Who are some LEGIT Retails that "made it"?

Wall street edge for the most part can not be replicated in a retail setting (capital, technology, relationships), so those retail guys are mostly self-taught or went through quasi prop shops.

i wouldnt call having made millions as "make it" - a good salary over 20 years is just that

 

All the canslim traders.

 

Now you're talking someone like @Rams Fan

But even David Ryan has abandoned pure Canslim Trading, as has Sean and Zanger etc.

 

What deviations have they adopted?

 

Sean Ryan and Zanger are pure TA. David is more like Minervini. If you read David's stuff, while he credits WON, he isn't a pure Canslim anymore.

 

@Darc You appear to be confusing what they do now with how they started. I would get a copy of one of the books and understand the journey.

 

Big respect to those guys...there is a lot that goes into becoming a billionaire that is worthy if praise. But, They think like billionaires and relate topics like billionaires. Im not interested in becoming a billionaire.

Millionaire has a nice ring to it, so for the scope of this thread let's omit all billionaires and focus on how the millionaire traders think and act.

 

I've got all Minervini books, WONs, Weinstein, all David Ryan, Quallamaggies Zangers YouTubes etc.

They all started using a Canslim approach. But Minervini trimmed down the FA as did Technology.

If you look at Quallamaggies, Zanger, Minervini, Sean and David Ryan etc, they are more TA now than WON.

Technology may have made Canslim more outdated. Which is ironic, as WON was one of the one's to do it with IBD/Marketsmith.

 

I was surprised how much David Ryan has moved from Canslim, in Momentum Masters (2015). Sean is now pure TA, as is Zanger, with both Quallamaggies and Minervini being pure TA at times.

 

ICT - Inner Circle Trader aka Michael J Huddleston fits that bill.

He currently has a cult following on Twitter and released a ton of free content on YT. He makes live calls fairly regularly.

He has a bunch of students whom done very well and they haven’t been financial industry insiders.

He also has a ton of critics. As a devout Christian, he has as acknowledged his bi-polar handicap but claims his OCD is what supported him in his success. He study Larry Williams early in his career and has developed his own language to communicate his concepts. Much is rebranded but much is also fairly unique to his perspective.

Trader Roundup aka ICT_Concepts, as a twitter space, generally hosts many of the devotees of the method.

Then you also have a bunch of crypto bros on crypto Twitter that have made bank.