​Hello traders, welcome here on my youtube channel!
 
My name is Heikin Ashi Trader and in today's video I would like to talk about success and gains in trading. That's what we all want of course, and as some of you may know. For me, it was a very long way to become successful, to become profitable. I took seven years to get there, that is something I do not really wish for anybody, to need seven years to become successful. There was a reason for that and I would like to talk about that and how I became successful. So therefore, I would like to tell you a story or this story of how I became successful and maybe it's helpful for you.
 
So like many traders, I started to search in different trading systems and you know you start to study technical analysis, you learn about indicators, you learn about resistance and support, as certain technical patterns which you can recognize on the chart. All those things I learned of course, in my first years and I tried to trade with all this stuff and of course I wasn't successful with all this.

​Hello traders! Heikin Ashi Trader here.
 
In today's video I would like to talk about books that influenced me. I would like to talk about three books. The three most important books I found out that were important to me as a trader. So books, I really really studied and read several times and got a lot of information for my trading career.
 
Let's start with the first book and I have to take some glasses because my eyes are not that good anymore and this is this book. This is the German version of the book but it's a book that was published originally in English and the author is Van Tarp and the title in English is "Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom". So it's a very famous book actually, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom.
 
So what is this book about? Well, yes, it's a lot about money management, risk management but the most important thing to learn in this book in my view is to understand what a trading system really is. To really understand a trading system and to learn to understand what is a good trading system and what is not such a good trading system and you can make exercises and you see it here, I made a lot of exercises with all kinds of systems. Here, many years ago and it's really interesting to do and I would really advise you to do those exercises because it teaches you really to understand deeply not only from a mathematical standpoint but also really to deeply understand what is really a robust.

​What motivates you to be a trader? For me, it has always been freedom. Trading allows you to be financially free, i.e., both time freedom and money.

Ever since I was a kid, being free and living on my own terms has been vital to me. I wouldn't say I liked school very much. The concept of sitting in a classroom for hours listening to somebody didn't impress me.

I was thrilled when I finished my schooling. I thought going to the university would allow me to be a much freer person. However, nothing really changed there. When I started to work to make a living, I still wanted to be free.

​Success in the stock market has a lot to do with the ability of the trader to develop solid market ideas and then to translate them into positions that offer a positive return relative to the risk.

Now, for example, there are quite a few fund managers with a great view of the big picture who also develop great ideas but are unable to turn them into profitable trades.  
Similarly, there are quite a few private traders who consider short-term trading patterns as trading ideas, only to be blindsided by what happens in the big picture. 
That's why advanced trading is a combination of strategy and tactics. 
I concluded for myself that I have only one advantage when trading: When I find levels