Welcome to 2025
What's the plan for this year?
1/8/20253 min read
It's that time of year again... let's talk goals and plans for the new year. It might seem tiresome or tedious each year, but it's a great time to refresh, reset, re-evaluate, and refocus for another twelve months. Regardless of whether or not you're a resolutions setter or a resolutions hater, I'm going to talk about my own personal plans and goals for 2025 and, hopefully, you'll gain some insight into where I'm going, where this space is going, and maybe you can find some inspiration or motivation for yourself as we watch our digital calendars change over once again.
First! For me and this space--nay, this Black Spire Trading community--we're going to get consistent, get focused, and get growing. We've got some great partnerships brewing for this year and some fantastic ideas on how to bring you the best content to help you achieve consistent trading results in 2025. If you want to stay up-to-date on the latest in the prop firm space, the best discounts, and some market news and commentary, then just click here to subscribe for some fun stuff coming straight to your email.
Second! It's a sad time in this world that I need to say this, but... you're getting a specific promise from me that you'll see no AI-generated blog content here. While there's definitely a time and a place for AI-developed blog posts, this is not the place. Everything you see in the blog and in your email will be coming straight from me. If you want gratuitous bulleted lists with silly introductory sentences, I will just have to:
Apologize
Ask for forgiveness
Throw my computer right out the window
Third! I don't personally enjoy monetary goals when it comes to trading, but I do have two specific trading goals for this year. First, I want to focus on consistent executions of my best setups. I'm really good at accepting losses; however, I'm really bad sometimes at waiting for my A and even B setups, and when I take a loss trading a poor setup or no setup, those are the ones that really frustrate me and hold me back. So, from a consistency perspective, I want to have more consistent trades of A and B setups and really cut out more of those garbage trades. I also want to push myself to take advantage of days where I'm reading the market well. Far too often I'll hit an arbitrary monetary amount and lock it in for the day. In 2025, if the reads are good and I feel good and my mental is in a good place, I want to keep going. When I take a red trade on those days, that'll be my sign to shut it down. I want to feel better about not always ending at P&L highs because I wisely continued to execute on great setups. It's time to get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Fourth (and finally)! Outside of trading, I want to keep driving towards better work/life balance. I trade to do more in life, so I want to keep working towards taking full advantage of the prime years of my existence. I want to make sure I'm outside more in 2025, taking in more sunshine than I am blue light from the screens.
That's it for me. I hope you all put some thought into how you want to grow and develop in 2025, and how you're going to achieve your consistency targets in this new year. Yeah, if you haven't noticed, I'll be driving home the "c" word this year. I'll see you all right here over the next 12 months. Trade well!
Buy an Apex account... or not... I don't really care tbh.