“I have a small child, and I was on maternity leave when I started to trade”
Anna. M, a business analyst from Ukraine, successfully passed our $12K swing trading evaluation! With an impressive 80% success rate by trading small caps and penny stocks.
Let’s find out how a small-cap trader like Anna, a mother with a 9 to 5 job, passed the challenge!
Could you be Trade The Pool’s next funded trader?
Watch Anna’s Interview
Anna’s Journey
She started with her personal brokerage accounts, Anna, like many traders, faced the challenge of balancing work, life, and day trading before finding her niche in swing trading.
With Trade The Pool, she passed the $12,000 buying power evaluation within a month, adjusting and lowering her risk as she approached the profit target.
Anna’s Trading Style
Her strategy involves shorting small caps and penny stocks. She waits for bullish momentum to exhaust at strong resistance levels before making her move.
By combining daily chart analysis with intraday Level II data, she confirms liquidity and gauges market sentiment. She targets high-quality “A-plus” setups, holding them for a day or longer, depending on the stock’s potential drop and float size.
More About Anna
- During her evaluation, Anna initially traded aggressively. She soon adopted a more sustainable approach, ensuring she didn’t risk more than she could handle.
- She began her journey two years ago with an interest in investments.
- A year later, she went on maternity leave and started day trading. Finding it too emotionally taxing, she switched to swing trading.
Anna’s Tips
- On finding the right stock to trade: “Find very strong resistance levels and if a penny stock is up 100%, on the chart you can see where the huge part of liquidity is. When the stock is reaching it, I try to check what’ll happen next. It’s a more internal feeling, like an educated intuition. It’s very important to cut mistakes soon, and then you will get another chance.”
- To swing or day trade small caps: “I decide if it should be a day trade or a swing trade based on how far the stock is right now. If it’s a penny stock up 100-200%, it can be just a day trade. If it’s up 500-1,000%, it has a big room to fall, so I can open a swing position. I need to be careful with float; if it’s too small, I don’t keep it until the second day because it’s too dangerous.”
- On reaching the profit target: “To be honest, I felt nervous when I reached 75% of the goal. I started aggressively with big risk. When I realized it was doable, I slowed down and took less risk. When I closed the last trade, I thought, ‘Wow, I did it’. You don’t need to close trades too soon, and if you have a good runner, you can keep it.”
Funded Small Cap Trader (Anna), Closing Thoughts
In this interview, Anna demonstrates that, despite her busy day and night schedule, traders can still find opportunities in the market.
She offers a unique female perspective on trading, showcasing her ability to balance work and life, her methodical approach to finding good trades, and her strategies for managing emotions.
Anna is funded with $12,000 buying power, ready to take on the market.
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