
Why most traders lose money, and the exact habits you must eliminate to finally trade with confidence, discipline, and consistency.




This book is not about predictions, hot tips, or shortcuts.
It’s about removing the behaviors that guarantee failure, and replacing them with a repeatable process that actually works.
This is the book Dan wishes existed when he was starting out, before the blown accounts and painful lessons.🤯

Why jumping from day trading to options to swing trading guarantees frustration, and how mastering one strategy changes everything.





Same stock. Same chart.
Three different entries - only one makes money.

Fear cuts winners short.
Greed keeps losers alive.





They die from bad habits that go unchecked.
None of these feel fatal in the moment.
That’s why they’re so dangerous.
They don’t cause a blow-up.
They cause slow, frustrating failure.
I’ve been trading for nearly 30 years, and I’ll be the first to tell you, I didn’t figure this out quickly.
I blew up accounts.
I chased bad trades.
I confused activity with progress.
Like most traders, I thought the answer was more information. More indicators. More opinions. More trades.
It wasn’t.
What finally changed my results wasn’t predicting the market better, it was fixing my behavior.
Over time, one thing became obvious:
Most traders don’t fail because they’re lazy, dumb, or unlucky.
They fail because they repeat the same few mistakes every day, often without realizing it.
Once I stopped making those mistakes, everything got simpler:
My trading became calmer
My risk became manageable
My results became consistent
That’s when trading finally started to feel like a business, not a struggle.
I wrote 7 Deadly Trading Mistakes (And How to Fix Them) because I’ve coached thousands of traders, and I keep seeing the same patterns.
Different stocks.
Different markets.
Same mistakes.
This book isn’t about showing you how smart I am.
It’s about helping you stop doing the things that quietly cost you money.
If you fix the mistakes, the results take care of themselves.









Thanks so much for teaching the SMART. The time spent attending the workshop is absolutely time well spent!
I've been a member of SMM for a very long time. I very much connect with your teaching style. I feel that if one applies the concepts taught in the SMART workshop you can't but help improve your trading results. Besides helping me make money, the main reason I remain a member of SMM is the clarity which Dan explains trading and psychological concepts. Thanks again for all you do.
This was great and I appreciate the work that was done and that you shared this knowledge with us. I have the guardrails I need and wanted when I signed up for the course.



Incredible session. Appreciate the hard work you all put into this course. Learned a lot … now the hard work to change habits 😃



Yes, I found the course extremely helpful. It was helpful to see charts of good setups to try to start ingraining them into my brain. I’m planning on using this course as a resource in the future.



The SMART workshop enhanced my professional trading tactics, reinforced my skills for interpreting trade setups for maximum return and lowest risk. Dan taught us how to plan and analyze our trade risk assessment “R’s” with continual feedback using tracked trades statistics. One of many “pearls” of Dan’s wisdom. He is a gifted teacher and technical analyst.










Before those mistakes cost serious money...
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