HOW TO CHANGE

YOUR LIFE IN 180

DAYS: FOR
TRADERS
9 SMALL STEPS, FOR A BIG FUTURE

By GBP Trades
Introduction

50% of people who receive this e-book will read this

introduction. 35% will read the first step, 25% will

complete the book. 15% will attempt all of the steps I have

laid out, but only 3% will follow each step exactly as I have

laid them out and will become financially free within the

180 days. You have to decide what kind of person you are.

Are you a 50% kind of person? Or are you in the 3%?

Trading does offer the potential for huge financial gains, and

it is these gains that lure so many people into to giving it a

try. The problem with this is that these new traders think

that these gains can be achieved instantly and all they need

is ‘the right strategy.’ When the truth is this could not be

further from reality.

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Trading is a business, and like any business you need to

develop the right systems and precautions to see elite levels

of success.

That is the aim of this book. In this book I plan to give you

the full system for achieving a life of financial freedom from

trading within 180 days.

For this to work I need you to accept a few harsh truths:

- 180 days is a VERY fast timeline for becoming financially

free with trading and it requires obscene levels of

commitment and discipline

- You MUST understand that you are not as good as you

think you are, you are not ‘destined’ for anything, you don’t

deserve anything, nothing is given to you, you must work

your ass off for it.

As you go through the steps in this book, you may fail at a

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stage or two and this may mean that you are unable to

obtain financial freedom with the 180 days, but that is okay.

Just because you didn’t achieve this within 180 days, doesn’t

mean you won’t within 360. Just try again, never quit.

Anyway, let’s go right ahead and get started.

If you ever need any further support on your journey, my

DMs are always open on my social media accounts. My @ is

@gbptrades on all platforms.

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Step 1: The Beginning

The beginning can be either the easiest or hardest part of

this journey, just based on your current frame of mind. If

you are more optimistic minded, you are probably in what is

known as the “beginners’ awe” mindset. This is where

because this is all new and you have unrealistic

expectations, you honestly believe that you will be a

millionaire in the next few weeks (you won’t).

But, some of you will be in what I call, “the losers” mindset.

This is where you think everything is impossible, or a scam,

or both!

The truth is, neither of these mindsets are particularly

helpful. Because what I plan to teach you here, is neither

impossible, or going to make you a millionaire in a few

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weeks. Instead, the goal here is to, through trading, help you

build a life where you are no longer reliant on a job. If you

wish to become a millionaire after these 180 days, well that

is on you, but you will at least have the strong foundation to

build on.

So, now we know that these mindsets are not of much use,

which mindset is?

Well, in order to build this ‘ideal mindset’, we first need to

talk about the qualities of it.

1- True understanding: I want you to truly understand that

you know absolutely nothing, and if you work really hard at

this and give it your all for all 180 days, you will still know

next to nothing.

The things is, there is so much to know, and you will never

manage to know it all. So, remember, even when you get

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some results soon, you still know nothing, don’t get

overconfident.

Knowing nothing is not. Bad thig though, it means that you

can constantly be in the pursuit of improving and knowing

more. By doing this you can really dial-in on making

yourself more valuable as a trader and a person.

2- The ability to do what is required: Again, right now, you

have no idea what is required of you to make this happen.

Even if I asked you to guess, and the words you said were

spot on, you still have no idea. It is all fun and games until

you were up until 3AM working your ass off on a project,

and then that alarms go off again at 5 and you’ve barley

slept.

It is easy to say “I understand this” but the truth is, until you

really feel that, you have no clue and that’s okay! You just

have to almost prepare yourself for that shock. This takes

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180 days of busting your ass for 12 hours a day, every day,

without fail. 180 days is an almost unrealistic timeframe,

but it can be done if you really put all of these hours in the

bank.

3- Prideless: Another thing, whether you think you have it

or not, the fact I, you as a person have pride and an ego.

They will only ever hold you back. They will lie to you and

tell you “You’re already good enough, you don’t need to

work this hard anymore”, or “Lets speed this up” before

you’re ready.

Unfortunately, I am certain at some point, everyone that

reads this will lose at some point to their ego. But you just

have to learn from it and continue on this path of

improvement.

Ask as many questions as you can, DM people, reach out,

attend live events, take courses, read books, listen to

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podcasts. At this early stage, you want to intake as much

information as you can. But and here is the but, you must act

on the information that you are taking in, otherwise all you

are doing is mental masturbation.

If you get a piece of advice, grade it, is it useful? If it is, start

doing exactly what the advice was. If it’s not, leave it.

4- Success oriented not price oriented: I will first say, I

apologies, as I have not done you many favors with this, but

the fact is, people value FREE things, far less than things

they have paid for. So, even though I have spent months,

really emptying my whole brain into this to give you all a

whole step by step guide to quit your job, many of you will

quit, because you don’t have the discipline to value free

things.

And that is okay! But know this, there is a concept that my

mentor taught me: “have skin in the game.”

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What is “skin in the game”? “Skin” is something that you

risk. It can be money, it can be reputation, it can be anything

that puts pressure on you to complete what you’re doing.

If I gave one person a piece of advice for free, and make

another person pay $1000 for it, believe it or not, the person

who paid $1000 would get far more value from it. Why?

Because they are far more likely to act on it that the person

who got it for free.

So, how does this relate to broke vs success minded people?

Broke minded people call everything a “scam”, complain

about pricing and want everything given to them on a plate

at no cost (sounds really stupid when you put it that way

doesn’t it?)

Whereas, success minded people don’t view things in cost

amount, they view it in value. If something offers value and

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has even a small chance of improving them, they will take

that risk.

View one of my hero’s, Alex Hormozoi, he spent $120,000

on a phone call with Grant Cardone. Because he knew, that

the information that Cardone gave him, had the potential to

far exceed $120,000.

Sometimes it doesn’t have that value, but that is the risk. But

taking no risk, is the biggest risk of all.

I personally paid £1,500 for my mentor. That is all the

money I had in the world at that time. After paying him, I

had literally £1.27 in my account. I could not be more broke.

And I am not special in anyway, but I will give myself praise

that I knew, that what he taught me, could far exceed £1,500

(it already has, he helped me become financially free 3 years

ago now).

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Again, it doesn’t have to be money that you invest. It could

be a reputational steak, where you post on social media

what you have learned every day. But just have some kind of

risk attached so that you really commit and take obscene

action.

5- Patient and persistent: The final point is that this mindset

needs to be one of both patience and persistence.

Why?

Trading is a VERY long-term game, like with everything else,

trading is not a get rich quick scheme.

The truth is, in order to reach a stage where you are making

multiple six figures, you need to be a person worthy of that.

And the truth is, for the time being, you are not. Again, that

is okay. But it is important to know, that reaching this level

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of person is not easy atoll and can take many years.

The truth is you must build discipline in all areas of your

life. If you are ill disciplined in your day-to-day life, you will

never be disciplined enough to succeed in trading.

This means doing all the things that you hate doing: working

out daily, getting up early, not spending your days melting

your brain away on social media etc.

So in simple terms, you need to stop valuing short term

things that won’t mater in the long run and start valuing real

value. What is value? I describe it simple as knowledge, does

it make you smarter? If the answer is yes, then for me, I

know that I would invest either my time or money into it (or

both) because at the end of the day, that time or money that

I invested will give me great returns in the long run.

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Step 2- Acting in Accordance to The Person

You Want to Be

So, first things first, I want you to close your eyes for 10

seconds and picture the person you want to be in 10 years.

Think about how they act and how they think.

When you thought of that person, would they ever

complain? Probably not.

Would they ever trade emotionally? Probably not.

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Would they ever not take full responsibility? Probably not.

So, from now on, I want you to act as close to yourself in 10

years’ time, as you possibly can.

Act how they act, carry yourself how they would carry

themselves. Take care of yourself, get up early, workout, eat

healthy, constantly try to learn etc.

By doing this, you are essentially brainwashing yourself into

becoming that person that you have always wanted to

become.

Trust me, there is nothing worse than having a bad

reputation with yourself. So, let’s build that up by gaining

our own trust back. Because if we can’t trust ourselves to

shower or clean our house properly, how the hell can we

trust ourselves to manage money on the biggest financial

market in the world?

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The goal of this step is rather simple: to get you as prepared

and as professionally minded as possible, so that we can

attack trading in the most professional way possible

Again, this all stems around mindset and discipline. With the

philosophy here being to treat trading as professionally as

possible.

So, the next part of this step is this, I want you to create a

‘work space.’ This is an area of either your house, or coffee

shop or anywhere that you can sit with either your phone or

a laptop in peace and work.

The only rule is this: it CANNOT be your bedroom.

The reason?

I don’t trust you to work properly in the same room you

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sleep, you don’t sleep and work in the same space.

Have a sperate working space, that way, when you enter

that space, your brain knows that it’s time to work.

Once you have selected a space, if that space is in your

house, I want you to tidy up that area so it is spotless. Your

workspace needs to be clear of any ‘visual noise.’ It needs to

be just you are your work. That was we can really dial-in on

what we are trying to accomplish here.

Now that we have a person that we are acting in accordance

to, and a professional like workspace, it is time to get to

work.

That is when we move onto the next stage.

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Step 3: Information Intake

This is where it gets a little juicy.

But here is the key, this stage isn’t all that it is cracked up to

be. You don’t need to know 400 strategies. All you need to

know is 1, and master the concepts of that strategy.

To quote the famous Bruce Lee: “I fear not the man who has

practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has

practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

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So how can we take this into trading?

Trading is full of traders trying to grab your attention to

watch their “new strategy video.” When the truth is, that

most strategies work. Very often it is NOT the strategy’s

fault that traders are losing.

For a strategy to be successful it only needs to be 2 things:

1) Easy for you to fully understand

2) Profitable over the course of at least a 100-trade sample

2 very simple criteria. The problem that most traders have

is this, thought process that after a few losses all of a sudden

it is the strategy’s fault that they are losing trades, when

they don’t take into consideration the obvious. They are just

not good enough.

So, how do you=, as a trader, ‘get good enough.’

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I wish that I had some easy shortcut, or some trading ‘hack’

or ‘secret.’ But the truth is that I don’t. The answer is simple:

repetition.

What you need to do is simply dial in on one strategy and

repeatedly practice and learn about those exact concepts

within that strategy.

Sounds easy right? But the problems is that traders often get

‘shiny object syndrome’ where they will lose a few trades

with their strategy, and instead of taking full responsibility,

like we talked about, they seek a new strategy and need to

start all over again, and you can see how most traders get

caught in this loop of: Find a strategy, learn it, lose a few

trades, call it a ‘scam’, look for another strategy.

So, there is 2 ways in which you can learn lesson that I am

teaching here:

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1) You take everything that I am saying onboard and you

follow the steps that I give you in this book

2) You ignore my lessons, lose a money, realize you need to

improve and then complete the steps within this book.

So, remember to just find one strategy that you understand

and stick to it. People will tell you to change, but remember

that 95% of traders are losers, so you will most likely be

taking the advice of losers.

If you are not a stage yet where you are ready to learn about

strategies, or would like me to give you a simple one that I

would recommended, I have a course (I know how terrible

of me, oh no I am a ‘guru’ lol) and in this course I have

poured hours into teaching all of the basic chart skills that

you will ever need to succeed in trading. So partnered with

this book, you will have more trading knowledge than at

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least 80% of traders.

But even if you don’t want to learn from me, that is fine, find

what works for you and stick to it.

So, now that we have a strategy and have learned all that we

need in order to decide which trades to place, now we need

to work on the harder aspects of trading.

Risk management is an area that causes a lot of traders to

fail. The fact is that when beginner traders start, all they see

is profits and money, when the truth is that is years away.

So what they do is risk far too much on each trade and try to

make as much money as possible as fast as possible, risking

more and more on every trade.

If it isn’t clear enough already, this spirals out of control and

causes literally every trader who does this to blow their

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account sooner or later losing everything.

I know this for a fact as I also did this.

About 6 months into my trading journey I had grown my

humble and small £1,000 live account into many thousands.

I lost it ALL in one day on a public bus at 18 years old.

At 18, I had lost thousands, almost traumatizing. This

caused me to really dial in and focus on the art of risk

management, which has ultimately led me to build my (now

almost infamous) risk management system.

I recommended risking a maximum of 0.5% on one trade,

taking a maximum of one trade per day. This way, sun or

rain, I will only lose 0.5% of my account in a day. If I lose a

trade one day, the next day I risk 0.25% until I win again.

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Why do I do this?

Simple, as we are going to get into next chapter, trading is

very much a mental game, in my personal opinion the

mental side of trading makes up around 90% of all trading.

So, my philosophy when it comes to risk management is that

I need to risk an amount where I don’t give a sh*t whether I

win or lose.

For me, I found this to be 0.5%, and I believe that is on the

very high end of risk tolerance, so for you all, I

recommended a maximum of 0.5%, around 0.3 or 0.4%

should do the trick.

To trade successfully for a long period of time you need to

stay in the game for one (meaning never blowing your

account), and for two, you need to be able to execute your

strategy day in and day out with no emotional mistakes at

all.

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If it isn’t already obvious, this is incredibly difficult, so

having such low risk, allows us to chill out and be fine on the

days where we do slip up.

The final topic that you need to intake as much information

as possible is trading psychology. Trading psychology is by

far the number one reason that 95% of traders fail. People

have completely unrealistic expectation when it comes to

trading. New trader’s make the common mistake of thinking

about the money. I want you to realize, that to succeed, you

are better off doing your absolute best, to forget about the

money. Instead, what you should do is simple, you should

only focus on the skill set.

Now, I understand that is not as fun to think about or

whatever, but I need you to understand this: trading is more

of a game of emotional control more than anything else,

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because of the way the world is, we have all been

conditioned to view money as this great huge important

thing, and trading gives us the ability to risk some of it to

potentially make a lot more.

Can you see how this might impact your emotions?

So, we as said before, one way in which we can do this is by

making our risk very small. Another is by removing

ourselves from situations where we are less likely to win

and/or more likely to become too emotionally engaged in

our trade. We do this by implementing a number of trading

rules.

Here are 3 of my many trading rules as an example:

- I don’t trade on days there is big news

- I only trade London session

- I only trade the UK100 (FTSE) chart

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This helps me stay in routine and minimizes my reasons for

losing, so that when I do lose, I can have no excuses and can

view the trade for what it is. But, more importantly, it helps

me trade with a clear head and not be afraid of losing, so I

can just focus on doing my job, which is executing my

strategy when it presents itself.

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Step 4: Building Your System

My whole trading philosophy is built around having a

trading system. But for a trading system to be effective, you

need to fully understand it and ‘know the numbers.’

So, first thing is first, what is a trading system?

Your trading system is a written trading plan consisting of:

- Your trading strategy

- Your risk management plan

- Your trading rules

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So, to first build your system, you need to take that strategy

that you have learned, and spend the next 50 trading days

practicing it, taking one trade per day. I want you to count

the following:

- Your win rate

- Your total profit/loss

Knowing these 2 things can help put your mind at ease

knowing that over a number of trades (50 really isn’t a lot,

but it’s enough to use as a milestone) that you can be

profitable.

Once we know that, you can move to the second part, which

you should have already done, this is your risk management

plan, I want you to write out the amount that you will risk

on one trade.

Finally, I want you to write down and create your trading

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rules.

Once you have this all written down, you should know:

- Why you take a trade (strategy)

- When you take or don’t take a trade (trading rules)

- How much you risk on a trade (risk management plan)

Now you have your own step by step trading plan. If you

follow this day in and day out from now on, you will be

successful in this field (as long as your data is accurate and

your system is actually profitable).

Now, it is time to look at how to use this system to help us

move closer to our goals by the end of these 180 days.

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Step 5: Demo

Just because you have a profitable trading plan, does not

mean that you are profitable.

Ironically, the fastest way to start making money in trading

is by not trying to make money. I can tell you for a fact that if

you tried to trade a live or funded account now, you will

start leaking money like a tap.

The truth is, you are not ready to handle risking real money.

Right now, you need to not be one of the arrogant idiots who

says “I am ready.” Instead, you have to think about what we

said in the first and second steps. That who you act as

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matters. Would future you be so foolish as to be too

arrogant to continue improving? Probably not.

So, lets instead talk about what we can do to win inside of

these 180 days.

Right now, we need to get you some market experience. We

severely lack it. So, for these next 3 months, you need to

focus on trading your exact system on your demo account.

This will allow you to still practice your system, develop this

skill and gain market experience, but we can do this all

whilst risking no money at all.

It is the biggest win, win of all time.

But, on top of placing these trades and practicing, it is time

for you to start journaling and tracking your trades.

Journal your thoughts and feeling during the trade, if

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anything impacted your trade, if there was anything that

you noticed in your mind. This will help you spot any mental

flaws or weaknesses that you can learn to iron out over time

and practice.

As for tracking your trades, track your win rate, profit/loss

and any other small data points that you may find relevant

to your system over time.

Do all of this for the next 60 days.

This will allow you to gain enough market experience

(barely enough, but we are trying to accomplish this in 180

days) to move onto the next stage.

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Step 6: Live

Live trading is our next step. For this you need a trusted

broker and the system that you have just been using on

demo, that is it.

It is important to remember that you are not using this live

account to make money, the focus here to prove to yourself

that you can use proper risk management when real money

is involved.

You should deposit around $100 and risk only $0.5 per

trade maximum. If you do not have $100, you need to get a

job and stop buying things that you don’t need.

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It is near impossible to become a trader, it becomes even

harder when you add on the financial burden of having to

trade for money. You need to remove that financial pressure

and have a steady stream of income. This means getting. Ob

for the time being.

So, now you have deposited $100, like I said previously, you

need to use the same system that you have already been

using. Again, because your focus should still be on

improvement, you again should journal and track the data of

these trade.

The aim here is to trade for 50 trading days and prove that

you can be profitable over a decent sized period of time

when risking money.

If you are successful in being profitable and stick to your

system for 50 days. You may move onto the next step, if not,

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you must do this again. The next step here is hard. It is

almost impossible, so to succeed there can be very small

room for error in your system and your ability to follow that

system.

Step 7: Passing First Funded

Funded account challenges are designed to be near

impossible to pass. They are created with the sole purpose

of fining a reason to fail you. So, how do you pass? Simple,

you do what everyone who is failing these challenges is not

doing.

You take your time and follow your system.

You now know, based on your results with the live and

demo account that over the course of a long period of time

you will be profitable. This means that by approaching this

first funded account with this in mind, passing is simple.

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The problem is that 99% of traders who take these

challenges fail because they get wound up in their emotions

and fail to stick to their trading plan.

So, you must, must, must, stick to the plan. Don’t try to pass

fast. My number one tip for passing these accounts is: Don’t

focus on passing, focus on not failing,

if you don’t fail the challenge for long enough and actually

place trades, you will pass int time.

For your first funded account, start with a small one, like a

$5k or $10k. Once you have passed you can then move on

the next step.

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Step 8: Scaling Fundeds

This is where the money is made, but by the time you have

gotten to this stage, I hope that you realize that even this

stage is not about the money.

Because by now you should know that as long as your focus

remains on improvement and on your trading system, you

will be profitable in the long run, meaning that by NOT

focusing on the money, you will actually make more money.

Anyway, let’s talk about this step. Now that you have passed

the $5k or $10k funded account, you are going to withdraw

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at the minimum amount each time and re-invest those

profits into buying more and more funded accounts.

Eventually the idea is that you scale up to having multiple

$100k trading accounts. This of course takes a lot of time

and patience, but is 100% achievable.

It is just a snowball effect; you take the profits from one

account to get another bigger account. Ultimately building a

huge collection of trading accounts. Also, with each time you

take a challenge it becomes easier and easier to pass as you

gain more and more experience, not just with these

challenges, but market experience in general.

Once you have built up a portfolio that you are happy with,

you can start keeping profits for yourself. If you were smart

and held off of this and focused on the process, these profits

should now be in the multiple thousands of dollars each

month (given you now have a few big funded accounts

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stacked up).

The key now is to not get ahead of yourself and remember

that one bad choice and you can lose all of this, you must

keep yourself in line and your discipline on point. You must

keep acting as a professional.

You are one step away from completing the 180 days and

becoming financially free through trading. Again, I have to

be honest, the odds are stacked against you once more, but

as said in my favorite ever TV show (Suits): “I don’t play the

odds, I play the man.” (Or woman) I 100% believe in you,

but you have to act incredibly professionally so that you can

beat those odds.

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Step 9: Stacking Cash

Welcome to the final step. I am going to be honest and say

that this step is incredibly boring but is an absolute must!

As I am sure that you have noticed by now, trading is NOT a

reliable income source. Some months will be good, some

months will be not so good. Your job is to accept that and

move on.

If you are smart, you will use the good months earnings to

cover the bad months and here is how you do that:

1) Set up a high yield savings bank account

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Please do your own research when choosing a bank to go

with, this is to best set up an emergency fund, so make sure

you have 24/7 access to the money in that account. Also aim

for an account that gives you around 4% annual gains.

2) Start putting as much money in that account as possible.

You need to stack cash, having this spare money will allow

you to continue to trade stress free knowing that you’re

covered even when you do have a bad month. So, we need

this account to be as big as possible. A point I will now

explain in the next mini step here.

3) Save up 6 months of loving expenses

This I promise is the last thing that you need to do before

quitting your job etc. Calculate how much it costs for you to

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live on for 6 months and save up that number.

Once you have 6 months saved up, you have my full

recommendation to quit your job. AS LONG AS you promise

not to touch that money unless you really need it. You

ideally still want to make more from your trades than you

spend in a month. So, this does not mean you can buy a

fancy house, it means you can be free with your time.

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Conclusion

If you have made it this far, congratulations. The truth is,

that I knew when I was giving this book out for free that you

around 50% would read the first page, 40% would read the

first step and only around 20% would finish the book. This

is why people fail in trading. This is. Cut throat business,

everyone wants the rewards but so few are willing to put

the actual work in.

This is why when I say to you that 95% of traders fail, you

should be excited, because the majority of that 95% don’t

have the discipline to even read a free book that is designed

to help them succeed. Remember that when times are tough,

when learning feel boring, when losing feels sore, when

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winning seems so far away. Remember that know trading is

hard, that why so many fail, and that this is what hard feels

like. Remember that every time you have a hard day and

push through, others didn’t, and all you have to do is push

through enough hard days until you are in that 5%.

One last note from me, sometimes you will feel untouchable,

sometimes you will feel like you cannot be stopped, like you

are the best. Just remember, that all of this can be taken

away even faster than you made it. Stay humble, stay

focused on improvement. Keep asking questions, keep

seeking mentors and people to learn from. You are never

too good. Every day is a battle to be a better person than

you were yesterday.

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