A trader who learned the hard way, so you don't have to
Ryan Jones has taught thousands of traders to trade options the right way. He has a 5-year signals track record with a 94% win rate, including one year without a loss: 54 trades, 54 winners.
How the lessons were learned
At age 16
Ryan Jones took his first trade: an options trade in Phillips Petroleum. He lost a few hundred dollars. It hurt, and it started a drive to learn everything he could about trading and to become a consistently profitable trader.
At age 19
He had learned enough to double a small $5,000 account in one month, a year after marrying his high-school sweetheart and just after the first of his four daughters and a son was born. It did not take long for that account to be nearly wiped out.
At age 22
He grew a $10,000 account to more than $23,000 over four months with a futures system he built on paper charts that arrived by mail and were updated by hand each week. Then the same account shrank to $2,500 in 30 days. He took six months off to analyse every trade, and found the answer: consistency had nothing to do with entries and exits, and everything to do with trade size.
Learn more in My Secret CashFlow FormulaAt age 26
He became the youngest author ever to sign a book deal with John Wiley & Sons, on money management and futures trading.
See the Fixed Ratio Money Management courseAt age 30
He entered his first live trading contest and finished third with a 42% gain.
At age 31
In a second live trading contest he grew his account 617% in 72 days, a new world record.
