From $6K to $1M Blueprint
Host
So ladies and gents, welcome back to another episode.
Thank you for driving down here, my man. We are in Arizona and uh I think we’re going to take a nice deep dive specifically because there’s not many traders who have crossed the levels that you have crossed.
So, I want to start off with just a a broad overview.
You’ve crossed the four figure, the five figure, the six, the seven, and the eight um within that journey, is it like a snowball like as as you get to the larger capital, it gets easier and easier or does it get harder and harder cuz the big numbers probably eat up at you when you take a big loss?
Brando
Yeah. So, I would say the absolute hardest is getting to the six figure mark because you’re still trying tofigure out what strategy works and how to manage your risk and your capital.
So, once you cross from four figures to 100,000, you have a blueprint of how to get to a million.
And once you get to a million, it that’s when it begins to really snowball to where making five grand or 10 grand, you can do that in a couple hours or a day or two days.
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And for me, once you have the blueprint to get to a million, the 10 million comes very quickly.
So, uh, the first 100 grand, anyone listening, you have to get there first to understand how the game actually works.
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Host
Going through that process,I I gathered this with the answer of like you got the blueprints, so now it’s just repeating the process and you got 14 years behind you.
So, you know, it is getting easier in that sense cuz it’s a rinse and repeat. But what about the formative years? you know the first three four I think you made your first million at your third year mark third year so pretty early on uh compared to where most would be
what did you do in those first three years that others maybe don’t
Brando
Yeah. So, I would say the absolute hardest is getting to the six figure mark because you’re still trying tofigure out what strategy works and how to manage your risk and your capital.
So, once you cross from four figures to 100,000, you have a blueprint of how to get to a million.
And once you get to a million, it that’s when it begins to really snowball to where making five grand or 10 grand, you can do that in a couple hours or a day or two days.
Mhm.
And for me, once you have the blueprint to get to a million, the 10 million comes very quickly.
So, uh, the first 100 grand, anyone listening, you have to get there first to understand how the game actually works.
Mhm.
Host
Going through that process,I I gathered this with the answer of like you got the blueprints, so now it’s just repeating the process and you got 14 years behind you.
So, you know, it is getting easier in that sense cuz it’s a rinse and repeat. But what about the formative years?
You know the first three four I think you made your first million at your third year mark
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So pretty early on uh compared to where most would be.
What did you do in those first three years that others maybe don’t?
Brando
Yeah so so the number one thing is the ability to just wait for the right trades and the right trades don’t come every day.
Like a lot of traders they try to make a monetary goal and they try to hit the same number every day every week.
And that’s a common fallacy with trading because every day there’s different levels of risk and reward and you can’t trade every day with a small account.
So early on I realized that my first year and I would wait days, weeks to sometimes even a month or two at a time and I would get very aggressive with certain trades and uh went from six grand to 100 the first year and then got to around 250 the second year and then by the time you get to 250 the the million is almost to me it was inevitable.
Host
super curious about all of this because you know with the benefit of hindsight you can probably say yeah that was easy but you know looking back or even comparing to what most people go through which is year one two three blown accounts how did your even first year become profitable when others would be three year mark 10 accounts blown
Brando
yeah so I I would say it’s a combination of a couple different things number one was luck and and timing
just timing in the market uh 2010 was pretty much the bottom of uh the ’08 financial crisis and you United States and uh I caught the wave of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft
these stocks and um uh it was a combination of that and then just being able to catch the right options trades that can go 500 to a 1,000%.
Because during that time you would see gap ups in these stocks day after day and that allowed me to just jump on the right trades.
Host
So it’s interesting 500 to a 1,000%. explore that with me.
Brando
Yeah. So, options trading, the beauty behind it is you can go from four figures to six figures very quickly if if you just wait for the right trades uh versus like trading futures or or trading uh stock actual like shares of a of a company.
Um that’s why you trade options is to grow from small to big. And once you get to a certain threshold, do you necessarily need to trade options every day? Not anymore.
You can pivot to also trading futures and and shares but uh for anyone listening to grow an account with little capital you you have to trade options.
Host
Is that because of the risk-reward factor that you can unlock?
Brando
Yeah. So there’s no other vehicle where you can catch a 500 to a 1,000% gain uh in a day or a week, right?
Unless you catch a short squeeze on a small cap stock. Sure.
So with the reward side there’s immense upside but at the same time there is a huge opportunity to blow your account very quickly because of the same reason.
But the probability of finding that is is very is very very slim.