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Why I Trade 25 Strategies After 17 Years of Trading
In episode 549 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with Dave Mabe, who's been trading for more than 20 years, sharing how nearly quitting during a massive drawdown pushed him to rethink everything about how he trades. What started as one working idea turned into 25 fully automated strategies running every day. He also dives into the hardest lesson of his career—trading through a brutal drawdown—and how it forced him to build a system for creating new strategies.
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Topics Covered In This Episode
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Who is Dave Mabe?
01:06 Fully automated trading vs manual execution
01:40 How Dave started trading
04:04 The problem with learning from intuition-based traders
05:50 Can you really make money with discretionary trading?
06:45 First automated strategy: success or failure?
09:28 Do algo traders struggle with emotions too?
11:09 Is coding required for automated trading in 2026?
12:13 Why backtests look great but live trading fails
15:48 How much variance between backtest and live is acceptable?
16:45 What separates traders who quit from those who last 20 years
19:51 Generating new trading strategies consistently
23:30 Is there a limit to how many strategies you can run?
24:46 Where to find Dave Mabe and his free backtesting course (link below)
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Making A Living Trading For 30+ Years - Revealing His Secrets
In episode 548 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with 30-year veteran trader Michael Martin discussing the reality of trading for a living and managing institutional capital. Michael shares his journey from a working-class background to working with legendary traders. He talks about early mistakes, tough lessons, and the mental rewiring that helped him stay in the game long enough to win.
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Topics Covered In This Episode
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Michael's current work with Victor Spirandio and systematized models
02:50 Early life and his pentrepreneurial grit
07:54 How he started as a trader
12:28 Michael's trading style
17:05 How he found people he can trade for
20:16 Results of trading his own money
24:38 How he stayed in the game for 30+ years
29:20 How does communication affect trading
33:16 The core message of Michael's book
38:13 Where to find Michael Martin
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Desire To Trade's Top Resources
DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist
One-Page Trading Plan (free template)
Recommended brokers: EightCap (preferred Crypto and FX Broker)
AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus)

Desire To TRADE Academy
Get a copy of Prop Trading Secrets (Author: Kathy Lien & Etienne Crete)
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How to find Michael Martin
Inner Voice of Trading Free Audiobook
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How To Make A Living Trading With AI
In episode 547 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with professor and AI expert Dr. Matloob Khushi, sharing why he stopped believing in universal trading algorithms after spending years trying to build one. He walks through what he actually teaches his PhD students—and why most people claiming to trade with AI are really just feeding screenshots into a black box that's already seen tomorrow's prices. No hype, just the uncomfortable reality of what it takes to build something that actually holds up.
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Topics Covered In This Episode
00:00 Introduction
01:01 How he learned algo trading and his background with AI
03:22 Teaching trading: from basics to AI integration
05:08 Bridging discretionary trading and algorithms
08:11 Data utilization in AI trading
11:43 The complexity of AI in trading
13:11 Backtesting and confidence in algorithms
15:32 The hard truth about trading with AI
21:07 Continuous monitoring and emotional factors in trading
25:45 Algorithm management and broker considerations
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Desire To Trade's Top Resources
DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist
One-Page Trading Plan (free template)
Recommended brokers: EightCap (preferred Crypto and FX Broker)
AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus)

Desire To TRADE Academy
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How to find Dr. Matloob Khushi
Dr. Matloob Khushi's publications
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Become a Consistently Profitable Trader in 2026 (1-Hour Masterclass)
In episode 546 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, we will be listening to six professional traders revealing the hard truths that transformed their careers—from the long-term mindset that actually works, to the systematic rules that finally overcame emotional trading, and how to read markets instead of trying to predict them.
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Topics Covered In This Episode
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:25 Austin Silver - What consistency really means as a trader
00:13:19 Adam Grimes - Practical psychology tools for trading discipline
00:27:15 TraderNick - The long-term mindset that works
00:34:22 Sunny J. Harris - How to adapt and evolve your trading over your career
00:41:29 Dave Floyd - Reading markets, not predicting them
00:54:50 Paras Jandwani - How systematic rules overcome emotional trading
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Desire To Trade's Top Resources
DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist
One-Page Trading Plan (free template)
Recommended brokers: EightCap (preferred Crypto and FX Broker)
AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus)

Desire To TRADE Academy
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Supply & Demand Trading Profitably For 30+ Years
In episode 545 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with veteran trader Paul Scott, who used to think finding the perfect pattern was the secret to consistent profits. He was chasing every candlestick formation he could find. Then he discovered what the real floor traders have known for decades—and it has nothing to do with complicated analysis.
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Topics Covered In This Episode
00:00 Introduction
00:50 What's new with Paul Scott
02:35 How he started trading supply & demand
08:18 From the trading floor to the changes in technology
10:25 Realizing price and value matter more than direction
13:41 Trading predefined ranges without directional bias
16:01 30+ years of consistent execution and boring profitability
20:05 Defining a strong level for a trade
24:05 Issues with supply & demand
27:21 Where to find Paul Scott (link below)
What did you like best in this podcast episode? Let's talk in the comments below, or join me in the Facebook group!
Desire To Trade's Top Resources
DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist
One-Page Trading Plan (free template)
Recommended brokers: EightCap (preferred Crypto and FX Broker)
AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus)

Desire To TRADE Academy
Get a copy of Prop Trading Secrets (Author: Kathy Lien & Etienne Crete)
About The Desire To Trade Podcast
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How to find Paul Scott
paulscottfx.com
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