Why I wrote this book
As we grow up, we start trading our time — for money, for help, for the people we care about. To me, a trader isn’t simply someone who moves money around. He trades his experience, his hours, his effort, his belief. He plants seeds that one day bear fruit. Sometimes that fruit is sweet, sometimes bitter. But there is always a lesson in it.
Years in the market taught me something no indicator shows: you lose not because you don’t know enough, but because at the decisive moment you are not the one pressing the button. Instinct presses it. Or emotion. And you pay the bill afterwards.
That’s why the book doesn’t open with charts but with the three brains — the reptilian, the emotional and the rational. If you don’t know which one is in command at the moment of the trade, every strategy is just a pretty plan on paper.
What the market taught me
That it is neither an enemy nor a friend — it simply reflects you. In it you see your fears, your weaknesses, your greed, your ambition, even your pride. Accept that early and you save yourself years and a great deal of money. Refuse to, and you pay the stupidity tax every week.
I wrote “The Trader’s Path” as a compass for people who want to chase their goals, train their minds, and stay standing when the world around them shakes. It works in the market. It works outside it too.