Hey, I'm Ryan Mallory, and this is my swing trading, 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, to let 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 Swing Trading the Stock Market,

and we got a good episode here for you today.

We're going to talk about the secret sauce of trading. Is there such a thing, especially for those who are part-time traders and who can't dedicate hours upon hours of their time each and every day to the stock market like somebody like myself does. I spend a ton of time in the stock market. Each and every day, I'm constantly watching and making research notes and trading notes and making trades and closing out trades.

So all sorts of stuff that I do. But for the part-time trader, what's that secret sauce that

allows them to balance work, life, and their passion for the stock market?

So today's email comes from a guy we're going to call Leroy. And I'm not using the name

Leroy Brown from Crocodile Dundee 2 that came out in like,

what, the 80s or 90s?

I love that movie.

And I love that character downtown Leroy Brown.

But he's asked to be called Leroy and tribute to his late grandfather who passed.

He believes that it would be a perfect alias for this podcast.

So, Leroy writes me and says, hey Ryan, I have a Fidelity account since the day

I turned 18. That's awesome. It's awesome parenting that encouraged you to go in that direction.

He says, I traded stocks all through college, took option trading classes, and even competed in a

stock market trading contest against other schools. And one thing I don't remember learning is risk management,

which you preach on your podcast, pretty much every episode. Sure, I could tell you what the Iron

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