Chittoor, India · Est. 09.01.1994

Yashwanth G

Born to win. Built to become successful — one disciplined trade at a time.

TRADER · BASED IN CHITTOOR ON THE COMEBACK, BUILT TO LAST

90% Psychology

The Comeback

The Story So Far

09 JAN 1994

Born in Chittoor

No trading floor in sight, no idea yet that the market would become the mirror I'd spend a lifetime looking into.

7+ YRS IN TECH

Building software by day, studying markets by night

iOS Developer and SDET became the day job — the same instinct that hunts down bugs before they ship started hunting for edges in Indian equities and forex instead. Three years into trading both, it stopped being a side project. It became the thing I actually wanted to do full time.

AGE 32

Broke — financially and emotionally

The account went first. Then the confidence, the sleep, the certainty that I understood what I was doing. It's one thing to lose money. It's another to lose your sense of self along with it. That year I lost both — and quietly started building the version of me that wouldn't lose them again.

NOW & NEXT

Built to win, on purpose this time

Not chasing a bigger win to erase the last one — that's exactly the trap that put me here. This time I'm compounding the only edge that actually lasts: a disciplined mind, rules I follow even when I don't feel like it, and the belief that I was always going to figure this out.

What I Tell Myself

The best revenge is your success.

Patience is your deadliest weapon.

Case for Discipline

90% Psychology. 10% Strategy.

A strategy can get you into a good trade. Only your psychology decides whether you actually follow it, whether you cut the loss you said you'd cut, and whether you take the profit you planned to take instead of hoping for more.

Almost nobody blows up an account because their setup was wrong. They blow up because fear closed a winner too early, greed held a loser too long, or revenge trading tried to claw back in an hour what took a month to build.

Strategy tells you what to do. Psychology decides if you'll actually do it.

The Principles

The Rules That Keep Me Building

A rule isn't a cage. It's the version of me that's thinking clearly, leaving instructions for the version of me that won't be — the one who's down bad, wide awake at 2 a.m., staring at a red candle like it's staring back.

Rules protect me from myself, not from the market

The market was never the real risk. My reaction to it was.

Decide the exit before the entry

A stop-loss written in advance is a decision. A stop-loss decided mid-trade is a hope.

Position size the risk, not the conviction

Certainty is a feeling. Risk is a number. Trade the number.

One setup, followed, beats ten opinions, argued

A plan I trust beats a hunch I can't explain by morning.

Every trade gets logged, not judged

A file entry tells the truth. A verdict just makes me feel something about it.

Consistency compounds. Certainty never arrives

I don't need to know what happens next. I need a process that survives not knowing.

Two Influences

Two Minds I Still Argue With

Nearly a century apart, one taught the market's price action, the other taught the mind reading it. I go back to both, constantly.

Mentor 01

1877 – 1940

Jesse Livermore

The original speculator. Pioneer of price action and reading the tape.

"There is nothing new in Wall Street."

"Markets are never wrong — opinions often are."

Mentor 02

1948 – 2015

Mark Douglas

Trading psychologist. Author of The Disciplined Trader and Trading in the Zone.

"Anything can happen."

"I define risk as a state of mind."

Pinned To My Desk

Two Clippings I Keep Close

Found these long before I could write my own rules. Kept them exactly as I found them — quotes and all.

Jesse Livermore quote: A man must know himself thoroughly if he is going to make a good job out of trading. — Jesse Livermore, on self-knowledge

Mark Douglas quote: If you can learn to create a state of mind that is not affected by the market's behaviour, the struggle will cease to exist. — Mark Douglas, on state of mind

On My Desk

The Books That Changed Everything

Two books, one author, and a life that split into before and after. The Disciplined Trader found me first and named the problem. Trading in the Zone showed me what to do about it.

The Disciplined Trader

Mark Douglas

The book that named it: the market doesn't need to hurt me for me to feel pain. My own undisciplined reactions do that first.

Trading in the Zone

Mark Douglas

The book that answered it. Every rule on this page traces back to one of these two — that gap between knowing and doing is the whole game.

Born to win. Still compounding, every day.

— Yashwanth G, Chittoor Trader