Hey, I'm Ryan Mallory, and this is my swing trade in the stock market podcast. I'm here to teach you how to trade in a complex, ever-changing world of finance. Learn what it means to trade profitably and consistently, managing risk, avoiding the pitfalls of trading, and most importantly, letting those winners run wild. You can succeed at the stock market, and I'm ready to show you how.

Hey, everybody. This is Ryan Mallory with shareplanter.com's swing trade in the stock market in

today's episode. It promises to be a good one.

And what I like to do at the beginning of each year, sometimes it's at the very end of the

previous year. but nonetheless,

with one of those podcasts, I like to reflect on the year prior and what I have learned the observations that I've made from the past trading year, some growing trends or

developments that I noticed with trading. And I like to be able to reflect on those in an

entire podcast episode. So that's what I'm going to do

today. There's no emails, no Florida redneck names given out to any of the listeners, just good old

lessons from 2025. So first off, what I have learned to do in 2025, and I think it has made a huge impact on my trading, is to care

less about what the market is doing and whether what the market is doing is justified.

So you take things like silver, for instance, and we saw a huge rally in the last month

of trading in silver. Was it justified?

Perhaps was a little bit over the top when you're seeing silver, you know,

rally 10% drop 9%, rally 8%, drop 9%.

Yeah, that gets a little absurd.

It's a little bit crazy.

There's a lot of emotion in the trades at that point.

And whether or not the move

that you saw were it went as high as $80 an ounce is justified doesn't really matter. What you

want to do in your trading is whether or not it can be traded. If you can't manage the risk on it,

then go to another trade. For me, I didn't play the silver trade directly because of that

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