:52 me a little bit more um movement.

1:07:56 So, uh yeah, that's where I'm at right

1:07:58 now. I I do appreciate where I'm at, but

1:08:02 I am very like it's hard to, you know,

1:08:05 not want more. And it's and it's not

1:08:08 about the money. It's just about really

1:08:10 fine-tuning this skill set. Like it's

1:08:13 >> Yeah. I really want to be masterful at

1:08:15 it. It's it it for and I agree with you

1:08:17 completely. I've said this for years.

1:08:19 It's not about the money. It's about

1:08:20 it's about the game, right? If if it's

1:08:22 your favorite game in the world, you

1:08:24 could play this forever. In fact, there

1:08:25 was a day where my my son asked me,

1:08:27 we're getting ready for school. He's

1:08:28 like, "Dad, how long are you going to be

1:08:29 trading?" And I was like,

1:08:31 uh until I stop breathing. Like I have

1:08:33 no reason not to stop. I love the game.

1:08:35 So, yeah, that's really exciting that

1:08:37 you have the same same sort of

1:08:38 mentality. Emmanuel, I got to say, I

1:08:40 really enjoyed our chat. And because you

1:08:42 are competing this year, I would love to

1:08:43 have you back on maybe third quarter,

1:08:45 fourth quarter to see how things are

1:08:47 going this year. And you can tell me how

1:08:48 much you're beating me by cuz it's

1:08:50 absolutely going to happen. And I just

1:08:52 want to be able to say, "Hey, I know

1:08:53 her. I know her. She's she's doing great

1:08:55 things."

1:08:57 I love that. Yeah, no, for sure. This is

1:08:59 great.

1:09:00 So, uh be sure everybody goes to

1:09:02 Emanuela's website, The Trader Reset,

1:09:06 and um you know, sign up for her

1:09:08 newsletter. She'd love to to have you on

1:09:10 board. And And Emanuela, thank you again

1:09:11 so much for taking the time to uh to

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