How I Stopped Gambling and Started Trading

I stopped blowing up and started compounding returns the right way

When I first started trading, I thought the fastest way to make money was to go all in. I’d size every trade aggressively—sometimes 100%, 200%, even 500% of my portfolio. If I was right, the returns were massive. But when I was wrong—and I often was—I’d blow up the entire account.

It wasn’t trading. It was gambling.

That cycle—big bet, big gain, bigger lo…