Founder of Trade Like a Girl. Former D3 basketball player. Still trading, still learning, still occasionally breaking my own rules — and building this in public instead of after I’ve figured it all out.
I played collegiate basketball at the D3 level. Nobody remembers D3 for the highlight reels — you remember it for the 6am lifts, the film sessions after a loss, and learning to walk back onto the court the day after you played badly. That’s the part that actually transferred to trading. Not the confidence. The repetition.
I got into trading expecting that discipline to carry over immediately. It didn’t. I had to learn — slowly, expensively — that knowing the right move and actually making it under pressure are two different skills entirely. I’m still learning that, honestly. That’s not a marketing line. It’s just true.
I started out trading options before moving into futures. These days I trade primarily NQ — Nasdaq futures — though not exclusively, using pure price action. No indicators, no signals, no scanner alerts telling me what to do. Just reading the chart in front of me. I trade through prop firm funded accounts, which comes with its own rules and pressures on top of the trading itself.
This isn’t a strategy to copy, and I’m not teaching it here. It’s just what my actual day looks like.
I’ve passed prop firm evaluations. I’ve also blown through more than one in a single sitting, buying my way back in over and over, chasing the feeling of being back in the game instead of sitting with the loss. I’ve spent more money than I’d like to admit chasing the next eval. I’ve had the all-or-nothing stretch where one bad trade turned into a bad week because I couldn’t let it just be one bad trade.
I don’t lead with that because it makes a good story. I lead with it because almost nobody in trading education admits to it, and I think that silence is actively harmful. If the only traders you see online are the ones posting withdrawal screenshots, it’s very easy to believe you’re the only one struggling. You’re not. I’m not either.
Took Rake Trades’ first-ever mastermind — the experience that changed how I thought about markets, and where the earliest version of this idea started forming. Four years later, I still talk to the friends I made there every single day. Having people who actually understand what you’re going through isn’t a nice-to-have in this business — it’s the thing that keeps you in it.
Funded accounts, passed evals, blown evals, rebuilt process. Actual trading, actual setbacks, actual recoveries — not a highlight reel.
Not from a stage after "making it" — from inside the process, alongside everyone else still figuring it out.
Most traders don’t fail from lack of knowledge — they fail from an inability to consistently execute what they already know, and from being too ashamed of the gap to talk about it honestly.
Trade Like a Girl is being built in real time, alongside the traders it’s for. Get on the list and you’ll see it happen from the beginning — the tools, the setbacks, all of it.