50 Trades in 50 Weeks: One year of good ideas, dumb mistakes, and timeless trading lessons

Journaling your choices, in investments or trading or anything in life just sounds so boring and tedious. But if you actually do it, even if you don't end on a private island, you'll start to understand how you think. Now, imagine somebody else went through all that work, parsing out 50 decisions in 50 weeks, and included their entire process for finding an idea, choosing how to act, thinking through whatever is changing that makes their initial thought and action right or wrong, and then closing the idea out? This is that book. Yes, Brent Donnelly is a trader, but he's also a teacher and a philosopher. This book won't tell you what to think, but it will tell you how to think. 5 stars, and even more accessible than his other book, Alpha Trader. ps. if a just-starting-out trader or speculator wants an overview of what a real process looks and works like, get them this book. The more advanced stuff can be found in Alpha Trader.

All the books by Brent have been an amazing reads. 50 Trades in 50 weeks was a great idea. It is been nice to see thoughts about trade ideas overtime and how they played out. I found tremendous value in reading/listening to his process on how he goes about trade ideas, position sizing and tactics. Never really believed in "trading books" but found this to be completely different as it was real trade scenarios and how he spots/pieces it all together. 50 trades in 50 weeks is the third trading book I have read. The other two were Brents. These 3 books should be prioritized!

The content is free on Substack and podcast of each episode. I wanted to read this in a bound format. This author is not a retail trader. He trades forex at a bank. He doesn’t give any practical tools nor take aways such as spreadsheets he mentions to calculate his position sizes or risk and reward. He wants you to think like him but prefer to like his own words and over complicated topics to scare you into depending on him and his newsletter for trades. His other books might be better. But you can avoid this trading book.

Read the 50 in 50 substack live each week. Great to see lessons from Brent's other books used in real life. Without a doubt has helped my personal trading. Now time for me to start writing.

Tough read. Mediocre results. Respect his first book though, also respect the guts to publicly journal your trades. Trading is a tough biz.

What I really enjoyed about 50 trades in 50 weeks, is that it involves a lot of Brent's actual thoughts and reasonings for a trade, mixed up with some theory parts. There are a lot of gems that you can pick up and learn from. If you are considering to buy this book physically, I'd recommend the hardcover version. I got the paperback version and since it has a lot of sites, it tends to bend a bit too much for my liking. I guess it's worth the upgrade.

Good