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26 Questions With Derrick Oldensmith
Get to know Pro Trader Derrick Oldensmith in this fun interview! *This transcript has been edited for length and clarity Who are you? I’m Derrick Oldensmith and I am a Senior Trader and Registered Principal at T3 Trading Group. How long have you been a trader? I’ve been a trader with T3 for about 12 years. I was a sales trader for a different company before that. And I’ve been involved in markets in one way or another since I was a kid. I bought my first stock when I was about 13 years old. Do you love it? I love what I do. Every day is different, and that’s what gets me excited. I’m looking at the same Excel spreadsheets all day, every day. I’m studying the market. My role is to figure out the next step of this constantly evolving puzzle. What’s the most important personality trait for a trader? The most important personality trait for a trader is to be disciplined. Discipline, first and foremost with your risk management and your money management. A lack of discipline with risk management and money management is the number one reason why traders fail in this business. You also have to be disciplined with the rules that you create for your trading. The only way that you can be a consistently profitable trader is to be consistent in regards to your actions with the market. The only way that you can do that is by having rules in place that you are consistently following. That may sound easy right now, but when you’re in front of the screens, and your P&L is moving, it can be very difficult. What’s the best trade you’ve ever made? One that just comes to mind right away was being long JNUG on the run back up after Covid. It might not be my best trade ever but it’s up tere. It’s a 3X leveraged junior miner gold ETF. I always think it’s funny because for most of my career I’ve disliked the gold miners as trading vehicles and even as investments. Yet here I am involved in a 3X leveraged junior Gold miner ETF in a multi-week swing that turned out to be one of my best trades ever. How do you define success as a trader? That’s a very individual question for each trader based on the goals that they make for themselves. First, you have to have goals. And then success is in achieving those goals and then in the creation of new goals. Those could be goals for profitability, for consistency, or for building an account size. How do you stay up to date with the changing financial markets? I read a lot of news and information. And what I try to avoid as much as possible, which is really hard in this day and age, is other people’s opinions. I want more of the cold, hard facts of the news. And then I take that information into my own brain to try to figure out the next steps. And then of course, you need to have the the technicals confirm that. But this is not a 9 to 5 gig. There is a lot of work that needs to be done in order to be successful in this business. What’s the hardest mistake to avoid while trading? Probably getting in your own head. It goes back to being a disciplined trader and having a disciplined approach. It always sounds very easy on paper that you just have to do the right things consistently over time with your trading. But in practice, it’s so easy for us to get in our own heads. You get shaken out of that one trade right before it works. Or you have a bad P&L day and then it affects your next day of trading. What did you hate most about learning to trade? It’s a tough question, because I love learning, period. The hardest thing about learning, though, is probably the fact that you’re going to take a lot of step backs, right? A lot of this business is, you take two steps forward in your trading, two steps forward in your learning process, just to then have the market environment change, or you take a P&L hit, or a new obstacle gets in your way. And then you’re taking one step back. But sometimes you have to take that one step back in order to learn more and take those next two steps forward. So, I love learning in general, but you’re absolutely going to hit stumbling blocks along the way. Do you beat yourself up after a bad day? Before I can answer, I have to define what a bad day is in trading. I don’t think that a good day or bad day is necessarily P&L based. Obviously, that has something to do with it, right? If you have a big P&L day, up on the upside or on the downside, it’s hard not to feel a degree of emotion about that. But the real thing to be asking yourself when you have that good day or you have a bad day is, “did you do the right things today?” Because if you did all the wrong things and made a lot of money, you should not be happy about that. As a matter of fact, if you are happy about that, you’re setting yourself up for long-term failure. The truth is that we work in a game of probabilities. Sometimes you will do all of the right things and still lose money. You have to be able to take a step back and say, “Hey, I did all the right things. If I did this 100 times, I’m gonna be making money in the long run. It just didn’t work out today.” So, when I beat myself up, it isn’t just because I lost money today. It’s because I made mistakes that caused me to lose money. Or heck,
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Continue Reading -->What You Don’t Know About Prop Trading… but Should
In this special extended webinar, Amber Capra breaks down everything you need to know about the exciting world of prop trading. Click the monitor to watch the replay: Amber covers the world of prop trading from A to Z, including:How to determine whether prop trading is right for youProp vs. retail trainingWhy you need training, community, and ongoing coaching to succeedHow you can qualify for 100% tuition reimbursement in our prop programThe different licensing requirements for US and non-US tradersDetails about different trading platforms, including Fusion and LightspeedHow profit splits workHow much capital you need to get started as a prop traderRisk management techniquesWhy you need a ‘Forced Discipline’ risk management programPart-time prop tradingTips for avoiding pitfalls that can hurt your trading careerHave a question about prop trading? Call 1-888-998-3548 or email us at info@t3live.com Learn About Our Omega Prop Program
Continue Reading -->What You Don’t Know About Prop Trading… but Should
In this special extended webinar, Amber Capra breaks down everything you need to know about the exciting world of prop trading: Amber covers the world of prop trading from A to Z, including:How to determine whether prop trading is right for youWhy you need training, community, and ongoing coaching to succeedHow you can qualify for 100% tuition reimbursement in our prop programThe different licensing requirements for US and non-US tradersDetails about different trading platforms, including Fusion and LightspeedHow profit splits workHow much capital you need to get started as a prop traderRisk management techniquesWhy you need a ‘Forced Discipline’ risk management programWhether or not you can prop trade on a part-time basisTips for avoiding pitfalls that can hurt your trading careerHave a question about prop trading? Call 1-888-998-3548 or email us at info@t3live.com Learn About Our Omega Prop Program
Continue Reading -->What You Don’t Know About Prop Trading… but Should
In this special extended webinar, Amber Capra breaks down everything you need to know about the exciting world of prop trading: Amber covers the world of prop trading from A to Z, including:How to determine whether prop trading is right for youWhy you need training, community, and ongoing coaching to succeedHow you can qualify for 100% tuition reimbursement in our prop programThe different licensing requirements for US and non-US tradersDetails about different trading platforms, including Fusion and LightspeedHow profit splits workHow much capital you need to get started as a prop traderRisk management techniquesWhy you need a ‘Forced Discipline’ risk management programWhether or not you can prop trade on a part-time basisTips for avoiding pitfalls that can hurt your trading careerHave a question about prop trading? Call 1-888-998-3548 or email us at info@t3live.com Learn About Our Omega Prop Program
Continue Reading -->Morning Call Express: Salute the Flag
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Continue Reading -->Jeff Cooper’s Morning Call Express: Respect Your Stops
In today’s Morning Call Express, T3 Live’s Jeff Cooper breaks down the action in SPX and talks about the important of stops. Click here to learn more about Jeff Cooper’s Daily Market Report.
Continue Reading -->Morning Call Express: Post-Fed Hawks
In today’s Morning Call Express, Scott Redler breaks down the hawkish market vibes after the Fed.
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